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  Bible with handmade embossed metal case, c. 1860s, used by one of the Benedictine monks. |
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 IBC College Seal c. 1971 or 1972. In late 1970, Abbey members and the Board of Trustees voted to change the institution name to Illinois Benedictine College in order to distinguish it from the Abbey and the College Academy (now Benet Academy). During its first year as IBC in 1971, the college hit a milestone enrollment of 1000 students. Throughout these changes the college retained symbols from its past, such as the eagle insignia, a traditional Czech symbol, visible in the center of both the SPC and IBC seals. |
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   Early campus arithmetic textbook. This 1863 textbook was used at SPC's first location at 18th and Allport in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. |
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 Glass paperweight with aerial view of campus. Based on the buildings present on campus, such as the power plant building and what appears to be the old gym, this probably dates between 1925 and 1943. |
 University switchboard. This Bell System switchboard (probably in the Model 500 series) was manufactured by Western Electric during the late 1940s. Telephone companies stopped using systems like this long before Benedictine. This switchboard was the only method of routing calls in and out of campus until around 1980. |
 University mace. Universities traditionally use a ceremonial mace as a symbol of the power that comes with the pursuit of knowledge through serious study and research and incorporate it into milestones of the academic year, such as being carried in the commencement ceremony. This mace was a gift from the children of the late Howard and Josephine Turner and was presented to the University for the 106th commencement in May of 1999. Turner was the director of custodial services at Benedictine in the 1970s. The mace was created by Jeffrey Havill who was at the time a novice with the Benedictine community at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island. This mace replaced one carved out of apple wood from St. Procopious Abbey tree by the late Fr. Vitus Buresh, O.S.B. |
 Safety chain from Abraham Lincoln's private railroad car, c. 1865, donated by Thomas Dyba, former executive vice president of Illinois Benedictine College, Lincoln scholar, and a member of the Abraham Lincoln Society. The railroad car was reported to be one of the most luxurious of its time. Unfortunately, Lincoln never used the car while alive. Instead, it carried his body in his funeral train. Benedictine University transferred the bulk of its Lincoln items (donated by Dyba) to the Lincoln museum and library in Springfield to give them the widest possible public access since they are a valuable part of our nation's history. |
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