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Aurora (Ill.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 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

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

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

Blair Harper & Company, Identified Seeds, Aurora, Illinois, 1916

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.1
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1916

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

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

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

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

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

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