Illinois History Resources in the Vertical File Manuscripts of Southern Illinois University: Carbondale

Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, 1835 University Press Drive, Mailcode 6632, Carbondale, IL 62901; (618) 453-2818; VFM 1 Miscellaneous papers of George H. Harrison, Marion Illinois, including poll records of local and national elections held at Herring's Prairie Precinct in 1840,1841,1842,1844, and 1845; family letters from 1842,1847, and 1848; a letter, 24 June 1847, from Willis Alien concerning the state constitutional convention; and a petition, 11 March 1864, asking for the relocation of the Marion to Pinckneyville road. TM, 13 pp. [mimeograph] VFM 111 "Transportation Facilities and Plant Location in Southern Illinois Industrial Area, prepared for Southern Illinois Inc. and for the Council of National Defense, Washington, DC," memorandum by John Bishop Parish, Assistant Professor of Economics at Southern Illinois Normal University, 29 February 1941, TMs, 8 pp. VFM 442 Letters, 1938, from Jewell Stevens of Chicago, to Charles Evan Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, concerning the book, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by David Miller DeWitt. 2 TL, 3 pp. [carbon] VFM 456 Letter, 20 March 1940, from Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly, appointing Jewell Stevens an honorary member of the Ft. In addition to proceedings of the Board, there are financial records, rules and regulations, listings of teachers, pupil attendance records, and a teachers'contract. 1 ledger, 113 pp. [photocopy] VFM 1348 Correspondence 1951-1952 from Adlai E. Stevenson to Illinois State Senator John J. Parish of Centralia, concerning the West Frankfort mining disaster of 1951 and various other political matters. 5 TLS, 5 pp.; TL, 1 p. [photocopies] VFM 1350 Materials related to Community Development efforts in southern Illinois in the early 1950s.