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:
Delta Kappa Gamma Alpha Chapter Records (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-296
Scope and Contents
The records for the Delta Kappa Gamma (ΔΚΓ), Alpha Chapter date from 1936 to 2009. Alpha Chapter records make up the bulk of this collection and include the society’s scrapbooks, yearbooks, meeting minutes, newsletters, programs from events, correspondence between members, treasurer and budget reports as well as reports from chairmen. The yearbooks range from 1936 to 2006. The scrapbooks contain news clippings of various members, photographs, programs from events, newsletter clippings and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936+; Other: Date acquired: 01/25/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Frances W. Shimer College Collection (Mt. Carroll)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-077
Scope and Contents
The Shimer College Collection documents the founding and development of an important higher educational institution in Mt. Carroll, Illinois. Materials in this collection range from original manuscripts pre-dating Shimer's origin in 1853 to publications printed in 1978. There are six major record series in the Shimer College Collection: (1) original documents, historical, and biographical files; (2) files from the Office of the President; (3) alumnae and public relations records; (4)...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1838-1980; Other: Date acquired: 10/10/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Jane Heckman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-317
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the papers of Jane Heckman from 1940 to 2010. Papers include minutes, committee records, administrative files, publicity and audio-visual files from the West Suburban Area YWCA; as well as meeting minutes and booklets from OWL (the Older Women’s League) of DuPage County, meeting minutes, correspondence, and printed material from other organizations in DuPage County, printed material from Barnard College, and personal correspondence. The collection documents Jane...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-2010; Other: Date acquired: 12/18/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
People Who Care Records (Rockford)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-271
Scope and Contents
The materials in the People Who Care Records date from 1969 to 2007. Series I documents the case of People Who Care vs. the Rockford Board of Education from 1989 to 1999, and include reports and correspondence related to the lawsuit.
Series II, Rockford Schools, contains two subseries: Subseries A, History and Reports, contains a variety of documents dating from 1969 to 2001 dealing with Rockford’s Schools and includes information on Diversity, Controlled Choice, and Magnet Schools....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-2007; Other: Date acquired: 06/08/2004
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records (Rockford)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-302
Scope and Contents
Series one contains organizational records, founding documents, constitution and by-laws, papers of board members and committees such as chapter regent, register, recording secretary, librarian and historian. It also contains records about the Rockford chapter, including awards, certifications and correspondence. This series also contains board meeting minutes; including general membership minutes, regular, executive, and special minutes.
The financial papers, series two, consist mostly...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-2011; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
