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:
Bryant Family Collection (Princeton)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-027
Scope and Contents
The Bryant Family Collection is a three generation chronicle of the Bryant Family and their migration from Massachusetts to Illinois and Kansas. The materials collected document the family history from 1767-1912.
Boxes one and two contain photostat, microfilm, and typescript copies of Bryant family letters and diaries assembled from various sources. Box one, folder one contains the family genealogy chart, prepared in the archives based on information available in the collection. Also...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1767-1966; Other: Date acquired: 06/28/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Denton Family Papers (Maple Park)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-191
Scope and Contents
The Denton Family Papers document the Denton Family from 1895 to 1965. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence between family members, ledgers, school work, and family and military photographs. Also contained in the papers is Mrs. Elfie Denton's 1935-1936 daybook, a 1936 calendar she used as a daybook, and a notebook of poems and stories collected by Dorothea Denton entitled, “My Crazy Book.” A short family tree, newspaper clippings, and legal documents help in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1965; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1989
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Giles P. Ransom Family Collection (Roscoe)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-275
Scope and Contents
Records in the Dr. Giles Paddock Ransom Family collection date from 1789 to 2009 with the majority of the records from the 1850 through 1930 time period. They document the personal and business aspects of individuals living in Rockford and Roscoe, Illinois. There are four main families represented in the collection–Jenks, Sherman, Leland, and Ransom; the Ransom family is most predominant. The other families are associated by marriage or settled near the Ransoms or both. Documents include...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1839-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s-1930s; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Hauswald Family Account Books (Sycamore)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-253
Scope and Contents
In his family account books, Walter E. Hauswald, chronicles over seven decades of the family’s finances dating from 1932 through 2000. The account books for September 1991 through August 1994 are missing. Mr. Hauswald’s detailed accounts itemize the family’s income and expenses over the years. Income was received from stocks, bonds, interest, wages and pensions. Documented expenses included those for transportation, education, toiletries, entertainment, food, gifts, home and cottage...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-2000; Other: Date acquired: 08/21/2001
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lanan Family Farm Records (Kingston)
Collection — Volume 1-2
Identifier: RHC-RC-111
Scope and Contents
These records partially document the history of the Lanan Farm in Kingston, Illinois from 1848-1978. Although few records in this collection deal with the early history of the farm, several land indentures and grants provide details of farm land transfers in the mid-nineteenth century. The major series of the collection is a complete set of farm account books (1915-l978) detailing various business transactions of the Lanan farm. These volumes contain extensive information on annual...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1848-2006; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Laura Cooper Collection (Byron)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-044
Scope and Contents
Laura Cooper’s diaries, located in box one, date from 1892 to 1893, 1938 to 1942, 1944 to 1948, and 1954 to 1965. The diaries offer a chronicle of one woman’s day-to-day activities over a number of years including comments on family, deaths of relatives and town members, church activities, and other common situations such as meals and weather.
Box two of the collection contains reminiscences of Mrs. Cooper about Byron’s Congregational Church (1897-1924); weekly bulletins, programs,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1965; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lovering Family Collection (Shabbona)
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: RHC-RC-029
Scope and Contents
This collection partially documents three subjects: the George Lovering Lumber and Grain Company of Shabbona (1881-1912); William K. Lovering’s 1800 mile drive from Detroit, Michigan to Salt Lake City, Utah in a Scripps-Booth automobile (1916); and facets of Shabbona, Illinois’ history (1895-1940). Materials include financial account ledgers, business and personal correspondence, W. K. Lovering’s typed manuscripts under the pen name Bill Knell, photographs, catalogs, and programs. A very...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1876-1965; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1968
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
