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Food and Restaurants

Articles

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Local tractor company never gained traction

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Picture postcard speaks to power of donations

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Clara Brian champion of farm families

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel

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Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois

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Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition

Biographies

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Belt, Augustus "Gus"

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Belt, Edith Pressler

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Stokes, Ella Lee

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Riebsame, Christian

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Sanders, Isaac

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Vrooman, Julia Scott

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Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald

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Davis, Elmer

Blog

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McDonald’s Open for Business 806 S. Main St., Normal February 1959

East Twin Grove Farmers’ Picnic July 28, 1922

McDonald’s in Normal 806 S. Main St., 1961

Thompson’s Restaurant, Undated 208 N. Center St., Downtown Bloomington

Mount Hope Ladies Aid Moore’s Mill Marker, August 1968

Smell that Smoke! Cecil Cone’s Barbecue, May 1953

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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1853 to 1899: Labor

Farm Wives

Finding Aids

1 item

Dairies Collection

Making a Home

4 items

The Mississippians

Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

The Kickapoo

Samuel Hayes

Oral Histories

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Lue Anna Clark

Publications

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Come And Get It: McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community

Speakers Bureau

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German Brewers in Bloomington, IL 1859-1920

Videos

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Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair

Working for a Living

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Pioneering Merchants

Food on the Run

Changing Shipping Practices

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Local tractor company never gained traction

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Picture postcard speaks to power of donations

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Clara Brian champion of farm families

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel

="lithograph

Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois

="Located

Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition

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Belt, Augustus "Gus"

=""

Belt, Edith Pressler

="Ella

Stokes, Ella Lee

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Riebsame, Christian

=""

Sanders, Isaac

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Vrooman, Julia Scott

="Jennie

Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald

="Elmer

Davis, Elmer

McDonald’s Open for Business 806 S. Main St., Normal February 1959

East Twin Grove Farmers’ Picnic July 28, 1922

McDonald’s in Normal 806 S. Main St., 1961

Thompson’s Restaurant, Undated 208 N. Center St., Downtown Bloomington

Mount Hope Ladies Aid Moore’s Mill Marker, August 1968

Smell that Smoke! Cecil Cone’s Barbecue, May 1953

1853 to 1899: Labor

Farm Wives

Dairies Collection

The Mississippians

Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

The Kickapoo

Samuel Hayes

Lue Anna Clark

Come And Get It: McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community

German Brewers in Bloomington, IL 1859-1920

Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair

Pioneering Merchants

Food on the Run

Changing Shipping Practices

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