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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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Rock of Praisers
Michael Louanna Casey-Beich organized the Rock of Praisers in 1990 from her home at 1107 E...
Rolley, Elias W.
Elias William Rolley was drafted into the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC), became a ...
Ronald Bogart – Adlai Stevenson I
This collection contains autographs of members of the Stevenson family, a biography of Adl...
Ropp, Gordon L. State Representative
Gordon L. Ropp was born in Normal on April 5, 1933. He served as State Representative from...
Ross, David C.
David Claypool Ross (1851-1938) was a teacher, lawyer, lecturer and businessman, living in...
Route 66
Originally called Highway 4, Route 66 was one of the first roads in the nation’s numbered ...
Rowlands Family
Howell Rowlands was born on April 15, 1847, in Llanbrynmair, North Wales, and immigrated t...
Runge
The Runge Collection consists both of public and private materials primarily from the 1930...
Rutledge School (Downs Township)
Rutledge School District was laid out in 1862, but not organized until 1867. The school wa...
Ryburn, Orendorff, Hollis Families
This one box collection holds a variety of items including: family correspondences from th...
Sage, Harold K.
This collection includes consists of two separate subjects. Box 1: Harold K. Sage’s files ...
Salch, David State Farm
David Salch was an insurance salesman who grew up in Bloomington, Illinois. His parents we...
Sanders, Josephine ("Irene Delroy") / Pike-Sanders
This collection includes scrapbooks, posters, and photographs from Irene Delroy’s career. ...
Satterfield Farm
William Franklin Satterfield, called Frank, was born on October 3, 1890 at Marion, Illinoi...
Scharf, Emmett Electric Co.
Emmett – Scharf Electric Co. opened for business on April 20, 1922 with Fred Emmett as the...
School Books Collection
The collection includes published textbooks. ...
School District Consolidation Campaign 1992-96
In 1992 an ad hoc committee requested a study of the future of education in Bloomington-No...
School Notebooks Collection
Books prepared by students....
School Records
Documents include monthly common school schedules, daily teacher's registers, reports...
Schultz, Herman C.
Herman C. Schultz (1912-1995) was born in McLean County, Illinois.  He was inducted into t...
Scott, Garrett
The Garrett Scott 2003 Re-Election Campaign Collection primarily consists of material arou...
Scott, Judge John Milton
John Milton Scott was born on August 1, 1823 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois. In...
Scott, Sandra
This collection includes an array of materials such as job resumes; samples of work at WJB...
Sebastian-Bishop
The starting point for this collection is Donna Sebastian, who donated the materials and w...
Second Presbyterian Church Collection
The Second Presbyterian Church was founded in 1855 as The New School Presbyterian Church, ...
See Family
Frank See was born in Virginia to Nimrod See and Margaret Sherman. He was a 34-year-old fa...
Selk, Mary
Born in Peoria, Mary Ellen Selk (1921-2023) graduated El Paso High in 1939, attended Illin...
Sharp, Dorothy
This small collection contains photos, a scrapbook, programs, newspaper clippings and an I...
Sheet Music
This collection includes approximately 750 individual pieces of sheet music, booklets and ...
Shirley Schools (Dale Township)
Shirley Schools (No. 73) and its district was organized in 1854 with John Foster, Hiram Qu...
Siebert, Dorothy Softball
Dorothy Anna Siebert was born October 6, 1933, in Congerville to Henry and Louise McBurney...
Silverleaf Community Club (Normal Township) 1918 – 1962
The Silverleaf Club Collection materials range from 1924 to 1962. The club's minutes ...
Simmons School (Dale Township)
Simmons was built in 1856 when Joel Simmons sold the district the site at the southeast co...
Sinclair, Harold
During his life, Sinclair published a trilogy—American Years (1938), Years of Growth (1940...
Sister City Asahikawa
This collection contains correspondence, budgets, fundraiser information, newspaper clippi...
Slack, Kent Collection 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Research
Kent Slack was an intern at the McLean County Museum of History in 1981.  His project incl...
Smith, Sidney
Robert Sidney "Sid" Smith (1873-1935) was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on Febr...
Smitson-Brown
Helen Smitson (1898-1978) was the daughter of David C. Smitson (1860-1940) and Mary Elizab...
Softball
The collection includes yearbooks, programs, scorebooks, schedules, and other items relati...
Sohl, Jerry
This collection contains biographical material, newspaper articles, bibliographies, exampl...