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:
Prairie State Canoeists Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-244
Scope and Contents
Series I, Organization Records, consists the original Articles of Incorporation, by-laws and resolutions, and meeting minutes from 1988 to present. The meeting minutes before 1988 have been lost. Series II, Trip Reports, date from 1975 to 1998 and contain the reports written by the leader of each trips and a lists of participants. The Addendum to the collection contains newsletters dating from 1971 to the present.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971+; Other: Date acquired: 05/08/2000
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Prairie View Grange Records (Pecatonica)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-014
Scope and Contents
The Prairie View Grange No. 1786 Collection documents the establishment and history of a farming organization in Pecatonica, Illinois from 1915 to its dissolution in 1970. The main series of the collection consists of a partial set of minute books (1931-1970) containing information about the members’ concern with agricultural problems. These books also relate how social events relieved the loneliness and isolation typical of the farming life. A major weakness in the collection is the lack...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1970; Other: Date acquired: 08/25/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Preserve Campton
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-323
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the Preserve Campton records from 2004 to 2011, with the bulk of the material dating from 2004 to 2007. The records reflect the organization’s activities relating to the fight of the annexation of Campton Township and the creation of the Village of Campton Hills in order to control future developments of properties in the Campton Township.
The materials are arranged into three series. The first series is the creation of Preserve Campton and corporate documents...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2004-2011; Other: Date acquired: 06/20/2012
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Princeton Game and Fish Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-113
Scope and Contents
The Princeton Game and Fish Club Records document the history of the organization and reveal the wildlife conservation policies of the state of Illinois from 1877 to 2006. Minutes, correspondence, and treasurer's records detail the club’s semi-annual business meetings, decisions on membership applications, land and building expenses, and responses to game laws. Applications, shares assignments, proxies, and transfers document club membership and depict member selectivity and the group's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1877-2006; Other: Date acquired: 09/22/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Pure Milk Association Records (Chicago)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-062
Scope and Contents
The Pure Milk Association records document the origin and development of a northern Illinois milk producers’ cooperative during the period 1924 to 1969. The collection contains eleven boxes of materials including the articles of incorporation and amendments (1926-1961), by-laws (1962-1969), minutes and proceedings from board of directors and special committees (1924-1969), membership agreement forms (1926-1950) official records (1936) business manuals (1945), and publications (1951-1964). ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1924-1969; Other: Date acquired: 05/14/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Putnam Family Collection (Harvard)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-071
Scope and Contents
The Putnam Family Collection is a partial documentation of the breeding of Jersey cattle on the Russel E. Putman dairy farm in the 1940’s in Harvard, Illinois. Herd records, registration, awards, individual cow histories reveal important breeding data for these years. Included in the collection are related printed materials, an undated account ledger, and 4-H project records. Especially valuable in this regard is the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Herd Record Book. The researcher...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1952; Other: Date acquired: 06/28/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Ray "Dutch" Scott Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-075
Scope and Contents
The materials in the collection partially document Ray A. “Dutch” Scott’s 1974 campaign for Illinois State Senator. Included are correspondence, position papers, and projects describing Scott’s Democratic platform and his involvement in local community services prior to the 1974 campaign. Also included are state and local legislative publications, reports, and memorandums dating 1967 to 1976.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-1977; Other: Date acquired: 08/27/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Raymond Rolfe Diaries (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-280
Scope and Contents
The eleven diaries written by Raymond Rolfe date from 1884 to 1909. The diaries are not a complete set but consist of volumes dating 1884-1886, 1889, 1891-1897, 1899, and 1905-1909. The diaries include information on the weather, deaths in the area, church services and prohibition conferences attended, the cost of food and supplies, bills paid, the jobs Rolfe worked, the length of time he worked them, and the money he earned. Also mentioned in the diaries are events that happened in the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1884-1909; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Reed and Delong Pharmacy Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-039
Scope and Contents
The Reed and Delong Records consist of 1 box of 8 ledger books. These books document the transactions of Hiram Delong and John Reed’s Pharmacy for the years from 1877 to 1893. These records document transactions for numerous dry goods items including matches, tobacco, plaster, coffee, pharmaceuticals and spices. Also included are prescriptions and cash books. Several ledgers identify customer’s and their purchases.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1877-1893; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Richard J. Nelson Collection
Collection — pamphlets
Identifier: RHC-RC-019
Scope and Contents
Richard Nelson, former president of Northern Illinois University, collected published books and pamphlets, cartographic records, and nineteenth-century broadsides depicting the history of the Old Northwest Terribory. The printed volumes concentrate on three areas: Illinois history, Lincolniana, and Chicago history. Most of this collection is housed in Founders Memorial Library but several hundred volumes may be found in the Center's reference and map collections. The reference works...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
