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American Legion Post No. 66 - DeKalb Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-154
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection partially document the activities of the DeKalb American Legion Post #66 from 1919 to 1979. Types of records include: meeting minutes (1969-1971), membership records (1929-1942), newsletters, certificates, cemetery maps, and photographs. Due to the extensive gaps in the documentation, the research value of the collection is limited.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1979; Other: Date acquired: 08/02/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb/Northern Illinois State Normal School, Photographs and Related Articles, circa 1910 - 1917
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.107
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1917
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Embree Lumber Company Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-007
Scope and Contents
The records contained in the Embree Lumber Company collection document its history from 1902 to 1953. The collection contains the E.E. Embree and Son’s general business agreement, correspondence, financial records, and advertisements, including promotional pamphlets, directories, and information bulletins, arranged in alphabetical order, issued by various building supply companies affiliated with the Embree Company. The collection also contains materials on governmental administrative...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1953; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Gurler Family Papers (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-025
Scope and Contents
The Gurler Family Papers contain 4 boxes of family letters and business transactions (1879-1932) which document a substantial portion of the Gurler brothers' private life and their professional associations (1894-1906). Also included in the collection is Gurler family genealogical material (1729-1968) and biographical accounts (1840-1940).
Box 1 contains 12 file folders including genealogical charts, biographical sketches, family letters, a copy of G.H. Gurler's publication, his army...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1990; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/1977
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
"The War Spirit in DeKalb: A Community During World War I, 1917-1918" by Greg Steven Morley, 1982
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.126
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.W. Embree Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-002
Scope and Contents
Waite W. Embree and his father, Elmer E. Embree, preserved most of the historical materials generated by the family’s business and social activities. Waite, especially, collected a large volume of printed materials and photographs that relate to his main interests--the history of DeKalb and the history of railroading. It is important to note that Embree was a collector: indeed, in the absence of an active county historical society, Waite Embree filled a void in DeKalb County with his keen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1966; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
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