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  • Thomas Halligan Affidavit (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Thomas Halligan Affidavit consists of a New York soldier's affidavit allowing a proxy voter to cast his vote in the 1864 presidential election. Thomas Halligan, born in 1823, was a private in Company I of the 104th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was from Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York. Prior to the Civil War, New York soldiers away from home at the time of an election could not vote, but in 1864 the State of New York passed an act permitting men serving in the military to vote in elections via proxy. The digitized content contains three forms filled in by hand, giving John Tracy of Lansingburgh, New York, power of attorney to cast a vote on behalf of Thomas Halligan in the November 8, 1864 general election. The forms, completed while Halligan was stationed in Petersburg, Virginia, were signed by a witness and commanding officer. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Thomas Halligan Affidavit (MS 1052). The collection was completely digitized in 2020. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hess Papers (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Friedrich Wilhelm Hess Papers consists of several letters exchanged between Friedrich Wilhelm Hess, friends and relatives, as well as poems, concert tickets, a birth certificate, and a newspaper clipping. Friedrich Wilhelm Hess (d. 1877) was born in Hamm, Westphalia in the 1830’s. Before immigrating to America, he studied law in Germany. While in America, he studied medicine and served in the medical service during the Civil War. Afterwards, he practiced medicine in Baltimore and Cincinnati. He wrote several essays, novels, and poems, and worked on the staff of various newspapers in Cincinnati, including the “Freie Presse,” “Abend-Post,” “Westliche Blätter,” and “Volksblatt.” He died on August 2, 1877. The digitized content contains forty-three items including letters, poems, concert tickets, a birth certificate, and a newspaper clipping. The letters are dated from the 1870’s and are primarily exchanged between Hess and his sister Emilie Hassel and his mother (signed as “M”). Also included are a birth certificate of Johann Hermann Gerhard Berling, a manuscript poem by Hess titled “Der Brand von Chicago,” an untitled poem by Paula in Emilie’s hand, two concert tickets dated 1875, and a newspaper clipping about the election of President Hayes. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Friedrich Wilhelm Hess Papers as part of the Heinrich A. Rattermann Papers (MS 210). This component of the collection was completely digitized 2020. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Tighlman Howard Papers Jones (Digitized Microfilm)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of Tighlman Howard Jones Papers, 1861-1864 consists of the personal papers kept by Sgt. Tighlman Howard Jones, 59th Ill. Vol. Inf. during wartime, before he was mortally wounded in the fighting around Nashville late in 1864. The collection kept by Sgt. Tighlman Howard Jones, 59th Ill. Vol. Inf. includes letters, and two diaries kept during the war. The letters in this collection were exchanged between Jones and his family in 1861, 1862, and 1864. There are about 45 letters available on microfilm as well as paper transcriptions of 9 letters (4 of which are also available on microfilm). Written from Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, Jones described his experiences in wartime. The digitized content contains letters and a diary covering Sgt. Jones’s experiences in the American Civil War from 1861-1864. Topics include the military, politics and government in the United States, and the Civil War, 1861-1865 in the United States. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items and microfilm copies of the Tighlman Howard Jones Papers, 1861-1864 (MS 767). The collection was partially digitized in 2023. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Thomas J. and Elizabeth Chambers Morgan Papers (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Thomas J. and Elizabeth Chambers Morgan collection consists of letters, notes, speeches and addresses, and newspaper clippings regarding Thomas and Elizabeth Morgan involvement with Mother Jones, the labor movement, and the Socialist Party. Thomas J. Morgan (1847-1912), a lawyer, socialist, and labor leader, was born in Birmingham, England, and came to Chicago where he became president of the Machinists' Union in 1874. He was active in numerous labor organizations as an official, speaker, and writer as well as a frequent labor and socialist nominee for political office. From 1909 to 1911, he issued a weekly publication, The Provoker. His wife, Elizabeth Chambers Morgan, was also deeply involved in the labor movement. Among other activities, she investigated sweatshop conditions among women workers in Chicago in 1891. She compiled the correspondence and clippings in this collection. The digitized content contains letters, notes, speeches and addresses, and newspaper clippings relating to Thomas and Elizabeth Morgan's involvement with Mother Jones, the labor movement and the Socialist Party, and Morgan's The Provoker. Included are letters to Thomas J. Morgan expressing support of The Provoker and some criticizing him for the publication, and letters to and from Elizabeth Morgan about the Woman's Federal Labor Union. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Thomas J. and Elizabeth Chambers Morgan Collection (MS 139). The collection was partially digitized in 2019. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Lincoln News (Lincoln University, Pa.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    OCLC: 173727155
  • Historic Maps of Illinois and the Midwest
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Vincennes Oath
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Louis Sullivan Architectural Drawings of Bradley House, Madison, Wisc.
