1874 drawing of the Taft farmstead by 14 year old Lorado showing the area now bounded by John, Sixth, Daniels, and Wright Streets. Lorado Taft Papers.

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1905 letter from William Albert Noyes to President Edmund J. James negotiating terms of Noyes’ appointment at Illinois. James took an intimate interest in hiring faculty as he built the University of Illinois. President James Subject File.

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Letter from English Prof. Stuart Sherman to his former student Samson Raphaelson. Sherman is advising Raphaelson (class of 1917) on how to structure the play that eventually became The Jazz Singer. Ca. 1920. Stuart Sherman Papers.

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Transcript of Loyalty Hearings interrogation of Professor Oscar Fernsemer, November, 1917 shortly before Fernsemer was pressured to resign prematurely. President James Subject File.

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1923 letter from celebrated Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay to English Prof. Stuart Sherman who maintained an active correspondence with the leading American authors of his day. Stuart Sherman Papers.


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Harold “Red” Grange’s diagrams of “T-Formation” football plays. Coach Ray Eliot Papers.


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“Dispatch” with some observations on colonial India by 25-year-old John Strohm (class of 1935). John Strohm Papers.


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Sculptor Lorado Taft in 1936 working on a model of his “Lincoln-Douglas Debate” mural, which now hangs in the Law Building.


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Mahatma Gandhi, as photographed by John Strohm who secured the interview by billing himself as the Daily Illini “foreign correspondent.” 1937. John Strohm Papers.


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Diagram of “Right Spinner Pass Play”, ca. 1945-50. Coach Ray Eliot Papers.

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Photograph of the Ordvac/ILLIAC I
computer, ca. 1951. Computer Science Photograph File.


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Letter from Chicago White Sox’s owner Bill Veeck to Avery Brundage (Class of 1909) relating to Brundage’s efforts to have Chicago host the 1959 Pan American Games. Avery Brundage Collection.


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1970 letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Avery Brundage (Class of 1909) commending International Olympic Committee President Brundage for his efforts on behalf of amateur athletics. Avery Brundage Collection.


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Reo Speedwagon concert poster, April, 1970. Campus Security Office “Unrest File”


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Call for female students to “liberate” Engineering students by invading the North Campus. May, 1970. Campus Security Office “Unrest File”.


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“Boycott Illini Union Food Service . . .’til Scab Lettuce Goes” March, 1971. Campus Security Office “Unrest File”.


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