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Abby W. May copybook
Collection — Box: 58
Identifier: MS-SC1017
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters to various officials in the Sanitary Commission regarding the work they are doing and business matters related to it. She writes one five page letter regarding the Bulletin of the Sanitary Commission and how it could be improved to show what the Commission is actually doing. One letter in answer to a question regarding cleanliness of supplies she describes how they pack them. One letter regarding assistance to the Freedman's Bureau. The last letter asks that if there are no...
Dates:
Created: 1865 - 1866
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Abner J. Mikva Papers
Collection
Identifier: BC460
Abstract
Illinois Democrat state legislator for the tenth district (Cook County), United States congressman, an appellate judge, District of Columbia, White House counsel under Clinton, and law professor at various law schools. Holds the distinction of serving in all three branches of government. Married to Zorita Wise in 1948, has three daughters.
Dates:
Created: 1950-2010; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Abraham Brown Family Papers, 1865-1930
Collection — Box: 278
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3742
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Abraham Lincoln Association Collection
Collection — Box: Abraham Lincoln Association Collection
Identifier: AV-01-08-40
Overview
The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) is an American association advancing the studies of Abraham Lincoln. The ALA publishes the Journal of The Abraham Lincoln Association and a newsletter, supports Lincoln scholarship with awards, celebrates the anniversary of President Lincoln’s birth with an annual symposium and banquet in Springfield, Illinois, and hosts Lincoln events. The primary mission of the ALA is to preserve and make more readily accessible the landmarks associated with Lincoln’s...
Dates:
Created: Finding aid creation
Found in:
Audiovisual Collection
Abraham Lincoln Association Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC2
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, documenting the association's efforts to promote the life and memory of President Abraham Lincoln.
These files include records for both the Centennial Association and the Abraham Lincoln Associationand contain mostly the business records of the executive secretaries: Warren, Bunn, Angle, Pratt, Barringer, and Basler.
Dates:
Created: 1908-1958
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Collection
Collection — Box: 224
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2838
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oral History
Collection
Identifier: AV-01-12
Dates:
Created: 2020-01-22
Found in:
Audiovisual Collection
Abraham Race deed
Collection — Box: 68
Identifier: MS-SC1225
Scope and Contents
Deed of land in Egremont, Berkshire County, Massachusetts owned by Race to Reuben Wilson. Signed by Race in the presence of Justice of the Peace Thomas Hopkins. Paper watermarked G R with a coronet.
Dates:
Created: April 22, 1809
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adalaide C. Davis Clark diaries
Collection
Identifier: BC118
Overview
Longtime resident of Mendota, Ill. who kept a day to day diary through much of her of life including her trip to Europe in 1894. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, she was born in Ludlowville, N.Y. She lived there until after her marriage to Harvey S. Clark in 1854 when they moved to Mendota. Over the years Harvey worked as a lumber dealer and manager of an oil mill in LaSalle County. They had three children, two daughters and one son. After her husband’s death, she lived with her...
Dates:
1843 - 1911; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1911
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adam Badeau correspondence
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: MS-SC60
Scope and Contents
Adam Badeau (1831-1895) was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. During the American Civil War he served on the staff of General Thomas W. Sherman and later Ulysses S. Grant. He achieved the rank of brevet brigadier general. After the war’s conclusion Badeau combined a long career as an author with work in various foreign service posts, including U.S. Consul in London. During the 1880s Badeau assisted in writing President Grant’s memoirs, however the two disagreed over Badeau’s...
Dates:
Created: 1885, 1889
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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