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Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-277
Scope and Contents The Eli B. Gilbert Family Collection spans five generations, all of whom have resided at 210 N. 1st Street in DeKalb.  Materials in this collection date from the 1830's to the 1990's, although the bulk of the collection dates from the 1860's through the mid-1940's. About half the collection consists of photographic materials including ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and glass plate negatives.  Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, a large number of legal documents, and genealogical...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1996; Other: Date acquired: 01/25/2007

Merritt J. Simonds; Letters and Diary written during the Civil War, 1863 - 1867

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.14
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: -; Other: Majority of material found in 1863-1867