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Elgin League of Women Voters Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-137
Scope and Contents
The records for the League of Women Voters of Elgin date from 1929-2001 and contain meeting minutes, monthly bulletins, annual reports, correspondence, topical files, state and national files, and scrapbooks. The collection contains a wide variety of information on League programs and projects during the 1960's. In particular, topical files describe the League's work in welfare, housing discrimination, equal opportunity, the development of human resources, the Kane County food stamp...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-2001; Other: Date acquired: 09/21/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Elgin Trades Council Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-153
Scope and Contents
This collection represents a small portion of the records generated by the Elgin Trades Council; records pre-dating 1965 have been lost. The materials are divided into five series. The first series contains the records of the Council -- constitutions, meeting minutes (1967-1979), and general correspondence (1968-1978). The remaining four series contain documentation on related organizations.
Series two and three contain records from the E1gin Association of Commerce, the Aurora Labor and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/1982
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
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