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Lincolnian (Lincoln University, Pa.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • University Video File (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Audiovisual digital surrogates of University Videotapes contains digitized color and black and white University videotapes and recorded television programs relating to College Bowl between University of Iowa and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1960); Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (ca. 1965) ; Illinois Summer Youth Music (1967) ; University Christmas shows by the University of Illinois School of Music (1970-79); John E. Corbally's Addresses on the state of the University (1971-77); TV show "A University on the Move" (1971); a Campus Overview with President Stukel (1997); WILL interview of President B. Joseph White (2005); convocation (2000, 2003); President Clinton's visit to campus (1998; Nobel Prizes (2003); general campus views (2002); an interview with the Provost by students (ca. 1990s); "Illini Spirit" admissions video (1986); U of I History by Matt Olsen; Rose Bowl Pre-Game scenes; and footage Roger Ebert. Born Digital Records of Public Affairs include video and transcripts of final and rough versions of public affairs videos and short clips of video projects. Important topics include the Crisis Nursery, Ebertfest, Virginial Theater, Illinois Marathon, Alma Restoration, Lincoln Hall Restoration, Engineering Open House, Convocation, student life, and campus b-roll. Also included is a recording of President Barack Obama's speech given at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See additional digitized materials at: https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/9b410620-d3cc-0131-267f-0050569601ca-b. Films in Box 1-21 and Box 24, tape #27 and #90 from the original holdings have been digitized. For more information, please see this Series main record and finding aid. Administrative access to preservation, nearline, and access files is available to archives staff at:https://medusa.library.illinois.edu/collections/566.
  • 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).
  • Interview_Neal-Ehrlich.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Judy-Lachman.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Laura-Timmerwilke.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Ed-Tepper.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Joyce-Nagel-Eisenstein.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Susan-Turitz-Cooper.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • National Lincoln Monument certificate
    Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1869
    Description
    A certificate issued to Josephine Carson for her contribution of fifty cents "to the erection of a Monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, our martyred President." This copy was signed by J.H. Beveridge.
  • Memento Mori Abraham Lincoln poster
    Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1865
    Description
    A poster of Abraham Lincoln, "Memento Mori." This broadside features Lincoln's birth and assassination dates and the phrase "Just of his Word - Observant of his Right.
  • Transcript_Allen-Kossoy.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Allen-Kossoy.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Laura-Timmerwilke.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Freddie-Yudin.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Neal-Ehrlich.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Ed-Tepper.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Joyce-Nagel-Eisenstein.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Susan-Turitz-Cooper.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Samuel-Radwine.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Transcript_Sybil-Stern-Mervis.pdf
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Sybil-Stern-Mervis.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Interview_Rabbi-Cantor-Samuel-Radwine.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Standard atlas of Champaign County, Illinois
    Historic Illinois County Atlases  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Brock & Company
    Date
    1929
    Description
    Pages 19-22 come from the Library's copy 2. The atlas digitized from the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections lacks pages 19-22.
  • Interview_Judy-Lachman.mp3
    Central Illinois Jewish Communities Oral History Project Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Photograph of Jonathan A. Catlin, circa 1860s
    Jonathan A. Catlin Collection (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Simons, J.
    Date
    1860
    Description
    A photograph of Jonathan A. Catlin taken by J. Simons of Quincy, Illinois. On the back, there is a handwritten inscription: "Johnathan A. Catlin, great grandfather."
  • Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 101
    Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895
    Date
    1857
    Description
    A photograph made by Alexander Hesler in Chicago, February, 1857. This and Number 6 were evidently made at the same time. The history of the negative is not known. There is a legend that Lincoln deliberately mussed up his hair before these portraits were made.
  • Letter from Jane Van Horn to Cousins, January 12, 1883
    Jonathan A. Catlin Collection (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Van Horn, Jane
    Date
    1883
    Description
    A letter from Jane Van Horn of Churchville, Pennsylvania to her cousins in Illinois, informing them on family matters.
  • A Nation in Tears: 150 Years after Lincoln's Death: An Exhibition Held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 12...
    Scholarship
    Creator
    • Sears, Dennis J.
    • Hoffmann, John
    • Yestrepsky, Michelle
    Description
    "The sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral is commemorated by this exhibition. Items include a copy of the initial printing of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865; an uncut copy of the New York Herald of April 15, the first paper to report the President's assassination; an oversize lithograph of Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by numerous dignitaries; and issues of the National Police Gazette which featured vignettes of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, and his co-conspirators. ”A Nation in Tears” will also include plaster casts of the President's hands and a piece of the blood-stained pillow slip on which Lincoln's head was laid. In addition, the exhibition will display photographs of ceremonies in cities along the route of the funeral train from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, as well as sermons, hymns, and artifacts which document the nation's mourning. The exhibition will open at 3:00 p.m. on February 11 at a meeting of the No. 44 Society, the book collecting club of Champaign-Urbana, in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana). The meeting is open to the public. As items in the exhibition are mainly drawn from the Library's Illinois History and Lincoln Collections. On May 1, at 3:00 p.m. Richard E. Hart, past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association, will close the exhibition with a description of the final ceremonies in Springfield: ""'Bear Him Gently to His Rest': The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln."" The public is invited to this special event which will also take place in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library."
  • Illinois Central Railroad Company construction deed
    Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Palmer, John M.
    Date
    1880
    Description
    A photographic copy of a construction deed allocating forty acres of land to John Bradly from the Illinois Central Railroad Company. It was signed by the State of Illinois trustees John M. Palmer, William K. Ackerman, and Robert T. Lincoln on May 25, 1880.
  • Rose Irene Coogan Towne Kolowski Oral History
    Scholarship
    Creator
    Kolowski, Rose Irene Coogan Towne
    Description
    Kolowski discusses life in Lincoln, Illinois: family, education in high school and at Lincoln College, marriage, Catholic religion, home life, jobs, chautauqua grounds, band concerts, horses and buggies, prohibition, and her work at the Sangamon Ordnance Plant in Illiopolis during WWII, and later at the Lincoln College Museum. Interview by Roger Moore, 1987. 3 tapes, 248 mins.
  • Daily Illini, 11 February 1959 - Page 4
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1959