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 4 Collections and/or Records:
DeKalb County Centennial/Bicentennial Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-009
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection document the preparations, financial arrangements, and special programs planned and celebrated at the DeKalb County Centennial (1934), DeKalb City Centennial (1956), DeKalb County’s celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial (1974-1977), and the DeKalb City Sesquicentennial (2006).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1903-2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb County Historical Society Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-003
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection document the activities of the DeKalb County Historical Society from 1972 to 1986.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1865+; Other: Date acquired: 03/17/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.W. Embree Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-002
Scope and Contents
Waite W. Embree and his father, Elmer E. Embree, preserved most of the historical materials generated by the family’s business and social activities. Waite, especially, collected a large volume of printed materials and photographs that relate to his main interests--the history of DeKalb and the history of railroading. It is important to note that Embree was a collector: indeed, in the absence of an active county historical society, Waite Embree filled a void in DeKalb County with his keen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1966; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
