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Albany Northern Railroad Company stock certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1854 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A stock certificate from the Albany Northern Railroad Company assigning E. H. Pease five shares. This copy is signed by the President James A. Wilson and Treasurer L. Green.
Medicine supply receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1850 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A receipt of various medicinal goods received by C. Wakefield to sell in Springfield, Illinois. The receipt is dated October 30, 1850.
1st Illinois Artillery Regiment Record Book, 1812-1814
Multi-Page Item | 138 pages | 183 | Illinois Artillery, 1st Regiment Record Book (Digitized Content)This item is a company muster book for the 1st Illinois Artillery Regiment, led by Captain Joseph Cross. The record book contains priority rolls of enlistment and description, registers of men discharged, transferred, missing, and dead, and accounts of provisions and equipment. In the mid-to-late 1830s, several pages were used for secondary purposes, such as recording legal ...
Federal Street Theatre Ball receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1831 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A receipt for Franklin Haven’s ten dollar payment “for his subscription to the Ball to be given at the Federal Street Theatre, on the Evening of the 22d February” from Simon E. Greene, Treasurer, Lobby of State Bank.
Mordecai Myers land payment record
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1829 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record from the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois E. Berry containing Mordecai Myers's tax payment of "three dollars and forty-six cents" on his piece of land in Vandalia, Illinois on September 18, 1829.
John Q. Danburn land sale record
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1835 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record of a land sale granted to John Q. Danburn by Auditor James T. Sapp on January 27, 1835. This document was printed by J. Y. Sawyer in Vandalia, Illinois in 1835.
New York Bill of Lading
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1850 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial document entitled "New York Bill of Lading" describing a freight shipment transaction from the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad company to Clarke and Company, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This document is signed by Charles Walker and dated December 1, 1850.
First National Bank check
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A check from C. M. Richards to W. F. Churchman for eleven dollars and twenty cents. This financial document was created by the First National Bank in Urbana, Illinois on July 11, 1900.
McLean County bond note
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1865 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A three hundred dollar bond note from the McLean County Court issued to G.W. Lichtenthaler. The money "is to be used to pay bounty to volunteers" of the Civil War.
Boston Botanic Garden share receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1839 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A receipt for Franklin Haven, Esq.’s payment of 100 dollars as payment for “one share in the stock of the Botanic Garden, in Boston,” signed by Simon E. Greene, Treasurer.
Mordecai Myers tax payment on land
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1830 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record from the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois E. Berry containing Mordecai Myers's tax payment of "one dollar and two cents" on his piece of land in Vandalia, Illinois on February 2, 1830.
Land tax receipt
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1831 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A receipt for tax payment of "five dollars and forty cents" for 160 acres of land in Illinois. The receipt was published by the State Treasurer John Dement on August 30, 1831. A letter accompanying the receipt contains on the tax payments collected in 1831.
Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company insurance policy
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1839 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)An insurance policy created by and for the Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This document includes the original Charter and amendments. The policy was created in Alton, Illinois on February 23 and April 4, 1839.
Knoxville Journal advertisement receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1852 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A receipt of payment “To [advertise] Nooflaud’s[sic?] German Bitters, one year as per contract" to be published in the Knoxville Journal by the journal's Job Office in Knoxville, Illinois. The receipt is dated May 25, 1852.
Illinois Central Railroad Company construction bond
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1852 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record of the Illinois Central Railroad Company "Construction Bond of $500" in this "Provisional Certificate No. 1231." This document was created in New York on August 16, 1852 and the additional installments to be paid in 1853 and 1854.
Albany Asphalt Composite Company stock certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1872 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A stock certificate from the Albany Asphalt Composite Company, assigning E. H. Pease two hundred and fifty shares on October 17, 1872.
J. O. Huff receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1905 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A receipt from the University of Illinois business manager, indicating incidental and tuition fees charged to J. O. Huff for the second semester, dated February 1, 1905.
Decatur and State Line Railway Company stock certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1871 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A stock certificate from the Decatur and State Line Railway Company, assigning Snell, Taylor, and Company five hundred shares on September 20, 1871.
State Bank of Illinois Shawneetown bank note
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1853 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A five dollar bank note issued by the State Bank of Illinois in Shawneetown, Illinois on October 4, 1853.
Egyptian Picket Guard subscription receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1863 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A receipt documenting payment for a subscription to Egyptian Picket Guard newspaper. Louis P. Pujol paid one dollar and fifty cents for a twelve month subscription. The receipt is dated June 15, 1863, and signed by the paper's editor, John R. Shannon.
Edward P. Kirby fire insurance policy receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1862 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A receipt from the Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company to Edward P. Kirby of his fire insurance policy valid for one year, March 2, 1862 to March 2, 1863. The document was signed by the primary agent, Henry Stryker Sr. in Jacksonville, Illinois on March 1, 1862.
N. P. Tinsley & Co. receipt
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1847 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A receipt of goods including "one sofa" and "four chairs" received by N. P. Tinsley & Co. in Beardstown, Illinois on March 13, 1847.
Henry H. Keithley to Sophronia [McNitt] Cress, March 18, 1884
Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1884 | McNitt Family Papers (Digitized Content)A letter to Sophronia (McNitt) Cress, the widow of Eli Cress, from Henry H. Keithley, County Clerk of Montgomery County, Illinois. Keithley wrote to order Sophronia's presence at the county court, so that she could report as the guardian of her son, Howard Cress. Also included with the letter is a slip of paper marking an unknown payment.
Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad Company bond certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A bond certificate "from the County of Montgomery in the State of Illinois to The Decatur & East St. Louis Railroad Company" for one thousand dollars. This document is signed by Montgomery County Judge Edward Lane and County Clerk D. Shirley on July 1, 1870.
Illinois Central Railroad Company construction deed
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1880 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A photographic copy of a construction deed allocating forty acres of land to John Bradly from the Illinois Central Railroad Company. It was signed by the State of Illinois trustees John M. Palmer, William K. Ackerman, and Robert T. Lincoln on May 25, 1880.
William A. Lee income tax record
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1865 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record from the United States Internal Revenue Collector's Office in Chicago, Illinois. This document includes income tax information for William A. Lee, dated September 13, 1865 and signed by the collector.
Sangamo Insurance Company
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1857 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial document providing notice of the Sangamo Insurance Company's success as it is "fully organized and prepared to receive money on deposit, loan money on bills and notes, buy and sell exchange, etc." This company was authenticated in March 1857 and the document is signed by Vice President Pascal Enos in Springfield, Illinois.
Third Annual Report of the La Salle County Mutual Fire Insurance Company financial document
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1858 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial document addressed to Isaac Brookfield of a "Premium Note sum of $155" from Secretary William M. True. Mr. True presents the Third Annual Report of the La Salle County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This document is dated May 7, 1858 in Ottawa, Illinois.
Magniac, Jardine, and Co. Illinois and Michigan Canal stock certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1843 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A stock certificate issued to Magniac, Jardine and Co. by the Board of Trustees of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, paying the first installment of $125 with interest. This agreement was made on September 20, 1845.
Joel Johnson fire insurance policy
Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1845 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)An insurance policy for Joel Johnson from the Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Springfield, Illinois and dated August 18, 1845.
Receipt for Union Monitor Subscription for Eli Cress, [1869?]
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | McNitt Family Papers (Digitized Content)A receipt confirming Eli Cress's payment of two dollars for a year's subscription to the Union Monitor, a Republican newspaper published out of Litchfield, Illinois, from December 1868 to December 1869. An added note at the bottom of the page notes that another subscription was paid for in January 1870.

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