Manuscript Holdings in the Special Collections and Archives
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- Abrahams Collection
- Achepohl, Keith - Manuscript collection
- Alpha Xi Delta Collection
- Alwaise, Emily - Collection
- Amity College Papers
- Anderson, Elizabeth Jane/ Charles H. Huggins Papers
- Andrus, Mark Wood - Photographs
- Anonymous (travel diary - Iowa to Idaho 1864)
- Armes, Ethel Marie - Letters
- Association for Black Culture Centers (see: National Association for Black Culture Centers)
- Atwood, J. Howell - Papers
- (Baldwin) Cuthrell, Faith - Papers
- Baldwin, Faith - Papers
- Bancroft, Addison N. - Collection
- Bancroft, Edgar Addison - Papers
- Bancroft, Edgar A. - Collection
- Bancroft, George Correspondence (volume 1)
- Bancroft, George Correspondence (volume 2)
- Barbero-McGirr Collection
- Bartlett, Watson Prescott - Collection
- Bateman, Newton D. - Papers
- Baylor, H. Murray and Elisabeth B. - Papers
- Beauchamp, William Theodore, Sr. - Papers
- Bebb, Michael Schuck/Harry Norton Patterson Papers
- Beecher, Rev. Edward - Letters
- Bender, Victor E. - Papers
- Beta Theta Pi
- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann - Papers
- Birkbeck, Morris; George Flower; Benjamin Orange Flower Papers
- Blanc, Madame (Therese Bentzon) - Papers
- Black Culture Centers Collection (see: National Association for...)
- Blick, Dick Collection (see: Dick Blick)
- Bookfellows Papers
- Bookfellows Autograph Collection 1715-1935
- Bookfellows Autograph Collection 1705-1940
- Bookfellows Autograph Collection 1793-1945
- Bookfellows English Literary Manuscript Collection
- Bookfellows French, German, Spanish documents
- Bookfellows Miscellany
- Boyer, Able (Boyer Broom Factory) - Journals
- Brengle Letters (see: Mayes/Greaton/Brengle Letters)
- Brink, Samuel Hezekiah - Papers
- Brown, George W. - Papers
- Browning, Orville H. - Papers
- Burkhalter, Savina Karl - Papers
- Burnham, Clara Louise Root - Papers
- Burton, Pierce - Collection
- Burton, Sarah Fenn
- Cabell, James Branch - Papers
- Caldwell Documents 1440-1893
- Caldwell Documents 12th to 14th century
- Caldwell, Edward - Collection
- Caldwell, Edward
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo - Papers
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo / Gerald Carson Letters
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo / Walter B. Geoghegan Papers
- Calkins, Earnset Elmo / Rebecca Lowrie Papers
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo / Richard Dana Pearsall Papers
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo / Mary Scott Papers
- Calkins, Earnest Elmo / Willis E. Terry - Letters
- Calkins (see: Shaw/Robbins/Calkins papers)
- Campbell, James A. - Slides
- Carey, Amelia L. - Letters
- Carte de Visites Collection
- Carithers, Dwight B. - Papers
- Carman, William Bliss - Papers
- Carroll, Louisa Thomas - Papers
- Carson (see: Calkins/Carson Correspondence)
- Cartwright, Peter (see: Glick, Merle/Peter Cartwright - Collection)
- Center, Allen Harry - Papers
- Central Congregational Church Correspondence
- Chamberlain, Ethel and Gail Q. Porter - Papers (see: Porter Papers)
- Chambers, Matthew - Records
- Cheney, Richard - Papers
- Churchill, Professor George - Papers
- Churchill/Stilson Collection
- Civer, William R. - Diary
- Civic Music Association
- Clark, Merritt C. - Collections
- Clark, Stephen P. - Papers (photographs)
- Clio Club Collection
- Colby, William
- Cole Family Papers
- Comstock, Milton L. - Manuscript
- Cone Family Papers
- Confederate Civil War Collection
- Conger, Sarah Pike - Papers
- Covington, Rev. Van D. - Collection
- Cowles, Gerald
- Cox-Fisher Papers
- Creighton, Mary Allensworth - Papers
- Danchin, Pierre - Papers
- Daughter of the American Revolution
- Davis Family Papers
- Davis, Rodney
- Davis, Walter Benjamin - Papers
- Delta Delta Delta Collection
- Deming, Mrs Miner Rudd (nee Abigail Barnum) - Letters
- De Morgan, William Frend - Papers
- De Novo, John - Papers
- Deutsch, Robert Papers
- Dibden, Arthur James
- Dick Blick
- Dickinson, Lora Townsend and Christina Cornelia Woods - Papers
- Donaldson, Bess Allen - Collection
- Dresbach, Glenn Ward
- Duffield, George, Sr. and Jr. - Papers
- Duffield, Samuel W. - Papers
- Dunlevey, James E. - Papers
- Dunn, Arthur William - Collection
- Dunn, Edwin M. and Charles W.
