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Robert Dean Avery Transportation Collection (1905-2018)

 Collection
Identifier: TL028
Abstract The Robert Dean Avery Transportation Collection includes transportation related items from Avery including 464 postcards and materials from his time as a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver. The postcards, dating from 1905 to 2003, depict various modes of transportation, the Panama Canal, and Lake Shore Drive. Avery’s CTA related materials date from 1965 to 1967 and include a four-page recollection of his time as a bus driver, uniform pieces, and related equipment. This collection...
Dates: 1905-2018

Glenn Branca collection

 Collection
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

British Rave Flyers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS187
Abstract

The British Rave Flyers Collection is a collection of 746 flyers and postcards from British raves and nightclubs from the 1990s. This collection contains flyers from a wide range of venues throughout the United Kingdom, as well as a few venues in Scotland, the United States, France, Spain, and Germany. This collection is 6 boxes of materials.

Dates: 1990-1999

Commuters Take Action Collection

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Identifier: TL038
Abstract The Commuters Take Action Collection consists of one box of materials created and distributed by the organization Commuters Take Action (CTA) in 2022, their inaugural year of existence. This collection consists of physical ephemera distributed by the organization with the purpose of encouraging recruitment, making data collected by the organization more publicly known, and publicizing events that they hosted such as protests. Examples of these materials include handbills, posters, and...
Dates: 2022

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

Macho Tips Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS195
Abstract

Macho Tips Letters (MS195) consists of letters dating from January 1987 to April 1990, predominantly in Spanish, with some wholly or partially in English, and some sexually explicit, mostly from men in Mexico (as well as in Spain, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Brazil, and the United States). The letters are written in response to an ad seeking pen pals placed in Macho Tips, a Spanish-language gay magazine published in Mexico City, Mexico.

Dates: 1987 January 8-1990 April 2 and undated

Lillian Mallstrom Airline Menu and Memorabilia Collection

 Collection
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

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

Panama Canal Construction Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: TL033
Abstract

A collection of 74 original photographs from the Panama Canal Zone, taken between approximately 1904 and 1914.

Dates: 1904 - 1914

Records of Rainbow Alliance

 Collection
Identifier: 30/21
Abstract

The Records of Rainbow Alliance comprise 7 boxes and include event planning, financial, administrative, promotional, educational files and materials, and 218 megabytes of born-digital video.

Dates: 1970-2012, undated

William Luke Photograph Collection

 Collection
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

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