Selected mysteries, part two
Oct 17th, 2009 by Meg Miner
As mentioned in Part One of our selected mysteries, there are many opportunities for enterprising researchers to mine our collections for new topics and treasures:
Correspondence from the 1950s between Diplomat John Melby (’34) and his family
A collection of manuscript notes by William S. Bach, ca. 1927
Glass lantern slides (in two shoe-sized boxes) with some nursing and medical information. We don’t know if they these used for instruction on campus.
The Mary Bachman Collection, 1920s-30s, containing scrap books and memorabilia including material related to her days at Illinois College. Who was she and why are these things in IWU’s collections?
A scrapbook of published cartoons by Grace G. Drayton, the illustrator of the Campbell Soup kids. “Cathy” collected them but who was she and why would we have them?