- Eastes, Helen M. - Collection
- Eastman, Elaine Goodale - Papers
- Edmunds, Palmer - Papers
- Edwards Family Papers
- Elba Township Records (Knox County, IL)
- Elder, Lucius Walter - Papers
- Elliott Papers
- Erskine, John - Letters
- Ewing, Adaline Clendenin - Letters
- Fairbanks, Avard -- Collection
- Farley, Charles - Papers
- Farnham, Jerusha Loomis - Diary
- Farnham, Jerusha Loomis Brewster - Papers
- Ferris, Henry and Elizabeth Hudson Ferris - Papers
- Ferris, Silvanus and William Meade Ferris - Papers
- Field, Eugene - Collection
- Finch, Alida Elizabeth - Correspondence
- Finley, George - Papers
- Fitch George H. - Collection
- Fitch, George H. - Papers
- Fleharty Family Papers
- Flower, George and Benjamin Orange Flower (see: Morris Birkbuck)
- Fox, E. Inman - Papers
- Franckey, W.A. - Collection
- Gale Family Papers
- Gale Family Papers 1894-1983
- Galesburg Music Collection
- Galesburg View Books
- Garland, Hamlin - Papers
- Gay, Hobart - Collection
- Gayman, Esther Palm - Papers
- Gettemy, Charles Ferris - Papers
- Glick, Merle/Peter Cartwright - Collection
- Glick, Merle/Edgar Lee Masters - Collection
- Glick, Merle/Spoon River - Collection
- Goodale, Dora Read - Papers
- Goodsill, Marshall Max - Papers
- Goodsill-Chandler Family
- Green Family Papers
- Greaton (see: Mayes/Greaton/Brengle)
- Grierson, John - Papers
- Griffith, Virginia F. - Music Collection
- Gulliver, John Putnam - Papers
- Guy, Verla Deatherage - Papers
- Haley, Addie
- Hall, Samuel Carter and Anna Maria - Collection
- Hansen, Harry/Carl Sandburg - Collection
- Harbach, Otto A. - Papers
- Harbach, Otto A. - Music Inventory
- Harbach, Otto A. - Papers
- Harper, Robert S. - Papers
- Harrington, Samuel M.
- Haskins, Benjamin F. - Papers
- Haw Creek Township Records
- Hawthorne Club - Papers
- Hayes, William - Family Papers
- Hellenga, Robert R.
- Heller, H. Clifford - Collection
- Hemingway Collection
- Hessen, Frank
- Hinchliff Family Papers
- Hinchliff, Grace - Papers
- Hinckley, Ada P. - Letters
- Hitchcock Family Papers
- Hitchcock, Henry Eaton - Journals
- Hitchcock, Margaret Gale - Papers
- Holland, Harold M. - Photographs
- Hough, Emerson - Papers
- Houser, Henry P. - Manuscript Collection
- Huggins, Charles H. (see: Anderson, Elizabeth)
- Hughes, Rev. John - Papers
- Hurd, Ethel Edgerton - Correspondence
- Husted, E.F. - Papers
- Iles, Maj. Elijah - Papers
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- Irwin, Inez Haynes - Papers
- Jewish Cemetery Association
- Johnson, Jane - Collection
- Johnson, Laura B.
