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:
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
Prairie View Grange Records (Pecatonica)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-014
Scope and Contents
The Prairie View Grange No. 1786 Collection documents the establishment and history of a farming organization in Pecatonica, Illinois from 1915 to its dissolution in 1970. The main series of the collection consists of a partial set of minute books (1931-1970) containing information about the members’ concern with agricultural problems. These books also relate how social events relieved the loneliness and isolation typical of the farming life. A major weakness in the collection is the lack...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1970; Other: Date acquired: 08/25/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
