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Mayfield Cemetery Association Records (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-065
Scope and Contents
These records document the history of the Mayfield Cemetery Association from 1844-1966. The society organized to improve and maintain a respectable burial site for deceased inhabitants of Mayfield, Illinois and surrounding communities. Three burial record books comprise the major series of the collection and detail the name, age, nativity, burial date, and location of each set of remains placed in the lot. In many instances, these record books contain overlapping information for the years...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1966; Other: Date acquired: 04/30/1968
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Oversize Collection - Maps, Posters, Photographs, Calendars, Drawings
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-200
Scope and Contents
The Oversize Collection consists of unbound items from various Regional History Center collections which are too large to store in regular archival boxes.
The Oversize Collection contains five major groups of documents: posters and broadsides, photographs and prints, maps, newspapers, and certificates.
The Embree Collection's railroad calendars and posters show the locomotives of various railroads from the late 1930's through the mid-1950's. The war poster collection contains 629 posters...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University