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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 “Mme. Anne...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...