Friday, September 5, 2008

Statewide Illinois Harvest

Newly digitized books of statewide interest at Illinois Harvest. The first two are also available on Google Book Search.

Peck, John Mason. A Gazetteer of Illinois. Jacksonville, IL: R. [actually C.] Goudy, 1834. 376 pages.

Carpenter, W. H. The History of Illinois, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1857. 255 pages.

DeMotte, H. C. The Alumni Journal [of the Illinois Wesleyan University]. Bloomington:[Illinois Wesleyan University], Volume 2 (1872), Volume 3 (1873), Volume 4 (1874).

Caton, John Dean. Early Bench and Bar of Illinois. Chicago: Chicago Legal News Company, 1893. 252 pages.

Book of Memorial Memberships. Jacksonville, IL:s.n., 1929. 3rd edition. 212 pages. Illinois College. Portraits and brief biographies of close to 200 individuals, including a number of WWI casualties.

2 comments:

Jessica's thoughts said...

Hi Harold,

I nominated you for the "I love your blog" award. You can find out more about it here:http://jessicagenejournal.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-love-your-blog-award.html

Harold Henderson said...

Thank you, Jessica. As you can tell, I don't always keep up to date on my own blog! But I will try to pass along the honor when I get a chance (and get some more posts up!).