Manuscripts

The collection includes photos, real estate and financial documents, and travel memorabilia kept by the two sisters.

The collection includes bills and statements, canceled checks, deposits, tax receipts, insurance policies, agreements, deeds, correspondence letters, receipts, ledgers, court reports, property and mortgage records, financial and estate reports, and notes. Other materials include plat maps, lectures and speeches, abstract of titles, and a photo. All materials date between 1860s-1970s.

The items in the collection come from a scrapbook compiled by John R. Work. It is a reorganization of photographs and memoirs mainly related to Mr. Work’s World War II work in the Office of Strategic Services, but also touching on his art and personal life.

This collection consists primarily of letters written to Loomis from Governor Yates.

This collection contains Johnston family photos of people, places, pets, and events, negatives, photocopies of a family scrapbook, a planner, and a letter.

Correspondence, business documents, certificates, and obituaries spanning three generations of one family: Leonora Knox Morgan, her father, James Madison Knox and her grandfather, Levi Johnston.

Women founded the Service League of Springfield in 1939. It became the Junior League of Springfield in 1950. The collection includes organization yearbooks 1950s-2000s, board, financial, and committee materials from the 1960s and 1980s, newspaper clippings about the organization and their events and projects, programs, photos, and newspaper clippings related to their Follies event 1940s-1980s, New Salem Tour program materials 1960s, Lincoln sites tour program materials 1960s, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to the Lincoln Home area and the Survey and Plan.

Materials included pertain to the lives and work of Ida W. Klassen and Clarence W. Klassen.

Included in this collection are a few items from the LaBonte business, trade catalogs, legal documents and income tax reports.