United States. Army.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
African-American Dentists US Army, J.M. Hyson, 1996; Doctors Five: African-American Contract Surgeons in the Spanish-American War, J.M. Hayson, 1999
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.48
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1929; Other: Majority of material found in 1889
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
"I For One Am Ready to Do My Part": The Initial Motivations That Inspired Men from Northern Illinois to Enlist in the U.S. Army , 1861 - 1862
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.74
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1861-1862
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
John L. Gent Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-354
Scope and Contents
Materials in the John L. Gent collection date from 1905 to 1946, but are predominantly from the years leading up to and including World War II (1936-1945). While serving Gent collected artifacts significant to his time at war. These artifacts represent a large portion of the collection and include foreign paper money and coins as well as military arm bands, patches, ribbons, pins, and belt buckles. Nazi Party propaganda postcards, many of which feature Hitler, are also included in the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1946; Other: Majority of material found in 1936-1945; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/0016
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
U.S. 1919 Army's Motor Transport Corps Convoy Reenactment, Photographs and Videos by Rodney Neace (DVD), June 20, 2009
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.156
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in June 20, 2009
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Zelnis/Smith Family
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-342
Scope and Contents
Records in the Zelnis/Smith Family Collection date from 1909 to 2005. Mr. G.B. Smith and Mrs. Valaria Zelnis Smith of DeKalb, Illinois are primary family members featured in the collection.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-2005; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2015
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
