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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
Owens Center Grange Number 1750, Subordinate Grange Record Book (1 Volume), 1959-1967; Dues Account Book (1 Volume),1951 - 1967
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-18-18.17
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1951-1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Park and Open Space in Winnebago County, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-18-18.16b
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Prairie View Grange Records (Pecatonica)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-014
Scope and Contents
The Prairie View Grange No. 1786 Collection documents the establishment and history of a farming organization in Pecatonica, Illinois from 1915 to its dissolution in 1970. The main series of the collection consists of a partial set of minute books (1931-1970) containing information about the members’ concern with agricultural problems. These books also relate how social events relieved the loneliness and isolation typical of the farming life. A major weakness in the collection is the lack...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1970; Other: Date acquired: 08/25/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford United Labor AFL-CIO Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-145
Scope and Contents
The Rockford United Labor AFL-CIO records are arranged in four series: administrative records, committee records, subject files, and publications and printed materials. The collection traces the history of the organization from its founding in 1957. Records dating from 1977 to the present remain with the organization, but will be transferred to the Center when they become inactive.
The first series contains by-laws, minutes, correspondence, membership information, and financial records. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1978; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/1982
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
The Lake Family in Winnebago County, 1836-1940 by Thomas Lake, 2007
Collection
Identifier: RHC-GVFM-18-G18.12
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2007
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Union Grange Centennial Booklet, Rockford, Illinois, 1873 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-18-18.29
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1873-1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Westfield Grange Records (Winnebago County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-088
Scope and Contents
These records document the establishment, development, and eventual demise of Westfield Grange No. 1764, Winnebago County, Illinois. Included are a complete set of due account/roll books, and a partial, informative set of minute books, treasurer’s ledgers, and subordinate quarterly reports which document the Grange’s business and economic functions for its entire history (1911-1972). Complementary information about the various social and business concerns is included in the committee...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1972; Other: Date acquired: 03/05/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University