Railroads
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Raiload Passes: Chicago & Wabash Valley Railway Wisconsin & Michigan Railway, 1901
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.71
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1901
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Railroad Wiregrams, DeKalb, 1936 - 1937
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.21
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1936-1937
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford's Interurban Railway History, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-18-18.7
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Sectional Maps, Showing 2,500,000 Acres Farm and Woodlands, of Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1856
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-19-19.54
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1856
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
W.W. Embree Collection (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-002
Scope and Contents
Waite W. Embree and his father, Elmer E. Embree, preserved most of the historical materials generated by the family’s business and social activities. Waite, especially, collected a large volume of printed materials and photographs that relate to his main interests--the history of DeKalb and the history of railroading. It is important to note that Embree was a collector: indeed, in the absence of an active county historical society, Waite Embree filled a void in DeKalb County with his keen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1966; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1967
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
