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 354 Collections and/or Records:
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
World War II Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-303
Scope and Contents
The World War II Scrapbooks contain six scrapbooks of newspaper articles concerning World War II spanning 1940 to 1946. The articles originate from various newspapers both local and national, most of which are unidentifiable. Known source publications include Chicago Tribune, Life, and the Rockford Register Republic. Articles often reference individuals, organizations, or events relating to the Northern Illinois region. The...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
InVironments Magazine (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-304
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a complete run of the InVironments Magazine, published in Sycamore, Illinois, from November 2008 until the present.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008+; Other: Date acquired: 09/20/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Johnson Family Diaries (Stephenson County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-305
Scope and Contents
The Johnson Family Diaries consist of five diaries and one typed transcript of the first four diaries. The 1843 diary of William Wright recounts the journey from Union County, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois. The 1882-1909 Margaret Heise Wright Johnson diaries chronicle the life of then 16 year-old Margaret as she comes of age in Illinois at the end of the 19th century. A photograph of Margaret (undated) was found behind the cover of the first diary volume along with...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1990; Other: Date acquired: 10/20/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport Advisory Board Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-306
Scope and Contents
The DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport Advisory Board collection consists of board meeting notes, official minutes, agendas, financial records, airport expansion impact studies, official memorandums from various city offices, airplane hanger expansion efforts, DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport and general aviation newspaper articles all documenting the changes to the Airport from the late 1970s until 2010.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-2010; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Fairway Oaks Homeowners Association Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-307
Scope and Contents
Records from the Fairway Oaks Homeowners Association including Annual Board Meeting Agendas, Meeting Minutes, Financial Records, By-Laws, Directories, and publications created by the Association Board to inform homeowners of events within and guidelines for living in the Fairway Oaks subdivision.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-2014; Other: Date acquired: 03/15/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
National Emergency Number Association
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-308
Abstract
The records in this collection document the growth and development of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977+; Other: Date acquired: 04/20/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-277
Scope and Contents
The Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection spans five generations, all of whom have resided at 210 N. 1st Street in DeKalb. Materials in this collection date from the 1830's to the 1990's, although the bulk of the collection dates from the 1860's through the mid-1940's. About half the collection consists of photographic materials including ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and glass plate negatives. Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, a large number of legal documents, and genealogical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1996; Other: Date acquired: 01/25/2007
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kishwaukee Kiwanis Club (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-278
Scope and Contents
These records partially document the history of the Kishwaukee Kiwanis Club since 1969, however most of the documentation for the 1970s is missing. Although incomplete, included here are club newsletters and meeting minutes, correspondence and newspaper clippings, monthly reports, budget and treasurers reports. There is a considerable amount of documentation on the creation of the Kishwaukee Kiwanis Pathway. Also included are files on various committees and activities undertaken by the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969+; Other: Date acquired: 09/05/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Clark C. Cryor Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-279
Scope and Contents
The Clark C. Cryor Audiovisual Collection contains 16mm film-reels from the 1950s through the 1970s. Several of the 16mm films were transferred to DVD and/or VHS tape by the DeKalb Public Library and donated to the Center. The DeKalb Public Library also has copies of the DVD and VHS tape reproductions. Included in the collection are histories of the DeKalb Daily Chronicle Newspaper, the Jacob Haish Memorial Library, and the Automatic Electric Company of Genoa, Illinois. Other films include...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1989; Other: Date acquired: 09/09/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
