From Spalding's Soccer Foot Ball Guide (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) in CARLI Digital Collections.
When a collection title tells you pretty much exactly what you're going to get, it's the unexpected find that delights.
CARLI News
June 19, 2013
A 1970s political protest with style gets the "Featured Image" authors talking.
June 6, 2013
Read the CARLI News for the latest information on CARLI events, new and ongoing projects, product and service updates and upcoming deadlines. Issues are sent to all subscribers of the “Announce” listserv.
May 30, 2013
A menu and program from the May 31, 1889 celebration of Walt Whitman's 70th birthday tells us that the guests dined on a "Feast of Reason" and considered "The Flow of Soul" afterwards. The eight course extravagant meal must have been planned will in advance to honor the renowned poet.
May 28, 2013
What I like about this image is it is a snapshot – literally and figuratively – of the beginning of an enormously influential and vibrant professional life. It is also so 1970s: Redmond’s billing is “Black Poet”; his reading is accompanied by interpretative dance and percussion. The drawing at the top of the flyer is fantastic.
May 22, 2013
The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed. New Board members elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2013 are Brian Beecher (Elgin Community College), Mary Case (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Scott Walter (DePaul University). Board members elected to one-year terms are Njambi Kamoche (William Rainey Harper College), and Patrick Dawson (Northern Illinois University).
May 17, 2013
The front page of the May 12, 1970 Western Catalyst details the Western Illinois University student protests the previous week, precipitated by the fatal shooting of four Kent State University student anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.
May 15, 2013
Alexander Street Press, an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning, has forged a landmark agreement with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to provide perpetual access to academic online video collections for 124 of the group's participating governing member institutions.
May 10, 2013
Victor Hammer created this keepsake specimen for “the Chicago people” (i.e., the Society of Typographic Arts) in 1946 as thanks to the society’s members for funding the completion and casting of his American Uncial typeface.
May 9, 2013
In some ways this image of Congressman Frank Annunzio, Richard J. Daley and Pat Nixon marching in a 1972 parade in Chicago is iconographic political history.
May 1, 2013
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