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:
Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-277
Scope and Contents
The Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection spans five generations, all of whom have resided at 210 N. 1st Street in DeKalb. Materials in this collection date from the 1830's to the 1990's, although the bulk of the collection dates from the 1860's through the mid-1940's. About half the collection consists of photographic materials including ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and glass plate negatives. Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, a large number of legal documents, and genealogical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1996; Other: Date acquired: 01/25/2007
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Judge A.G. Kennedy Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-124
Scope and Contents
The A. C. Kennedy Papers consist of a very small segment of the records maintained by Judge Kennedy. Included are correspondence from various clients (1941-1944) affidavits filed by Kennedy, and business and personal invoices (1941-1944). The records arrived with the Dennis J. Collins Papers and represent the years Kennedy and Collins were law partners.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1941-1944; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Latham Castle Papers (Sandwich)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-073
Scope and Contents
The Latham Castle collection primarily documents the career of Latham Castle as Attorney General for the State of Illinois, 1953-1959. Supplementary but sparse material concerns his subsequent appointment as Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. An oral history interview dated February 23, 1976, spans his lifetime and career.
The materials are arranged both topically and chronologically whenever possible. Box 1 contains file folders of printed material, ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1976; Other: Date acquired: 07/30/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
People Who Care Records (Rockford)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-271
Scope and Contents
The materials in the People Who Care Records date from 1969 to 2007. Series I documents the case of People Who Care vs. the Rockford Board of Education from 1989 to 1999, and include reports and correspondence related to the lawsuit.
Series II, Rockford Schools, contains two subseries: Subseries A, History and Reports, contains a variety of documents dating from 1969 to 2001 dealing with Rockford’s Schools and includes information on Diversity, Controlled Choice, and Magnet Schools....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-2007; Other: Date acquired: 06/08/2004
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Win G. Knoch Papers (Naperville)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-179
Scope and Contents
The Win G. Knoch Papers contain three series that partially document the public and private activities of Win G. Knoch of Naperville, Illinois.
The first series, Biographical, contains extensive information on Knoch and his family’s history, 1893-1983. Also included is information on honors, awards, civic, professional, and charitable activities of Judge Knoch.
Series II, Correspondence Files, is the largest and most complex series in the collection. The series spans the years 1936-1983....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893-1983; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1987
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
