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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Grundy County Farm Bureau Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-106
Scope and Contents
The Grundy County Farm Bureau Records document a substantial portion of its history from its inception in 1914 to 1970. A complete set of meeting minutes (1914-1970) details the business concerns of Bureau members providing advice and services to farmers in planning and organizing their farm businesses. Topics discussed at these meetings ranged from improved crop-raising techniques and disease control to farm legislation being considered at the state and national levels. Audit reports...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853-1989; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kable Printing Company Records (Mt. Morris)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-020
Scope and Contents
The Kable Printing Company records document the business operations of the Kable Brothers Company and its successor the Kable Printing Company of Mt. Morris, Illinois from 1903-1974. These records primarily consist of ledgers and account books. Six series can be defined: General Financial Data, Labor and Personnel Records, Inventories, Stock Certificates, Internal Publications, and Photographs.
Series one, General Financial Records, is made up of appraisals, capital equipment records,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1974; Other: Date acquired: 02/16/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kendall-Grundy Farm Service Company Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-105
Scope and Contents
These records document the three agricultural service companies, Kendall Farmers Oil, Grundy Grain and Supply, and Grundy Service, which merged to form the Kendall-Grundy FS, Inc. in 1971. The collection, comprised of meeting minutes, audit reports, purchase/sales journals, and general financial ledgers dating 1928 to 1970, details each company’s history. Of particular interest are materials dating in the 1930’s and 1940’s; these documents reveal the strain government rationing caused...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1978; Other: Date acquired: 08/18/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
