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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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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 ...
McLean County Medical Society Minutes
In March 1854, fourteen local physicians met to organize a medical society. The Society wa...
McLean County Museum of History Asian Indian History Project
The McLean County Asian Indian History Project was begun in the early 2000s to research an...
McLean County Poor Farm
For more than 90 years, the McLean County Poor Farm, located south of Bloomington, housed ...
McLean County Schools
This collection contains school directories, exams, and other miscellaneous documents from...
McLean County Sesquicentennial Committee
The McLean County Sesquicentennial Celebration commemorated the founding of McLean County ...
McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument
The McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, dedicated in 1913, is located at Miller...
McLean County Telephone Co.
The McLean County Telephone Co. was organized in spring 1898 with F.Y. Hamilton as its man...
McLean County WWII Memorial
The WWII Memorial Committee was formed in the fall of 1994 after Normal Mayor Paul Harmon ...
McLean School (Mount Hope Township)
The village of McLean, IL was platted in 1856.  School District No. 5 was laid out and org...
McMackin Family
This collection includes an array of family correspondence, business receipts, legal docum...
McNulta, John Collection
The collection includes a photocopy of the Appointment to Captain document from the Illino...
McNulta, John Time Capsule
Contents of glass time capsule, originally compiled by members of the Grand Army of the Re...
Meadows Manufacturing Company
John Rocke had the idea to build a grain elevator to improve the slow and laborious method...
Mendoza, Manuel State Farm
This collection is largely business correspondence and office information from the years M...
Mennonite Hospital Association
The Mennonite Hospital Association (MHA) dates to 1919. The members of the MHA were church...
Mennonite Hospital Newsletter
The establishment of Bloomington's Mennonite Hospital dates to 1919. By 1940, the hos...
Mennonite Hospital Nursing
The Mennonite School of Nursing was established as the Mennonite Sanitarium Training Schoo...
Merwin
A Bloomington native, Loring C. Merwin served as publisher of the Pantagraph for over thre...
Middleton, Richard & James Gill
This collection contains newspaper clippings, genealogical research, annual reports, WWII ...
Millard, Lt. Mark
This collection consists of materials collected by Helen Millard, mother of Mark Millard. ...
Miller Park
This collection contains various newspaper articles associated with Miller Park, programs ...
Miller, George
George H. Miller (1856 - 1927) was one of eight children born to German immigrants in Bloo...
Minutes Books
The collection contains single volumes of minutes of various local organizations including...
Mitsubishi Motors
This collection contains material related to the Mitsubishi Motors Company as well as the ...