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Aurora (Ill.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-199
Abstract The Regional History Center's postcard collection contains over 2,500 individual cards and provides a unique source for photographic and artistic documentation of people, places and events, the majority during the 1900-1940 period. A majority of the cards in this collection came from four manuscript collections held by the Center: W.W. Embree (RC 2); Sabin-Van Arsdale (RC 32); Kavadas (RC 50); Hall Family (RC 117). Although most of the cards depict scenes or events from the Northern...
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Sabin and Van Arsdale Collection (Aurora)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-032
Scope and Contents The Sabin-Van Arsdale Collection consists of 845 photographs, a small amount of correspondence, diaries and school work, surveyor’s notebooks, tour books, and other printed material. The photographs depict western mining and manufacturing operations, landscape and scenery from Europe and the United States dating from the early twentieth century, and portraits and candid shots of relatives and friends of the Sabin and Van Arsdale families. Also found in the collection are souvenir and costume...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966

The Works Progress Administration in Aurora, Illinois: The First Year, July 1935-July 1936 by Keith Snyder, 1978

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-07-7.21
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1978