Wagon trains
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Johnson Family Diaries (Stephenson County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-305
Scope and Contents
The Johnson Family Diaries consist of five diaries and one typed transcript of the first four diaries. The 1843 diary of William Wright recounts the journey from Union County, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois. The 1882-1909 Margaret Heise Wright Johnson diaries chronicle the life of then 16 year-old Margaret as she comes of age in Illinois at the end of the 19th century. A photograph of Margaret (undated) was found behind the cover of the first diary volume along with...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1990; Other: Date acquired: 10/20/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
