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  • National Brick Manufacturer's Association Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Records of the National Brick Manufacturer's Association, including treasurer's record (1886-1927) and secretary's record (1927-1932).
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Subject File includes materials related to the operation of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, including organizational plans (1983-91), committee minutes (1984-2000), correspondence and purchasing agreements with technology companies, including Amoco, FMC Corporation, Philips Petroleum, Schlumberger Limited, and Shell PLC(1984-99), files of the Industrial Program (1987-97), which included the companies Caterpillar Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Co., J.P. Morgan, McDonnell Douglas, Eastman Kodak Company, Eli Lilly and Company, Shell Oil Company, congressional testimonies (1984-87), and newspaper clippings.
  • National Fraternity Journals (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the National Fraternity Journals (1880-present) consists of serial publications of national honorary, social, and professional fraternities and sororities from across the country.
  • The national rural and family magazine (Chicago, Ill.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    OCLC: 166261211 LCCN: sn2007006102
  • National Science Foundation Administrative Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the National Science Foundation Administrative Subject File include the original proposal for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
  • National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) Newsletters (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) Newsletters (Digital Surrogates), 1951-1954, 1962-1996, 2000-2002, contains digitized copies NWBA periodic newsletter concerning sporting events, tournament results, staff designation, association's bylaws, fundraising activities, and other information.
  • Natural History Museum Registers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of Natural History Museum Registers contain books and microfilm of accession records for archaeological, mammalogical, ornithological, paleontological, geological, and other objects acquired by the Natural History Museum and recording accession number, source location, date of collection, field number, and remarks describing the object.
  • Natural History Survey Films (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Natural History Survey Films include 35mm and 16mm films created by the Illinois Natural History Survey concerning quail and prairie chickens; fish; wildlife restoration; pine plantations; cannon-netting; chemical treatment of lakes; insect collection; waterfowl; plant colleciton and preservation; restocking fish populations in lakes; Dutch elm disease; the Fairmont limestone quarry; waterfowl; and use of pesticides in agriculture.
  • Nature's Table Collection, 1979-1999
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Navy Contract Research Reports (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Navy Contract Research Reports (Digital Surrogates) consists of technical and quarterly reports put out by the Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
  • NCTE/Executive Secretary's Committee File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Executive Secretary's Committee Files (Digital Surrogates), 1937-2002 contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, convention plans, conference materials, booklists, newsletters, papers addressing NCTE publications and research, questionnaires, recruitment, histories, and structure of NCTE committees formed around testing, research, curriculum development, classroom activities, teacher preparation, evaluation procedures for educators, censorship and bias in education, strategies to address varying student needs and abilities; includes correspondence of executive secretaries Robert Hogan (1968-69), deputy executive director Charles Suhor (1983-94) with council presidents, vice-presidents, journal editors, elementary, secondary and college section chairman, committee chairman and Commission Directors concerning affiliation with other professional organizations; proposals and resolutions of Council committees; appointment of committee chairmen and members; annual conventions (location, speakers, agendas); Council publications and journals; speaking engagements and workshops for state and local affiliate English organizations.
  • NCTE/Studies in Mass Media (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogate records include a copy of the article "Gunsmoke As American Myth" by Robert Shafer.
  • Negro Matriculants List (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Negro Matriculants List includes a 1940 report "Data Concerning Negro Students at the State University" providing a narrative overview of the history, curricula, graduation, employment, extra curriculars, graduate work, honors, living conditions, organizations, welfare, and needs of African-American students 1887-1940.
  • Neil L. Block Papers (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Neil L. Block Papers (Born Digital Records), 1979-1987, includes articles and notes concerning Block's work on astrology. Additional electronic material is available upon request, including software manuals, and instructions; executable files; system files; data tables; image files; bibliographies; indexes; resumes; articles and notes; relating to specialized software including FORTRAN, Lotus Symphony, dBASE Table File Format (DBF), C programming language, File Archive Utility, and AutoCAD (.DWG); programming instructions, astronomy, and astrology. Includes excerpts from the programming book "LEARNING C" by Larry L. Severson and Neil Block. Note: An index to additional nearline material is available in the link provided. Neil Block used the pseudonym Gary Duncan for his astrological projects. An access copy of this material is available upon request.
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute Bulletins (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Neuropsychiatric Institute Bulletins (Digital Surrogates), 1942, contains copies of a digitized brochure and a bulletin, relating to the history, construction, purposes, operation, uses and future of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute. The digitized bulletin -entitled "The Welfare Bulletin", Volume 33, Number 8, August-, includes a speech by Illinois Governor Dwight H. Green in the inauguration of the Institute; as well as articles discussing welfare services and programs.
