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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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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 ...
Gridley Schools
The first school in the Village of Gridley was subscription-based, and it opened in 1859. ...
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...
Harpers Weekly
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based i...
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 ...
Hasenwinkle, Ralph
Ralph Waldo Emerson Hasenwinkle was in the Spanish American War, Philippines, 1898-1899. H...
Haxel Railroading
Delmar Haxel, born in Bloomington in 1920, worked for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad f...
Hay Family Reunion
The first reunion of the descendants of Jacob Hay (1818-1882) and Sarah Philpps Hay (1818-...
Hayden Murray
Born in 1906, Charlotte Murray wed Bloomington-born Thomas Hayden in 1933, after he had lo...
Heartland Theatre Company
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Helen Larkin Matchbook
Helen Joann Feger Larkin (1929-2011) graduated from Trinity High School in Bloomington and...
Helen Littleton Burns Postcard Collection
This remarkable collection is comprised of postcards sent to and collected by Helen Little...
Helm, Grover C. (National Bank of Bloomington)
This collection consists of a series of scrapbooks put together by Grover C. Helm, who wro...
Hibarger, Bessie Family
This collection includes:Over 600 letters, mostly personal and handwritten among family me...
Higgins-Jung-Kleinau Co
Hamer J. Higgins (1840-1902) began apprenticing as a marble cutter at Haldeman’s Marble Wo...
Highland Park Women’s 18 Hole League
The Highland Park Women’s 18 Hole League was started in July of 1932 at the Highland Park ...
Hilton and Schwoerer Farms
Guy Hilton bought a 160-acre tract next to his father’s farm in Section 11 of Dry Grove To...
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection of Edgar Lundeen
Edgar Lundeen (1898 – 1986) was an architect who practiced in Bloomington IL throughout hi...
Historical Geography Class Papers
Papers written for Historical Geography classes and Independent Studies by students of Wil...
Historical Markers
Historical markers such as plaques, cornerstones, and others have been used since at least...
Hitch, Fred
Frederick A. Hitch (1882-1947) resided in Bloomington his entire life. After graduating fr...
Hockey
Bloomington has been the home to two indoor recreational ice rinks—The former “Skatium,” n...
Hodge Fuller Collection
Rachel Hodge Fuller (1904 – 1987) was the daughter of E.N. and Naomia Correa Hodge. Rachel...
Hodge-Read Family
Most of this collection is correspondence between the Hodges (1830-1880), land and estate ...
Holder, John
The Holder collection consists primarily of materials from John’s time of service in the U...
Holy Trinity Church and Schools
The first time the name "Holy Trinity" appears in the directories for Bloomingto...
Home Sweet Home Mission
Billy Shelper founded the Home Sweet Home City Rescue Mission in 1917 after attending a Bi...