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Gordon John Read Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-258
Scope and Contents
The majority of the materials in the Gordon John Read Papers date from 1949 to 1953. Included is correspondence from “Gordy” Read to his parents from January to September 1951 while serving in the Marine Corps. Researchers will find here a scrapbook of materials from Gordon’s boot camp days at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Camp Pendleton, California, photographs relating to Marine Corps activities, and the flag that draped his coffin at the Memorial Service held January 20, 1952. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1994; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kane County Development Department Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-164
Scope and Contents
The material in this collection came from the background and informational files of two directors of the Kane County Development Department, Thornton “Tony” Ware and Frank Olson. In general, the material covers the years between 1960 and 1980. However, some of the files date as far back as 1957 and the creation of the department.
Department Administration deals with the business and staff workings in the Development Department. Such information as annual reports, budgets, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1983
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-159
Scope and Contents
The Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records document efforts to solve major public problems in land, water, resource management, and economic development in the six county Chicago metropolitan area from 1960 to 1980. This collection presents a rich resource for geographic, demographic, public policy, and environmental research in region and complements other records collections the Center holds. This collection is especially strong in land use, water resources, and transportation...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1980; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1982
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
The Making of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane by Donna Pellikan, 1988
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.23
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1988
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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