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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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Abraham Lincoln (10) Agriculture (36) Animals (4) Architecture and Historic Preservation (20) Art (42) Black History (14) Businesses (153) Clubs and Hobbies (46) Disability History (3) Education (92) Entertainment (64) Environment and Parks (10) Health and Medicine (29) Immigration (12) Labor (6) Labor Unions (9) LGBTQIA+ (3) Livestock (6) Military & Police (76) Museum Exhibits and Events (16) Music & Singing (31) Native Groups (5) Nature & Weather (6) Organizations (106) People (363) Places (111) Politics and Government (100) Religion (33) Sports (26) Technology (3) Transportation (21) Women's History (41) Writing, Books, & Poetry (21)
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to c...
Wyckoff, Martin
Martin Anders Wyckoff was born in Normal, Illinois April 20, 1950, to Delmar and Elizabeth...
Yeast, Laurence (Larry) J.
Laurence (Larry) Yeast was born in McLean County June 11, 1915.  Yeast was a Bloomington H...
Yoder, Wallace & Betty
Wallace Yoder’s mother was Harriett Katherine Ayers, daughter of Luther and Ida Ayers. She...
Young Men’s Club
Materials in the collection include club introductory information, several versions of the...
Young, Fred H.
Fred H. Young (1892-1980) was born September 21, 1892, in Normal, and graduated from Illin...
YWCA
The YWCA organization was founded in England in 1855, but women were active in the organiz...
Zobrist, Charles J.
This collection contains material relating to the life and career of World War I veteran C...

That's all 728 finding aids.

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