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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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Lake Bloomington Association
The Lake Bloomington Association formed to improve the Lake Bloomington Area and the surro...
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....
Lundeen, Edgar and Rachael
This collection includes Hundreds of letters, genealogical work for the families of Edgar ...
Major Collection of Letters from Liberia
The Major Collection of Letters from Liberia consists of twelve letters written by formerl...
Manahan, Eugene
Lester Eugene Manahan was born to Benton and Lillie Manahan in Arrowsmith, Illinois, Augus...
Mandel-Cohn Collection
This collection covers multiple generations of the Mandel-Cohn family and includes persona...
Mark & Margaret Kalahar Hayes
Mark Bruno Hayes (1889-1959) was born in Bloomington, Illinois and earned a pharmacy certi...
Markowitz, Judy
The Judy Markowitz Collection primarily consists of material from Markowitz’s time as mayo...
Martin Luther King Jr Awards Program — Human Relation Commissions
The Martin Luther King Jr Awards program is an annual event sponsored by the Bloomington H...
Mason Family
This collection includes biographical materials; personal, family and business corresponde...
Mau, McCoy, & Haskell
Helmuth and Augusta Mau came to the United States from Germany in the 1890s.  The Maus set...
May Christian Collection
Annie May Christian (she went by May for most of her life) was born in Decatur, Illinois, ...
Mayer, Marjorie (Wood)
Marjorie Wood (1913-2008) was born in Melvin, IL and reared in rural Colfax. She wed Eugen...
McCarty Family
This collection includes personal letters, diaries, genealogies and other family materials...
McEwen Brothers Blacksmith Shop
According to an article in The Pantagraph of July 17, 1942, John and William McEwen establ...
McFee, John
John McFee was a well-known farmer, who also bred Berkshire swine. He lived four miles wes...
McKeon
The collection includes Marguerite McKeon and Geraldine McKeon’s personal correspondence f...
McKinzie Family
This collection primarily contains letters from sons John and James to their parents espec...
McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company
William W. McKnight was born in 1874. His father was a physician in Granville, Illinois. T...
McLean County Arts Center
This collection includes exhibition catalogs and promotional materials, a coloring and act...
McLean County Arts Council
The McLean County Arts Council was incorporated in 1972 and served as a funding organizati...
McLean County Arts Council Bicentennial
The collection contains documents pertaining to the McLean County Bicentennial Arts Festiv...
McLean County Association for Home and Community Education
This collection includes newspaper articles referencing the various HCE/HEA members and th...
McLean County Bank Building
In 1853 the original McLean County Bank was founded as the first bank in Bloomington. It w...
McLean County Bar Association Memorials
The tradition of the McLean County Bar Association since 1897 has been to memorialize dece...