Manuscript Collection Inventory
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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in the Main Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additional
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
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Van Norman, Clare, Jr., collector
Lincoln and Illinois Ephemera, 1865-1967.
Abraham Lincoln Ephemera
Birthday Celebration Programs
Mid-Day Luncheon Club, Springfield, Ill. “Program of Exercises
Commemorating the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Anniversary of
the Birth of Abraham Lincoln,” Feb. 12, 1943
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (Indiana)
“Commemorative Building at Lincoln Shrine to Complete
Outstanding Hoosier Memorial,” ca. 1940s
Photographs (8) of the construction and sculptured panels at the
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, annotated and signed by E. H.
Daniels, sculptor, ca. 1939-44
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Knox Alumnus, Vol. XI, Nos. 7 and 8 (Sept.-Oct. and Nov.
1928), regarding the Galesburg Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Celebration
Centennial Program, Galesburg, Ill., Oct. 4-7, 1958
Publications
Lincoln Memorial Issue, Harper’s Weekly 9: 436 (May 6, 1865).
[in gray flat storage cabinet, Deck 8].
Frank O. Payne, "Lincoln in Bronze," in Munsey’s Magazine, 54:3
(Apr. 1915), 497-509.
H. M. Savage, “Lincoln in Music,” Hobbies 41:2 (Feb. 1936), 1920.
Hostick, King. “A New Chapter on Lincoln,” originally published
in Hobbies (Mar. 1942), as submitted by Rep. Evan Howell to the
Congressional Record, May 5, 1942, regarding the opening in 1947
of the Robert Todd Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress.
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Harry E. Pratt, "Lincoln and Bankruptcy Law," in Illinois Bar
Journal, 31:5 - Part II (Jan. 1943), 201-6.
Japanese-American Cultural Society, Abraham Lincoln's Sesquicentennial Birthday Celebration (Tokyo, 1963)[cataloged as
973.7L63 Fab822].
Statue Photographs
George Garriere’s Lincoln at Lincoln High School, Webster City,
Iowa, ca. 1913
P. P. Caproni & Bro.’s Abraham Lincoln at Logan County
Courthouse, Lincoln, Ill., ca. 1939
Illinois Ephemera
Carl Sandburg
Restoration of the Sandburg Birthplace, Galesburg, Ill. "Penny
Parade" promotional items, 1964
Tribute to Carl Sandburg Program, Galesburg, Ill., Oct. 1, 1967
Lorado Taft
Great Illinoisans (1958), contains a reprint of Trygve A.
Rovelstad, “Impressions of Lorado Taft,” originally published in
Papers in Illinois History (1937). Inscribed by the author to
Ernest E. East, Peoria historian.
Arnold Francis Gates to Harry E. Pratt, Aug. 10, 1940, regarding
Gates's Song of the Leaves: Quest of Johnny Appleseed [cataloged
as B.C466g].
Pen-and-Ink Drawings
Eight drawings, mounted on cardboard.
Artist unknown, 1899.