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  • Illinois Artillery, 1st Regiment Record Book (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Illinois Artillery, 1st Regiment Record Book consists of the company muster book for Joseph Cross's company in the 1st U. S. Artillery Regiment. The record book contains registers of men, priority rolls, accounts of equipage, and individual accounts, all dating from 1812 to 1814. It also features additional content from the 1830s, when some pages in the book were used for secondary purposes. The company of the 1st U. S. Artillery Regiment led by Captain Joseph Cross served at several forts along the Mississippi River in Louisiana Territory during the War of 1812. The regiment saw duty at Fort Belle Fontaine and Fort Massac, with detached services at Forts Madison and Osage. The digitized content contains the company's record book, which contains priority rolls of enlistment and description; registers of men tried, discharged, or transferred; registers of dead, deserted, and missing; provision returns; accounts of clothing and equipage; and individual accounts. In the mid-to-late 1830s, several pages were used for secondary purposes. Some pages were used to record legal fees, and others appear to have been used as scrap paper by a schoolchild. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Illinois Artillery, 1st Regiment Record Book (MS 800). The collection was completely digitized in 2018. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Illinois Data Bank
    Research Data Service  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Illinois Data Bank is a public access repository for publishing research data from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection contains historic Illinois newspapers from across the state, including The Urbana Daily Courier, Sangamo Journal, and the University of Illinois collegiate newspaper The Daily Illini. These papers range in date from 1831 to 1975, providing a sense of local life and culture in the Midwest across two centuries. Since June 2009, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has digitized over 200,000 pages of pre-1922 historically significant newspapers with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Program. Newspapers digitized as part of this program are also available on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America web site.
  • Illinois State Geological Survey Films (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Illinois State Geological Survey Films include 16mm films created by the Illinois State Geological Survey concerning power lines; clay brick creation; drilling machinery; geophysical survey equipment; oil fields; and the Illinois State Geological Survey building.
  • Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History oil sketches of Illinois fishes: painting, 1878-1898
    ACES (Funk) Library   ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History oil sketches of Illinois fishes. Unsigned oil paintings on canvas representing 51 species in 38 genera of fishes. Handwritten notes on paintings indicate the species, location, and in some cases a date which may be a creation date or specimen collection date for the specimen represented in the painting. With one exception, the paintings are on the same type of canvas, and where dates are present, they are between 1878 and 1880. Most of these paintings are stenciled on the back with “Ill. State Lab. nat. Hist. Normal, Ill.”One item is dated 1898 and is on a different much thinner material than the others. Oil sketches of fishes were reported to have been created to aid in the preparation of casts for the Illinois State Museum in Springfield by the State Laboratory of Natural History (Report of the Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, Normal, Illinois for the Year Ending June 30, 1880, p. 3 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61860220). All but the 1898 painting are likely to be the oil sketches referenced in this 1880 report. RELATED ITEMS/COLLECTIONS: Items were donated to the University Library from the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Editors image collection. FINDING AID: A printed finding aid with species name, ID numbers and additional documentation is housed with the physical items.
  • Illinois State Water Survey Films (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Illinois State Water Survey Films include a 16 mm film and VHS videos concerning the Embarras River tributary of the Wabash River; the Big Bureau Creek tributary of the Illinois River; the Des Plaines River; the Big Indian Creek tributary of the Fox River; the Kishwaukee River tributary of the Rock River; the Little Wabash River tributary of the Wabash River; the Mackinaw River tributary of the Illinois River; Rock River confluences with Kishwaukee River; the Spring Creek tributary of the Sangamon River; the Iroqouis River tributary of the Kankakee River; Spring Creek confluence with Iroquois River; Sugar Creek confluence with Iroquois River; the Vermillion River tributary of the Illinois River; and the first documented Hook Echo from the tornado event of April 9, 1953. With the exception of Hook Echo film, the content was created by the National Park Service.
  • Illinois Water and Climate Summaries (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Illinois Water and Climate Summaries (Digital Surrogates), 1985-1998, contains digitized reports concerning monthly water and climate data, collected and presented by the Illinois Water and Climate Surveys.
  • Illinois weather station observations (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Substation meteorological records comprising observations of temperature, amount and type of precipitation, predominant wind direction for volunteer-monitored weather stations throughout Illinois, taken as part of the Cooperative Observer Program from 1887 to 1948. Records for 1862-1874 for Ottawa, IL from the Smithsonian Institution's Register of Meteorological Observations are also included.
