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Albert Louis Loud Papers

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Identifier: BC423

Overview Assistant engineer in the North Pole and Trans-Atlantic attempts by dirigible, 1909-1911. Loud was born in Virden, Illinois and was an assistant to his brother-in-law Melvin Vaniman, a photographer, engineer and inventor, who was also a Virden native. Loud accompanied Vaniman on Walter Wellman’s third attempt to reach the North Pole by dirigible in 1909 and his 1910 attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Loud also assisted Vaniman in trials for a second trans-Atlantic attempt, but retired from...

Dates: 1890 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1912

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Albion (Ill.)

Collection — Box: 254

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3397

Dates: Created: Date missing

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Albion (Ill.) Public School and Reading Room

Collection — Box: 262

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3525

Dates: Created: Date missing

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander & Howell

Collection — Box: 102

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 1709

Dates: Created: Date missing

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander-Akerly (Ackerly) Family papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-SC13

Scope and Contents Family correspondence written to Adeline Akerly (1834-1916), including 12 Civil War letters from her brother Ashley H. Alexander of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, Co. A. Ashley Alexander's letters describe life at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois and include brief descriptions of the engagement at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; as well as the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg.

Dates: Created: 1853 - 1876

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander, Milton K.

Collection — Box: 165

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2234

Dates: Created: Date missing

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander Sympson Corps No. 70, Woman's Relief Corps

Collection

Identifier: MS-BC12

Overview Founded in 1887 in Carthage, IL as the woman’s auxiliary to Alexander Sympson Post No. 455 of the Grand Army of the Republic in order to aid the Post in their efforts to aid and assist Civil War veterans and their families. The GAR was formed amidst the turmoil of Reconstruction in an effort not only to aid and assist the veterans who had fought for the cause, but also to affect political action for the veterans. Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson who had been a surgeon with the Fourteenth Illinois...

Dates: 1884 - 1931

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander, William

Collection — Box: 135

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2086

Dates: Created: Date missing

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alfred J. Henderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: BC277

Overview Alfred Henderson, a MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Illinois) professor and one time chairman of the history and government department, was born in England, the son of Alfred W. and Alice Dalby Henderson, but became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1917. He was raised in Rochester, New York and worked for Eastman Kodak after graduating from high school. He then attended the University of Rochester where he received a B.A. and a M.A. and went on to earn his Ph.D. in history from Duke University....

Dates: 1924 - 1977

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alfred W. Newcombe papers

Collection — Box: 62

Identifier: MS-SC1098

Scope and Contents Letters from Harold Ickes, Ira Copley, Charles E. Merriam, Donald Richberg and Walter S. Rogers discuss where Newcombe might look for information and some, especially Ickes, give reminiscences re: the election of 1911, LaFollette and Roosevelt.

Dates: Created: 1945 - 1946

Found in: Manuscript Collection

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