Aurora (Ill.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Aurora Historical Society-History, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.12
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1987
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Aurora League of Women Voters Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-151
Scope and Contents
Meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, budgets, bulletins, and scrapbooks comprise a major portion of this collection documenting the Aurora League of Women Voters (1947-1982). Although the minutes date only through May 1971, there are annual meeting proceedings for 1972 and 1973. Committee records and subject files document some of the studies and research conducted by the League (local government, downtown redevelopment, housing, and public health). The publications Know Your...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1947-1982; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Aurora Trades and Labor Assembly Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-182
Scope and Contents
The records in the Aurora Trades and Labor Assembly (ATLA) Collection are arranged in five series and span the years from 1901 to 1984. Series I contains constitutions, by-laws, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and a brief history of the ATLA. There are some gaps in the meeting minutes and several meetings in the late 1970’s are on cassette tapes. Financial records (1904-1883) comprise Series II. Included are income and expense records, audit reports, bank accounts, and per capita...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1901-1984; Other: Date acquired: 08/14/1986
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Blair Harper & Company, Identified Seeds, Aurora, Illinois, 1916
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.1
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1916
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Burlington Railroad Strike Collection (Aurora)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-217
Scope and Contents
The Burlington Railroad Strike records were collected by the donor in the course of his Ph.D. dissertation research. The records from the Burlington Railroad were donated to Mr. Flynn by a company official. These records include special agent reports, legal documents, and correspondence. The Burlington Railroad Strike records also consist of oral history interview transcriptions that the donor conducted during his research.
James R. Flynn completed his dissertation entitled, "The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1982; Other: Date acquired: 11/08/1993
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Elgin Trades Council Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-153
Scope and Contents
This collection represents a small portion of the records generated by the Elgin Trades Council; records pre-dating 1965 have been lost. The materials are divided into five series. The first series contains the records of the Council -- constitutions, meeting minutes (1967-1979), and general correspondence (1968-1978). The remaining four series contain documentation on related organizations.
Series two and three contain records from the E1gin Association of Commerce, the Aurora Labor and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Elizabeth, Seneca and Mary Potter; Correspondence, Receipts, Ledgers, Tax Records, Advertisements, and Photos, 185? - 1956
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.13 a-e
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: -; Other: Majority of material found in 185? - 1956
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois Records
File
Identifier: SCA-RHCUA-RC-351
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the historical collections of the four progenitor councils of the Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois (GSNI). Because of this, the collection contains different materials from these four councils. They do share similar categories of items however, so the breakdown of the council holdings is reflected at the sub-series level. Two of the councils that now make up GSNI went by different names in the past but this is not reflected at every level of the collection....
Dates:
1912 - 2017
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
Lucinda O. Wanner Collection (Glen Ellyn)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-163
Scope and Contents
The Lucinda O. Wanner Collection arrived at The Dirksen Center in no apparent order. After repeated sorting, the processing staff concluded that the best arrangement system would be based on the following series of documents and artifacts: Audiovisual, Certificates, Correspondence, Memorabilia, Miscellany, Personal, Photographs, and Reference. All the series except Memorabilia and Reference are arranged chronologically. The Memorabilia series consists of two boxes of loose artifacts and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
