Lee County (Ill)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Dixon Quadrangle, by Russell S. Knappen, 1926
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-13-13.9
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1926
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
J.W. Sandrock Farm Records (Reynolds Township, Lee County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-233
Scope and Contents
The J.W. Sandrock Farm records date from 1937 to 1990 and contain reports for the farm located in Reynolds Township, Lee County, Illinois. There is a gap in the records from 1975 to 1988. The Farm Account Books include inventories, summaries, purchases, and sales of land, farm improvements, machinery and equipment, crops, and livestock. The Illinois Farm Business Records located in boxes 2 and 3 may also contain farm business analysis and annual reports of the Illinois Farm Bureau Farm...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1937-1992; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/1998
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lee County Assessors Notices, 1859-1863
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.8
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1859-1863
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lee County Bicentennial Commission, 1972-1976
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.15a-b
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1972-1976
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lee County Farm Bureau History, 1893-1954
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.6
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1893-1954
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lee County Historical Society, Historical Yearbooks, 1972-1975, 1977
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.25
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1972-1975, 1977
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lee County Soils, University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, 1927
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-11-11.10
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1927
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
Sabin and Van Arsdale Collection (Aurora)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-032
Scope and Contents
The Sabin-Van Arsdale Collection consists of 845 photographs, a small amount of correspondence, diaries and school work, surveyor’s notebooks, tour books, and other printed material. The photographs depict western mining and manufacturing operations, landscape and scenery from Europe and the United States dating from the early twentieth century, and portraits and candid shots of relatives and friends of the Sabin and Van Arsdale families. Also found in the collection are souvenir and costume...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
