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Celebrating the Eightieth Anniversary of the Haish Memorial Library Building, DeKalb, Illinois, 2011

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Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.171
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 2011

Clark C. Cryor Collection

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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

DeKalb Streetscapes Collection

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Identifier: RHC-RC-276
Scope and Contents The images in this collection are a complement to the Embree Collection [RC 2] held by the Regional History Center.  The Embree Collection offers approximately 10,000 images of life in DeKalb, Illinois from the mid 1890's through the 1965.  Both the Embree and Streetscapes Collections are especially strong on documenting the built environment in the central city area.  While virtually all of the Embree Collection is black and white, two thirds of the Streetscapes Collection is color: there...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2006