A copy of Pilgrim’s Progress inscribed “Miss S. Noel presented as a prize for improvement in writing. Female Seminary.”
Source
Collection 20, Champaign County Schools Ephemera, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Date
1834
Rights
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Collection 20, Champaign County Schools Ephemera, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library”
Date
1834
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Promotional buttons for the 1967 Centennial Trees Project, which was launched to in honor of the 100th anniversary of the University of Illinois.
Source
Champaign County Design and Conservation Foundation Records, 1965-2007
Box 1, Series 2, Collection 71
Folder 29: CCDCF Projects: Centennial Trees ephemera, 1965-1968
Date
1967
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These embossed stamps were found in the books lent out by the subscription library. They helped identify which books belonged to the new library
Source
UFL History, UFL Box 2
Publisher
The Urbana Free Library
Date
1872
Rights
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This bookplate was placed in all the books donated to the Samuel T. Busey Memorial Library from Joseph Cunningham
Creator
The Urbana Free Library
Source
Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer life in the West by James Finley. Non-Circulating Library, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Publisher
Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati
Date
1853
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Urbana Commercial Club (Urbana, Ill.) -- Periodicals.
Newspapers -- Indexes.
Urbana (Ill.) -- Periodicals.
Description
1908 pamphlet from the Urbana Commercial Club with the first mention of the proposed new library.
Creator
Urbana Commercial Club
Source
Newspaper Resources, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library.
Publisher
The Club
Date
1908
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"Gambling" Vertical File Folder, Champaign County Historical Archives
Date
1937
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