Skip to main content

RHC/RC. Regional Collections

 Record Group Term
Identifier: RHC/RC
The Regional Collections include original manuscripts and records generated by private individuals, institutions, and organizations from throughout the eighteen northern Illinois counties. The collections span the period from 1800 to the present and focus on several major themes in the region's history: agriculture, politics, ethnic heritage, commerce and industry, the role of women, and urban expansion. To provide documentation in these areas of interest the Center actively collects the historical records of farmers and their organizations, businesses and retail stores, state and local politicians, churches, cemeteries, civic agencies, individuals, women's organizations, and labor unions. In addition, the Center holds vertical file manuscripts, county and local histories, atlases and plat books, city directories, maps, broadsides, posters, photographs, oral histories, genealogical journals, and core reference printed materials on the history of northern Illinois that complement the manuscript collections.

Found in 354 Collections and/or Records:

Cookbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-340
Scope and Contents The cookbooks in this collection date from 1912 to 2014. They are arranged by county and then alphabetically by the original creator of the cookbook. The collection has cookbooks from DeKalb, Lake, LaSalle, and McHenry counties. The bulk of the cookbooks were created by organizations throughout the northern Illinois region as a way to compile recipes and stories from its members. Some of the cookbooks were created as a means for raising money for the organization, while a few were given out...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-2014; Other: Date acquired: 10/16/2014

Frances Pesut Family

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-334
Scope and Contents The Frances Pesut Family Collection consists of photographs, legal documents, funeral and financial registers, membership records, newspaper articles, and birth and death records, and handmade crafts and artifacts. The collection covers the span of 1908 to 2013. Arrangement is chronological. The beginning of the collection starts with the documentation of the Pesut family The beginning of the collection starts with the documentation of the Pesut family as a whole, and then is separated by...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-2013; Other: Date acquired: 10/28/2013

Eugene "Gene" Head

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-320
Scope and Contents The collection originated on two 3 ½ inch floppy disks, which are included at the end of the collection. The documents were first written in a program that is unknown, but  made legible using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and printed in their entirety. The files consist of an autobiography of  Eugene “Gene” Head entitled: “In my Rear View Mirror: My Visions of the Past.” Also included is an extensive genealogy of the Head family, which traces its ancestors back to the 1700s. The genealogy was...
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2011

Greater Northern Illinois Area Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-347
Scope and Contents

Greater Northern Illinois Area (GNIA) Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa Records contains not only materials for GNIA, but also records from Phi Delta Kappa International, the NIU Chapter of PDK, and the Sinnissippi Illinois Chapter of PDK. Included are records regarding bylaws and constitutions, board minutes, financial records, memberships, correspondence, and programs and award ceremonies. The records date from 1994 to 2015, but predominantly range from 2002 to 2015.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2002-2015; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/2015

Fordtran Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-330
Scope and Contents The Fordtran Family Collection contains materials of the Fordtran/Wherley/Barkley family. The items were among the personal effects of Lola Belle (Barkley) and Eugene Fordtran. Material related to Rockford High School is a large part of the collection and includes student published periodicals and newsletters when Fred and Marie Barkley (1908-09) and Dorthy Wherley (1945) attended the school. The collection also contains records related to Lola Belle (Barkley) Fordtran’s attendance at...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-circa 1965; Other: Majority of material found in 1930s and 1940s; Other: Date acquired: 01/30/2013

Leo B. Olson (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-338
Scope and Contents The Leo B. Olson Collection consists of materials related to Leo Olson’s community involvement, professional activities, and military service from 1911 to 1990. The collection also includes a small amount of materials related to Olson’s family and the history of DeKalb County. His professional activities make up only a small portion of the collection. There is very little related to his time as communications director at DeKalb AgResearch. A digital image of Leo’s Bronze Medal display is...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1990; Other: Date acquired: 07/31/2014

Help-One-Another Circle (Harlem Township, Winnebago County)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-349
Scope and Contents Help-One-Another Circle was established on March 12, 1919 in Harlem Township (Illinois). The club aimed to help the church and perform charity work. Help-One-Another Circle was established for these purposes as stated in the minutes from 1919: “1st. Its purpose to assist our hostess at our regular meetings with any work she might have for use to do.; 2nd. To build up afund whereby we might do any charitable work the Circle might see fit to do.” An additional purpose was added during the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1959; Other: Date acquired: 01/31/2013

Beta Sigma Phi Records (DeKalb/Sycamore)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-350
Abstract The Beta Omega Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi held their first meeting in April 1938 and was chartered in March 1939. Beta Sigma Phi was first organized in DeKalb in October 1945. The DeKalb/Sycamore Chapters of Beta Sigma Phi been composed of one or more chapters since its founding in the area in 1938, including chapters Beta Omega (Sycamore, est. 1939), Xi Gamma Upsilon (Sycamore, est. 1956), Xi Zeta Alpha Exemplar (DeKalb, est. 1963), Preceptor Gamma Epsilon (DeKalb),  and Illinois Epsilon Phi...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-2012; Other: Date acquired: 05/27/2016

Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 241

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-345
Scope and Contents

The Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 241 records consists of information pertaining to the Dekalb Illinois based Chapter 241 of the Experimental Aircraft Association. The collection includes flyers, newspaper articles, email correspondence, newsletters as well as financial and insurance records from 1969-2015. This information provides an overview of the events in which the chapter participates.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-2015; Other: Date acquired: 02/16/1999

Spot-Lite Food Mart Records (Malta)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-353
Scope and Contents

The Spot-Lite Food Mart Collection dates from 1950 to 1970. The records consist of business ledgers, inventory logs, tax and insurance records, building records, financial records, clippings, and advertisements.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1970; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2016