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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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Eureka Williams Electrolux
Charles U. Williams came to Bloomington in the late nineteenth century. He was an itineran...
Evans, J. Harwood
John Harwood Evans (1899-1976) was born in McLean County and grew up in Bloomington.  Born...
Evans, Joseph Orme
Joseph Orme Evans (December 22, 1923-March 5, 2007) was a native of Bloomington, Illinois....
Evergreen Cemetery Walk – Miller
In the 1990s, Amy Miller was a member of the Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club, a ser...
Ewing Family Correspondence
This collection centers around the correspondence of the family of Albert Gallatin Ewing. ...
Ewing, N. P. Family Farm Collection
The Ewing family, headed by Nathaniel Porter Ewing (4 Oct 1812 – 24 Jun 1876) and Nancy El...
Ewing, Thomas
Thomas Ewing was born in Lincoln, Illinois on September 19, 1935, the son of Samuel and Ha...
Exhibit: "A Matter of Life and Death"
This collection of Medical oral histories was gathered by the McLean County Historical Soc...
Exhibit: 9-11: McLean County Responds
Staff prepared these materials for the short-term 2002 exhibit “9-11: McLean County Respon...
Exhibit: A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County
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Exhibit: A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War
Guest curator Ross Kennedy and staff member Susan Hartzold prepared these materials for th...
Exhibit: Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008
This collection contains research compiled by Dr. Robert Dirks, guest curator and professo...
Exhibit: Greening of the Prairie: Irish Settlement in McLean County
Staff, interns, and volunteers researched and prepared the temporary exhibit “The Greening...
Exhibit: Growing up in the Fifties
The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 2001. This collection contai...
Exhibit: Journey through the Great Depression
Staff worked with guest curator Illinois State University professor Sandra D. Harmon to cr...
Exhibit: Just Corn: The 'Amaizing' Story
The Museum exhibit, “Just Corn: The ‘Amaizing’ Story,” opened in 1997. It was curated by t...
Exhibit: Made in McLean County
The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 1999. This collection contai...
Exhibits: Miscellaneous
This collection contains outlines for temporary exhibits featured at the McLean County Mus...
Ezra M. Prince
Ezra Prince, a prolific local historian, was born in Maine in 1831. He attended Harvard Un...
Family and Consumer Sciences Professionals of McLean County
The organization began in 1961 as the McLean County Home Economists in Homemaking. They be...
Family Circle (Pantagraph Employee Newsletter)
The collection includes both loose and bound copies of the Family Circle, a Pantagraph Emp...
Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Illinois Collection
In February 1903, seventeen farmers’ cooperative grain elevator companies met to form the ...
Farrell Family
Ezra Thomas Farrell (1884-1962) and Sylvia G. Walston Farrell (1882-1964) farmed in Hudson...
Fell Collection
The Fell Collection includes information about the lives of brothers Jesse W. Fell, Kersey...
Fell Family
Jesse W. Fell was a Bloomington, IL businessman and landowner. He is also known for foundi...
Fenelon, Dr. J. H.
Dr. J.H. Fenelon was a physician who practiced for more than 45 years in McLean County. Du...
Fifer-Bohrer Papers
Joseph Fifer was born near Staunton, Virginia, in 1840, and moved with his parents to Danv...
Finley, Ada Collection
Ada was born in Hudson, Illinois, to George and Josie Lentz on July 19, 1898. She married ...
First National Bank of Normal
John W. Aldrich founded and became the first president of the First National Bank of Norma...
Fleming Family
The Birney-Fleming family, of Scotch-Irish extraction, emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, to ...
Fleming Law Office
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Floyd, Arthur Softball Collection
Arthur Floyd (1900-1988) was an insurance agent for the Industrial Casualty Co. In private...
Folsom, Elizabeth Irons
Elizabeth Irons Folsom was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1876.  She moved to Bloomington as...
Four O’ Clock History Club
In October 1888, twelve young women met after school to launch the Four O’ Clock History C...
Franklin Park
Franklin Park (also known as Franklin Square) was donated by David Davis, William F. Flagg...
Frazier-McCulley
Ron Frazier and Tom McCulley were one of the early openly gay couples in Bloomington. Toge...
Freedom Train
The Freedom Train began as a concept formulated by government officials in early 1946. Str...
Frink, Dwight E.
Dwight E. Frink was born in Bloomington February 16, 1874.  He was educated in the ward sc...
Fuller Family Collection
The Collection includes photos and records of the Fuller family, including those relating ...
Fuller, Margaret Club
The Margaret Fuller Club met for the first time on January 30, 1893, at the home of Emma B...