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Articles

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Mandolin enjoyed ‘golden age’ in late 19th century
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Joe Johnson, self-appointed Courthouse ‘traffic director’
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Community Christmas ‘sing’ once annual event
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WW I home front featured French-Belgian relief
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Brown’s delivered white-collar education
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Museum’s newly acquired Lincoln letter window into legal career
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First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington
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Turner Hall lost monument to German pride
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Cigar shop was where old men came to talk (and nap)
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Phoenix Hall site of Lincoln’s last speech in Bloomington
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Halloween 1945 followed world war’s end
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Pre-Civil War Butler House survived into 1920s
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Spirits high for Depression-era Christmas
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Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington
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Short-lived performance hall once city’s finest
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Airship pays visit to downtown Bloomington in 1910

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel
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In 1955, downtown Bloomington 'dressed in holiday style'
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Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill
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Women’s suffrage debate captivates Twin Cities in 1870
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Project to mark firefighter graves lesson in history

Biographies

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Bradner, Judith Ann
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Gridley, Mary
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Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald
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Withers, Sarah
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Northrup, Rose Whipp
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Hawkins, Absalom
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Schroeder, Dr. Herman
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Schroeder, Baroness Maria von Buchau
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Howard, Emily
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Livingston, Hilda
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Klemm, C.W.
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Allin, James
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Frank, Henry “Teddy”
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Wagner, Grace B.
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Brokaw, Abraham
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Porter, Ida
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Ferre, Goodman
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Pillsbury, Arthur L.
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Bynum, Lincoln
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Higgins, Hamer
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Jung, Jacob
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Moratz, Paul
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Thompson, Jennie
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Goodheart, James
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Stipp, Dr. George Winfield
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Funk, Benjamin Franklin
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Hobbs, Dr. William C.
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Huggins, Sophia
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Sanders, Isaac

Finding Aids

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Second Presbyterian Church Collection

Wilson, Harrold B. Collection

McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection

Clarke, Marguerite E.

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Baldini, John
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Bloomington Fire Collection