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Special Collections
Special Collections documents the cultural, economic, and natural heritage of west-central Illinois. Special-interest centers include: the Center for Regional Authors, the Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies, and the Center for Hancock County History, including the Mormon Collection. Publications of the Decker Press and a number of Civil War Manuscripts are a significant part of Special Collections. Also included are collections related to naturalist Elton Fawkes, singer Burl Ives, historian Philip D. Jordan, and congressmen Thomas Railsback and Lane Evans, among others. A vast amount of other regional materials, such as county and town histories, oral history tapes, diaries, letters, maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings augment Special Collections, reflecting life as it once was, and now is, in west-central Illinois.
Digital Collections
Selected items &/or guides from Special Collections have been digitized, including:
- Activism at WIU
- Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies
- Board of Trustees Records (WIU)
- Casa Latina Collection (WIU)
- Center for Hancock County History (including Mormon Collection)
- Civil War Manuscript Collection
- Decker Press Collection
- Digital Image Collection (WIU / West Central Illinois)
- Historical Society Newsletters (West Central Illinois)
- Laboratory School History Collection (WIU)
- Lincoln Publications (@ WIU)
- Oral History Collection (WIU / West Central Illinois)
- Regional History Collection (West Central Illinois)
- Regional Maps Collection (West Central Illinois)
- Sequel Yearbook Collection (WIU)
- Student Publications (WIU)
- Western Courier Collection (WIU)
- WIU Bulletin Collection
- WIU Sports History Collection
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