State Farm Insurance

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Blog

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Roller-Skating messengers State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Fayne Hoobler (left, on skates) delivers mail to Dorothy Thompson on the sixth floor the State ...

Blog Post

Woops! Roller-skating messenger State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

More than a week ago we posted a photograph from this set. Here’s another one. At the time, Sta...

Blog Post

Finding Aids

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Baas, Bea Diaries

Berneice Emma “Bea” Baas began a career at State Farm Insurance in 1952 as a stock clerk in the...

Finding Aid

Mau, McCoy, & Haskell

Helmuth and Augusta Mau came to the United States from Germany in the 1890s. The Maus settled ...

Finding Aid

Mendoza, Manuel State Farm

This collection is largely business correspondence and office information from the years Mendoz...

Finding Aid

Reeder, Ida

Most of this collection consists of loose items from a travel scrapbook from Ida Reeder, a long...

Finding Aid

Salch, David State Farm

David Salch was an insurance salesman who grew up in Bloomington, Illinois. His parents were he...

Finding Aid

Scharf, Emmett Electric Co.

Emmett – Scharf Electric Co. opened for business on April 20, 1922 with Fred Emmett as the elec...

Finding Aid

Oral Histories

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John Barrientes

Oral History

Kathyrn Dean

State Farm employee, civic & social clubs, grandfather was Civil War veteran....

Oral History

Sarita Mendiola

Oral History

Research

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Post Amerikan

Held by the MCMH and digitized by Eastern Illinois University. The Post Amerikan began publicat...

Article

Videos

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Making Insurance Interesting - Stories from State Farm with Corporate Archivist Buck Farley

Video

Working for a Living

Digital Exhibit

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Insuring the Automobile

The insurance industry grew rapidly in McLean County, providing many jobs for salesmen, clerks,...

Digital Exhibit