Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School (ISSCS)

The Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School Collection is organized into six boxes containing materials dating from 1865 to 2000.  Box 1 contains newspaper articles from 1869 to 2000, legislative documents, abstracts of titles and other legal records.  Box 2 contains annual reports, committee investigations, budgets, and population and burial records.  Box 3 contains histories and narratives of ISSCS from 1879 to 1981, including pamphlets, excerpts from books and a seminar paper.  Box 4 contains centennial and reunion material, including invitations, correspondence, programs and reunion booklets.  Box 5 contains building and staff material, including building plans and renderings, correspondence, educational units, grade books, an interview transcript, and research notes.  Box 6 contains student records, including class lists, correspondence, programs, graduation materials, a diploma, and student reports and publications.  Box 7 contains bound issues Felmley Junior High Flashes, the ISSCS student newspaper. Box 8 contains loose leaf issues of Flashes, as well as scrapbooks. The following is an itemized list of the collection’s contents.