  • Newbery-Caldecott Press File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the Newbery-Caldecott Press Release Files, including press releases, articles, newspaper clippings, biographical material, presentation speeches, acceptance speeches and photographs concerning the recipients of the Newbery-Caldecott Awards for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children and the most distinguished picture book.
  • Newsletter - Section for Library Work with Children
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the Newsletter (1937-1942) of the Section for Library Work with Children, containing information about ALA Annual Conferences, meetings, events, committee reports, officer and committee lists, and articles on library services to children. Includes Volume 1 (1937-1939), numbers 1-10, and Volume 2 (1940-1942), numbers 1-11.
  • New York Clipper (New York, NY)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    OCLC: 31083506
  • New York Herald Facsimiles Collection (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the IHLC Collection of New York Herald Facsimiles consists of eighteen commemorative facsimile advertisements promoting companies and products for purchase. These advertisements are printed on the interior pages of facsimile copies of various editions of The New York Herald from April 15, 1865, announcing President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The New York Herald was a New York City based newspaper, printed from 1835 to 1924. The use of commemorative newspaper reproductions as advertisements began around the United States centennial in 1876 and continued until roughly 1908. To attract potential customers, companies would print their advertisements on reproductions of newspapers from notable days in American History. The reproduction of The New York Herald from the day of Lincoln’s assassination to create facsimile advertisements was relatively common, as at least 32 facsimile versions of this paper have been identified. These reproductions have frequently been misidentified for original New York Herald editions announcing Lincoln’s assassination. The digitized content contains eighteen commemorative facsimile advertisements for consumer products printed on reproductions of The New York Herald from April 15, 1865. Some of the most frequent advertisers include Grain-O-Coffee, Kitchel’s Liniment, and MA-LE-NA liver pills. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the IHLC Collection of New York Herald Facsimiles (MS 216). The collection was completely digitized in 2025. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Neziah Wright Bliss Ledger Book (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Neziah Wright Bliss Ledger Book consists of a ledger book with records from the years 1854-1862 regarding weather statistics in Warsaw, Illinois, as well as diary entries, recipes, garden and farm notes, and data on natural phenomena. Neziah Wright Bliss was born in Vermont in 1862 and died in Illinois in 1910. He kept a ledger book from 1854-1862 with weather data and farming information. The digitized content contains a ledger book with records from the years 1854-1862 regarding weather statistics in Warsaw, Illinois, as well as diary entries, recipes, garden and farm notes, and data on natural phenomena. In this ledger book, he keeps track of the weather by morning, noon, and evening degrees, and also notes the wind and general weather notes like rain, hail, or clear skies. His garden and farming records are thorough and include the exact types of fruits and vegetables being planted, when and how many were planted, and how long they will need to fully mature. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Neziah Wright Bliss Ledger Book (MS 472). The collection was completely digitized in 2019. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Nina Ruth Harding Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Nina Ruth Harding Papers (Digital Surrogates) contains correspondence between Nina Ruth (b. July 13, 1902, d. Feb. 14, 1925) and members of her family, cancelled checks (1922-23), photographs, postcards, graduation invitations, dance invitations and wedding invitations. Correspondence to Nina Ruth Harding consists primarily of letters from Logan F. Peirce (U of I, 1920-1924) and several from her family and friends (150+ letters) relating to many aspects of collegiate life during the 1920's: dating, the popularity of football, the first automobiles, early motion pictures, early radio broadcasting, fraternity and sorority life (Nina was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Logan was a member of Alpha Chi Rho), cost of living, etc. This series also includes letters to Nina's parents (1899-1930), Theresa and Robert Harding, from their children and extended family.
  • North American Phalanx Records (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized microfilm of North American Phalanx. Records, 1843-1855 consists of the Record of the Proceedings of the North American Phalanx, 1843-44, and the minutes of the sessions of the Executive Council and resident members, Jan. 5 - Feb. 1, 1847, along with other various administrative documents, 1843-55. The North American Phalanx was an experiment in secular utopian socialist commune life, established in September 1843 in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey. The complex’s vital mill was destroyed by a fire in September 1854, which ended the experiment. The community was the longest-running of about 30 Fourierist Associations in the United States. Prominent members of the North American Phalanx included Albert Brisbane and Horace Greeley, who were two leading members of the Fourierist movement. The digitized content contains their constitution, meeting minutes, account books, correspondences, newspaper clippings, and publications relating to the North American Phalanx and research on the Fourierist movement. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the North American Phalanx. Records, 1843-1855 (MS 155). This collection was completely digitized in 2023. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • NROTC Publications (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the NROTC Publications contain digitized issues of Flaghoist and Challenge featuring news articles and images of NROTC activities at the University of Illinois.
