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Halloween 1945 followed world war’s end
World War II still loomed large over American life during the Halloween season of 1945. The sur...

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May Christian, forever her own woman
“I was always too independent,” Bloomington resident Annie May Christian confided in a remarkab...

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Extra, extra, read all about it! Pantagraph’s graduation edition, May 1949
Danvers High School seniors are seen here pouring though The Daily Pantagraph’s 56-page graduat...

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Grand Champion Gilt McLean County Fair, Aug. 6, 1958
That’s a proud Walter Gottschalk of Danvers at the 1958 McLean County 4-H Club Fair. He’s posin...

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Improvements Slated for Danvers, 1936
In June 1936, the Danvers Farmers Elevator Association announced plans to upgrade its facilitie...

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McHistory: Going to Danvers to Take the Cure
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big momen...

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Television comes to Danvers June 1949
Who remembers television coming to their home? In June 1949, The Pantagraph reported on the arr...

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Three hospitals; three styles of caps June 1958
The distinctive caps worn by graduate nurses at the three Bloomington-Normal hospitals were com...

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Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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1822 to 1852
Frontier farmers were faced with the challenge of producing enough livestock and crops to suppo...

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1900 to 1945: Livestock
From 1900 until the end of WWII, McLean County farmers continued to raise a diverse variety of ...

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1900 to 1945: Tenants and Labor
The purchase of mechanized tools, like tractors and harvesters, increased equipment costs for t...

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Finding Aids

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Yoder, Wallace & Betty
Wallace Yoder’s mother was Harriett Katherine Ayers, daughter of Luther and Ida Ayers. She was ...

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Publications

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Danvers, McLean County, Illinois 1894

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Danvers, McLean County, Illinois 1901

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Danvers, McLean County, Illinois 1910

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