Stephenson County (Ill)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Stephenson County Pure Milk Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-093
Scope and Contents
The materials in the Stephenson County Pure Milk Association collection document the entire existence, 1928-1957, of a dairy cooperative based in Freeport, Illinois. Included in the collection are articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, 1931-1953; correspondence, 1944-1958. There are also legal contracts and membership agreements which span almost all the cooperative’s lifetime as a separate entity. Business records, ledgers, annual reports, production records, marketing agreements...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1957; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
The life of Clement Torsteinsson Stabeck by Oyvind Wilhelmsen
Collection
Identifier: RHC-GVFM-15-G15.5
Abstract
An immigrant story unlike any other: The life of Clement Torsteinsson Stabeck. "A fascinating story unveiled when digging into the life of this pioneer Norwegian immigrant and his family. One that has never before been told like this, – covering his whole life"
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 01/03/2018
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
