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 16 Collections and/or Records:
Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-180
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection document the activities of the Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce from 1910 to the present. The original collection is arranged in seven series. The addendum donated in April 2006 adds an eighth series, Council of 100 Records.
Series I and its five subseries contains many of the core organizational records of the Rockford Chamber including Board of Directors' records, Executive Committee records, Financial Statements, Annual Meeting Records and Annual...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910+; Other: Date acquired: 01/00/1986
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford Photo Services Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-282
Scope and Contents
The Rockford Photo Services Audiovisual Collection dates circa the 1950s and includes postcards, photographs, and negatives for various communities throughout the state of Illinois. The numbers listed in the collection inventory that follows the names of the cities designate the number of postcards, then photographs, then negatives in that particular folder.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950s; Other: Date acquired: 11/16/2006
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
Stillman Valley Woman's Club
Collection — Volume 1-3
Identifier: RHC-RC-242
Scope and Contents
The Stillman Valley Woman’s Club Records document the establishment and history of a local woman’s social organization whose aim was to “promote intellectual growth, cooperation in community service and the joy of companionship.” A nearly complete set of minute books (1899 -1970, 1973-1988) details the business and social activities of each club meeting. The collection contains yearly program booklets beginning with1912, as well as program booklets for all the area women’s clubs which...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1988; Other: Date acquired: 10/06/1999
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.W. Embree Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-002
Scope and Contents
Waite W. Embree and his father, Elmer E. Embree, preserved most of the historical materials generated by the family’s business and social activities. Waite, especially, collected a large volume of printed materials and photographs that relate to his main interests--the history of DeKalb and the history of railroading. It is important to note that Embree was a collector: indeed, in the absence of an active county historical society, Waite Embree filled a void in DeKalb County with his keen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1966; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Zelnis/Smith Family
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-342
Scope and Contents
Records in the Zelnis/Smith Family Collection date from 1909 to 2005. Mr. G.B. Smith and Mrs. Valaria Zelnis Smith of DeKalb, Illinois are primary family members featured in the collection.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-2005; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2015
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
