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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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Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) Collection consists of personal an...
Soule Family
George Soule came to America on the Mayflower in 1620 a servant to Edward Winslow’s family...
Spanish-American War Veterans
Includes rosters, newspaper articles, burial records, programs and proceedings from annual...
Sports Cards
The collection holds commercially printed sports (or trading) cards featuring individuals ...
St. John’s Lutheran Church
This collection contains biographical information, historical information, directories, bu...
St. Joseph’s School of Nursing
St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing was a Catholic institution conducted by the Sisters ...
St. Mary’s of Bloomington Church and School
St. Mary’s Catholic Church also known as the German Catholic Church was founded in 1867 by...
State Farm Building
The State Farm Building in downtown Bloomington, the tallest building in the downtown area...
State Farm Classic
One of the largest co-ed holiday basketball tournaments in the nation, the State Farm Clas...
Steak N Shake
Steak n Shake was founded by Gus Belt in Normal in 1934.  He converted a gas station / chi...
Steele, Nelle Theater
Nelle Hefner Steele (1902-1985) was born in Lexington and began teaching in 1933 in rural ...
Steele, Ruth Teaching
The Ruth Steele Teaching Collection includes the patterns for various holiday displays and...
Steichen, Gerard C
Born in Spring Valley, IL, in 1951, Girard C. Steichen earned a BA in philosophy at Univer...
Stern Family
The Stern family moved to Bloomington about 1905, where Jacob Stern opened Stern’s Furnitu...
Sterzbach, Robert WWII
This collection holds the correspondence between Robert Sterzbach and Alyne Tracy from Jan...
Stevens, Julia Palmer
Julia Parnelle Palmer Stevens was born January 3, 1835, in Madison County, Illinois, the d...
Stevens, Saltzman Minnie
The Minnie Saltzman Stevens Papers consists of personal and legal papers belonging to the ...
Stevenson Boyhood Home
Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-1965) was Governor of Illinois 1949-1953, and the Democratic P...
Stevenson, Adlai E II Miscellaneous
This collection contains newspaper articles, correspondence, campaign materials, political...
Stevenson, Adlai E II Newspaper Clippings
The collection includes primarily newspaper articles from a number of years of Adlai Steve...
Stevenson, Adlai E. II
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1900.  He is t...
Stevenson, J.B. Letter Book
J.B. (James Bell) Stevenson (1838-1890) was the third of at least seven children of John T...
Stewart, Dr. Archibald Evan
This collection contains correspondence to Archibald Stewart from May 1858 to 1894. Corres...
Stickrod’s Drug Store
According to Bloomington-Normal city directory listings, Elmer H. Stickrod established a d...
Streid, Robert
Robert Eugene Streid, born July 28, 1916, was a lifetime Chenoa resident farmer educated i...
Stubblefield – Funk Reunion Minutes
Robert Stubblefield and Isaac Funk were very early settlers of McLean County in what is to...
Stubblefield Family Collection
The Stubblefield family originated in England, with brothers Edward, William, and John emi...
Sublett, Michael D.
Michael D. Sublett, born 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, received his Bachelor’s Degree fro...
Suggs, Frank
A professor of music at Illinois State University starting in 1969, Frank Suggs promoted A...
Suicides
If you or someone you know is suicidal, call or text 988. All calls are confidential. Help...
Tate, H. Clay
“Building a Better Home Town,” by H. Clay Tate was published in 1954. He wrote from his ex...
Tau Epsilon Delta
In January 1931, Louise Muxfeld organized a group of Bloomington High School girls into th...
The Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (ASUVCW)
The ASUVCW Collection consists of encampment proceedings (1933-40), constitutions and by-l...
Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers Company C.
This collection contains clerical records including: muster in and out rolls; inventory of...
Thoms and O’Neil Families
The collection contents indicate the Thoms family lived in the area as early as 1883, with...
Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission
Irving Stanton Tick (1928-2011) was born in Bloomington, Illinois and was a 1951 graduate ...
Tick, Irving Family
Irving “Irv” Tick (1928-2011) and Joan “Jobie” Marie (Sayler) Tick (1929-2021) were both l...
Tilbury Flash
The Tilbury Flash is a single-seat American racing monoplane designed and built in the 193...
Toastmasters (Smedley) Collection
Born in Waverly IL in 1878, Ralph C. Smedley graduated Illinois Wesleyan University in 190...
Travel Club
This collection contains program booklets (1906-2009), meeting minutes, treasurers documen...