Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Fisk Hall
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Fisk Hall, The Academy of Northwestern University: At the right is the United States Life Saving Station. Courtesy of Northwestern University".
University of Illinois Library
Image | 1907 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionInterior of Library, University of Illinois, Urbana
Charles Deering Library, Northwestern University
Image | 1965 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionDeering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago
Image | 1915 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionHarper Memorial Library, U. of C. Midway, Chicago.
University of Illinois Library
Image | 1970 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Library, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. "The whole world here unlocks the experience of the past to the builders of the future.
Northwestern University campus view
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "View on campus of Northwestern University, Evanston. A glimpse of Orrington Lunt Library. Courtesy of Northwestern University"
Clark T. Hinman
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Clark T. Hinman: First president of Northwestern University". From text: "The first president of the Northwestern University was Dr. Clark T. Hinman, who ... was elected by the Board of Trustees on June 22, 1853. Thus Dr. Hinman's incumbency began before the University had yet decided upon its location, a decision which was made in the following August by the pur...
School of Education, University of Chicago
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoThe School of Education building, at 1362 E. 59th Street, is now called Emmons Blaine Hall, and houses the Lower School of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Charles Deering Library, Northwestern University
Image | 1937 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCharles Deering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University
Image | 1964 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionMorris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. Located near the center of the campus named for the eighth president, Delyte Wesley Morris. In the pass1 entrance hall, on stately marble wall in raised letters are the objectives of Southern Illinois University.
Elijah P. Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University
Image | 1975 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Elijah P. Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville houses over 600,000 volumes as well as a Jazz Archive and the Louis B. Sullivan Architectural Exhibit.
Elijah P. Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University
Image | 1965 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionLovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
Reid Memorial Library, Lake Forest College
Image | 1953 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionReid Memorial Library Lake Forest College
Teachers' College
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Teachers' College: Sixty-eighth Street and Stewart Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education."
Rush Medical College
Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Located on the corner of Indiana and North Dearborn street, was established in 1843. The new building, erected in 1857 at a cost of $70,000, is one of the finest educational structures in the West. The College possesses a large and well-selected library, besides ample chemical apparatus, a laboratory, and a museum filled with every needed means of illustration ...
Northwestern University buildings, Evanston
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Northwestern University buildings at Evanston". Buildings labeled in montage are: "Fayerweather Hall of Science", "Dearborn Observatory", "University Hall", "Willard Hall", and "Orrington Lunt Library".
University of Chicago buildings
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoLabels for five photographs in montage: "A view along 57th St.", "The Hull Biological Laboratories", "The Womens Dormitories", "The Divinity Dormitories", and "The Bartlett Gymnasium". The building depicted in the "view along 57th" is Hitchcock Hall.
Swen F. Parson Library, Northern Illinois University
Image | 1963 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Swen F. Parson Library, dedicated in 1952, is the new heart of Northern Illinois State Teachers College, De Kalb, Illinois. It is of Joliet Marble in collegiate Gothic design.
Elijah P. Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University
Image | 1975 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionElijah P. Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. The building, which opened in the fall of 1965, is memorial to the pre-Civil War editor who was slain by a mob for his part in the struggle to abolish slavery.
Henry Pfeiffer Library, MacMurray College
Image | 1955 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionHenry Pfeiffer Library, Mac Murray College, Jacksonville, Illinois
Charles B. Phillips Library, Aurora, IL
Image | 1970 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCHARLES B. PHILLIPS LIBRARY AURORA COLLEGE--AURORA, ILLINOIS Completed in 1962, this building has special facilities for music listening, group study, film viewing, social activities and informal worship. It is equipped for 100,000 volumes.
University of Illinois Grainger Engineering Library
Image | 1996 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionUniversity of Illinois Grainger Engineering Library
Swen F. Parson Library, Northern Illinois University
Image | 1965 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNIU's $13 million Founders Memorial Library holds one of the largest collections of books, periodicals and microdocuments in Illinois. Materials are arranged by subjects into nine basic cluster areas.