  • Illustrations for The Fishes of Illinois: painting, 1892-1913
    ACES (Funk) Library   ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Watercolor illustrations of Illinois Fishes representing species. The paintings were created over two decades by multiple artists, and most were used as illustrations in Forbes, S.A. and R.E. Richardson The Fishes of Illinois Urbana: Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1908, and the 2nd edition of the same work which was published in 1919. In the Biennial Report of the Director for 1899-1900 (p. 7-8) Stephen A. Forbes included an account of Lydia Moore Hart beginning work on illustrations for the book in the summer of 1900, drawing from live specimens in an aquarium set up for that purpose at the State Laboratory’s field station in Meredosia, Illinois. Of the 100 paintings, 73 were published in at least one of the two editions of The Fishes of Illinois. Lydia M. (Hart) Green and Charlotte M. Pinkerton alone are credited for the illustrations in the introduction written by Forbes. Of the 100 paintings in the collection, 46 are attributed to Lydia Moore (Hart) Green, 29 to Charlotte M. Pinkerton, 5 to Max Bihn, 1 to A. H. Baldwin, 1 to Wallace Craig. The artist is not known for the remaining paintings. Of the fish illustrations that were published in The Fishes of Illinois, 38 are identified as Green’s in the INHS editor’s image database, 24 as Pinkerton’s, and 1 as Bihn’s. Note that there is not always corroborating evidence on the originals for the artist or creation date recorded in the INHS editor’s image database, which had been transcribed from an index card file still in the possession of INHS in the 1980s-1990s. Notations on the paintings consistently include the the ID number from the INHS editor’s image collection database. Other notations vary, but may include whether and where the image was published, artist name (usually on the back in pencil when present), the reference number of the species in Jordan, D.S. et al (1896-1900) The fishes of North and Middle America. Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum no. 47. RELATED ITEMS/COLLECTIONS: Forbes, S. A. and R. E. Richardson. The Fishes of Illinois. Urbana: Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1908. https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99335002912205899 and online in the Biodiversity Heritage library https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/57366. Forbes, S. A. and R. E. Richardson. The Fishes of Illinois, 2nd edition. Urbana, IL: Illinois Natural History Survey, 1919. https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma9943567212205899 and online in the Biodiversity Heritage Library https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16714 Items were donated to the University Library from the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Editors image collection. FINDING AID: A printed finding aid with species name, ID numbers and additional documentation is housed with the physical items
  • Iltis Mendelania Collection (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Iltis Mendelania Collection (Digital Surrogates), ca.1850-1938, contains digitized correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, handwritten certificates, research notes and sketches, concerning Gregor Mendel's and Hugo Iltis' research on genetics; Mendel's examinations in geology and physics; as well as locations related with Mendel's experimental gardens and his life as an Augustinian friar. An access copy to these materials is available upon request.
  • Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Photograph File (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital Records of the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering Photograph File contain photos, videos, and web pages concerning the General Engineering spring picnic, the undergraduate program curriculum.
  • Inside Illinois Newsletter (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Inside Illinois Newsletter (Digital Surrogates), 2011-2015, includes digitized and electronic copies of the Inside Illinois newsletter (2011-2015) concerning campus news, interviews, job opportunities, courses offered and weekly calendar listings.
  • Institute for Information Literacy (IIL) Immersion Files, 1998 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Files, including background information on the Institute for Information Literacy (1998).
  • Institute of Aviation Technical Reports (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Institute of Aviation Technical Reports includes technical reports concerning airplanes, airports, and human factors in flight. Also included is an Institute of Aviation Technical Report Index. Additional material not accessible online is available upon request. Email illiarch@illinois.edu for assistance.
  • Institute of Communications Research Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Institute of Communications Research Subject File of the includes correspondence and publications concerning psychological warfare.
  • Institutional Libraries Committee Publications
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the publications of the Institutional Libraries Committee. The Prison Library Handbook (1932) can be found in HathiTrust: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010537523
  • Institutional Libraries Correspondence
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the correspondence of the Institutional Libraries Committee, created in 1923 to promote library service in institutions other than hospitals, especially in correctional institution and institutions for dependent children, contains annual reports (1941-47), prison libraries correspondence (1934-37, 1943-47), institutional newsletters, newsletters of the committee (1943-48) and a survey of prison libraries conducted by F. T. Rowan (1936-39), includes Round Table Meeting Reports, News Bulletins, and Correctional Education issues, inmates' letters and writings (1937-38), and correspondents include Raymond C. Lindquist, Anne E. Martin, Mildred L. Methuen and libraries of the ALA conference in Richmond (1936).
