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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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

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Mendoza, Manuel State Farm
This collection is largely business correspondence and office information from the years Mendoz...

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

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

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

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Oral Histories

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John Barrientes

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

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Sarita Mendiola

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Research

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

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