Whiteside County (Ill)

Scope and Contents The records for the Northern Illinois Granges consists of eleven series: Black Hawk Grange, Carroll County Pomona Grange, Galt Grange, Jordan Grange, Palmyra Grange, Rock Creek Grange, Rock River Grange, Whiteside County Pomona Grange, Illinois State Grange, National Grange, and Artifacts.  Each series represents a different grange located in the northern Illinois region that is no longer in existence.  The types of records vary from grange to grange depending on what has survived through...

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...

Scope and Contents The materials in the collection partially document the activities of a subordinate grange in Round Grove, Illinois from 1941 to 1975. Included are letters, journals of proceedings, by-laws, rules of order, rosters, and manuals of ritual from 1872 to 1975. With the exception of business correspondence and certificates (1941-1975) from the Round Grove Grange, the bulk of the material describes state and national grange activities. The collection is incomplete in that most manuscript...