  • Instruction Section Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Instruction Section Subject File (1989, 19999, 2000-2008), includes files on the Management and Leadership Committee (2007-08), Management of Instruction Services Committee (2002), Executive Committee (2000), Skill Areas for Instructional Librarians Task Force (1999), and Education for Library Instructors Committee (1989).
  • Intellectual Freedom Committee Correspondence (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Intellectual Freedom Committee Correspondence, including copies of forms and reports on the American Heritage Project (1953-54).
  • International Hospitality Club (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • International Relations Office Correspondence and Subject File by Country (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of correspondence and subject of the International Relations Office by country (1953-69), contains correspondence and publications from Australia, Brazil, Chile, England, France, Ghana, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, and Thailand, includes a file on Hawai'i after 1959.
  • International Relations Office Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the International Relations Office Subject File, including files on Books for China and Latin America (1935-38), projects relating to Chinese libraries and librarians.
  • Internet Archive
    Library General Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    As a member of the Open Content Alliance, the library of the University of Illinois is contributing digital content to the Internet Archive in several areas: Illinois history, culture and natural resources; U.S. railroad history; rural studies and agriculture; works in translation; as well as extensive collections of 19th century "triple-decker" novels and emblem books written between 1540 and 1800. The Illinois Library is also a contributing member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and, in collaboration with the Chicago Field Museum, is scanning and contributing to the Internet Archive all publications in the Museum's Fieldiana series. Fieldiana is a peer-reviewed monographic series published by the Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana focuses on mid-length monographs and scientific papers pertaining to its collections and research. The four series pertain to subject matter in the fields of anthropology, botany, geology, and zoology.
  • Isabel Bevier Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Isabel Bevier Papers (1876-1942, 1945-1955), professor of household science (1900-21), including correspondence, publications by Bevier, publications by the University of Illinois household science department and other household science departments, clippings, and administrative materials concerning home economics; food science; chemistry; scientific research standards; household science; women's education; Illinois extension service; course descriptions; department overviews; laboratory work; anecdotes; land-grant colleges. Significant correspondents include Mary Leal Harkness; Mary Hinman Abel; Maria Parloa.
  • Issuances and Announcements File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Issuances and Announcements File (Digital Surrogates), 1992, contains a digitized newsletter (Updates, September-November 1992), concerning announcements, events, and articles from the Computing and Communications Services Office.
  • Jack R. & Harry V. Harlan Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Jack R. and Harry V. Harlan Papers includes publications, manuscripts, reports, and photographs concerning agricultural research.
  • Jack Sherman Baker Papers (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Jack Sherman Baker papers includes digitized video of Jack Baker giving a tour of the Erlanger House. Born Digital Surogates include a virtual tour video of Jack Baker's Studio in downtown Champaign, IL. The video was done for the AIA Illinois Virtual Conference
  • James B. Reston Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    James B. Reston Papers (Digital Surrogates), ca. 1943-1989, contains digitized personal notes, drafts, conference papers, speeches, diary pages, personal and institutional correspondence, interview transcripts, articles, memoirs, newspaper clippings and maps, relating to Reston's journalism career. Contents also include six audio recordings from 2 interviews conducted by Reston in 1977 and 1978. Digitized material concerns U.S. and international political episodes, social movements, public opinion, the professional practice of journalism, personal and family events, and business trips. Note: Several manuscripts, personal notes and diary pages are not dated. Newspaper clippings and some transcriptions of speeches are available online through the Digital Library access link. Nearline material includes audio recordings from interviews by Reston, photographs, articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings and others. Access copy to this material is available upon request.
  • James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • James I. Wyer Autograph Collection (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Autograph collection of James I. Wyer (1869-1955), president of ALA (1910-11), contains letters written by librarians to Wyer or other librarians, includes publications, attendance and speeches at conferences, library activities, finances, the Lake Placid Club, ALA dues and committee activities and Wyer's appointment and work at the New York State Library, and correspondence with John C. Dana, Melvil Dewey, Charles Evans, Herbert Putnam, Ernest C. Richardson, George B. Utley, George P. Winship, and Justin Winsor.
  • James P. Danky Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Papers of James P. Danky, Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1976-2007), member of the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) and recipient of the 1987 Bowker-Ulrich Serials Librarian of the Year award, including correspondence, publications, photographs, clippings, cassette recordings, bibliographies, coursework, and conference materials. Subjects covered include alternative publications, newspaper collections, women's, black, Asian and Native American publications, comics, African-American Newspaper Project, 'Alternative Library Materials,' 'Alternative Library Literature,' Black Press Guide, and 'Collectors Network News.' Correspondents include Sanford Berman. Also contains information pertaining to professional organizations, including the Centre for Industrial Relations Librarians (CIRL).
