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Ogle County Farm Bureau, History, 1917-1967
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-13-13.6
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1967
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
Sabin and Van Arsdale Collection (Aurora)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-032
Scope and Contents
The Sabin-Van Arsdale Collection consists of 845 photographs, a small amount of correspondence, diaries and school work, surveyor’s notebooks, tour books, and other printed material. The photographs depict western mining and manufacturing operations, landscape and scenery from Europe and the United States dating from the early twentieth century, and portraits and candid shots of relatives and friends of the Sabin and Van Arsdale families. Also found in the collection are souvenir and costume...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Silver Star Grange No. 1868 Records (DeKalb County
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-257
Scope and Contents
The Silver Star Grange records date from 1932 to 1992 and consist of four series: Silver Star Grange Records, Other Illinois Granges Records, Illinois State Grange Record, and National Grange Records. Series I, Silver Star Grange, contains a complete run of meeting minutes from April 28, 1932 to July 7, 1944, treasurer’s book, correspondence, and quarterly reports. Information on the early activities of the Grange can be found in this series. However, minutes for the later years have not...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-1992; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Thomas B. Fearer (Pine Creek, Ogle County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-343
Scope and Contents
The Thomas Jenipher Fearer Diaries date from 1864 to 1910 and consists of family history, bookkeeping ledgers, diaries and their transcriptions. The diaries document Fearer’s travels in Pine Creek, Ogle County, Illinois. The financial records contain payment of dues and costs for outings and food. There is also a transcription of George W. Young diary who was Thomas J. Fearer neighbor. Mr. Young writes about life on the farm, church, his neighbors, and nearby towns. Copies of the CD files...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864-1910; Other: Date acquired: 05/28/2015
Found in:
Northern Illinois University