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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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Deffenbaugh (Kent) Jaycees Collection
Kent Deffenbaugh was the president of the Bloomington Normal Jaycees for the fiscal year 1...
Degree of Pocahontas Collection
Degree of Pocahontas is the ladies auxiliary of the Improved Order of Red Men. The Red Men...
Delbridge, Mary E.
The Mary E. Delbridge Collection is organized into ten folders by date and subject with tw...
Delphi — Bloomington Chapter
Founded in 1930 as a business woman’s civic group, the Bloomington Chapter of Delphi was p...
Democratic National Convention 1984
The 1984 Democratic National Convention nominated Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro for...
DeMotte
Born in Illinois on 17 July 1838, Harvey C. DeMotte eventually became a prominent Blooming...
Denman School (White Oak Township) Mother's Club
The Denman School Club began in 1921 as a means of communication among teachers, students,...
Detloff
School documents, records, and textbooks belonging to Elmer Detloff...
Diaries Collection
Diaries from 1848-1960, information on diarists, and supporting documents....
Dietrich, George
George Dietrich (1816-1900) was born in Bevidere, New Jersey, to Pennsylvania parents of G...
Dietrich, Julius
Julius Dietrich was a well-liked, prominent resident of Bloomington for almost two decades...
Dillingham
The Dillingham collection consists both of public and private materials from a multi-gener...
Dimmitts Grove Neighborhood Association
Dimmitt’s Grove is one of Bloomington’s oldest neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Association...
District 87 Unit 5 Consolidation Campaign
In 1992 an ad hoc committee requested a study of the future of education in Bloomington-No...
Dooley-Fairchild
The Dooley genealogy of William M. and Minerva Morris Dooley and their descendants from 18...
Dossett, David C.
Born in Campbell County, TN, David Dossett moved to Anderson County, TN, with his family w...
Douglas-Jones Family
Luella Douglas (1887-1979) was born in Hamilton County, Illinois. She married Jesse Dougla...
Douglass, Emmett
Emmett Douglass was a country school teacher in Lexington around 1900 who later farmed.  H...
Dowell, Joe
Joseph Harry Dowell (1940-2016) was born January 23, 1940 in Bloomington, Indiana.  Joe be...
Downtown Bloomington Historical Survey
In 1984 Greg Koos and William Walters began the work of obtaining National Historic standi...
Downtown Bloomington Redevelopment Collection
The downtown Bloomington Redevelopment Collection contains various plans and miscellaneous...
Draft Horses Collection
The history of Norman horses in Normal is closely linked to the Dillon family, first known...
Duff Family
The collection deals almost exclusively with the family of Peter C. and Fannie Duff (1865-...
Dunn, Betty Hinckle
Born in Peoria in 1909, Elizabeth “Betty” Hinckle grew up in Peoria and later in Bloomingt...
Dunn, Mark Collection
The collection includes research manuscripts, genealogical research, newspaper articles, a...
Dunn, Richard T.
Richard Thomas Dunn was born on August 21, 1918 in Normal, IL, to Richard Francis Dunn and...
Early Social Services Collection
Social services in Bloomington Normal were administered by volunteers, mostly women, who o...
Easter Seal Camp Heffernan
The East Bay Camp was formed in 1930, when its Director Reverend Breen, with the Kiwanis C...
Ecology Action Center
Established in the spring of 1995 as the education branch of Operation Recycle, the Ecolog...
Edward Miller Farm
(Gustave) Edward Miller was born at Danvers in 1886. He wed Lauraline Neal (1900-1977) in ...
Ela, George and Frances
This collection contains photocopied letters (and digital documents of transcriptions) fro...
Election Authorities
Since the 1970 Illinois constitution, the State Board of Elections has administered the el...
Emerson Street Investment Club
The Unitarian Investment Club began in 1990 as managers of a fund of loans and gifts to th...
Engle Family Papers
The Engle Family Papers Collection consists of 2 boxes. It contains mostly school notebook...
Ensenberger Building
G.A. Ensenberger and Sons had become a successful retail furniture store in Bloomington.  ...
Ensenberger Furniture Store
The Ensenberger Furniture Store Collection sheds light on the activities of this Bloomingt...
Ensign, Preston Poster
Preston Ensign, 1912 - 2006, graduated from University High School and Illinois State Norm...
Equal Rights Amendment
In 1972, the U. S. Congress passed the proposed Constitutional Amendment granting women mo...
Espey (Pharmacy)
The small, brick building at the northeast corner of Main and Front streets is one of the ...
Euleo Puppets
Sisters Eunice Speer and Leona S. Pitzer organized a puppet theatre in the late 1960s and ...