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Articles

20 items

Taps for last Bloomington Civil War veteran in 1940

Four Burger brothers served in World War I

ISNU welcomed veterans after WWII

Memorial tablet honors ‘Great War’ dead

Central Illinois final resting place for once-enslaved persons

Long-gone Franklin Park monument dedicated 150 years ago

Harvey Hogg early martyr to Union cause

Dr. E.D. Churchill, savior to wounded GIs

‘Black Devils’ earned fame in WW I

Campaign to aid Britain comes to Bloomington

Donated Vrooman letter speaks to wartime loss

Halloween 1945 followed world war’s end

WW I freighter ‘Evergreen City’ named for Bloomington

West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s

County jail too often destination for troubled souls

Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill

Fallen sons repatriated after World War II

War’s end makes Christmas ’45 extra special

Bloomington inescapably linked to Springfield Race Riot

Julia Vrooman brought jazz to WW I doughboys

Biographies

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Foster, Daniel T.

McNulta, John

Riebsame, Christian

Frank, Henry “Teddy”

Esque, Eliza (Davis)

Davis, Elmer

Ela, Frances Harriet Rowell

Ela, George Porter

McCullough, William

Blue, Richard

Scott, John Milton

Kaywood, Florence Stevens

Witherspoon, Julius

Guthrie, Adam

Blog

15 items

Photo of the Week, 74: Red, White and Blue in Sepia

Photo of the Week, 18: 1,000 License Plates Contributed in WW II Drive

Photo of the Week, 71: Grim Reapers Pay Respects to Fallen Comrade

Saybrook’s last Civil War widow Emma Cook, May 1938

Miller Hatchery Supports War Effort

Collection Highlight: Trench Art

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day 1960 African-American Legionnaires

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

U.S. Declares War The Pantagraph, December 8, 1941

WW II Rubber Shortage Shirley Farm, March 1942

Photo of the Week, 119: ‘Tanks’ a lot Legionnaires! WW I relic arrives in Bloomington, 1939

Photo of the Week, 130: Dogs of War, 1946 Bella and Her Two Surprises

McHistory: World War II in McLean County

Two Pieces of World War II Accessioned into the Museum's Library and Archives

Finding Aids

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Exhibit: A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War

Castle, Drew/E. M. Pike

Dossett, David C.

Dunn, Richard T.

Ela, George and Frances

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Holder, John

Illinois Air Force Mothers

Illinois National Guard

John Howard Burnham Collection

Kelley, George R.

Ladies Auxiliary of WWI Veterans

Manahan, Eugene

Middleton, Richard & James Gill

Millard, Lt. Mark

Morrissey, John O.

Rice, Charles Edward

Rolley, Elias W.

Schultz, Herman C.

Slack, Kent Collection 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Research

Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War

Spanish-American War Veterans

Streid, Robert

The Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (ASUVCW)

Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers Company C.

Veterans of World War 1 Barracks

Vietnam Moving Wall

Washburn, Dorothy M.

Woodward, Horace E.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

World War II Magazine Collection

Morgan, Raymond “Doc”

Webb, Sidney

Corn Belt Bank

Quinton

Purnell, Paul

Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz

Civil War Era Correspondence

Delbridge, Mary E.

Hoppe, Jim

LaBounty, William P.

Lillard Collection

Sterzbach, Robert WWII

Hartzold Family

Zobrist, Charles J.

Almon Morrow

American Legion

Augsperger, LaRue

Bagosy, John Jr.

Beel, Floyd E.—World War II Army Air Force Service

Carlton Collection

Johnston, George W. and Alice M. Collection

McNulta, John Collection

Abraham, Paul J. Collection

World War II Collection

World War I: State Council of Defense

McLean County WWII Memorial

World War I Collection

9/11 Collection

O’Hara, William J.

George Weldon Funk Collection

Civil War

Hall, Robert S. Diary

McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

Gold Star Mothers

Craig Family

Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Daughters of the American Revolution

Vietnam War

Bloomington-Normal Black History Project

Oral Histories

6 items

John Barrientes

Howard and Elaine Bell

Robert Gaston

Oscar and Ruth Waddell

Wilbur Barton

Kathyrn Dean

Publications

6 items

Civil War Diaries of James W. Jessee 1861-1865

Historic McLean

It Is Begun: The Pantagraph Reports the Civil War

McLean County Blacks in the Civil War

McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918

Soldiers of the war of 1812 whose bounty land grants were located in McLean County, Illinois

