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 355 Collections and/or Records:
Mendota Business and Professional Women's Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-120
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a small portion of the records created by the Mendota Business and Professional Women’s Club; most of the documents pre-dating 1954 have been lost. Minutes, correspondence, treasurer’s records, and membership statements and lists detail club activities and membership statistics from 1954 to 1976. Nine scrapbooks (1937-1975) provide a brief look at the club’s contributions to community concerns and affairs, but contain little detail on monthly meetings. Information...
Dates:
created: 1937-1979; Other: Date acquired: 12/12/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Woodstock Business and Professional Women's Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-121
Scope and Contents
A small collection, the Woodstock Business and Professional Women’s Club Records have limited research value. The by-laws, minutes, correspondence, and annual reports are incomplete, covering only a few years between 1948 and 1979. There are no records for the early years of the organization’s history. Nevertheless, the newsletters, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings reveal the nature of the programs and projects undertaken by the club since 1934. The remaining materials contain a small...
Dates:
created: 1934-1980; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Belvidere Business and Professional Women's Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-122
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection partially document the history of the Belvidere Business and Professional Women’s Club from 1932 to 1980, with the bulk of the material dating after 1950. A major portion of the meeting minutes is missing (1940-1973). Nevertheless, information on club activities during this time is available in the club history, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. The correspondence, financial records, and membership lists and statements contain further...
Dates:
created: 1932-1980; Other: Date acquired: 01/31/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.F. and John Barnes Company Records (Rockford)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-123
Scope and Contents
The W. F. and John Barnes Company records collection represents a small portion of the documents usually generated by a large industrial firm. Nevertheless, as the only surviving records of this important machine tool corporation, the collection is vitally important to the preservation of the industry’s history.
Records in the collection date from 1878 to 1963 with the bulk of the materials between 1940 and 1962. The first series contains company histories, legal agreements and leases,...
Dates:
created: 1878-1963; Other: Date acquired: 02/05/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Judge A.G. Kennedy Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-124
Scope and Contents
The A. C. Kennedy Papers consist of a very small segment of the records maintained by Judge Kennedy. Included are correspondence from various clients (1941-1944) affidavits filed by Kennedy, and business and personal invoices (1941-1944). The records arrived with the Dennis J. Collins Papers and represent the years Kennedy and Collins were law partners.
Dates:
created: 1941-1944; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford Council of Social Agencies Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-125
Scope and Contents
Organized to discover human needs, to plan for the meeting of such needs, to bring about and maintain improved policies, standards, and methods of social work, to develop team work in the conduct of social work activities, and to create intelligent public opinion concerning problems of welfare, the Rockford Council of Social Agencies helped area citizens in a variety of ways. This collection, only a small part of the records generated by the council, gives some insight into the...
Dates:
created: 1930-1945; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Grand Army of the Republic Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-126
Scope and Contents
A descriptive book of members (1887-1918), journal of financial accounts (1892-1923), and a cash statement book (1900-1914) partially document the history of the Merritt Simonds Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Records from the Malta G.A.R. the Soldiers Memorial Association, and the Women’s Relief Corps complete the collection. The historical information in Box 1 details the organization of the national G.A.R. and affiliated groups such as the Daughters and Sons of Veterans.
Dates:
created: 1881-1941; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Daughters of Veterans Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-127
Scope and Contents
The DeKalb Daughters of Veterans Records document the history of an organization formed to perpetuate the memories of the men who fought in the Civil War (1897-1909). Minutes, semi-annual reports, correspondence, membership and financial records reveal the Organization’s concerns with helping the widows and orphans of Civil War heroes throughout their history. A report of-the Fifth Annual Convention, National and State General Orders, and General Information complete the collection.
Dates:
created: 1885-1909; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
McHenry County Pomona Grange Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-128
Scope and Contents
The collection primary comprises monthly meeting minutes of the McHenry County Pomona Grange from its organization in 1952 to 1977. Included in the minutes are reports from the six subordinate Granges in the county-Alden-Hebron, Harvard, Marengo, Ridgefield, Riley, and Seneca. Projects, programs, fund raising plans, financial records, and nomination and election results are the basic topics discussed in the minutes. Articles of Incorporation, correspondence, a program, certificates, and...
Dates:
created: 1952-1977; Other: Date acquired: 02/12/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kable Printing Company Records (Mt. Morris)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-020
Scope and Contents
The Kable Printing Company records document the business operations of the Kable Brothers Company and its successor the Kable Printing Company of Mt. Morris, Illinois from 1903-1974. These records primarily consist of ledgers and account books. Six series can be defined: General Financial Data, Labor and Personnel Records, Inventories, Stock Certificates, Internal Publications, and Photographs.
Series one, General Financial Records, is made up of appraisals, capital equipment records,...
Dates:
created: 1898-1974; Other: Date acquired: 02/16/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
