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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 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 ...
Money Creek Municipal
Money Creek Township included six square miles of land used for agriculture. The present-d...
Money Creek Township Schools Collection
Schools and their districts in Money Creek Township included:Bishop District 3 then 203F...
Montgomery, Alfred
Alfred Montgomery (1858-1922) was born in Logan County, Illinois, and moved to Bloomington...
Moon Family
The Moon family collection contains a diverse amount of material, ranging from corresponde...
Moore, John
John Moore was born September 8, 1793, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. His parents die...
Moraine View State Recreation Area
This collection includes newspaper clippings from 1941 through 1985, plus manuscript histo...
Moratz, Paul O.
This collection contains a miscellany of items, such as newspaper articles, building speci...
Morgan, Charles
Charles Morgan, a carpenter by trade, started his diaries in 1896.  In his earliest days h...
Morgan, Raymond “Doc”
“He was a humble person, a fine golfer and a great gentleman.” So opined Bloomington Count...
Morrell-Moreland Family
The collection includes correspondence (mostly personal), will and probate documents, fina...
Morrissey, John O.
John O’Connell Morrissey was born April 13, 1896.  He was educated in Bloomington schools,...
Moses Montefiore Temple
On May 14, 1882, a group of men of the Jewish faith met in Bloomington “for the purpose of...
Mount Prospect School (Old Town Township)
The Mount Prospect School started as a small frame house built around 1855.  The School wa...
Multiple Listing Service
Multiple listing service (MLS) is a set of services that real estate brokers use determine...
Munce
Mary Jeanette Munce was born to Clara DeMotte Munce and Charles C. Munce in 1907 in Bloomi...
Murray & Carmody Funeral Home
Frederick E. Murray, undertaker, opened his funeral or memorial home at 914 N. Main Street...