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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:

District Two Illinois Nurses' Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-144
Scope and Contents The district includes nurses from DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties. Administrative records comprise the largest series and contain constitutions and by-laws, regular and board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, committee and section records, and histories of the association and hospitals and nursing education programs within the district. The section records document specific nursing divisions within the association such as general duty or mental health...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-2004; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1973

Grundy County Farm Bureau Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-106
Scope and Contents The Grundy County Farm Bureau Records document a substantial portion of its history from its inception in 1914 to 1970. A complete set of meeting minutes (1914-1970) details the business concerns of Bureau members providing advice and services to farmers in planning and organizing their farm businesses. Topics discussed at these meetings ranged from improved crop-raising techniques and disease control to farm legislation being considered at the state and national levels. Audit reports...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853-1989; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1980

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: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1974; Other: Date acquired: 02/16/1979

Kendall-Grundy Farm Service Company Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-105
Scope and Contents These records document the three agricultural service companies, Kendall Farmers Oil, Grundy Grain and Supply, and Grundy Service, which merged to form the Kendall-Grundy FS, Inc. in 1971. The collection, comprised of meeting minutes, audit reports, purchase/sales journals, and general financial ledgers dating 1928 to 1970, details each company’s history. Of particular interest are materials dating in the 1930’s and 1940’s; these documents reveal the strain government rationing caused...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1978; Other: Date acquired: 08/18/1980

Trinity Lutheran Church Records (Mt. Morris)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-104
Scope and Contents A valuable addition to the history of Lutheranism in Illinois, the Trinity Lutheran Church Records document the growth and history of perhaps the oldest German Lutheran Church in the state.  The collection is divided into eleven series: minutes; annual reports; correspondence; financial records; building records; office files; membership records; newsletters and bulletins; church organization records; Illinois Synod and other churches; and photographs, scrapbooks, and drawings. Series I...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-2008; Other: Date acquired: 07/14/0980