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 1 Collection or Record:
W.F. and John Barnes Company Records (Rockford)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-123
Scope and Contents
The W. F. and John Barnes Company records collection represents a small portion of the documents usually generated by a large industrial firm. Nevertheless, as the only surviving records of this important machine tool corporation, the collection is vitally important to the preservation of the industry’s history.
Records in the collection date from 1878 to 1963 with the bulk of the materials between 1940 and 1962. The first series contains company histories, legal agreements and leases,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1878-1963; Other: Date acquired: 02/05/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
