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Taps for last Bloomington Civil War veteran in 1940
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Lightning a menace, past and present
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Great Epizootic of 1872 ravaged the horse population
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Four Burger brothers served in World War I
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‘Trolley Days’ raised funds for the underprivileged
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Million-dollar cartoonist got start in Bloomington
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‘Welby and Pearl,’ minstrel act with local roots
=""

Memorial tablet honors ‘Great War’ dead
="A

Central Illinois final resting place for once-enslaved persons
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Harry Forbes, champion boxer, once made Bloomington home
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ISU held racially segregated spring dances in the 1930s and ’40s
="color

Long-gone Franklin Park monument dedicated 150 years ago
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Local tractor company never gained traction
="illustration

Adam Bogardus, world champion wing shot
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Harvey Hogg early martyr to Union cause
="through

Portable Elevator plant closed in 1987
="13

Washington Home couple worked ‘through the heart’
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Thrilling World Series captivated nation back in 1926
="An

Last local Corn Bowl held in 1953
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Community Christmas ‘sing’ once annual event
="a

For pioneers, river crossings sometimes matter of life and death
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WW I home front featured French-Belgian relief
="A

Cousin Emmy had deep ties to Bloomington
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Bloomington’s Oakland School a modernist architectural gem
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Emancipation Day once Black community’s July 4th
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TV’s early years included short-lived Bloomington station
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Twin Cities once hosted own Chautauqua
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Area’s deadliest cholera outbreak in 1855
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Undertaker’s invoice window into Bloomington’s rich past
="two

Donation illuminates Earhart’s 1936 visit to Twin Cities
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‘Pop’ Horton organized campus circus fraternity in 1929
="dozens

First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington
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Pantagraph reporter turns sci-fi writer
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Turner Hall lost monument to German pride
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Railroaders’ library once west side hub
="A

Eastland Mall transformed Twin Cities
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‘Black Devils’ earned fame in WW I
=""

Solar superstorm awes locals in 1859
=""

BroMenn donation speaks to 125 years of community service
=""

Before railroads, stage lines crisscrossed the prairies
=""

Stevenson faced anti-U.N. mob in 1963
=""

Campaign to aid Britain comes to Bloomington
=""

Local abolitionists faced rage, mob violence
="A

Bloomington schools integrated decade after Civil War
=""

President Johnson receives ‘stern rebuke’ from locals in 1866
=""

Virtual cemetery walk showcases amazing Florence Funk
=""

Bloomington’s oldest park turns 165 this week
=""

Donated Vrooman letter speaks to wartime loss
=""

Community fund drive kept C&A Shops in Bloomington
=""

Buck Mann Park hidden west side gem
="a

Spirits high for Depression-era Christmas
=""

Hollywood Legends Brought Local Author’s Novel to Silver Screen
="a

Beloved ‘Rags’ rode the rails to local fame
="16

Bloomers photo features bevy of big leaguers
="postcard

‘Spanish craze’ of 1920s left imprint on area architecture
="Gulf,

West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s
="Bloomington

Passage of 1920 suffrage amendment end of long struggle
="This

Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington
="aerial

Railroad shops center of deadly 1920 typhoid outbreak
="Regan

Reagan’s conservatism forged during years with GE
="This

Short-lived performance hall once city’s finest
="The

Airship pays visit to downtown Bloomington in 1910
="Charles

Depression-era art show one for the ages

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel
="Illinois

Back to school 1946 meant return to normalcy
="lithograph

Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois
="This

Celebrity life of ‘Baby’ Bliss mired in tragedy
="shortstop

Bloomers had some success against big league clubs
="aerial

‘New’ Bloomington High opened in 1959
="The

Standpipe once towered over Twin Cities
="The

In 1955, downtown Bloomington 'dressed in holiday style'
="two

Holidays bring turbulent year of ’68 to a close
="Santa's

Intrepid Pantagrapher paid visit to Santa’s North Pole
="Located

Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition
="Flying

Circus train wreck takes life of local aerialist Jennie Ward
=""

Early African-American doctor faced segregated Twin Cities
="1947

‘Angel of the West Side’ met daycare needs a century ago
="This

Bloomington witness to 1869 total solar eclipse
="This

Cuban ‘Chico’ Hernandez star of 1938 Bloomers
="“In

Labor leader product of west side railroad shops
=""

Oxen the original ‘work horses’ of the prairie
="Although

Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill
="The

Stipp house was Bloomington’s oldest
="The

Catcher’s mitt tells story of big leaguer ‘Butch’ Henline
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Julia Vrooman brought jazz to WW I doughboys
=""

Courts offered women few protections in cases of rape
=""

May Christian, forever her own woman
=""

Bloomington’s Fifer Bohrer first state Senator
="A

‘Dr. Mrs. Keck’ battled male-dominated medical establishment
="This

Women’s suffrage debate captivates Twin Cities in 1870
="During

‘Aviatrix’ Amelia Earhart twice visitor to Twin Cities
="portrait

Bloomington’s Cliff Carroll 19th century baseball standout
="Located

Indoor baseball once popular winter pastime
="6

Project to mark firefighter graves lesson in history

pe-2"> Biographies

83 items

="Peter

Duff, Peter
="Grace

Austin, Grace Jewett
="Susan

Anthony, Susan B.
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Claxton, Belle Blue
="Ruby

