Manuscripts

This collection contains items from Governor Samuel Shapiro's private and public activities, including photographs and correspondence with state and national political figures.

The collection include GSIA program documentation, bylaws, reports, position papers, board information, correspondence and more.

A group of 23 letters written to and from members of the William Green family of Orvil Township, Logan County, Illinois between the years 1864 and 1884.

This collection consists primarily of letters written to Mildred Jean Grimm by her father, Lester R. Grimm.

The Harvard Park Neighborhood Association materials in the collection range in dates from 1989 to 2019.

The Henry B. House Collection contains letters to Henry House, an actor and director of local theater productions until his death in 1953.

The items in this collection were found at 1605 Lowell Avenue in Springfield, in a home previously owned by Herman and Emma Schlensack and occupied a various times by Herman and Emma as well as their sons Helmuth and Robert.

The Herndon Family Collection is mainly a photographic collection centered on Richard Fleetwood and Kate Herndon’s immediate and extended families.

This collection contains seven binders of Homeless United for Change correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, essays, newspaper articles, and grant applications covering 2007-2009. There is also an index for each year. The publication Homeless United for Change – HUC: Narrative of the first three years, 2007, 2008, 2009 with an overview of homeless services by Barbara Olson is included and is based on the material in the binders.