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 2 Collections and/or Records:

First Congregational Church Records (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-017
Scope and Contents The records in this collection document the growth and development of the First Congregational Church of DeKalb from 1856-1991. The first series, Administrative Records, includes historical information, constitutions and annual reports, church meeting minutes and correspondence, bulletins and the church newsletter. The nearly complete span of weekly church bulletins documents day-to-day activities and concerns. Series two, Membership, contains church directories, membership lists, and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-2002; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1973

J.F. Glidden Papers (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-006
Scope and Contents The papers of J.F. Glidden primarily document the personal and business activities of Joseph Farwell Glidden during the years 1882-1906, and to a lesser degree, other Glidden family members, relatives and friends from 1885-1954. Additionally, there are small quantities of records from the Henderson and Olson Company, Lee, Illinois, which have as yet an undetermined relationship with J.F. Glidden and are included herewith. This collection does not contain any significant amount of material...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1869-1955; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1967