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DeKalb Streetscapes Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-276
Scope and Contents
The images in this collection are a complement to the Embree Collection [RC 2] held by the Regional History Center. The Embree Collection offers approximately 10,000 images of life in DeKalb, Illinois from the mid 1890's through the 1965. Both the Embree and Streetscapes Collections are especially strong on documenting the built environment in the central city area. While virtually all of the Embree Collection is black and white, two thirds of the Streetscapes Collection is color: there...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Dixon Parks - Lowell and Assembly Parks, 1909, 1932
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.13
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1909, 1932
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Indian Head Trail Guide and "Historic Illinois" Brochure, 1917, 1995
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.76
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1917, 1995
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lori Souloff, "History of Emerson" (1978); Brian P. Edmonds, "Mexican- American Immigration in Sterling" (1980); Sue Wolber, "History of Como" (1977)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-16-16.3
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1980
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
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-199
Abstract
The Regional History Center's postcard collection contains over 2,500 individual cards and provides a unique source for photographic and artistic documentation of people, places and events, the majority during the 1900-1940 period. A majority of the cards in this collection came from four manuscript collections held by the Center: W.W. Embree (RC 2); Sabin-Van Arsdale (RC 32); Kavadas (RC 50); Hall Family (RC 117).
Although most of the cards depict scenes or events from the Northern...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
State Funded Parks and Areas(19 in total):Castle Rock,Shabbona Lake,Goose Lake Prairie (3), Hennepin Canal Parkway(2),IL and Michigan Canal, 1985-1997
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.75
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1997
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Survey of Historic Parks of Dixon, Illinois by Dean Sheaffer, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.19
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University