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The Final Call "From humble beginnings in the basement of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s south Chicago home in 1979."
Located at the African American Collection {BP221.A1 F542A}
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Fine Arts Collection The Fine Arts Collection encompasses works of various artists, mostly catalogues raisonnées, and other rare fine arts materials.
Items are located in the Fine Arts Collection
*Altars by Robert Mapplethorpe and Edmund White {TR654 .M33741995A}
*Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500 {GT964 .H47 1981a}
*Andrew Wyeth {ND237.W93 M4}
*Clive Barker: Visions of Heaven and Hell {NX650.H67 B375 2005a}
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Gender Studies Collection The Gender Studies Collections consists of a growing collection of books and other published materials pertaining to gender studies, including gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual, queer, and women’s studies. Particular strengths of this collection are the publication history for the winners and nominees of the Stonewall Award and Midwest periodicals.
Items are located in the Gender Studies Collection
*Windy City Times { HQ75 .W562a}
*Positively Aware { RA644.A25 T82a}
*Chicago Free Press {HQ75 .C462a}
*The 57 Bus – 2018 Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award
*Little and Lion – 2018 Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award
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Historic Scenic Collection Historic Scenic Collection contains the scenes, costumes, maquettes, and other archival material of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The archival materials date from 1865 to 2012, but predominately features the productions of the Chicago Civic Opera for the years of 1910 to 1931.
*Blueprint of Aida Act 1 Scene 2
*Floor Plan of La Traviata Act 1 Scene 1 "old"
*Floor Plan of La Traviata Act 1 Scene 1 [revised]
For more information and detailed holdings go to https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/111
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H.P. Lovecraft Collection American novelist, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), is universally considered to be the father of modern horror. He is responsible for creating the nucleus of the "Cthulhu Mythos," a cycle of loosely-related stories that he (and other writers including Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and Brian Lumley) conceived that concerned the "Great Old Ones," beings from outer space who took up residence on Earth to cause havoc.
(https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522454/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)
Letters from the H.P. Lovecraft Collection
*Autographed letter to Robert Bloch 1937 { PS3523.O833 Z48 1937a}
*Autographed letter to Clark Ashton Smith 1932 {PS3523.O833 Z543}
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Medieval Manuscript Leaves Books during the medieval period were typically made of vellum (also called parchment), or, occasionally, paper. "The production of books was a collaborative enterprise involving co-operation between different crafts: parchment-maker, scribe, illuminator, and binder, together with, in many cases, a bookdealer who took orders from clients and oversaw the making of the final article."
Before 1200, books were generally produced in monasteries. However, as universities in cities like Paris, Bologna and Oxford began to grow, the demand for books outgrew the abilities of the monasteries to produce them, and lay people stepped in to fill the gap. By 1400, most manuscripts were not produced in monastery scriptoria, but by professional book workers.
*Gospel Lectionaire Leaf, Italy, 1150 A.D.,
*Leaf from a Breviary, Northern France, 1400,
*Prayerbook Leaf [Hildesheim], Germany, 1524.
Items located in the Manuscripts Collection {ND3355 .C655 1150a}
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Willard Motley Papers Willard Motley was an African-American writer who was part of the Chicago Renaissance.
The collection of the Northern Illinois University Libraries is the most extensive collection anywhere of the diaries, manuscripts, photographs, notes, clippings, and books of the famous naturalist Chicago writer.
*Diaries dealing with story, Knock On Any Door, April 21 - June 3, 1947.
*Diary - Book XI - Horizon Chasing on a Bicycle - June/July 1930.
For more information and detailed holdings go to https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/662
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Fred Saberhagen Papers The Fred Saberhagen Papers consists of printed (paper-based) and handwritten edited manuscripts (mostly of his novels), a small amount of short stories, correspondence associated with those materials, and some miscellaneous materials.
The Fred Saberhagen Papers are part of the Manuscripts Collection which contains papers from various science fiction authors.
Berserker's Planet (1973) - original edited manuscript and personal notes.
For more information and detailed holdings go to https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/275
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Private Press Collection The Private Press Collection is a growing collection of material issued by private presses, particularly in the Midwest. The works held in the collection demonstrate examples of fine printing, fine binding, creative book making, artists' books, or literary works selected for private publication.
Titles located in the Private Press Collection:
*Pride, Prejudice, Passion : Whirlwind Romance. (2011).
Created by Karen Hanmer, book artist, autographer.
Limited edition of 3 copies. { N7433.4.H365 P75 2011a}
*The Sea Around Us. (1980).
Creators Rachel Carson and illustrator Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Limited Editions Club. "Two thousand copies signed by the photographer." Library has no. 1277. {GC21 .C3 1980a}
*Octopus. (1992, c1988).
Creators Elizabeth McDevitt and Julie Chen.
Flying Fish Press. "Published in a limited edition of 100 copies" -- Inside of clamshell. "Box made by Sandy Tilcock" Library has no.: 80. {PS3563.C3585 O38 1992a}
*The ABCs of Baker Street : a guide to the Holmsian habitat. (1983).
Creators Dee Snyder and John Bennett Shaw. Miniature book.
Black Cat Press. "One of 249 copies." {PR4624 .S593 1983a}
*The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. (1953).
Creators William Shakespeare, Ivor J. Brown, and Herbert Farjeon.
Nonesuch Press. {PR2754 .F32 1953a}
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Radical Pamphlets Collection The Radical Pamphlets Collection includes American publications from 1880 to 1980 by or about the radical labor movement, socialists, communists, the radical right, and other movements occurring during that time.
Titles from the Radical Pamphlets Collection:
*SDS New Left Notes {LH1.A2 S73a}
*The Universities and the Ruling Class: how wealth puts knowledge in its pocket {LC1085.2 .H676 1969za}
*Liberation {BF1995 .L4a}
*Union Committeemen and Wildcat Strikes {HD5325.A8 G533 1971a}
*By the People {KF4742.3 .A54 1962a}
*Black Workers and the Class Struggle {HD6490.R2 P763 1972a}
*Bolshevism and the Workers {HD8526 .B657 1920a}
*Worker-student action committees, France, May '68 {HD8437.P37 G73 1970a}
*The Good Life {HX653 .R53 1973a}
*Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" {HF2166 .B355 1931a}
*The Meaning of Social-Fascism: its historical and theoretical background {JC481 .B769 1933a}
*Walden Two - B.F. Skinner {PS3537.K527 W3 1962a}
