"Through Literature to Life" by J. Rose Colby, November 22, 1935
description: Five-page manuscript essay by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Through Literature to Life," written on November 22, 1935.
creator: Colby, J. Rose (June Rose), 1856-1941
source: June Rose Colby Papers, 1865-1940 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
date: November 22, 1935
rights: No copyright - United States
format: manuscripts; essays
language: English
type: text

Manuscript of A Man's World by Rachel Crothers, circa 1910
description: First four pages of Rachel Crothers' typed manuscript copy of her play A Man's World, first published in 1910.
creator: Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
source: Rachel Crothers Papers, 1885-1964 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
date: 1910
rights: In copyright (Estate of Rachel Crothers)
format: typescripts; manuscripts
language: English
type: text

Chi Omega National Achievement Award acceptance speech by Rachel Crothers, April 1939
description: Signed typed manuscript copy of a speech given by Rachel Crothers at the White House upon receipt of a Chi Omega National Achievement Award in April 1939. The ceremony was attended by Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.
creator: Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
source: Rachel Crothers Papers, 1885-1964 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
date: April 1939
rights: In copyright (Estate of Rachel Crothers)
format: speeches; manuscripts; typescripts
language: English
type: text

"Construction of a Play" by Rachel Crothers, 1928
description: Selected pages from a lecture by Rachel Crothers titled "Construction of a Play" published in the 1928 anthology The Art of Playwriting: Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation.
creator: Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
source: Rachel Crothers Papers, 1885-1964 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
date: 1928
rights: In copyright (University of Pennsylvania Press)
format: books; anthologies; chapters (layout features)
language: English
type: text

Rachel Crothers scrapbook, p. 9
description: Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article titled "Rachel Crothers the Woman Playwright Who Has Grown Famous In Writing 'The Three of Us,' 'The Coming of Mrs. Patrick' and 'Myself Bettina.'"
creator: Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
source: Rachel Crothers Papers, 1885-1964 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
rights: No copyright - United States
format: scrapbooks; articles; clippings (information artifacts)
language: English
type: Text

Rachel Crothers scrapbook, p. 65
description: Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article about playwright Rachel Crothers titled "Woman Playwright Things Her Sex Shows More Sympathy for the Sister Who Has Strayed From Path of Conventional Morality..."
creator: Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958
source: Rachel Crothers Papers, 1885-1964 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
rights: No copyright - United States
format: scrapbooks; articles; clippings (information artifacts)
language: English
type: Text

Florence Fifer Bohrer Club luncheon invitation, November 23, 1928
creator: Florence Fifer Bohrer Club
source: Scrapbook I, Florence Fifer Bohrer papers, 1865-1957 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois)
date: November 23, 1928
contributor: Mrs. Lyle P. Mason
rights: In copyright - rights holder(s) unlocatable or unidentifiable
format: invitations; song sheets
language: English
type: Text

Grand Ethnological Congress, at Barnum's Show
description: Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper that shows performers from Barnum's Grand Ethnological Congress.
creator: Frank Leslie
source: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper.
source: Pennsylvania State University
publisher: Frank Leslie
date: April 25, 1885
rights: Public Domain
language: English

Portrait of "Laloo"
description: Illustration of the performer Laloo, from the book "Anomalies and curiosities of medicine."
creator: Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922
creator: Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle), 1871-1921
source: Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day : abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed
source: The National Library of Medicine
publisher: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, 1897
date: 1897
rights: Public domain
language: English

Florence Fifer Bohrer copy of 1870 Constitution of the State of Illinois
creator: Hughes, Edward J., 1888-1944
creator: Bohrer, Florence Fifer, 1877-1960
source: Florence Fifer Bohrer papers, 1865-1957 at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives, Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois). Access entire document online at https://cdm15990.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/rebradref/id/149.
rights: No copyright - United States
language: English
type: Text