Schools
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
A Lecture on the Study of History in Common Schools Delivered Before the Kane County Teacher's Convention by Professor J. Emberson, April 1852
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.17
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in April 1852
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
An Exhibit of the Public Schools of Sycamore, Illinois for 1881 - 1882, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.88
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Catalogue and Circular of the Teachers' Training School and School of Individual Instruction, Oregon, Illinois, 1881
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-13-13.12
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1881
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
District 123, Shabbona; Record of Attendance and Classification, 1910 - 1914
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.83 OV
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: -; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1914
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Franklin Grove Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-115
Scope and Contents
The Franklin Grove Collection contains a variety of documents detailing several facets of the community's history. One series comprises minutes and treasurer's account books, (1932-1980) from the Cross Roads Community Club. This club organized in the early 1930's to provide social and recreational entertainment programs for Franklin Grove families. Another series partially documents the Franklin Grove Nursery from 1844 to 1884. A.R. Whitney, owner of the nursery, developed the famous...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1995
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Hall Family Collection (Sycamore)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-117
Scope and Contents
The collection partially documents four generations of the Horace Hall family of Sycamore, Illinois from 1824 to 1946. Most of the correspondence provides detailed information on family lifestyles in the last half of the nineteenth century. Important to note are the letters that provide insight on family attitudes during the Civil War years. Genealogical charts, personal diaries, family legal documents, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks complete the collection. The original...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1824-1946; Other: Date acquired: 11/09/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Illinois School District Record, School District #7, Township #20, Range #7, County of Whiteside (Montmorency Township), 1875-1886
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-16-16.6
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1875-1886
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Mayfield Center School Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-203
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection document attendance records and patterns, curriculum, and reunions for Mayfield Center School, District 41. An address book lists the names and addresses of former Mayfield teachers and pupils, as well as holds the minutes of the first three reunions-1961, 1963, 1981. A scrapbook holds the mailing list, correspondence, minutes and register, and reunion photographs for 1963, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990. Photographs from Mayfield Center School, Alms School, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1882-1990; Other: Date acquired: 06/26/1991
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Norris Family Collection (Kane County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-074
Scope and Contents
The Norris family collection partially documents life on the Norris family farm in Blackberry Township, Kane County, Illinois, from 1864-1932. The earliest record contained in the collection is a copy of the diary of Hiram Norris’ wife and son, Hannah Marcella Norris and Frank Young Norris (1864). The bulk of the remaining manuscript material pertains to the last quarter of the nineteenth century; two printed books were published in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
In addition to the diary, there...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864-1932; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1979
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
