Kane County (Ill)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Geneva-St. Charles League of Women Voters Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-149
Scope and Contents
The Geneva-St. Charles League of Women Voters (LWV) records date from 1947 to 1979. Included are by-laws, meeting minutes, annual reports, treasurer’s records, correspondence, subject files, and scrapbooks. A separate series contains records from the Kane County Council LWV (1921-1972) and surveys and reports dealing with different aspects of Kane County. Since the League began as the Geneva LWV in 1947, combined with St. Charles in 1949, split into two Leagues in 1960, and recombined...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-1980; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kane County Development Department Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-164
Scope and Contents
The material in this collection came from the background and informational files of two directors of the Kane County Development Department, Thornton “Tony” Ware and Frank Olson. In general, the material covers the years between 1960 and 1980. However, some of the files date as far back as 1957 and the creation of the department.
Department Administration deals with the business and staff workings in the Development Department. Such information as annual reports, budgets, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1983
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kane County Farm Bureau Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-RC-076
Scope and Contents
The records contained in this collection document the activities of the Kane County Farm Bureau from 1919 to 1971, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1920 to 1967. The collection contains three basic series: minutes, financial records, and printed material.
Series one includes the minutes of the Executive Committee, by-laws, amendments, agendas, and reports and minutes of various committees for the period 1919 to 1957. Also in this series are lists of the Board of Directors...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1971; Other: Date acquired: 09/09/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kane County Soils, University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, 1917
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.6
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1917
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Norris Family Collection (Kane County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-074
Scope and Contents
The Norris family collection partially documents life on the Norris family farm in Blackberry Township, Kane County, Illinois, from 1864-1932. The earliest record contained in the collection is a copy of the diary of Hiram Norris’ wife and son, Hannah Marcella Norris and Frank Young Norris (1864). The bulk of the remaining manuscript material pertains to the last quarter of the nineteenth century; two printed books were published in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
In addition to the diary, there...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864-1932; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-159
Scope and Contents
The Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records document efforts to solve major public problems in land, water, resource management, and economic development in the six county Chicago metropolitan area from 1960 to 1980. This collection presents a rich resource for geographic, demographic, public policy, and environmental research in region and complements other records collections the Center holds. This collection is especially strong in land use, water resources, and transportation...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1980; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1982
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
Photo Album by Florence Kent, Kane County, 1910-1960
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.19
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1960
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Population, Economy and Development Studies, 1968-1969
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.7
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1969
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Practice Bookkeeping Ledgers by Albert and Mae Crawford for the North Western Business College in Naperville, 1870s
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-05-5.1
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1870s
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
