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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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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...
Fraker-Lincoln
Guy Fraker, born in St. Joesph, Missouri, and raised in the New York suburbs, practiced la...
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...
Freed, Bill & Ruth (Klein)
This collection includes photos, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, land deeds and abstracts...
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...
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,...