- Jones, Fred D. - Letters
- Knox Kindergarten and Nursery School - Papers
- Klein, Maury - Papers
- Kupsky, Greg - Oral History
- Kurtz, Thomas -- Collection
- Lass Postcard Collection
- Latimer, William Drennan - Correspondence
- Leopold, Aldo -- Great Possessions Inventory
- Leopold, Aldo -- Research Collection
- Lincoln, Abraham - Documents
- Lincoln, Abraham - Collection
- Lipkin, Mack/Ursula Walker - Papers
- Litvin, Martin - Papers
- Loba, Frederic and Jean Frederic Autobiography
- Lombard College Collection
- London, Charmian Kittredge (Mrs. Jack London) Papers
- Losey, James Harvey - Diary
- Losey, Lucretia Hitchcock - Autobiography
- Lovejoy, William O. and Lizzie Near Lovejoy - Collection
- Lovitz, Gene (see: Carl/Gene Lovitz)
- Lowrie, Selden Gale - Papers
- Luckhardt, Arno Benedict - Papers
- MacLennan, Earl McCanon, Wallace Campbell - Journals
- McCanon, Wallace Campbell - Papers
- McChesney, Joseph - Papers
- McClelland Family Papers
- McClelland, Kellogg D. - Papers
- McClelland, Thomas - Papers
- McGirr Collection (see: Barbero-McGirr)
- Maple, Augustus M. - Papers
- Markham, Edwin - Correspondence
- Marquis, Don - Papers
- Marsh, Eudocia Baldwin - Papers
- Masters, Edgar Lee - Collection
- Masters, Edgar Lee (see: Glick, Merle/Edgar Lee Masters)
- Masters, Thomas and Mary Jane
- Mayes, John Babbitt/Dr. Daniel David Brengle/Oscar Muir Brengle - Letters
- Mayo General Hospital - Galesburg - Mayonews
- Mead, Samuel B. - Letter
- Merrill Family Account Book
- Mexican-American Research
- Miles Family Papers
- Milner, Vivian Irene
- Miniature Book Collection
- Monson, William -- Sandburg Slide Collection
- Morse, Lucy Smith (Mrs. Edward Caldwell) - Letters
- Morse, Robert C. - Letters
- Mosaic Club Papers
- Moses Document Collection
- Muelder, Hermann R. - Papers
- Mureen, Elof W. - Collection
- Music Collection, Galesburg
- Music Collection, Virginia F. Griffith
- Musicians Club Recor
- National Association for Black Culture Centers Collection
- Neihardt, John Gneisenau - Papers
- Nelson, Anna Mathilda - Family Papers
- Nelson, George H. - Letters
- New Salem Collection
- Oak Run Development
- Odd Fellows - see Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- Okada, T. --- Collection
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Club Paper
- Omeis, Marie-Louise - Florida Papers
- Oral History (various)
- Orton Family Papers
- Palmer, Alice - Collection
- Parminter, Nellie Mabel - Papers
- Patterson, Harry N. (see: Bebb, Michael)
- P.E.O. - International Woman's Club
- Persifer Township Records
- Peterson Political Campaign Collection
- Phelps, Caroline (Mrs. William Phelps) - Diary
- Phi Beta
- Pillsbury, Ira & Helen Jordan Letters
- Pillsbury, Rev. Ithamar -Collection
- Plaza Theatre Papers
- Porter, Gail Q. and Ethel Chamberlain - Papers
- Post, Janet Grieg - Papers
- Post, Philip Sidney - Papers
- Post, Philip Sidney, Jr. - Papers
- Priestley, Herbert - Papers
- Quick, John Herbert - MR (literary manuscripts)
- Read, Josiah - Collection
- Reynolds, Alvah - Papers
