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Alpha Beta Alpha Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-217
Abstract

One color and five black and white photographs of Alpha Beta Alpha Convention at Illinois State University, showing Miss Jean Nelson (Instructor Illinois State University), Miss Welch (Librarian Illinois State University), Maureen Bray (Illinois State), Hilda Weeks (MSCW), Linda Pinder (West University of Alabama), Mary Kate Meredith (University of Alabama), Suellen Reed (University of Alabama), Dona Wrench, and two photos of Illinois State University.

Dates: 1968-04

Benjamin F. Nourse Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4744
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three wartime diaries kept by Private Benjamin F. Nourse during his service with the Chicago Board of Trade Independent Light Artillery Battery from 1863 to 1865. These diaries provide a firsthand account of daily life as a Union soldier, chronicling military engagements, camp life, personal reflections, and logistical details such as supplies and movements. 1863 Diary (363 pp.): Nourse details military operations, personal experiences, and daily...
Dates: 1863 - 1865

Charles Summersell Photographs, Negatives, and Transparencies

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-025
Abstract Photographs, majority are iconographic, filmstrips, slides, audio cassettes, hand-written notebooks, microfilms and negatives, bulk dates: 1860-mid 1900s. A procedure is now underway of accessing and housing the ‘photographic’ collection. Photographs originally stored in 22 cartons and one Hollinger boxes; other items include 7 cartons of Alabama filmstrips, 5 Hollinger boxes containing filmstrips and audio tapes relating to history of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, California, Ohio and...
Dates: 1860 - 1900

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.031
Identifier: 2009-146
Abstract

Thirteen photographs depicting scenes of everyday activities in various places.

Dates: 1900 - 1930

James Huckstep Letter to His Sister Kate

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5049
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a four-page autograph letter dated July 16, 1863, written by James Milton Huckstep, a regimental musician in Company D of the 115th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, to his sister Catherine "Kate" A. Huckstep.Composed from Wartrace, Tennessee, the letter offers vivid commentary on Huckstep’s wartime experiences, including a recent march from Shelbyville, the fall of Port Hudson, and the raid of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan into Indiana. Most...
Dates: 1863-07-16

Charles B. Safford and Clara Safford Brooke Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4288
Abstract

This collection contains letters to and from Illinois soldier Charles B. Safford, who served as a captain in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, and his wife Clara Safford. Many of the letters date from the time of her second marriage to Thomas S. Brooke.

Dates: 1853-1886 and undated

Charles Henry Snedeker diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1301
Abstract

Transcript of a diary created by a Union soldier who served in Company H of the 124th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry and mustered out in 1865.

Dates: 1863-1865

W. A. Mair Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-025
Abstract

This collection consists of two photographic albums with 230 photographs showcasing highlights of W. A. Mair travels with his friends and family through Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Mexico, and Tennessee.

Dates: 1900 - 1901

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-094
Abstract

This collection consists of seven photographs depicting city of Alton, Illinois and scenes along a river: a bridge, a steamboat, and the shoreline.

Dates: 1914-07

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.028
Identifier: 2009-122
Abstract

This collectin consists of thirty-six photographs depicting people and places in Kentucky, Texas, Missouri, and Maryland engaged in everyday activities.

Dates: 1877 - 1928

William Nazareth Mitchell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1003
Abstract

Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.

Dates: 1862

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