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Northern Illinois University

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

City of DeKalb Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-139
Scope and Contents The City of DeKalb Collection is organized into two record series. The first series, City Records, consists of budgets, comprehensive development plans, revised ordinances, and committee records. Documentation on the urban renewal project in 1968-1969 can be found in the Urban Renewal Study Committee records. Demographic and economic information on the area is available in the development plans and in a survey done in 1947. Records from the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce comprise series two....
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913+; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965

David C. Shapiro Papers (Amboy)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-174
Scope and Contents The David C. Shapiro Papers primarily document his career as a state legislator in the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate. Material in the collection dates from his first campaign in 1966 to his death in 1981. Some biographical information and personal correspondence are in Box One, Folder One. The collection is divided into six series: Campaigns and Party Affiliations, House and Senate Bills, Subject Files, Constituent Correspondence, Reports and Publications, Photos and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1981; Other: Date acquired: 05/24/1984

DeKalb County Building and Construction Trades Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-314
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the records of the DeKalb County Building and Construction Trades Council from 1950 to 2001. The records include administrative files, minutes, correspondence, printed materials, legal documentation, and audio-visual materials. The records reflect the organization’s activities as a labor union. The correspondence includes letters from individuals, labor organizations, private companies, and public organisms. The minutes have many gaps, especially before 1980.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-2001; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/2011

DeKalb County Home Economists Records (DeKalb County)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-300
Scope and Contents

The records of the DeKalb County Home Economists date from January 1983 to June 1999 and contains bylaws, membership lists, meeting minutes and organization mailings.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983-1999; Other: Date acquired: 05/26/2010

"DeKalb, Illinois: A City Developed on History" by Michelle Spires, 1987

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.127
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1987

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

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

Dennis J. Collins Papers (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-005
Scope and Contents The materials in the collection partially document three areas of Collins’ professional activities. The collection contains general correspondence concerning Collin’s personal business dealings from 1931 to 1974, correspondence and topical literature related to Collins’ duties as State Representative (1931-1943) and State Senator (1943-1973), and correspondence from Collins’ legal practice with most materials involving specific legal cases. This collection represents a modest portion of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1974; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973

Fordtran Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-330
Scope and Contents The Fordtran Family Collection contains materials of the Fordtran/Wherley/Barkley family. The items were among the personal effects of Lola Belle (Barkley) and Eugene Fordtran. Material related to Rockford High School is a large part of the collection and includes student published periodicals and newsletters when Fred and Marie Barkley (1908-09) and Dorthy Wherley (1945) attended the school. The collection also contains records related to Lola Belle (Barkley) Fordtran’s attendance at...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-circa 1965; Other: Majority of material found in 1930s and 1940s; Other: Date acquired: 01/30/2013

Gordon John Read Papers (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-258
Scope and Contents The majority of the materials in the Gordon John Read Papers date from 1949 to 1953. Included is correspondence from “Gordy” Read to his parents from January to September 1951 while serving in the Marine Corps. Researchers will find here a scrapbook of materials from Gordon’s boot camp days at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Camp Pendleton, California, photographs relating to Marine Corps activities, and the flag that draped his coffin at the Memorial Service held January 20, 1952. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1994; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2003