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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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Funk Bros Seed Company
The Funk family arrived in McLean County from Ohio in 1824.  Over the years Isaac Funk acq...
Funk Family
Brothers Isaac and Absalom Funk came to Illinois via Ohio in 1824. Working together the br...
Funk, George Washington
George W. Funk was the firstborn son of the Hon. Isaac Funk, Sr. and Cassandra Sharp, foun...
Game Designers' Workshop
The Game Designers' Workshop Collection contains material about the war-games and sci...
Garst, Elmer Record Book
A grocer and amateur historian from Stanford, Elmer Garst compiled information about local...
Gathman Collection
Mildred Scholl Gathman (1918-2001) was born in rural Arrowsmith and lived there much of he...
Gaunt, John
This collection contains papers relating to the details of a Dry Goods business partnershi...
General Electric
General Electric opened in Bloomington in 1955 at 1601 GE Road in then-rural east Blooming...
Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz
Carolyn Mabel Schertz was born October 13, 1892 in Hudson, Illinois, the daughter of David...
Gentes
Alfred and Lena Gentes were born in Illinois, both of German immigrants. Alfred was born a...
George Weldon Funk Collection
George Weldon Funk was born to a prominent family in McLean, Illinois on October 30, 1895....
German Baptist Church
The German Baptist Church of Bloomington, Illinois, was located at the southwest corner of...
German Evangelical Church
This collection includes newsletters, bulletins, anniversary booklets with church historie...
Getz, Lois
Lois Ann Getz (nee Zimmerman) was born on May 21, 1929 in Carlock, Illinois. Her parents ...
Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing
Born in 1904 to Sarah Myers and George A. Washburn, Gladys moved with her family from the ...
Goben Family
Kim Goben was born on November 15, 1961 to James and Wini Goben. She attended Bloomington ...
Goelzer Karr
This collection includes newspaper articles, a few business and professional correspondenc...
Goforth
Jonathan (J. C.) Goforth moved his family from Canton, Illinois to Bloomington, Illinois i...
Gold Star Mothers
The Evergreen Chapter, National Gold Star Mothers, was incorporated on October 14, 1950, b...
Gose, Carol Mishler Scrapbooks
Carol Mishler Gose collected this material and wrote:  “I remember being in sixth grade in...
Gossard, Steve Railroad
Born in Galesburg in 1949, Steve Gossard moved to Normal to study at Illinois State Univer...
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy was born in Bloomington in 1865. Goudy spent his early years in Blooming...
Grain Elevators
Grain Storage Facilities play an important role in the process of agricultural production ...
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
The Grand Army of the Republic was founded by Benjamin Franklin Stephenson of Springfield,...
Grand Opera House
The Grand Opera House was built 1890-1891 and stood at 106-110 E. Market Street in Bloomin...
Grand Prairie Bird Alliance Collection
The first Audubon Society in McLean County was called the Cardinal Audubon Club, organized...
Graves, Harley
Harvey Graves was born to Sam S. and Clara May Myers Graves in Randolph in 1911. He wed Lo...
Gravestone Photographs
This photograph collection consists of four box books of gravestone photographs and associ...
Gray, Vern
Vern Gray (December 19, 1897- June 28, 1972) was a former curator of the McLean County His...
Greeting Card
The collection includes greeting cards and postcards from 1893 to the present, social call...
Gregor, Harold Collection
The son of Scottish immigrants, Harold Gregor was born in Detroit, MI, and earned his PhD ...
Guides Collection
The Guides Collection includes pamphlets, brochures, and some newspaper clippings, written...
Gulf Mobile & Ohio
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Hall, Robert S. Diary
Normal native and lifelong resident Robert S. “Bob” Hall (1915-1976) graduated University ...
Hamilton, Violet
Hamilton was an active citizen of Normal and McLean County, where she wrote a Centennial P...
Hamm, Ruth Bitting
The Ruth Bitting Hamm collection contains several folders in four boxes.  The items includ...
Harrison, Arlene G Elliott
Arlene Genevieve Elliott was born July 8, 1919 to William and Ida E. (Ward) Elliott. She h...
Hart, James
Born in Lawndale, Illinois, in 1882, James “Jimmie” Michael Hart was initially reared in A...
Hartzold Family
Henry Hartzold was born about 1862 in Lancaster, PA. He moved to McLean County in 1894, be...
Harvey Family
This small collection along with a large collection of photographs was found in the attic ...