University of Chicago
Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "University of Chicago [i]s located within four miles of the Court House, and on the route of the Cottage Grove horse-cars, within a few steps of the shores of Lake Michigan. It is conducted under the auspices of the Baptist denomination, but is founded on a broad and liberal basis. It is built on a beautiful tract of ground donated by Hon. S. A. Douglas. It wa...
Chicago University
Image | 1850-1859 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago University". From text: "To Stephen A. Douglas is due the credit of founding the first University of Chicago, now known as the Old University of Chicago. In 1856 a number of citizens visited Judge Douglas with plans for a university, and asked him for help. He gave them ten acres of ground lying along Cottage Grove avenue, at Thirty-fourth street, not fa...
Old College hall
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "This building, which still stands on the campus of Northwestern University, was the original Northwestern University Building. For many years it was used as a preparatory academy to the university, until the Fisk Hall was built. Courtesy of Northwestern University." From text: ""The Northwestern University began the erection of its first building at the northwes...
Chicago Homeopathic College
Image | 1883 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, situated on the corner of Wood and York streets, directly opposite the great Cook County Hospital, is one of the most elegant and commodious educational edifices in the city. It is generally conceded to be the largest and best equipped homeopathic building in this country."
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Southern Illinois University Library, Carbondale, Illinois A $2.5 million structure opened in 1956, was built in such a way that additional stories can be added as SIU grows. The Library contains some 180,000 volumes, auditorium, study-rooms, audio-visual department, and other up-to-date facilities.
Swen F. Parson Library, Northern Illinois University
Image | 1965 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionSwen Parson Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois The majority of the University library collection is contained here, including 610,619 catalogued volumes, more than 300,000 government documents, and thousands of pamphlets and periodicals. Special sections include the archives and the South East Asia collection.
Gorin Library, James Millikin University
Image | 1930 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionGorin Library, Conservatory of Music, James Millikin University, Decatur, ILL
University Library, Western Illinois Library
Image | 1980 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionUniversity Library, Western Illinois University
Orrington Lunt Library, Northwestern University
Image | 1910 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionOrrington Lunt Library, N.W. University, Evanston, Ill.
Swen F. Parson Library, Northern Illinois University
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNIU's $13 million Founders Memorial Library holds one of the largest collections of books, periodicals and microdocuments in Illinois. Materials are arranged by subjects into nine basic cluster areas.
Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago
Image | 1910 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionHarper Memorial Library, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago
Image | 1925 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionHarper Memorial Library, Chicago University
Swen F. Parson Library, Northern Illinois University
Image | 1960 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionView of Science Building, Library, and "Old Castle." This Panorama of the three major buildings on the campus at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, places the science building on the left, the Swen F. Parson library in the center, and the pass1 administration building, the "Old Castle," on the right.
Buswell Memorial Library, Wheaton College
Image | 1980 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Library, Wheaton College. Wheaton, Illinois. Completed in 1975, the Library houses learning resources in an attractive setting for the pursuit of academic excellence which characterizes life at Wheaton College. Total book capacity, including adjacent Nicholas Building (renovated previous library in left foreground) is 217,535 volumes. Current holdings total 160,000. Seat...
Orrington Lunt
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Orrington Lunt: Early resident of Chicago and Evanston, and liberal benefactor of Northwestern University". From text: "The first subscription made to the Northwestern University was that of Orrington Lunt for five thousand dollars," and "Among the trustees the school must forever be indebted to the wisdom and munificence of the late Grant Goodrich, Orrington Lunt...
Joseph Cummings
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Joseph Cummings: President of Northwestern University from 1881 until his death in 1890". From text: "Before Dr. Joseph Cummings was chosen as president on June 21, 1881, the University had passed through five years of severe financial retrenchment and painful anxieties. ... The financial aspect of the affairs of the University began greatly to improve about this ...
Abram Winegardner Harris
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Abram Winegardner Harris: President of Northwestern University from 1906 until the present time". From text: "The next president of the University was Abram Winegardner Harris, who was elected on February 1st, 1906. Dr. Harris had already served as a college president, and was well equipped for the responsibilities assumed on this occasion. His scholarship and a...

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