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| Illinois ACORN (Organization) | Title: Illinois ACORN Records, 1983-2006
Quantity: 17.8 c.f., 111 photographs, and 7 videorecordings Call Number: M2001-111; M2010-080 Abstract: Records of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)-Illinois, 1983-2006, principally from the Chicago office and head organizer Madeline Talbott, documenting the organization's activities concerning local actions and campaigns on such issues as abandoned housing, schools and various education programs, utility rates and energy assistance, jobs, housing, welfare, the living wage campaign, and predatory lending. Photographs document events and rallies, and include images of Bobby Rush, Luis Gutierrez, Barack Obama, and Jesse Jackson Jr. |
| Illinois Arts Council Ethnic and Folk Arts Programs | Title: Jo Daviess County Folk Arts in Education Project Collection, 1990-1991
Contents: American Folklife Center: 1 folder, 9 audiocassette masters, 130 slides, approximately 160 negatives, approximately 5 contact sheets (3 sets); Galena History Museum: 1 folder, 9 copy audiocassettes, 75 slide duplicates, 37 photographs, 10 internegatives, 5 contact sheets (3 sets); and Janet C. Gilmore: 4 folders, 9 copy audiocassettes, 91 slides, 5 contact sheets (3 sets), 4 mounted photographs, 2 computer diskettes Unique Identifier: CSUMC0009-CG Summary: The Jo Daviess County Folk Arts in Education Project generated field reports, sound recordings, and photographic images from a one-month folk art survey of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in 1990, and modest communications, student work, and related manuscript materials from two two-week folk arts educational programs in the River Ridge (Elizabeth and Hanover) and Galena school districts in 1991. With Illinois Arts Council initiative and funding and Galena/Jo Daviess County Historical Society and Museum sponsorship, folklorist Janet C. Gilmore documented 12 traditional practitioners including 7 quilters, a number of quilting groups, a rag-rug weaver, a horse-farming family, trappers, and a genuine local character and "river rat," several of whom additionally contributed information about farm life, commercial fishing, waterfowling, railroading, foundry work, leather work, knife-making, and decoy-carving in the area. |
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Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs; Western Illinois University. College of Fine Arts; Schuyler Arts Council; American Folklife Center |
Title: West Central Illinois Duck Decoy Carving Survey (Gregory Hansen) Collection and Schuyler Arts Folk Music Project Collection, 1987
Contents: Western Illinois University Archives and Special Collections: Duck Decoy (Gregory Hansen): 1 notebook, 1 bundle, 36 audiocassettes, 28 contact sheets, 11 photographs, and 1,000 negatives; Schuyler Folk Music: 5 folders, 20 audiocassettes, 83 photographs Unique Identifier: CSUMC0030-CG Summary: Western Illinois University Archives and Special Collections houses ethnographic documentation from two publicly-funded folk arts projects that occurred in 1987. They are accessible through the collection designations of “The Gregory Hansen Collection” and “The Schuyler Arts Folk Music Project Collection.” The Gregory Hansen Collection includes documentation of more than 30 duck decoy carvers in West Central Illinois along the lower Illinois and Rock rivers as well as a stretch of the Upper Mississippi River. Folklorist Gregory Hansen conducted the survey for the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs and the Western Illinois University College of Fine Arts. The documentation includes typescripts of interview information, recorded interviews, photographs and negatives, as well as a photo log with contact sheets. Musician Chris Vallilo, on behalf of the Schuyler Arts Council (Rushville, Illinois) in conjunction with the Illinois Arts Council and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, surveyed Schuyler County's folk music for the Schuyler Arts Folk Music Project. His work resulted in recorded interviews of 19 individuals and 6 performances, and includes notes, logs, photographs, permission forms, and completed interview transcripts. |
| Illinois Labor History Society | Title: Illinois Labor History Society: United Packinghouse Workers of America Interviews, 1979-1983
Quantity: 28 tape recordings and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Tape 1117A; SC 452 Abstract: Interviews conducted for the Illinois Labor History Society with seven former officials of the United Packinghouse Workers of America concerning the history of the union, 1933-1981. Topics include organizational efforts, discrimination in the work place, and the 1968 merger with the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen. The interviews were conducted by Les Orear and Sue Davenport. Interviewees include Ralph Helstein, Les Orear, Joe Zabritsky, Herbert March, Sam Parks, Virgil Bankson, and Don James. Also in the collection is a summary abstract and similar content notes for part of the Helstein interview only. |
| Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee for American Indians | Title: Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee for American Indians Records, 1941-1960
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 124 Abstract: Records of a standing committee established by the Illinois Yearly Meeting of Friends in 1959 to study the welfare of Indians, particularly the Menominee, Oneida, and Winnebago tribes, and to support legislation to aid the Menominees in adjusting to termination. Included are correspondence, annotated copies of relevant state and federal legislation, minutes of I-WFCAI and related groups, and newsletters, clippings, and other research material on the Menominees. The collection was compiled by chairman Paxton Hart. |