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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

DeKalb County Building and Construction Trades Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-314
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the records of the DeKalb County Building and Construction Trades Council from 1950 to 2001. The records include administrative files, minutes, correspondence, printed materials, legal documentation, and audio-visual materials. The records reflect the organization’s activities as a labor union. The correspondence includes letters from individuals, labor organizations, private companies, and public organisms. The minutes have many gaps, especially before 1980.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-2001; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/2011
Found in: Northern Illinois University

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

DeKalb Milk Consumers Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-015
Scope and Contents The records contained in this collection document the activities of the Milk Consumers Association Incorporated, of DeKalb, Illinois. The materials reflect on Association business from 1922 through its 1966 dissolution, with the bulk of the materials covering the years 1950-1966. Types of records include minutes (1950-1965), correspondence, bills, payroll records, I.R.S. materials, banking records, monthly balance sheets, hauling routes, stock inventories, stock certificates, and final...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1971; Other: Date acquired: 04/06/1978
Found in: Northern Illinois University

General Electric Company (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-341
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers from the General Electric Company located in DeKalb, Illinois. The collection contains materials from 1891 to 2015, with the bulk of the material ranging from 1946 to 2015. The collection includes newsletters, club records, photographs, historical files, minutes, and artifacts. The material documents the activities and events of employees, the company, the DeKalb area. There are also records about the interior and exterior of the building as well as the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1891-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1946-2015; Other: Date acquired: 03/17/2015
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Kishwaukee Community Hospital Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-327
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of scrapbooks relating to the Kishwaukee Community Hospital from 1924 to 1975. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles that detail the activities of both the DeKalb Public Hospital and the Sycamore Public Hospital, as well as their auxiliary groups. An additional box includes reports, meeting minutes, and memos documenting the creation of the hospital and its activities.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1924-1975; Other: Date acquired: 02/25/2009
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

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