RBSC/SPX. Special Collections
Record Group Term
Identifier: RBSC/SPX
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Raymond E. Gnat Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-015
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
created: 2008; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2008
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Robin Waterfield papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-026
Scope and Contents
The Robin Waterfield papers consist of correspondence, drafts of poetry and other writings, publicity materials, and contains materials relating to Iris Murdoch, John F. X. Harriot, and Sarah J. Maw.Folders 1-6 in Box 1 contain extensive Waterfield correspondence with Iris Murdoch, as well as other records concerning the compiling and publishing of Stella Aldwinckle's poems Christ's Shadow in Plato's Cave (1990). Folders 7-14 in Box 2...
Dates:
1980-1999
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Robert Gathorne-Hardy collection on Jeremy Taylor
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-021
Content Description
Collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera collected by Robert Gathorne-Hardy while conducting research for, A bibliography of the writings of Jeremy Taylor to 1799 with a section of Tayloriana, co-written with William Proctor Williams former NIU Faculty.
Dates:
circa 1649-1972
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Robert Gathorne-Hardy papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-022
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a number of Gathorne-Hardy notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence. The notebooks in Series I span from his early writing career to late 1968 and include notes, research, and drafts of his works. Of interest is Gathorne-Hardy's peculiar habit to reverse the notebooks and write from back to front. His notebooks exhibit his disjointed thought process, often beginning an entry mid-sentence.Writings in Series II include typescripts for ...
Dates:
circa 1920-1968
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W. H. Jackson photochrom print collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-024
Abstract
309 color lithographic prints, created using the photochrom process, published by the Detroit Photographic Company from photograph negatives taken by William Henry Jackson.
Dates:
circa 1898-1905; undated
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Wizard of Oz fan club collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-027
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. (...
Dates:
circa 1962-2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Raya Garbousova Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-003
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection are primarily published musical scores for the cello previously accumulated and owned by Raya Garbousova. Some music manuscripts are in an unpublished form. They represent an extensive collection of music for cello performance along with some exercises for the cello. There is a particular emphasis on works for solo cello and cello with piano accompaniment. Many items have Ms. Garbousova’s annotations and cello bowings. There are a small number of ephemeral...
Dates:
created: 1894-1991
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
1962 World Science Fiction Collection
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-016
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
created: 1958-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1962; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/2009
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Willard Motley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-004
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...
Dates:
created: 1922-1966; Other: Date acquired: 06/15/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
