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Annette, Mme
Perhaps the best local newspaper reporter at the turn of the century wrote for the Bulletin and published a column as simply “...
Armstrong, Bea
Born in Hudson to William Campbell and Alma Belle Cope Blagg, Beatrice “Bea” Armstrong (1915-1993) grew up in Cooksville. She earned a ...
As You Like It Club
Organized in 1914 with twelve members, this women’s literary group has programs in members’ homes each month. Individual members presen...
Augsperger, LaRue
LaRue Augspurger’s diary records her observations, experiences, and adventures at Mennonite Hospital’s nursing school. The entries are ...
Baas, Bea Diaries
Berneice Emma “Bea” Baas began a career at State Farm Insurance in 1952 as a stock clerk in the warehouse on Empire St. She moved to th...
Bartman, Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae Bartman was born in 1910 on a farm near New Holland, IL, to Koert and Sunkea Janssen Bartman. She graduated New Holland Hig...
Blooming Grove Ladies Aid
Founded on Jan. 17, 1916, at the Blooming Grove Christian Church, the Blooming Grove Ladies Aid Society worked to provide charitable co...
Bloomington Business and Professional Women’s Club Collection
During World War I, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker sent out an urgent call to make women more active in the war effort. The War Work ...
Bloomington Chapter Sweet Adelines
The Bloomington Chapter of Sweet Adelines joined Sweet Adelines International in 1952 and were known as Midwest Gateway #5. They entert...
Bloomington History Club
The History Club of Bloomington was founded in 1880 as a group of women who would meet monthly to read papers on an assigned topic....
Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club
Women’s Clubs began to form in 1890 when the General Federation of Women’s Clubs organized. Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs was or...
Clarke, Marguerite E.
Marguerite E. (Dobson) Clarke (1916-2007) was a lifelong resident of Bloomington. She received a degree from Illinois Wesleyan Universi...
Cornett, Roseanna Eureka Williams
The Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company was started in 1909 by John Wardell and located in Detroit, MI. The company merged with Williams-Oil-...
Daughters of the American Revolution
In the Fall of 1893, Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of the U.S. Vice President Adlai Stevenson, led efforts to organize a Bloomington ch...
Early Social Services Collection
Social services in Bloomington Normal were administered by volunteers, mostly women, who organized the earliest social services: Bloomi...
Equal Rights Amendment
In 1972, the U. S. Congress passed the proposed Constitutional Amendment granting women more rights beyond the right to vote: “Equality...
Finley, Ada Collection
Ada was born in Hudson, Illinois, to George and Josie Lentz on July 19, 1898. She married Stephen Eugene (Gene) Finley on September 8, ...
Gathman Collection
Mildred Scholl Gathman (1918-2001) was born in rural Arrowsmith and lived there much of her life. She graduated Illinois State Normal ...
Getz, Lois
Lois Ann Getz (nee Zimmerman) was born on May 21, 1929 in Carlock, Illinois. Her parents were Anna Altorfer and Joseph Zimmerman, Sr. ...
Hodge Fuller Collection
Rachel Hodge Fuller (1904 – 1987) was the daughter of E.N. and Naomia Correa Hodge. Rachel Hodge Fuller lived in Bloomington, Illinois ...
Kinser, Betty
Betty Marshall Kinser was born on November 15, 1941 in Bloomington, IN. In her youth she was known to be strong-willed and athletic. Sh...
Kirk, Margaret
Margaret (Peg) Kirk was a beloved English teacher and speech coach at Normal Community High School. Kirk was instrumental in getting th...
May Christian Collection
Annie May Christian (she went by May for most of her life) was born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1866 to Matthew and Elizabeth (Mitchell) C...
McLean County Medical Society Auxiliary/Alliance
The McLean County Medical Society Auxiliary was formed in 1927 upon the suggestion of the Illinois State Medical Society. McLean Count...
Patrinmar Bridge Club
The Patrinmar Bridge Club was a club for Catholic women, established in 1928 by the Rev. Stephen Moore, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, ...
Quinn, Jean Family
Jean Quinn was born Shirley Jean Quinn on November 3, 1927, the only child of Forrest and Ruth Maquire (of Alton, IL) Quinn of McLean, ...
Scott, Sandra
This collection includes an array of materials such as job resumes; samples of work at WJBC Radio (ads, public service announcements, c...
Selk, Mary
Born in Peoria, Mary Ellen Selk (1921-2023) graduated El Paso High in 1939, attended Illinois Wesleyan University, and earned both BA (...
Siebert, Dorothy Softball
Dorothy Anna Siebert was born October 6, 1933, in Congerville to Henry and Louise McBurney Siebert. She graduated from Normal Community...
Softball
The collection includes yearbooks, programs, scorebooks, schedules, and other items relating to men’s, women’s, and girls’ softball—you...
Wilson, Edith
Goldie Edith Peyton Wilson was a resident of Gridley, where she farmed with her husband Lyle on his family farm south of town. She died...