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Black Classical Composers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCC
Abstract Black Classical Composers was a 30-episode radio program created by Carolyn Armenta Davis of music written between 1771-1975 by Black composers in the United States, Brazil, England, France, and Nigeria, and aired on Chicago’s WEFM (now WUSN) between June 1976 and December 1977. Each one hour episode consists of a combination a voiceover description of the composer's life and music, as well as performing musicians in broadcast. This collection contains...
Dates: 1936-1991
Found in: Music Library

Glenn Branca collection

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Identifier: Branca
Abstract

The Glenn Branca Collection consists of the professional and personal records of experimental guitarist and composer Glenn Branca (1948-2018). The collection is arranged into 16 series, spanning 85 document boxes,14 oversize boxes, and 1909.49 gigabytes of born digital material, and dates from 1918 to 2018.

Dates: 1918-2018
Found in: Music Library

General Manuscript File Collection

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Identifier: MS200
Abstract

The General Manuscript File Collection consists of 26 boxes of correspondence and other manuscript materials from notable individuals, dating from 1667, 1727, and 1735 to 2012, acquired individually by the department from various sources over several decades.

Dates: 1667, 1727, 1735-2012
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Lillian Mallstrom Airline Menu and Memorabilia Collection

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Identifier: TL023
Abstract The Lillian Mallstrom Airline Menu and Memorabilia Collection contains transportation ephemera focused on the aviation industry of the mid to late 20th century. As one of the few collections compiled by a woman at the Transportation Library, this collection offers an interesting insight into materials created for traveling mothers and parents, such as menus for children and babies, a baby bottle cooler, and a throw-a-way diaper. The collection also includes a wide variety of airline menus...
Dates: 1957-2005
Found in: Northwestern University Transportation Library

Transportation Library Menu Collection

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Identifier: TL017
Abstract

381 historic airline, ocean liner, and railroad menus, dating from 1928 to the present.

Dates: 1928-present
Found in: Northwestern University Transportation Library

Nuremberg Trial Collection

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Identifier: MS71
Abstract The Nuremberg Trial Collection consists of materials amassed by Charles J. Gallagher (Northwestern University Law School, 1924), a court reporter. Included are his shorthand notebooks for sessions of the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945-1948 to try members of the Nazi regime for crimes committed during World War II. The collection contains copies of some of the transcripts, documents, and affidavits from the trials; some of Gallagher's notes and...
Dates: 1945-1950
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Slavery, Enslaved Persons, and Free Blacks in the Americas Collection

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Identifier: MS101
Abstract

Materials in this collection of 45 documents pertain to the institution of slavery in the Americas. The documents include correspondence on the slave trade, assignments on chain gangs, bills of sale, manumission papers, and wills and bequests. They also include letters providing character references for free Black people, reports on a school in an African American religious community in Baltimore, Maryland, and an indenture agreement between a printer and an apprentice.

Dates: 1750-1895
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

William Luke Photograph Collection

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Identifier: TL010
Abstract

The William Luke Photograph Collection is a collection of photographs of buses from at least 60 countries. Each photograph is annotated by William Luke. The dates of publication of the photographs range from 1880 to 2010, and the majority of the photographs were published between 1980 and 1999.

Dates: 1880 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1999
Found in: Northwestern University Transportation Library

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