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Manly Dewitt Barber Journal, 1852 - 1894
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.84a OV
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: -; Other: Majority of material found in 1852-1894
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
"My DeKalb Chronicle" by Alice Barber Whitmore, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.84b OV
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
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
People for Public Access Incorporated Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-147
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection provide extensive documentation of the origins and development of People for Public Access, Incorporated, from 1973 to 1988. Included in the collection are articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, annual reports, membership and budget records, correspondence, programming information and newsclippings. Financial records document the group’s fundraising drives and grant funds. Material related to local programming can be found in the grant files. A...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1988; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/1984
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Pierce and Bester; Correspondence, Legal Documents, Photographs, Autograph Album, and Genealogical Charts, 1851 - 1889
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.12
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1851-1889
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Pleasant Street Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, Draft Report, January 29, 2001
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.150
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in January 29, 2001
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-199
Abstract
The Regional History Center's postcard collection contains over 2,500 individual cards and provides a unique source for photographic and artistic documentation of people, places and events, the majority during the 1900-1940 period. A majority of the cards in this collection came from four manuscript collections held by the Center: W.W. Embree (RC 2); Sabin-Van Arsdale (RC 32); Kavadas (RC 50); Hall Family (RC 117).
Although most of the cards depict scenes or events from the Northern...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Railroad Wiregrams, DeKalb, 1936 - 1937
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.21
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1936-1937
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