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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 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. |
| - - - | Title: Illustrations from Charles Dickens Novels, 1836-1865
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: PH 300 Abstract: Etchings and wood engravings, illustrations by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne, George Cattermole, Samuel Williams, Robert Seymour, Frank Stone, and Marcus Stone from the published novels of Charles Dickens, 1836-1865 (most originally published as serials). |