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 20 Collections and/or Records:
City of DeKalb Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-139
Scope and Contents
The City of DeKalb Collection is organized into two record series. The first series, City Records, consists of budgets, comprehensive development plans, revised ordinances, and committee records. Documentation on the urban renewal project in 1968-1969 can be found in the Urban Renewal Study Committee records. Demographic and economic information on the area is available in the development plans and in a survey done in 1947.
Records from the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce comprise series two....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913+; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
David C. Shapiro Papers (Amboy)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-174
Scope and Contents
The David C. Shapiro Papers primarily document his career as a state legislator in the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate. Material in the collection dates from his first campaign in 1966 to his death in 1981. Some biographical information and personal correspondence are in Box One, Folder One. The collection is divided into six series: Campaigns and Party Affiliations, House and Senate Bills, Subject Files, Constituent Correspondence, Reports and Publications, Photos and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1981; Other: Date acquired: 05/24/1984
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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 Home Economists Records (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-300
Scope and Contents
The records of the DeKalb County Home Economists date from January 1983 to June 1999 and contains bylaws, membership lists, meeting minutes and organization mailings.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983-1999; Other: Date acquired: 05/26/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Streetscapes Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-276
Scope and Contents
The images in this collection are a complement to the Embree Collection [RC 2] held by the Regional History Center. The Embree Collection offers approximately 10,000 images of life in DeKalb, Illinois from the mid 1890's through the 1965. Both the Embree and Streetscapes Collections are especially strong on documenting the built environment in the central city area. While virtually all of the Embree Collection is black and white, two thirds of the Streetscapes Collection is color: there...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Dennis J. Collins Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-005
Scope and Contents
The materials in the collection partially document three areas of Collins’ professional activities. The collection contains general correspondence concerning Collin’s personal business dealings from 1931 to 1974, correspondence and topical literature related to Collins’ duties as State Representative (1931-1943) and State Senator (1943-1973), and correspondence from Collins’ legal practice with most materials involving specific legal cases.
This collection represents a modest portion of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1974; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Fordtran Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-330
Scope and Contents
The Fordtran Family Collection contains materials of the Fordtran/Wherley/Barkley family. The items were among the personal effects of Lola Belle (Barkley) and Eugene Fordtran. Material related to Rockford High School is a large part of the collection and includes student published periodicals and newsletters when Fred and Marie Barkley (1908-09) and Dorthy Wherley (1945) attended the school. The collection also contains records related to Lola Belle (Barkley) Fordtran’s attendance at...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-circa 1965; Other: Majority of material found in 1930s and 1940s; Other: Date acquired: 01/30/2013
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Gordon John Read Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-258
Scope and Contents
The majority of the materials in the Gordon John Read Papers date from 1949 to 1953. Included is correspondence from “Gordy” Read to his parents from January to September 1951 while serving in the Marine Corps. Researchers will find here a scrapbook of materials from Gordon’s boot camp days at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Camp Pendleton, California, photographs relating to Marine Corps activities, and the flag that draped his coffin at the Memorial Service held January 20, 1952. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1994; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Greater Northern Illinois Area Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-347
Scope and Contents
Greater Northern Illinois Area (GNIA) Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa Records contains not only materials for GNIA, but also records from Phi Delta Kappa International, the NIU Chapter of PDK, and the Sinnissippi Illinois Chapter of PDK. Included are records regarding bylaws and constitutions, board minutes, financial records, memberships, correspondence, and programs and award ceremonies. The records date from 1994 to 2015, but predominantly range from 2002 to 2015.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2002-2015; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/2015
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
H.W. Fay Portrait Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-026
Scope and Contents
The Herbert W. Fay Collection contains 9 boxes of material directly related to and including Fay’s portrait collection. Box 1, housing material dated between 1864-1945, contains several file folders of general and personal correspondence and portrait loan agency clippings, all reflective of Fay s occupation as an historical portrait collector. Also included in this group are printed materials (broadsides leaflets, etc) related to Fay’s social and political interests and his participation in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864-1945; Other: Date acquired: 02/16/1966
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
