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 6 Collections and/or Records:
DeKalb Streetscapes Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-276
Scope and Contents
The images in this collection are a complement to the Embree Collection [RC 2] held by the Regional History Center. The Embree Collection offers approximately 10,000 images of life in DeKalb, Illinois from the mid 1890's through the 1965. Both the Embree and Streetscapes Collections are especially strong on documenting the built environment in the central city area. While virtually all of the Embree Collection is black and white, two thirds of the Streetscapes Collection is color: there...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Fairview Park Cemetery Association Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-049
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection partially document the business activities of the Fairview Park Cemetery Association from 1903 to 1959.
Box one contains cemetery business correspondences arranged in alphabetical order and within that chronological, dating from 1911 to 1953. Also included are the cemetery’s local land records, bank statements, bills, receipts, and the employee’s tax returns, all dating 1903-1952 and burial permits arranged chronologically dating 1902-1918. Also included...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1903-1982; Other: Date acquired: 10/19/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Florence Houghton Marshall Collection (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-261
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection primarily deal with subjects of interest to genealogists, and date from the mid-1800’s to 1990’s. A sizeable portion of the collection relates to materials on DeKalb County, especially cemetery records. There are also a number of publications dealing with genealogical and historical subjects in greater Illinois. In addition there are materials of general interest to local historians. Florence Marshall’s correspondence with others seeking help with their...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1800s-1990s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Mayfield Cemetery Association Records (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-065
Scope and Contents
These records document the history of the Mayfield Cemetery Association from 1844-1966. The society organized to improve and maintain a respectable burial site for deceased inhabitants of Mayfield, Illinois and surrounding communities. Three burial record books comprise the major series of the collection and detail the name, age, nativity, burial date, and location of each set of remains placed in the lot. In many instances, these record books contain overlapping information for the years...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1966; Other: Date acquired: 04/30/1968
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
North Central Illinois Genealogical Society Collection (Winnebago County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-188
Scope and Contents
The North Central Illinois Genealogical Society records consist of 10 volumes of cemetery inscriptions from 8 different townships within Winnebago County, Illinois, 1 volume of surnames which appeared in the Pecatonica News from 1872-1917, and a 1986 directory of members of the Society.
Within the volumes of township cemetery inscriptions, each cemetery is named, inventoried and indexed separately. The location of each cemetery is given at the beginning of its listing....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1988; Other: Date acquired: 01/20/1989
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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
