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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
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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