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Finding Aids

Detailed inventories of archival collections in the Museum, organized alphabetically and able to be filtered by topic, from the 1820s to the present.

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Kemp, Bill
William F. “Bill” Kemp has served as Librarian/Archivist for the McLean County Museum of H...
Kennedy, Merlin
The collection includes the personal papers of Mr. Kennedy, and his wife Beulah (1923-2002...
Kickapoo
The Kickapoo Collection includes research papers, correspondence, firsthand and anonymous ...
Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival
On Memorial Day weekend in 1970 an estimated 60,000 people, mostly hippies and college-age...
Kingsley—McElroy Collection
Lorraine McElroy was born in September 1869 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of James and Emi...
Kinser, Betty
Betty Marshall Kinser was born on November 15, 1941 in Bloomington, IN. In her youth she w...
Kirk, Margaret
Margaret (Peg) Kirk was a beloved English teacher and speech coach at Normal Community Hig...
Kirkpatrick Collection
Jonathon H. Kirkpatrick was born in North Liberty, Ohio in 1844.  He moved to Bloomington ...
Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks
This is a collection of Lois Welsh’s (now Klein) books from a one room school in Gridley T...
Klemm, C.W. Family
The C. W. Klemm collection contains a variety of genealogical information about the Klemm,...
Klemm’s Department Store
C. W. Klemm came to Bloomington in 1873 after having spent five years in Springfield, IL i...
Knife & Fork Club
Knife and Fork Club International is a social dinner club with chapters in cities across t...
Knight, Robert N.
Robert N. Knight, also known as “Mr. Junior High School,” was a much loved and admired pri...
KodaRoamers Camera Club
The KodaRoamers was formed organized in September 1944. The aim of this photography group,...
Koos Family
This collection contains financial, medical, and military information, correspondence, and...
Koos, Greg Collection
The Greg Koos collection contains published and unpublished works by Greg Koos, former exe...
Kron, A.B. Postal
Born in Des Moines, IA, Albin B. Kron (1890-1958) came to Bloomington in 1901.  Kron worke...
Kuerth, Hester Adams Cookbook
Hester Adams Kuerth (1891-1982) was a fifty-year member of the McLean County Home Extensio...
Labor Fatalities Collection
List of on-the-job fatalities in McLean County....
LaBounty, Perry & Edith
Perry LaBounty was born in Ashkum, Illinois in 1888 and died in Bloomington, Illinois in 1...
LaBounty, William P.
William P. LaBounty was born September 1, 1930, educated in Bloomington schools, and IWU, ...
Ladies Auxiliary of WWI Veterans
This collection includes a selection of materials preserved by Jennie Mae Taylor of Bloomi...
Lake Bloomington Association
The Lake Bloomington Association formed to improve the Lake Bloomington Area and the surro...
Lake Run Club
The Lake Run Club was founded by two running enthusiasts who, due to a race cancellation i...
Lantz, Raymond Stanley
The collection materials consist of Lantz’s memorabilia, photographs and booklets from his...
Lanz, Laura
This collection contains essays by Laura from high school, her high school report cards, b...
Latino History Project Collection
The McLean County Latino History Project seeks to research and record the culture and expe...
Lennon, Barbara E.
The Barbara Egger Lennon Collection contains many newspaper clippings, personal and profes...
Lennon, John Brown
The John Brown Lennon collection contains newspaper articles, personal and professional co...
Lillard Collection
This collection contains genealogical research materials for the Lillard family and a Worl...
Lincoln School
This collection consists of a series of albums and notebooks relating to Abraham Lincoln E...
Lincoln Statue Bicentennial Project (1975-1978)
V.L. (“Budd”) Fairfield (1926-2009). Bloomington High School American history teacher, ser...
Lincoln, Abraham Recollections and Newspaper Articles
This collection consists primarily of newspaper recollections of Abraham Lincoln made by M...
Lincoln, Abraham— Miscellaneous Publications
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until hi...
Lincolns in Town
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of McLean County was formed jointly by Bloomin...
Litta, Marie
The Marie Litta Collection consists of materials relating to the life, career, and death o...
Livingston Family Collection
In 1927, a writer in the Pantagraph opined, “Probably no other family in Bloomington has p...
Loeseke / Karl's Quality Café
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Longfellow Club
The Longfellow Club dates to April 6, 1882 when Miss Alice Suddeth, assisted by Miss Mae S...
Loyal Star—Prairie State Lodge 45
Loyal Star of America is a women’s auxiliary to the Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America....