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The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport

The McLean County Museum of History’s largest artifact, the Tilbury Flash racing plane, has off...

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Evergreen Cemetery Walk – Miller

In the 1990s, Amy Miller was a member of the Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club, a service ...

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Exhibit: "A Matter of Life and Death"

This collection of Medical oral histories was gathered by the McLean County Historical Society ...

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Exhibit: 9-11: McLean County Responds

Staff prepared these materials for the short-term 2002 exhibit “9-11: McLean County Responds.” ...

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Exhibit: A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War

Guest curator Ross Kennedy and staff member Susan Hartzold prepared these materials for the 200...

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Exhibit: Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008

This collection contains research compiled by Dr. Robert Dirks, guest curator and professor eme...

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Exhibit: Greening of the Prairie: Irish Settlement in McLean County

Staff, interns, and volunteers researched and prepared the temporary exhibit “The Greening of t...

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Exhibit: Growing up in the Fifties

The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 2001. This collection contains tr...

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Exhibit: Journey through the Great Depression

Staff worked with guest curator Illinois State University professor Sandra D. Harmon to create ...

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Exhibit: Just Corn: The 'Amaizing' Story

The Museum exhibit, “Just Corn: The ‘Amaizing’ Story,” opened in 1997. It was curated by then-M...

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Exhibit: Made in McLean County

The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 1999. This collection contains th...

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Exhibits: Miscellaneous

This collection contains outlines for temporary exhibits featured at the McLean County Museum o...

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Gray, Vern

Vern Gray (December 19, 1897- June 28, 1972) was a former curator of the McLean County Historic...

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Koos, Greg Collection

The Greg Koos collection contains published and unpublished works by Greg Koos, former executiv...

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McLean County Museum of History Asian Indian History Project

The McLean County Asian Indian History Project was begun in the early 2000s to research and doc...

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Tilbury Flash

The Tilbury Flash is a single-seat American racing monoplane designed and built in the 1930s by...

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