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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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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...
Matejka, Michael
This collection includes biographical essays, essays and journal articles, speeches, labor...
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...
McLean County Basketball Tournament
One of the longest-running tournaments in the state, the McLean County Basketball Tourname...
McLean County Chamber of Commerce
This collection contains annual reports; contact lists; work program packets; brochures; p...
McLean County Clergy Staff / Ministerial Association Collection
The McLean County Clergy Staff / Ministerial Association Collection was donated on Septemb...
McLean County Coal Company
The largest and most successful coal mine in McLean County was the McLean County Coal Co.,...
McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection
The McLean County Courthouse was built between 1900 and 1903 after the Great Fire of June ...
McLean County Courthouse Clock
A clock was installed in the courthouse tower in 1878, and that year it was decided that t...
McLean County Courthouses
Documents include general histories, newspaper articles, architects’ specifications, corne...
McLean County Emergency Squad
In 1967 with the near completion of Interstate 74 and Interstate 55, Bloomington, Illinois...
McLean County Ethnographies
Illinois State University anthropology professor Dr. Rob Dirks collected essays from his s...
McLean County Government
By action of the General Assembly of Illinois, the County of McLean, Illinois was formed o...
McLean County Home Bureau
The McLean County Home Bureau was first established in 1918 by Mrs. Spencer Ewing, and was...
McLean County Homemakers Extension
The McLean Home Bureau changed its name to McLean County Homemakers Extension Association ...
McLean County Jail Review Committee Collection
The McLean County Jail Review Committee is a citizens’ group founded in 1980 at the sugges...
McLean County Library Association
Responding to an invitation from Vail Deale of the Withers (Bloomington) Public Library, t...
McLean County Medical Assistants Association
On November 17, 1958, a group of twenty-four medical assistants—medical secretaries, labor...
McLean County Medical Society Auxiliary/Alliance
The McLean County Medical Society Auxiliary was formed in 1927 upon the suggestion of the ...