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Audio-Visual Collection
Holdings: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library's Audio-Visual Collection contains more than 400,000 photographs. Various holdings visually document Illinois politics, labor relations, military matters, businesses, agriculture, and family life over time. Collections highlight gubernatorial administrations from Len Small through Jim Edgar, as well as the political careers of United States Senators Scott W. Lucas, Adlai Stevenson III, and Secretary of State Paul Powell. Indicative of labor themes are images in such collections as the Barber-Greene Company, On the Job Illinois, the Pure Oil Company, the Hearst Newspaper Strike, the Arthur Dubin Pullman Collection, and substantial numbers of coal mining-related images. Military and family holdings include the collections of John A. Logan, Herrick-Reasoner, the Jannotta Family, and Josephine Oblinger.
Over 5,000 broadsides are also housed in this section, including an impressive collection of World War I and World War II posters.
Approximately 7,000 audio tapes document the daily activities of the administrations of Governors Ogilvie, Thompson, and Edgar, as well as the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1969-1970. The Library has over 1,000 World War II oral history interviews. Oral history interviews conducted by the Illinois Department on Aging, as well as interviews with coal miners, are part of the Library's substantial holdings.
Films from gubernatorial collections dating from the William Stratton administration depict things such as road construction and the Illinois State Fair. Viewing and listening rooms are available for film and tape research.
Research Appointments: Appointments to view or use materials are required. Contact the Audio-Visual staff at (217) 785-7955. Department hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Personal computers are welcome; cameras and scanners are not permitted.
Image copies and use permission: Images in the collections may be reproduced for a researcher's personal reference use when duplication can be done without injury to the materials. The responsibility to ascertain copyright rests with the user. However, if staff is aware of any restrictions, the material will not be duplicated. Copies may not be further reproduced, nor may they be deposited in another repository. Supplying a copy is NOT authorization to publish.
To order an image, fill out a Photographic
Service Order  and return it with payment for the indicated
reproduction fee to the Audio/Visual Curator.
For permission to use an image for purposes beyond personal
research, fill out a Permission
to Use Agreement and return
it to the Audio/Visual Curator. Fees will be billed once staff
has reviewed the request and granted permission.
Contact
Mary Michals, Audio/Visual Curator
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
112 North Sixth Street
Springfield, IL 62701
mary.michals@illinois.gov
Audio/Visual reception desk: (217) 785-7955
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