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Giles P. Ransom Family Collection (Roscoe)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-275
Scope and Contents Records in the Dr. Giles Paddock Ransom Family collection date from 1789 to 2009 with the majority of the records from the 1850 through 1930 time period. They document the personal and business aspects of individuals living in Rockford and Roscoe, Illinois. There are four main families represented in the collection–Jenks, Sherman, Leland, and Ransom; the Ransom family is most predominant. The other families are associated by marriage or settled near the Ransoms or both. Documents include...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1839-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s-1930s; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/2006

Hall Family Collection (Sycamore)

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Identifier: RHC-RC-117
Scope and Contents The collection partially documents four generations of the Horace Hall family of Sycamore, Illinois from 1824 to 1946. Most of the correspondence provides detailed information on family lifestyles in the last half of the nineteenth century. Important to note are the letters that provide insight on family attitudes during the Civil War years. Genealogical charts, personal diaries, family legal documents, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks complete the collection. The original...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1824-1946; Other: Date acquired: 11/09/1980

Harry A. Joslyn Collection (DeKalb County)

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Identifier: RHC-RC-183
Scope and Contents The Harry A. Joslyn Collection (1860-1905) provides excellent documentation for the study of rural life in DeKalb County, Illinois during the second half of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the collection consists of a series of 39 diaries (1865-1905) written by Harry A. Joslyn of Cortland and Sycamore. Diaries for 1890 and 1891 are missing. Daily entries vary in length but generally include information on family life work activities, politics, weather, and social life. Two additional...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1905; Other: Date acquired: 08/08/1986

John Herbert Snell Farm Journal

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.197
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: July 1, 1897- December 31, 1898; Other: Date acquired: 05/22/2017

Johnson Family Diaries (Stephenson County)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-305
Scope and Contents The Johnson Family Diaries consist of five diaries and one typed transcript of the first four diaries.  The 1843 diary of William Wright recounts the journey from Union County, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois.  The 1882-1909 Margaret Heise Wright Johnson diaries chronicle the life of then 16 year-old Margaret as she comes of age in Illinois at the end of the 19th century.  A photograph of Margaret (undated) was found behind the cover of the first diary volume along with...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1990; Other: Date acquired: 10/20/2010

Laura Cooper Collection (Byron)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-044
Scope and Contents Laura Cooper’s diaries, located in box one, date from 1892 to 1893, 1938 to 1942, 1944 to 1948, and 1954 to 1965. The diaries offer a chronicle of one woman’s day-to-day activities over a number of years including comments on family, deaths of relatives and town members, church activities, and other common situations such as meals and weather. Box two of the collection contains reminiscences of Mrs. Cooper about Byron’s Congregational Church (1897-1924); weekly bulletins, programs,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1965; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/1978

Lyford-Davis Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-356
Scope and Contents

The core collection consists of the records of the Lyford-Davis Family from 1858 to 1951. It contains family diaries, ledgers, calendars, card games, photographs, and books. The collection documents the Lyford-Davis family life in their Midwestern farming community. The diaries document daily events and are mostly complete. Also in the collection are research notes and working papers for Carrie Meyer’s books about the family; the 2005 and 2007 publications are included in the collection.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 1858-1951; Other: Date acquired: 10/21/2016

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

Norris Family Collection (Kane County)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-074
Scope and Contents The Norris family collection partially documents life on the Norris family farm in Blackberry Township, Kane County, Illinois, from 1864-1932. The earliest record contained in the collection is a copy of the diary of Hiram Norris’ wife and son, Hannah Marcella Norris and Frank Young Norris (1864). The bulk of the remaining manuscript material pertains to the last quarter of the nineteenth century; two printed books were published in the 1920’s and 1930’s. In addition to the diary, there...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864-1932; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1979

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

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