  • Office for Intellectual Freedom Newsletters (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of reports on the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (1952-53, 1973).
  • Office for Intellectual Freedom Speeches (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of speeches of the Director's Office of the Office of Intellectual Freedom, including speeches delivered by Director Judith Krug and by Assistant Directors and other OIF staff.
  • Office for Literacy and Outreach Services Subject Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of files from the Office for Literacy and Outreach Services Subject File, including files on the American Indian Library Association, Subcommittee on Library Service for American Indian People (1971-87, 1992-93), publication of Establishing Indian Library Service (numbers 1-11), and the Gay Liberation Task Force (1971-75).
  • Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital records from the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations include a powerpoint presentation relating to the reorganization of campus cultural centers and a .word doc that acted as an outline for a meeting about a feasibility study for the creation of a new building.
  • Office of Public Information Files (Born Digital and Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates and Born digital Records from the Office of Public Information (OPI) Files, contain posters, banners, audio recordings of radio programs, event video recording, press releases, newspaper transcriptions, correspondence, speeches, book cover images, newspaper clippings, articles, rosters, guidelines, and presentation slides, concerning "@ your library, The Campaign for America's Libraries"; Librarian and Book awards; Cuban Libraries and Librarianship; the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), controversies raised over ALA's critical position on this case and press coverage about it; activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); U.S. Schools of Library & Information Studies; ALA and ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) media strategies and plans; and media contact information. Materials also include administrative materials as event agendas, minutes, schedules, memorandums, reports, fact sheets, ALA member photographs, financial and administrative reports, related to the OPI's work, to ALA activities and annual conferences. The files also includes the Linda Wallace Working Files (1992-1999), materials were transferred from 102 floppies. Includes press releases, correspondence, and meeting minutes. Press releases from these records have been made available online at the link provided above. Access copy of all digitized materials is available upon request. Records have been reorganized from their original order to provide better access to researchers.
  • Office of the Dean of Students Programs and Services Annual Reports (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the Dean of Men's Office Annual Reports contain digitized reports detailing the activities of the Dean and employees in the office regarding student life, student employment, student discipline, student scholarship, fraternities, sororities, financial aid, housing, student organizations, student government, speaking engagements, and the Council of Administration.
  • Office of Volunteer Programs Administrative File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Office of Volunteer Programs Administrative File includes correspondence, minutes, reports, brochures relating to the creation of the Office of Volunteer Programs (1988-89), U.W.K.O. (United Way Kick-Off), M.A.D.D. (Make a Difference Day), and National Volunteer Week. Also included are Volunteer Program Associate "Green Dean" notebooks, Green Dean bi-monthly reports, Into the Streets notebooks, conference notebooks, and Leadership in Volunteerism Experience (L.I.V.E.) materials (1989-94).
  • Ohio farmer (Cleveland, Ohio)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    OCLC: 12049731 LCCN: sn90068521
  • The old soldier (Springfield, Ill.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Published in 1840, the semi-monthly Old Soldier was designed in part to combat Old Hickory, a Democratic campaign newspaper also published in Springfield to support Martin Van Buren’s bid for reelection. Each four-page issue is filled with copies of Harrison’s qualifications, his speeches, letters to the editor, and editorials supporting “Old Tippecanoe,” Harrison’s nickname earned from his 1811 victory over the Shawnee and other American Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe in the Indiana Territory.
  • Open House and Student Engineering Exhibit Programs (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Open House and Student Engineering Exhibit Programs includes programs for the Engineering Open House (1920-21, 1953-55, 1958- ) containing descriptions and photographs of buildings, equipment and exhibits, maps and information for visitors.
  • Organization Reports File (Digital Surrogate)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of Organization Report File including printed copies of annual reports from the ALA Bulletin; special reports; minutes of meetings; memoranda and correspondence concerning boards, committees, divisions, joint committees, round tables, divisions and special projects of the ALA, and reports of ALA representatives to meetings of external bodies with attachments and newspapers clippings.