  • James R.B. Van Cleave Collection of Lincoln Centenary Letters
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the James R.B. Van Cleave Lincoln Centenary Letters consists of letters written to the Lincoln Centennial Association from 1907-1911, primarily relating to the centenary of Lincoln’s birth, which occurred in 1909. The Lincoln Centennial Association (now the Abraham Lincoln Association) was formed in Springfield, Illinois, in 1908, to facilitate the national ceremony of the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in 1909. James R.B. Van Cleave (1853-1931) was a life member of the Association. He served as Secretary of the Publicity Committee and was a member of the Committee on Souvenirs and Printing. For the centennial, Van Cleave was tasked to gather reminiscences from those who knew Lincoln personally or professionally. The digitized content contains letters written to James R.B. Van Cleave describing the artifacts that they were donating to the Lincoln Centenary, or their personal memories of meeting Abraham Lincoln. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the James R.B. Van Cleave Lincoln Centenary Letters (MS 1104) The collection was completely digitized in 2023. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • James W. Snively Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates (scans) of portions of the James W. Snively papers. Primary topics are Snively's experiences during the Second World War, including training in the United States, fighting in Italy, and time as a prisoner of war in Germany. Also includes letters sent from his father, John R. Snively, that detailed life in wartime Rockford, IL and the goings-on of the Snively family in the United States. Of particular note are programs from plays staged by Allied POWs while in captivity, and letters sent to and from James Snively while he was imprisoned.
  • Jay Montgomery Hurd Memoirs (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Jay Montgomery Hurd Memoirs consists of the autobiographical writings of Jay Montgomery Hurd, titled “A Few Incidents in the Life of a Sexagenarian.” The memoirs describe Hurd’s life story from 1809 to 1874. Jay Montgomery Hurd held many jobs in his lifetime; his first position was helping newly freed slaves settle in Illinois. He later became a constable, farmer, storekeeper and politician. Hurd helped to establish Jersey County, Illinois, and served as a judge in Jerseyville from 1847-1869. During this time he became known by prominent politicians such as Stephen A. Douglas. Hurd moved from Greene County to Christian County in 1858, and then to Johnson City, Nebraska, in 1872. The digitized content contains the handwritten memoirs of Jay Montgomery Hurd, written in 1874. In his memoirs Hurd described politics, travel to the East Coast, and farming operations, as they evolved into mechanized processes during his lifetime. Hurd also mentioned abolition, religion, and frontier life, among other topics. Although Hurd lived through the Civil War, it is rarely mentioned in his writing. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Jay Montgomery Hurd Memoirs (MS 791). The collection was digitized in 2020. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Jean Haak Boehme Papers (Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates from the Jean Haak Boehme Papers, contain born digital written memoirs and digitized pictures from Scrapbook, concerning Jean Haak Boehme's student life; campus locations; family vacations; relationship and marriage with her husband; family and childhood memoirs; Haak Boehme's first job; and war times.
  • Jerry Hirsch Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Jerry Hirsch Papers includes general correspondence.
  • J. Jerry Uhl Papers (Audiovisual Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Papers of J. Jerry Uhl (1940-2010), professor in the Mathematics Department (1968-2010), includes correspondence, reports, reviews, proposals, publications, manuscripts, presentations, newspaper clippings, Mac floppy disks, recorded lectures from Math 315, and photographs; includes materials on Calculus & Mathematica (1988-1992), and a curriculum development project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that used Mac SEs in the classroom.
  • John A. Fairlie Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the John A. Fairlie Papers includes correspondence relating to personal and family matters.
  • John C. Houbolt Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from John C. Houbolt Papers includes notes, research, and outlines concerning the NASA Lunar Committee. This series also includes a digitized radio interview with Houbolt on The Afternoon Magazine radio show (WILL, Illinois Public Media) concerning the lunar landing; lunar orbital rondezvous (LOR); orbital mechanics; Mars exploration; the Cassini mission to Saturn; Wernher von Braun; NASA; modern communications systems; and tools, appliances, and materials originally created for space travel and now widely used by the public.
  • John J. DeBoer Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the John J. DeBoer Papers includes tape recordings concerning a public meeting to oppose Broyles Bills, held at the McKinley Foundation on April 21, 1955, sponsored by the Human Relations Committee of the Student Senate and the Champaign-Urbana Committee to oppose the Broyles Bills.