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Articles

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ISNU welcomed veterans after WWII
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ISU held racially segregated spring dances in the 1930s and ’40s
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Brown’s delivered white-collar education
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Bloomington’s Oakland School a modernist architectural gem
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‘Pop’ Horton organized campus circus fraternity in 1929
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Bloomington schools integrated decade after Civil War
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Back to school 1946 meant return to normalcy
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‘New’ Bloomington High opened in 1959
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Prof. June Rose Colby lived ‘life of the mind’

Biographies

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Seibert, Leonard
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White, William Richard
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Adams, Dr. William Henry Harrison
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Jackman, John
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Burnham, John Howard
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DeMotte, Harvey C.
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McCormick, Henry
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Moratz, Paul
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Hartmann, Mary J.
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Jackman, Sarah Farnum Sargent
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Holder, Julia
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Rankin, Melinda
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Kessler, Clara Louise
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Dodge, Flora Pennell
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Eyestone, Lura
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Pillsbury, Arthur L.
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Colby, Dr. June Rose
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Stevenson, Letitia Green
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Kimball, Luella
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Trotter, Georgina
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Ela, George Porter
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Davis, William O.
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Cahill, Francis
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Clark, Lue Anna Sanders
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Howard, Emily
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Kessler, Frances
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King, Mary Reed
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King, Samuel Noble
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Milner, Angeline Vernon
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Hobbs, Dr. William C.

Blog

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Photo of the Week, 77: That's a Hair-raising Experience!

Arrowsmith High School

T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G 1980 Towanda Grade School

"Gridley High, January 1953 County Hoops Champs"

Three hospitals; three styles of caps June 1958

Heyworth High and Environs January 1933

Photo of the Week, 14: Bent School Graduates, June 1938

McLean County Basketball Tournament Championship Game, January 21, 1966 Octavia 68, Lexington 48

Anchor School Circa 1900

When Every Small Town Had a High School … Stanford High, 1936

Fashion Show Prep, late April 1958 Octavia High School, Colfax

Cooksville High School Class of 1909

LeRoy Centennial Parade October 19, 1935

Prairie Daze Hudson, July 12, 1980

Bird House Contest, 1930s Anchor Grade School

Illinois State Normal University Quad, 1941

Excelsior School -- Cheney’s Grove Township, 1938

Extra! Extra! Read All About it! BHS student newspaper, 1954

Extra, extra, read all about it! Pantagraph’s graduation edition, May 1949

University School of Beauty Culture September 1939

LeRoy High’s Ron Crosby Teacher of Year, May 1964

North Gate Subdivision Northeast Normal, July 1964

Readying for college Fall of 1949

Photo of the Week, 24: Seven ball in the corner pocket . . .

Photo of the Week, 32: Are you ready for some football?

Photo of the Week, 64: Redbirds Crowned National Champs in 1969

Photo of the Week, 75: Amen and Let's Eat!

Photo of the Week, 82: 'Starr' Attraction at Normal Chamber Banquet, 1969

Photo of the Week, 83: Swiped Bell Returned to Redbird Roost, September 20, 1967

Photo of the Week, 94: Thanksgiving at ISSCS, 1962

Fall Means College Football ISNU ‘Teachers,’ 1907

Old Main Comes Down September 9, 1958

Angelic Coeds, September 27, 1940 Dedication of the Van Leer Chime Tower

The Times They Have Changed! Town of Normal, 1966

Illinois State Normal University Junior-Senior Prom, 1949

Wilder Field, IWU July 1938

ISSCS Festival August 1950

Tree Planting, Lincoln School April 22, 1938

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Rockets, mid-1940s Twin-City Recreation Center

Aaron Copland at IWU February 1958

Christmas Seals, 1937

Irving School, Bloomington Eighth Grade Graduates, 1925

Back to School Illinois Wesleyan, September 1938

Brown’s Business College, 1930 526-530 N. Main St., Bloomington

Bloomington High School Under Construction, August 1958

BHS Athletic Field Undated Aerial

Homecoming 1949 Bloomington High School

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

Wesleyan Homecoming, October 1958 Titans Rough Up the Bluejays

Halloween Party, 1939 Holy Trinity Parish Kindergarten, Bloomington

Happy Halloween! Jefferson School, Bloomington, 1957

All I Want for Christmas … Lincoln School First Graders, 1965

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

Photo of the Week, 116: We Shall Overcome, October 1965

Photo of the Week, 69: Ready, Set, Go!

