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Provides information of acceptable dress code. The Directory includes employee's addresses, college education and credentials.

The contributor used the box cutter to cut plastic in ice cream packages while working at Dreyer's Ice Cream (now Eddy's Ice Cream). The contributor worked as a merchandiser at minimum wage for $500 a week. He built and refilled displays at stores…

A figurine of a pail that would have been used to carry coal from coal mines. This figurine was made from coal from a vein running from Wales to Illinois.

The contributor received this stainless steel Gerber utility knife from his grandfather in 2018. It has extensions for a can opener, a bottle opener, flathead screwdrivers, a knife, scissors, pliers, and a crimping tool. It was previously used by the…

Marcel Tworek visited the Illinois Governor's Mansion for their 2023 trick or treat event. From left to right: Tworek as Indiana Jones, Governor J.B. Pritzker as Dumbledore, and Mary Kathryn Pritzker as Harry Potter.

Patch from Department of Corrections in Iowa

This is a program and parking pass from the 2023 Illinois State Senate Inauguration. The Inauguration of the Illinois State Senate is a very private event attended by senators and their families. In 2023, the event was hosted at the Old State Capitol…

This wallet contains a membership card to the Catholic Church Extension society dated 1918. The wallet itself contains a rosary as well as religious medallions for the sake of preforming last rights in this case in coal mines.

The ledger was exclusively for personal use. It includes personal expenses such as groceries, going out for ice cream, and repairs. The contributor's mother Mary "Lucille" Keck, who passed the ledger down to the contributor in 2020, lived in…

A portrait of the Lockeby family in their family restaurant, Lockeby's Cafe, in 1952.