  • Osbun Family Letters (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Osbun Family Letters consists primarily of photocopied Civil War letters written to Private Freeman Osbun, Company D, 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by various family members from 1862-1866. There are no letters from Freeman Osbun in the collection, only letters addressed to him or between other parties. Private Freeman Osbun served in Company D of the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Company D was mustered on September 6, 1862 at Covington, Kentucky, and was mustered out on June 30, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the letters Osbun received were from his immediate family in Mansfield, Ohio, especially his sister Emma and his brother Mel. His parents, Ezra and Emily Osbun, wrote their 19-year old son frequently as well. The digitized content contains photocopied letters addressed to Private Freeman Osbun of Company D, 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. The collection contains only letters addressed to Osbun from various family members, or between other parties. The letters, written mostly by women, describe their perceptions of the war, Copperhead sentiments against the war, and life on the home front. Many of the letters also mention the railroad being built nearby and problems with Irish railroad workers. Also included is a letter describing the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Osbun Family Letters (MS 167). The collection was completely digitized in 2017. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Oscar V. Seed Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Oscar V. Seed Papers includes Seed's accounts of a trip to Europe on a cattle boat in 1910, his World War I experiences at Fort Sheridan and Chateau Thierry, and his entry into the University of Illinois academy in 1907 through to his enlistment into the Army for service in World War I.
  • The Ottawa Free Trader (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Ottawa Free Trader, The Illinois Free Trader, The Illinois Free Trader and LaSalle County Commercial Advertiser, Free Trader-Journal and Free Trader-Journal and Ottawa Fair Dealer The seat of LaSalle County in Illinois, Ottawa is located at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers. Ottawa was the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate on August 21, 1858, and a report of that day's events, held in Washington Square, and their aftermath appears in the Ottawa Free Trader. The origins of the paper go back to May 23, 1840, when George F. Weaver and John Hise launched a four-page Democratic weekly paper, the Illinois Free Trader. Its motto was "Our Country, her Commerce, and her Free Institutions." The following year, the newspaper's name was changed to the Illinois Free Trader and LaSalle County Commercial Advertiser and in 1843, to the Ottawa Free Trader. The latter continued publication until 1916, when it merged with the La Salle County Journal to form the Weekly Free Trader-Journal. No one was more closely associated with the Ottawa Free Trader than William Osman. In 1840, Osman began working for Weaver and Hise, and in 1842, he bought Weaver's interest in the newspaper. In 1889, Osman launched a daily edition of the Free Trader, which was the forerunner to Ottawa's current daily newspaper, the Daily Times. When the Mexican-American War broke out, William Osman and his brother Moses enlisted in the army and together published the Picket Guard, a short-lived Army camp newspaper in Saltillo, Mexico. Meanwhile, back in Illinois, John Hise ran the Free Trader in their absence. In 1848, Moses Osman, bought out Hise, and the two brothers managed the paper together. In 1856, Moses left, leaving William Osman as sole proprietor of the Free Trader. In 1867, Osman partnered with Douglas Hapeman. When the latter retired in 1888, Osman, together with his sons, ran the newspaper. The most famous of the Ottawa Free Trader's writers was Alonzo Delano, known by the pen name of Old Block. At the request of publishers William and Moses Osman, Delano traveled to California with the 49ers and sent correspondence detailing his journey (1849-1852). Delano's travel journal appeared in the Free Trader and gave birth to "California Humor," a style that was influential amongst his contemporaries, including Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Characteristic was Delano's letter from California dated March 2, 1850: "... I made one happy discovery...that temperance societies are not needed in those elevated ranges, that it is wholly useless to preach temperance principle upon those mountain peaks..." (Irving McKee, Alonzo Delano's California correspondence; being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852, 1952).
  • Paléographie des classiques latins
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Émile Chatelain's Paléographie des classiques latins was produced in 14 fascicles between 1884 and 1900, and consists of more than 200 facsimiles of leaves from medieval manuscripts, with explanatory text. The leaves range in date from the fourth to the fifteenth century, and together demonstrate the range of scripts in which the main Latin classics were transmitted from antiquity to the modern world. More than thirty classical authors are represented in the collection, which has been an important paleographical reference work for more than a century. Collection size: approximately 305 items.
  • Pandora's Rag Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Records for Pandora's Rag, independent student feminist publication founded at the University of Illinois in 1998, including publicity, layout and editing information, subscription and sales materials, T-shirts, pins, and issues of the magazine from 1998-2004 and from 2015 and 2017 after the magazine was re-launched.
  • Paris Library School File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Paris Library School File, including files on the American Committee for Devastated France and its leadership, Jessie Carson, Anne Morgan, and Anne Dike.