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 11 Collections and/or Records:
Byron Grange No. 1810 Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-210
Scope and Contents
The Byron Grange Collection dates from 1921 to 1992 with the majority of the collection consisting of meeting minutes. The remainder of the collection includes a rollbook, due books and program books, a scrapbook containing newspaper articles concerning the Home Economics Day, correspondence, an award of honor granted by the national grange, and 2 badges used the master and gate keeper.
An addendum was added which consists mainly of Illinois State Grange rosters and journal proceedings...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-1992; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1992
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-Ogle County Labor Council Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-170
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection document many of the activities of the DeKalb-Ogle County Central Labor Council from 1964 to 1982. Types of records include: constitution, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, membership information, newsletters, and newsclips. Financial reports were usually included in meeting minutes. The minutes, although incomplete, provide excellent documentation of the issues important to Council members. Extensive correspondence files and material from the Illinois F of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-1983; Other: Date acquired: 05/02/1984
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
H.W. Colwill Collection (Creston)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-047
Scope and Contents
The H.W. Colwill Collection documents the business activity of the Creston Grain Elevator (1932-1977) and Leader Oil Company (l944-l967) in Creston, Illinois.
Series 1 consists of materials related to the personal activities of H.W. Colwill during the years 1930-1977. Included are correspondences, tax records, estate settlement records and grain speculation records (e.g., files under Rice, Lamson, Schulenburg). Also included are catalogs and advertisements.
Included in series two are...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1977; Other: Date acquired: 11/10/1978
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
League of Women Voters of the Rochelle Area
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-315
Scope and Contents
The League for Women Voters of the Rochelle Area organized in 1971 and became an official League in 1973. They work to provide information on relevant, voter oriented topics, as well as hold open forums for candidates, train future candidates, and register voters. The League often takes a two-year study on a particular issue. The materials within the collection document the Rochelle League’s formation and eventual acceptance into the National League of Women Voters. News articles relevant...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971-2011; Other: Date acquired: 11/21/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois Granges Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-262
Scope and Contents
The records for the Northern Illinois Granges consists of eleven series: Black Hawk Grange, Carroll County Pomona Grange, Galt Grange, Jordan Grange, Palmyra Grange, Rock Creek Grange, Rock River Grange, Whiteside County Pomona Grange, Illinois State Grange, National Grange, and Artifacts. Each series represents a different grange located in the northern Illinois region that is no longer in existence. The types of records vary from grange to grange depending on what has survived through...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-2004; Other: Date acquired: 05/14/2004
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
Sabin and Van Arsdale Collection (Aurora)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-032
Scope and Contents
The Sabin-Van Arsdale Collection consists of 845 photographs, a small amount of correspondence, diaries and school work, surveyor’s notebooks, tour books, and other printed material. The photographs depict western mining and manufacturing operations, landscape and scenery from Europe and the United States dating from the early twentieth century, and portraits and candid shots of relatives and friends of the Sabin and Van Arsdale families. Also found in the collection are souvenir and costume...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Silver Star Grange No. 1868 Records (DeKalb County
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-257
Scope and Contents
The Silver Star Grange records date from 1932 to 1992 and consist of four series: Silver Star Grange Records, Other Illinois Granges Records, Illinois State Grange Record, and National Grange Records. Series I, Silver Star Grange, contains a complete run of meeting minutes from April 28, 1932 to July 7, 1944, treasurer’s book, correspondence, and quarterly reports. Information on the early activities of the Grange can be found in this series. However, minutes for the later years have not...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-1992; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