Photo of the Week, 10: “A Full House” at “The Wesleyan,” November 1924

Photo of the Week, 117: ISSCS Graduates, 1958

Photo of the Week: ISSCS Graduates, 1958

Photo of the Week, 124: ‘Swing Time’ at Victory Hall October 1935

Photo of the Week, 126: ‘Fab Four’ in Bloomington, 1950

Photo of the Week, 122: Watterson Towers, October 1967 -- Twenty-One Stories to Go!

Photo of the Week, 41: We’re Number One!

Events

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Slow Art Day on Route 66

Growing Up Gen X with Erica Holst

Finding Aids

82 items

Adlai Stevenson Lecture Series 1965-1981

Adult Education

Bloomingdale School (Randolph Township)

Bloomington Education Association Collection

Bloomington High School Class Reunion

Bloomington High School

Bloomington-Normal Adult Education

Bloomington School District 87

Blue Mound School

Boysen-Presit, Gail

Center School (Randolph Township)

Chesebrough, David B.

Cornell School (Arrowsmith Township)

Denman School (White Oak Township) Mother's Club

Detloff

Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing

Historical Geography Class Papers

Holy Trinity Church and Schools

Illinois State Normal University Centennial

ISU Athletics

Knight, Robert N.

Lanz, Laura

McLean County Schools

McLean School (Mount Hope Township)

Mount Prospect School (Old Town Township)

Nancy J. Peairs Ramos Scrapbook Collection

Price School Social Club, 1946-1973 (Bloomington Township)

Shirley Schools (Dale Township)

Simmons School (Dale Township)

St. Joseph’s School of Nursing

St. Mary’s of Bloomington Church and School

Steele, Ruth Teaching

Suggs, Frank

Union School (Allin Township)

University High School

Walker School (Bloomington Township)

William D. Walters, Jr.

Sublett, Michael D.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

Bloomington Public Schools

Wantling, William

McLean County Association for Home and Community Education

Brokaw Hospital Nursing Alumni Association

Carlock Schools
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Houghton School

Illinois Wesleyan University
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Lincoln School

McLean County Ethnographies

Normal Community High School

Rutledge School (Downs Township)

IWU Marketing Class Papers

Mennonite Hospital Nursing

Phonograph and Audio

Engle Family Papers

Hodge-Read Family

Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks

LaBounty, William P.

Wheeler Family

Douglass, Emmett

Armstrong, Bea

Arthur Drake School Band of America Collection

Baby Fold

Hibarger, Bessie Family

School Records

Money Creek Township Schools Collection

District 87 Unit 5 Consolidation Campaign

School District Consolidation Campaign 1992-96

Bent, Horatio C.

Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School (ISSCS)

Brown’s Business College

Center School (Allin Township) Collection

Intercity High School Tournament

Orendorff Family Collection

School Books Collection

School Notebooks Collection

Unit 5 Schools

University High School Athletics

Gathman Collection

Selk, Mary

Normal Summer Theatre

Quinn, Jean Family

Oral Histories

6 items

Beth Echeverria

Delores Campbell and Mary Trunnell

Irene Barnes

Sonny Garcia

Lue Anna Clark

Wilbur Barton

Photo of the Week, 77: That's a Hair-raising Experience!

Arrowsmith High School

T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G 1980 Towanda Grade School

"Gridley High, January 1953 County Hoops Champs"

Three hospitals; three styles of caps June 1958

Heyworth High and Environs January 1933

Photo of the Week, 14: Bent School Graduates, June 1938

McLean County Basketball Tournament Championship Game, January 21, 1966 Octavia 68, Lexington 48

Anchor School Circa 1900

When Every Small Town Had a High School … Stanford High, 1936

Fashion Show Prep, late April 1958 Octavia High School, Colfax

Cooksville High School Class of 1909

LeRoy Centennial Parade October 19, 1935

Prairie Daze Hudson, July 12, 1980

Bird House Contest, 1930s Anchor Grade School

Illinois State Normal University Quad, 1941

Excelsior School -- Cheney’s Grove Township, 1938

Extra! Extra! Read All About it! BHS student newspaper, 1954

Extra, extra, read all about it! Pantagraph’s graduation edition, May 1949

University School of Beauty Culture September 1939

LeRoy High’s Ron Crosby Teacher of Year, May 1964

North Gate Subdivision Northeast Normal, July 1964

Readying for college Fall of 1949

Photo of the Week, 24: Seven ball in the corner pocket . . .

Photo of the Week, 32: Are you ready for some football?

