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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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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...
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...
Myers, John F.
Born in 1834 in Kentucky, John Frances Myers came to McLean County as an infant and grew u...
Nancy J. Peairs Ramos Scrapbook Collection
Nancy Jane Peairs documented her years at Unit 5 in two scrapbooks. They mainly included J...
Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
This collection contains documents, both official and personal, related to the Ninety-Four...
Normal Anti-Liquor Ordinance Petition
In November 1866, a petition for an ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquor in the town o...
Normal Avenue Neighborhood Club
The Normal Avenue Neighborhood Club was formed in the Spring of 1931 by Irene Buzzard and ...
Normal Community Garden Club
In the summer of 1939 nine women were invited to meet at the home of Mrs. Wm. (Hattie) Dic...
Normal Community High School
This collection contains course catalogs, PTA booklets, school publications, programs from...
Normal History Club
In the late 1800s, life in a small university town did not offer many opportunities for ar...
Normal Literary Center Collection
An adult study group, the Normal Literary Center was founded in 1896 and celebrated its 10...
Normal Municipal
This collection includes Town of Normal publications—both general and department-specific—...
Normal Summer Theatre
The High School Summer Theatre Program—now sponsored by the Town of Normal’s Department of...
Normal Theater
The Normal Theater was built by Sylvan and Ruth Kupfer, who owned the 209 North Street lot...
O’Hara, William J.
William J. O’Hara (1896-1986) was born in the Hudson area, the son of Owen and Johanna O’N...
Occupational Development Center
The Occupational Development Center (ODC) provided employment and training for individuals...
Old House Society
The Old House Society is a nonprofit organization in McLean County devoted to the preserva...
Old North Normal Historic District Association
Old North Normal is the oldest intact area of continuous residential development north of ...
Old Settlers Association of Eastern McLean County
From 1885 to 1915, self-described “old settlers” of eastern McLean County held an annual p...
Olde Towne Neighborhood Association
The Olde Towne Neighborhood Association was formed in 1997 as a non-profit organization. T...
Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman
This collection covers the Brenneman ancestry as well as Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf’s pers...
One O’Clock Schoolers Club
The One O’Clock Schoolers Club is a social club whose members reside in or resided in the ...
Orendorff
The collection focuses upon William Orendorff (March 26, 1792 – May 12, 1869), one of the ...
Orendorff Family Collection
The Orendorff family was among the first settlers in McLean County, when brothers William ...
Orendorff, Ella
The Ella Orendorff Collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings about the Orendorf...
Orme, William W.
The collection includes correspondence; land deeds; and assorted documents from Orme’s leg...
Outlaw, Damon G.
Damon Garst Outlaw was born April 26, 1912 in Stanford, Illinois to Roy Orville and Alpha ...