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:
E.J. "Zeke" Giorgi Papers (Rockford)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-136
Scope and Contents
The Giorgi Papers are organized into three series: (1) constituent correspondence (1967-1981), (2) topical files (1965-1979), and (3) topical newsclipping files (1969-1975). The topical files contain information Giorgi gathered from various sources and comprise the largest series. Major subjects covered include the Board of Higher Education, energy, environmental protection, equal rights amendment, Governor Walker’s news releases, health care, law enforcement, the lottery, the mental...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1981; Other: Date acquired: 11/02/1981
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
Kane County Development Department Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-164
Scope and Contents
The material in this collection came from the background and informational files of two directors of the Kane County Development Department, Thornton “Tony” Ware and Frank Olson. In general, the material covers the years between 1960 and 1980. However, some of the files date as far back as 1957 and the creation of the department.
Department Administration deals with the business and staff workings in the Development Department. Such information as annual reports, budgets, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1983
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
North Central Illinois Genealogical Society Collection (Winnebago County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-188
Scope and Contents
The North Central Illinois Genealogical Society records consist of 10 volumes of cemetery inscriptions from 8 different townships within Winnebago County, Illinois, 1 volume of surnames which appeared in the Pecatonica News from 1872-1917, and a 1986 directory of members of the Society.
Within the volumes of township cemetery inscriptions, each cemetery is named, inventoried and indexed separately. The location of each cemetery is given at the beginning of its listing....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1988; Other: Date acquired: 01/20/1989
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
