RBSC/SPX. Special Collections

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The Raymond E. Gnat papers contain printed (paper-based) materials.  The collection is broken into series based upon format.  Currently, there is only one series: Novels.

Scope and Contents This collection maintains materials associated with Oz fan club and collectors' ephemera. The International Wizard of Oz fan club member correspondence and convention ephemera represents the bulk of the collection. The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc., was founded during 1957 by Justin G. Schiller, a then thirteen-year-old boy. The society's major publication, The Baum Bugle, began with Schiller duplicating issues on his parents' mimeograph machine. (...

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The 1962 World Science Fiction Convention Collection consists of typed (paper-based) correspondence between SF authors, publishers, and SF fans in the 1960's. Chairman of this world convention, Earl Kemp, was the writer for over half of the correspondences. The collection consists of correspondence and is arranged in alphabetical order by author or company name.

Scope and Contents The Willard Motley Collection of the Northern Illinois University Libraries is the most extensive collection anywhere of the diaries, manuscripts, photographs, notes, clippings, and books of the famous naturalist Chicago writer. This collection contains manuscripts from his books "Knock On Any Door", "We Fished All Night", "Let Noon Be Fair", "My House is Your House", "You Lovely People", and "Let No Man Write My Epitaph."  It also has sketches, notes, and diaries pertaining to his...

Scope and Contents James D. Tobin Collection consists of manuscripts, catalogues, cards, correspondence, price lists, notes, negatives, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, cassette tapes, journals, and drawings.  His research and collection focused on Japanese print artists from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods (1868-1989), which are the ‘Modern’ Japanese artists and their prints.  Tobin’s correspondence was mostly with other Japanese Art collectors, researchers, and dealers, such as...

Scope and Contents This collection provides documentation on the works of Un-ichi Hiratsuka and his family.  It also follows his family’s friendship with the art collector Theodore Van Zelst and his family.  This collection outlines Hiratsuka’s work in the United States and Japan through multiple exhibition catalogues and correspondence related to these exhibitions.  Documents in this collection include press releases, advertisements, catalogues, newspaper articles, posters, books, invitations, and a video...

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The collection contains 100 stereograph cards of Colorado that mainly document sites in the late 1800s. The stereograph cards containing images of Colorado have copyright dates from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Colorado areas in the front range of the Rocky Mountains are well represented.

Scope and Contents The John Cumming Private Press papers consist of printed (paper-based) published materials, financial records, correspondence, oversized materials, and miscellaneous materials.  The collection is divided into series based upon format.  Series I contains Publication Materials such as publication drafts of his books and materials printed by his private press, such as advertisements and programs.  This series is ordered by title apabetically and then by date if no title was given.  Series II...

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Northern Illinois University acquired some 36 books and several envelopes of manuscripts and letters relating to 20th-Century Anglo-Irish writers, especially George Russel (A.E.), from Alan Denson in 1970. Denson was the editor of AE's letters, as well as having published a bibliography on AE. Denson's correspondence with writers and notes are indexed.