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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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Irish Immigrants Collection
Irish immigrants first arrived in large numbers to McLean County in the early 1850s. Initi...
Irvin Bros
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Irvin, Clarence E.
Clarence Edgar Irvin owned and operated several Bloomington theaters.  He was the founder ...
Irvin, Lawrence
Lawrence E. Irvin, son of Patrick and Mary Irvin, was born May 27, 1911 at Lake Bloomingto...
Iseminger Family
The collection includes newspaper articles, receipts, prescriptions, recipes, bank checks,...
Iseminger Ford
Floyd Iseminger (1879-1980) was born and lived his entire life in Bloomington. He quit hig...
ISU Athletics
The collection includes Illinois State University football guides, basketball guides, foot...
Ives, Elizabeth Buffie
Born in Bloomington in 1897, Elizabeth Stevenson “Buffie” Ives was the first of two childr...
IWU Marketing Class Papers
Associate Professor of Business Administration Fred Hoyt has long asked his students to ea...
James S. Ewing Speeches
James S. Ewing (1835- 1918) was born in what is today Woodford County. He came to Blooming...
Jennie Rayburn Diaries
The collection consists primarily of Jennie’s diaries covering the years of her widowhood ...
John Howard Burnham Collection
Captain J.H. Burnham came to McLean County in 1858 as a student at the State Normal Univer...
Johnston, George W. and Alice M. Collection
George W. (1901-1988) and Alice M. (1905-1991) Johnston were both active in the American L...
Jones – White Family Collection
This small collection contains the records of the Jones & White family reunions and so...
Jones, Ethel Pearle Smith
This collection contains the prose, poetry and plays written by Ethel Pearle Smith Jones, ...
Judd-Lucas Family
The Judd Family lived in Colfax, Illinois during the 20th century. The Judd and Lucas fami...
Jung Family
Jacob Phillip Jung was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, the son of Christian and Elizabeth Brande...
Kansas Kickapoo
This small collection consists mainly of copies of letters and accounts between Milo Custe...
Kelley, George R.
The letters of George R. Kelley relate to the life and times of a McLean County serviceman...
Kemp, Bill
William F. “Bill” Kemp has served as Librarian/Archivist for the McLean County Museum of H...
Kennedy, Merlin
The collection includes the personal papers of Mr. Kennedy, and his wife Beulah (1923-2002...
Kickapoo
The Kickapoo Collection includes research papers, correspondence, firsthand and anonymous ...
Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival
On Memorial Day weekend in 1970 an estimated 60,000 people, mostly hippies and college-age...
Kingsley—McElroy Collection
Lorraine McElroy was born in September 1869 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of James and Emi...
Kinser, Betty
Betty Marshall Kinser was born on November 15, 1941 in Bloomington, IN. In her youth she w...
Kirk, Margaret
Margaret (Peg) Kirk was a beloved English teacher and speech coach at Normal Community Hig...
Kirkpatrick Collection
Jonathon H. Kirkpatrick was born in North Liberty, Ohio in 1844.  He moved to Bloomington ...
Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks
This is a collection of Lois Welsh’s (now Klein) books from a one room school in Gridley T...
Klemm, C.W. Family
The C. W. Klemm collection contains a variety of genealogical information about the Klemm,...
Klemm’s Department Store
C. W. Klemm came to Bloomington in 1873 after having spent five years in Springfield, IL i...
Knife & Fork Club
Knife and Fork Club International is a social dinner club with chapters in cities across t...
Knight, Robert N.
Robert N. Knight, also known as “Mr. Junior High School,” was a much loved and admired pri...
KodaRoamers Camera Club
The KodaRoamers was formed organized in September 1944. The aim of this photography group,...
Koos Family
This collection contains financial, medical, and military information, correspondence, and...
Koos, Greg Collection
The Greg Koos collection contains published and unpublished works by Greg Koos, former exe...
Kuerth, Hester Adams Cookbook
Hester Adams Kuerth (1891-1982) was a fifty-year member of the McLean County Home Extensio...
Labor Fatalities Collection
List of on-the-job fatalities in McLean County....
LaBounty, Perry & Edith
Perry LaBounty was born in Ashkum, Illinois in 1888 and died in Bloomington, Illinois in 1...
LaBounty, William P.
William P. LaBounty was born September 1, 1930, educated in Bloomington schools, and IWU, ...
Ladies Auxiliary of WWI Veterans
This collection includes a selection of materials preserved by Jennie Mae Taylor of Bloomi...