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From Slide Collection (Lewis University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Vintage photographs were so much cooler in the pre-Instagram era. Look how marvelously red-hued this slide has become with age.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

April 24, 2013
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From Regional Maps Collection (Western Illinois University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Maps are great candidates for digital presentation. For one, say you have a large, table-sized, map – digitize it and presto! now it’s a manageable size. Then digitization enables stepwise magnification at the clicks of a mouse button. Plus maps are beautiful.

 

 

 

 

April 17, 2013
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From C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This image connects the lives of three men, with a punchline that’s more tragic than comic.

 

 

 

April 10, 2013
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April 5, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From From The H.E. Nutt Papers  (VanderCook College of Music) in CARLI Digital Collections.

H.E. Nutt taught music teachers. He developed curricula for VanderCook in the early days of instrumental music education. The papers in this collection exude Nutt’s enthusiasm for his topic, one could even say he was nuts about it (WAH-wah).

 

 

 

 

 

April 3, 2013
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From Saint Xavier College and University Images (Saint Xavier University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

As a non-native Illinoisan, the Daley family mystique is a bit lost on me. It becomes readily apparent, however, that the politically accomplished men overshadow the women of the family, who tend toward the obscurity of private life rather than the limelight of public service.

March 25, 2013
By: Amy Maroso

Li’l Abner (1960), from The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan (Eastern Illinois University) in CARLI Digital Collections

Pop culture pop quiz!
Q: What do Mr. Mike Brady, Mr. Spock, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Hawkeye Pierce have in common?

A: You guessed it! The actors who portrayed those iconic characters from television and film all performed at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois. Browse through the collection, and you might also encounter Ethel Mertz, Andy Hardy, Dr. David Banner, Kookie, Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn, Todd Tomorrow, and Carmine Ragusa among other familiar faces.

Robert Reed treaded the boards as an architect-turned-painter who dallies with a prostitute in Hong Kong in the 1966 production of The World of Suzie Wong. Leonard Nimoy, if you can believe it, played Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1974, the year before the Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson was released. In 1961, Margaret Hamilton starred as Dolly Bloomer—an aunt who encourages her rebellious niece in the wearing of a certain style of undergarment—in Bloomer Girl.

March 6, 2013
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From Ames Library Art Collection (Illinois Wesleyan University) in CARLI Digital Collections

When it comes to art I enjoy a lot of stuff going on at once. So I like this oil and wax painting.

The black-and-white figure of a woman -- meditating? in anguish? -- dominates the center of the canvas, floating in front of a layered background of colorful and stylistically varied angels. There’s a little tableaux at the right where two figures interact, one of them oblivious to the fact that she’s dripping blood or red paint. The drips stream like tears down one of the faces anchoring the artwork at the bottom, receding into the background, eyes closed -- in sleep? sorrow?

February 27, 2013
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Man with arm around cardboard woman
From Peoria Historical Society Image Collection (Bradley University) in CARLI Digital Collections

Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

February 13, 2013
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