- Recollection Collection (Western Illinois residents)
- Rhodes, Eugene Manlove - Papers
- Rich, Willis Horton - Publications
- Robbins see: Shaw /Robbins/Culkins Papers
- Roberts, Hiram Shannon - Collection
- Roe, Lewis F. - Papers
- Root, Riley - Papers (1849-1866)
- Root, Riley - Papers (1807-1873)
- Root, Riley - Document (1859)
- Rowe Manufacturing Collection
- Rudd, Oscar F. - Papers
- Salter, William Mackintire - Papers
- Salter, William Mackintire - Collection
- Sanborn, David - Diary
- Sandburg, Carl/Gene Lovitz - Collection
- Sandburg, Carl - Collection
- Sandburg, Carl/Donna Workman - Collection
- Sandburg, Carl - see also: William Monson
- Sang, Philip D. - Autograph Collection
- Sang, Philip D. - Cartoon Collection
- Sang, Philip D. - Letter Collection
- Sargent, Mary Bates - Papers
- Saunders Press Bookplate Collection
- Scott, Captain Lemuel L. - Papers
- Scudder Family Papers
- Sellew, George T. - Family Papers
- Sengenberger, Ellen - Papers
- Seymour Autograph Collection
- Seymour Document Collection
- Seymour Family Papers
- Seymour, George Steele - Papers
- Shaw/Robbins/Calkins Papers
- Simonds, William Edward - Papers
- Slaughter, John W. - Letters
- Smith, Minnie - Papers
- Sorosis Study Club Papers
- Spaulding, Horace - Papers
- Spencer, Herbert - Papers
- Spoon River Collection (see: Glick, Merle/Spoon River Collection)
- Standish, John Van Ness - Collection
- Starr, Frederick - Papers
- Starrett, Charles Vincent Emerson - Papers
- Stearn, Noel Hudson
- Sterling, George - Papers
- Stoneberg, Philip J. - Papers
- Stoneberg Collection
- Strickland, Abigail - Papers
- Suckow, Ruth
- Swift, Ivan - Papers
- Tanning, Dorothea - Collection
- Tate, Dr. Louis Neil - Papers
- Temple Sholom - Collection
- Terris, William - Collection
- Terry, Willis E. (see: Calkins, E.E)
- Timme, Charles W. - Collection
- Tompkins, Julia Woods - Papers
- Tourlentes, Stephen C.
- Trevor, Dean Spaulding - Papers
- Trickle, Jackson - Papers
- Tryon, Louise J. (see: Whiting/Tryon Collection)
- Tuscarora Club Collection
- Umbeck, Sharvy G. - Papers
- Vallandigham, Clement Laird - Papers
- Walker, Kenneth James, Sr. & Ursula Genung Walker - Papers
- Walker, Ursula - Papers
- Ward, Grace R. - Photograph Collection
- Watters, Isaac - Papers
- Webster, Martha Ward Farnham - Papers
- Weigel, John Conrad - Correspondence
- Welsh, Vernon - Papers
- Wenzelmann Collection
- West, Bessie Anderson
- Wetmore Family Papers
- Wetmore/Wikoff Papers
- Whiting/Tryon Collection
- Whitsett, George - Papers
- Wilkinson, Margaret Ewing (Mrs. Charles Wilkinson) - Diary
- Willard, Thomas Rigney - Papers
- Willcox, Erastus S. - Papers
- Williams, Henry Smith - Collection
- Williamson, Jacob P. - Diary
- Wilson, Julia - Papers
- Wilson, Howard A. - Papers
- Winget, DeWitt Harris (Dan) - Collection
- Women's Club Papers
- Workman, Donna - Documents
- Wright, Philip Green
- Wright, Samuel Guild - Diaries
- Wright, Quincy - Publications
- Wright, Theodore Paul - Medals
- Young, Earl L. - Diary 1878-1944
- Zetterberg, Arvid Pierre - Diary