Photo of the Week, 64: Redbirds Crowned National Champs in 1969

Photo of the Week, 75: Amen and Let's Eat!

Photo of the Week, 82: 'Starr' Attraction at Normal Chamber Banquet, 1969

Photo of the Week, 83: Swiped Bell Returned to Redbird Roost, September 20, 1967

Photo of the Week, 94: Thanksgiving at ISSCS, 1962

Fall Means College Football ISNU ‘Teachers,’ 1907

Old Main Comes Down September 9, 1958

Angelic Coeds, September 27, 1940 Dedication of the Van Leer Chime Tower

The Times They Have Changed! Town of Normal, 1966

Illinois State Normal University Junior-Senior Prom, 1949

Wilder Field, IWU July 1938

ISSCS Festival August 1950

Tree Planting, Lincoln School April 22, 1938

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Rockets, mid-1940s Twin-City Recreation Center

Aaron Copland at IWU February 1958

Christmas Seals, 1937

Irving School, Bloomington Eighth Grade Graduates, 1925

Back to School Illinois Wesleyan, September 1938

Brown’s Business College, 1930 526-530 N. Main St., Bloomington

Bloomington High School Under Construction, August 1958

BHS Athletic Field Undated Aerial

Homecoming 1949 Bloomington High School

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

Wesleyan Homecoming, October 1958 Titans Rough Up the Bluejays

Halloween Party, 1939 Holy Trinity Parish Kindergarten, Bloomington

Happy Halloween! Jefferson School, Bloomington, 1957

All I Want for Christmas … Lincoln School First Graders, 1965

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

Photo of the Week, 116: We Shall Overcome, October 1965

Photo of the Week, 69: Ready, Set, Go!

Photo of the Week, 10: “A Full House” at “The Wesleyan,” November 1924

Photo of the Week, 117: ISSCS Graduates, 1958

Photo of the Week: ISSCS Graduates, 1958

Photo of the Week, 124: ‘Swing Time’ at Victory Hall October 1935

Photo of the Week, 126: ‘Fab Four’ in Bloomington, 1950

Photo of the Week, 122: Watterson Towers, October 1967 -- Twenty-One Stories to Go!

Photo of the Week, 41: We’re Number One!

Adlai Stevenson Lecture Series 1965-1981

Adult Education

Bloomingdale School (Randolph Township)

Bloomington Education Association Collection

Bloomington High School Class Reunion

Bloomington High School

Bloomington-Normal Adult Education

Bloomington School District 87

Blue Mound School

Boysen-Presit, Gail

Center School (Randolph Township)

Chesebrough, David B.

Cornell School (Arrowsmith Township)

Denman School (White Oak Township) Mother's Club

Detloff

Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing

Historical Geography Class Papers

Holy Trinity Church and Schools

Illinois State Normal University Centennial

ISU Athletics

Knight, Robert N.

Lanz, Laura

McLean County Schools

McLean School (Mount Hope Township)

Mount Prospect School (Old Town Township)

Nancy J. Peairs Ramos Scrapbook Collection

Price School Social Club, 1946-1973 (Bloomington Township)

Shirley Schools (Dale Township)

Simmons School (Dale Township)

St. Joseph’s School of Nursing

St. Mary’s of Bloomington Church and School

Steele, Ruth Teaching

Suggs, Frank

Union School (Allin Township)

University High School

Walker School (Bloomington Township)

William D. Walters, Jr.

Sublett, Michael D.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

Bloomington Public Schools

Wantling, William

McLean County Association for Home and Community Education

Brokaw Hospital Nursing Alumni Association

Carlock Schools
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Houghton School

Illinois Wesleyan University
="Lincoln

Lincoln School

McLean County Ethnographies

Normal Community High School

Rutledge School (Downs Township)

IWU Marketing Class Papers

Mennonite Hospital Nursing

Phonograph and Audio

Engle Family Papers

Hodge-Read Family

Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks

LaBounty, William P.

Wheeler Family

Douglass, Emmett

Armstrong, Bea

Arthur Drake School Band of America Collection

Baby Fold

Hibarger, Bessie Family

School Records

Money Creek Township Schools Collection

District 87 Unit 5 Consolidation Campaign

School District Consolidation Campaign 1992-96

Bent, Horatio C.

Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School (ISSCS)

Brown’s Business College

Center School (Allin Township) Collection

Intercity High School Tournament

Orendorff Family Collection

School Books Collection

School Notebooks Collection

Unit 5 Schools

University High School Athletics

Gathman Collection

Selk, Mary

Normal Summer Theatre

Quinn, Jean Family