Wagner Family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oversize Collection - Maps, Posters, Photographs, Calendars, Drawings
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-200
Scope and Contents
The Oversize Collection consists of unbound items from various Regional History Center collections which are too large to store in regular archival boxes.
The Oversize Collection contains five major groups of documents: posters and broadsides, photographs and prints, maps, newspapers, and certificates.
The Embree Collection's railroad calendars and posters show the locomotives of various railroads from the late 1930's through the mid-1950's. The war poster collection contains 629 posters...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.W. Embree Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-002
Scope and Contents
Waite W. Embree and his father, Elmer E. Embree, preserved most of the historical materials generated by the family’s business and social activities. Waite, especially, collected a large volume of printed materials and photographs that relate to his main interests--the history of DeKalb and the history of railroading. It is important to note that Embree was a collector: indeed, in the absence of an active county historical society, Waite Embree filled a void in DeKalb County with his keen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1966; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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- American Legion 1
- American National Red Cross 1
- Aurora (Ill.) 1
- Automobiles 1
- Batavia (Ill.) 1
- Calendars 1
- Carroll County (Ill.) 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Centennial 1
- Chicago Great Western Railroad Company 1
- Civil Works Administration (U.S.) 1
- Climate 1
- Coal trade 1
- DeKalb (Ill.) 1
- DeKalb (Ill.)--History. 1
- DeKalb County (Ill) 1
- Diaries, DeKalb 1
- Diaries-- 1910-1960 1
- DuPage County (Ill) 1
- Elgin (Ill.) 1
- Evergreen Cemetery, DeKalb County 1
- Geology--Northern Illinois 1
- Glass plate negative 1
- Grand Army of the Republic. 1
- Great Depression. 1
- Grundy County (Ill.) 1
- Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.) 1
- Illinois. 1
- JoDaviess County (Ill) 1
- Kane County (Ill) 1
- Kendall County (Ill) 1
- LaSalle County (Ill) 1
- Lake County (Ill) 1
- Lantern slides. 1
- Lee County (Ill) 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works 1
- Maps 1
- McHenry County (Ill) 1
- Meteorology 1
- National guard 1
- Newspapers 1
- Northern Illinois University 1
- Oakwood Cemetery, DeKalb 1
- Ogle County (Ill) 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. 1
- Photographs 1
- Postal service 1
- Posters 1
- Presidents--United States. 1
- Rivers 1
- Roads 1
- Rock Island (Ill.) 1
- Rockford (Ill.) 1
- Rural free delivery 1
- Schools 1
- St. Charles (Ill.) 1
- Stephenson County (Ill) 1
- Sugar Grove (Ill.) 1
- Tintype 1
- United States Centennial celebrations, etc -- Bicentennial 1
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence 1
- United States. Army. 1
- United States. Navy 1
- V-J Day, 1945 1
- Whiteside County (Ill) 1
- Will County (Ill) 1
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