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 5 Collections and/or Records:
District Two Illinois Nurses' Association Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-144
Scope and Contents
The district includes nurses from DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties. Administrative records comprise the largest series and contain constitutions and by-laws, regular and board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, committee and section records, and histories of the association and hospitals and nursing education programs within the district. The section records document specific nursing divisions within the association such as general duty or mental health...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-2004; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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
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
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
Will-Grundy Building Trades Council Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-152
Scope and Contents
The Will-Grundy Building Trades Council records (1934-1979) are divided into three series: administrative records; pamphlets, brochures, publications, and manuals; and financial records. The administrative records comprise meeting minutes (1940-1977), annual directories, and pre-job information as well as a subseries composed of subject files. The subject files are alphabetically arranged and primarily consist of records on or about local labor unions and politics. None of the files are...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1934-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
