Postal service

Scope and Contents These records partially document the history of the DeKalb Post Office from 1888-1960. There are no records available for the earliest years of the office's existence (1849-1887). Financial records comprise a major series of the collection including postal account books (1888-1943), domestic money order cash books (1888-1938), and international money order cash books (1893-1920). Four letterpress books document the construction and furnishing of the post office building completed in 1906...

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...