Speakers Bureau

2 items

From Jenny to Albert: Pvt. Cashier and the Civil War

Women Called to Action: Women in World War II

Taps for last Bloomington Civil War veteran in 1940

Four Burger brothers served in World War I

ISNU welcomed veterans after WWII

Memorial tablet honors ‘Great War’ dead

Central Illinois final resting place for once-enslaved persons

Long-gone Franklin Park monument dedicated 150 years ago

Harvey Hogg early martyr to Union cause

Dr. E.D. Churchill, savior to wounded GIs

‘Black Devils’ earned fame in WW I

Campaign to aid Britain comes to Bloomington

Donated Vrooman letter speaks to wartime loss

Halloween 1945 followed world war’s end

WW I freighter ‘Evergreen City’ named for Bloomington

West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s

County jail too often destination for troubled souls

Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill

Fallen sons repatriated after World War II

War’s end makes Christmas ’45 extra special

Bloomington inescapably linked to Springfield Race Riot

Julia Vrooman brought jazz to WW I doughboys

Foster, Daniel T.

McNulta, John

Riebsame, Christian

Frank, Henry “Teddy”

Esque, Eliza (Davis)

Davis, Elmer

Ela, Frances Harriet Rowell

Ela, George Porter

McCullough, William

Blue, Richard

Scott, John Milton

Kaywood, Florence Stevens

Witherspoon, Julius

Guthrie, Adam

Photo of the Week, 74: Red, White and Blue in Sepia

Photo of the Week, 18: 1,000 License Plates Contributed in WW II Drive

Photo of the Week, 71: Grim Reapers Pay Respects to Fallen Comrade

Saybrook’s last Civil War widow Emma Cook, May 1938

Miller Hatchery Supports War Effort

Collection Highlight: Trench Art

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day 1960 African-American Legionnaires

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

U.S. Declares War The Pantagraph, December 8, 1941

WW II Rubber Shortage Shirley Farm, March 1942

Photo of the Week, 119: ‘Tanks’ a lot Legionnaires! WW I relic arrives in Bloomington, 1939

Photo of the Week, 130: Dogs of War, 1946 Bella and Her Two Surprises

McHistory: World War II in McLean County

Two Pieces of World War II Accessioned into the Museum's Library and Archives

Exhibit: A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War

Castle, Drew/E. M. Pike

Dossett, David C.

Dunn, Richard T.

Ela, George and Frances

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Holder, John

Illinois Air Force Mothers

Illinois National Guard

John Howard Burnham Collection

Kelley, George R.

Ladies Auxiliary of WWI Veterans

Manahan, Eugene

Middleton, Richard & James Gill

Millard, Lt. Mark

Morrissey, John O.

Rice, Charles Edward

Rolley, Elias W.

Schultz, Herman C.

Slack, Kent Collection 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Research

Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War

Spanish-American War Veterans

Streid, Robert

The Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (ASUVCW)

Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers Company C.

Veterans of World War 1 Barracks

Vietnam Moving Wall

Washburn, Dorothy M.

Woodward, Horace E.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

World War II Magazine Collection

Morgan, Raymond “Doc”

Webb, Sidney

Corn Belt Bank

Quinton

Purnell, Paul

Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz

Civil War Era Correspondence

Delbridge, Mary E.

Hoppe, Jim

LaBounty, William P.

Lillard Collection

Sterzbach, Robert WWII

Hartzold Family

Zobrist, Charles J.

Almon Morrow

American Legion

Augsperger, LaRue

Bagosy, John Jr.

Beel, Floyd E.—World War II Army Air Force Service

Carlton Collection

Johnston, George W. and Alice M. Collection

McNulta, John Collection

Abraham, Paul J. Collection

World War II Collection

World War I: State Council of Defense

McLean County WWII Memorial

World War I Collection

9/11 Collection

O’Hara, William J.

George Weldon Funk Collection

Civil War

Hall, Robert S. Diary

McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

Gold Star Mothers

Craig Family

Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Daughters of the American Revolution

Vietnam War

Bloomington-Normal Black History Project

John Barrientes

Howard and Elaine Bell

Robert Gaston

Oscar and Ruth Waddell

Wilbur Barton

Kathyrn Dean

Civil War Diaries of James W. Jessee 1861-1865

Historic McLean

It Is Begun: The Pantagraph Reports the Civil War

McLean County Blacks in the Civil War

McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918

Soldiers of the war of 1812 whose bounty land grants were located in McLean County, Illinois

From Jenny to Albert: Pvt. Cashier and the Civil War

Women Called to Action: Women in World War II