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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ella Hume Taylor Collection (Geneseo)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-034
Scope and Contents
The Ella Hume Taylor Collection is made up of materials collected by Mrs. Taylor from the Henry County area.
The major portion of the collection is made up of letters, reminiscences, town and township histories obtained by Ella Hume Taylor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among these are autobiographical and biographical sketches of the ‘Old Settlers of Henry County’ Theodore Davenport, George Brandenburg, and others. Also included are programs and by-laws of the Old...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1940
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Wheatland-Salem United Methodist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-119
Scope and Contents
A church fire in November 1927 destroyed a portion of this organization’s historical manuscripts. Nevertheless, the remaining records provide sufficient documentation for a thorough study of the Wheatland Salem United Methodist Church’s history. Of primary importance are the church minutes dating from 1860 to 1963 (1916-1947 are missing.) describing organizational changes, building or expansion problems, and general church business. In addition, quarterly conference records (1920-1967)...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
