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:
Chauncey W. Reed Collection (West Chicago)
Collection — Volume 1-7
Identifier: RHC-RC-067
Scope and Contents
The Chauncey Reed collection partially documents the career of Chauncey Reed as State’s Attorney for DuPage County, 1920-1935, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 11th Illinois District, 1935-1956.
The collection also includes a few record books (1876-1887) from the business of William Reed, Chauncey’s father. The collection does not include any of Reed’s congressional papers or correspondence, but it does provide some biographical background in the form...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1956; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/1979
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
Lipscomb Collection : 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-028
Abstract
H. Alan Lipscomb became a Field Representative for the Northern Illinois University Swen Parson Library in August of 1968. He collected research material pertaining to the Democratic National Convention of 1968 and acquired the passes and credentials which gave him access to all convention activities.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1968
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Matthiessen-Hegeler Zinc Company Records (LaSalle)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-167
Scope and Contents
Records in the Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Company collection document the company’s activities from its founding in 1858 to its dissolution in 1978.The collection is organized into ten series: General Corporate Information; Financial Information; Property and Production Information; Employee Records; Stock Information; Tax and Banking Information; Correspondence, Legal and Government Documents, Insurance; Sales and Contracts; Subsidiary Companies; Photos, Maps and Blueprints. Some...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1978; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/1984
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Sabin and Van Arsdale Collection (Aurora)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-032
Scope and Contents
The Sabin-Van Arsdale Collection consists of 845 photographs, a small amount of correspondence, diaries and school work, surveyor’s notebooks, tour books, and other printed material. The photographs depict western mining and manufacturing operations, landscape and scenery from Europe and the United States dating from the early twentieth century, and portraits and candid shots of relatives and friends of the Sabin and Van Arsdale families. Also found in the collection are souvenir and costume...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
