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Johnson Family Records (Rock Falls)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-100
Scope and Contents
The Johnson Family Records document various Johnson family enterprises from 1877-1978. The bulk of this collection documents the business affairs of the Bernhard Johnson Mill and the Johnson family farm and trace the development and inter-relationship of these two agribusinesses. The daybooks, cash books, ledgers, and contract books contain a variety of interfiled information such as detailed records of farm and mill laborers (1894-1940); wholesale commodity prices; railroad freight...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1877-1978; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Jolly Neighbors Club Records (Prophetstown)
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Identifier: RHC-RC-112
Scope and Contents
The Jolly Neighbors Club Records document the establishment and history of a local woman’s social organization formed to alleviate the isolation of rural life. A nearly complete set of minute books (1915-1980) details the business and social activities of each club meeting. Several program calendars and a program book supplement the minute books with lists of hostesses and activities for each meeting. Three scrapbooks contain photographs and newspaper announcements documenting picnics,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1980; Other: Date acquired: 09/22/0198
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
J.W. Sandrock Farm Records (Reynolds Township, Lee County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-233
Scope and Contents
The J.W. Sandrock Farm records date from 1937 to 1990 and contain reports for the farm located in Reynolds Township, Lee County, Illinois. There is a gap in the records from 1975 to 1988. The Farm Account Books include inventories, summaries, purchases, and sales of land, farm improvements, machinery and equipment, crops, and livestock. The Illinois Farm Business Records located in boxes 2 and 3 may also contain farm business analysis and annual reports of the Illinois Farm Bureau Farm...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1937-1992; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/1998
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lanan Family Farm Records (Kingston)
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Identifier: RHC-RC-111
Scope and Contents
These records partially document the history of the Lanan Farm in Kingston, Illinois from 1848-1978. Although few records in this collection deal with the early history of the farm, several land indentures and grants provide details of farm land transfers in the mid-nineteenth century. The major series of the collection is a complete set of farm account books (1915-l978) detailing various business transactions of the Lanan farm. These volumes contain extensive information on annual...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1848-2006; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Marx V. Stott Memories, Genoa, Illinois, 1925 - 1943
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.181a - b
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1943
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Montgomery/ Hooligan Letter, Esmond to Malta, Illinois, April 2, 1908
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.135
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in April 2, 1908
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Needham Letter, Coltonville/Orange, Illinois, February 8, 1850
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.134
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in February 8, 1850
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois Farm Life, January 1948 - Fall 1957
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.59
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in January 1948-Fall 1957
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Taylor Farm Records (Franklin Grove)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-037
Scope and Contents
The Taylor Farm Records partially document the agricultural and household activities of the Lawrence Taylor family in Franklin Grove, Illinois from 1944 to 1977. Materials include personal and business correspondence, property sales records, legal documents, insurance records, estate documents, and livestock commodity invoices. Journals and ledgers record the family’s household and farm expenses and Mrs. Taylor’s diary relates information on her daily activities in 1964. Although...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1977; Other: Date acquired: 08/25/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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