Edwards, Ruby
="Mary

Gridley, Mary
="Helen

Stevenson, Helen Davis
="Sarah

Withers, Sarah
="Rose

Northrup, Rose Whipp
="" ="Rectangular

Loomis, Emily Hanks
="Willis

Stearles, Willis
="" =""

Annette, Madame
=""

Blue, Richard
="Almira

Burnham, Almira Sarah Ives
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Christian, Annie May
="David

Davis, Judge David
="Sarah

Davis, Sarah
="Alverta

Duff, Alverta
="Emily

Howard, Emily
=""

King, Mary Reed
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King, Samuel Noble
="Hilda

Livingston, Hilda
="Mary

Marmon, Mary Ann
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Mayes, John Jackson
="Helen

McCurdy, Helen Clark
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Rhymer, Paul
="Grace

Stewart, Grace Huddleston
="Ella

Stokes, Ella Lee
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Jones, Annie Ethel
="Crude

Fox, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Irons Folsom
="Grace

Wagner, Grace B.
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Colby, Dr. June Rose
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Christian, Elizabeth Jane Mitchell
="Augusta

Becker, Augusta "Gussie"
="Dr.

Adams, Dr. William Henry Harrison
="Nannie

Dyson, Nancy “Nannie” McCullough Orme
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Hamilton, Kate Waterman
=""

Cotting, Katherine M.J. Vanderpool
="Sarah

Jackman, Sarah Farnum Sargent
="Beulah

Locher, Beulah Baker
="Mary

Merchant, Mary Arenz
="Susan

Sanders, Susan Pike
="Samuel

Hawks, Samuel Lockhart
="Portrait

Pillsbury, Arthur L.
="Florence

Funk, Florence Mae Risser
="Lincoln

Bynum, Lincoln
="Carolyn

Geneva, Carolyn Schertz
="Julia

Holder, Julia
="Ethel

Hanson, Ethel Hamilton
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Murray, Ethel
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Thompson, Jennie
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Calcote, Matilda
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Ela, Frances Harriet Rowell
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Ela, George Porter
="Headstones

Esque, Eliza (Davis)
="Emily

Noble, Emily Vecchi
="Henry

Brown, Henry L.
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Rice, Martha Baker
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Roeder, John Conrad
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Huggins, Sophia
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Scott, Charlotte Ann Perry
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Trotter, Georgina
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Wunderlich, Gerald “Jerry” White
="Julia

Hawkins, Julia Bee
="Angie

Milner, Angeline Vernon
="Lucy

Morgan, Lucy Orme
="Eva

Jones, Eva
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Kessler, Frances
="Sarah

Fitzwilliam, Sarah Raymond
="Mary

Elder, Mary
="Dr.

MacGillivray, Dr. Margaret
="Sophia

Bach, Maria Sophia
="Abram

Brokaw, Abraham
="Judith

Bradner, Judith Ann
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Moratz, Paul
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White, Samuel
="Helen

Hall, Helen Ross
="Letitia

Stevenson, Letitia Green
="Jennie

Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald
="James

Allin, James
="Luella

Kimball, Luella
="Elmer

Davis, Elmer
="Dorothy

Gage, Dorothy Louise

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

Whites-only beach Miller Park, Bloomington, July 1940

Bloomington Municipal Airport June 20, 1941

Future Flying Farmers? Bloomington Municipal Airport, 1953

Ozark Air Lines Touches Down Bloomington Municipal Airport, Nov. 6, 1950

Men with Hats Passenger Service Inaugurated Old ‘Bloomington’ Airport, 1931

Bloomington Municipal Airport Terminal, April 1964

Inaugural Bloomington Flight Ozark Air Lines, Nov. 6, 1950

Photo of the Week, 3: C.U. Wiliams and Son Co., 1914

Photo of the Week, 8: Ike Sanders "Up, Up and Away"

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

Photo of the Week, 15: Play Ball!

Photo of the Week, 20: Grocery Shopping in the Great Depression

Photo of the Week, 21: Kadgihn’s, downtown Bloomington, 1921

Photo of the Week, 22: A Little Off the Top

Photo of the Week, 23: World War II Drinking Fountain Flows Once More!

Photo of the Week, 25: Et tu, Brute? “Julius Caesar” at the Consistory, 1931

Photo of the Week, 26: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Photo of the Week, 27: Shhhhh!

Photo of the Week, 28: Waaaaaa!

Photo of the Week, 29: Blue Collar Bloomington

Photo of the Week, 30: Gertrude Fifer and Grandson Joe Bohrer

Sinoark’s ‘Frontier Room’ Opens October 1959

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

University School of Beauty Culture September 1939

Independence Day 1964 Miller Park, Bloomington

Red, White, and Kaboom! Independence Day 1941

Downtown Bloomington September 1938

Mackinaw River catch, July 1940 Boolman residence, Bloomington

Roller-Skating messengers State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Woops! Roller-skating messenger State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

Fifth annual Corn Belt Coin Show July 14-15, 1962

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

Irvin Theatre, June 1938 202 E. Jefferson St., Bloomington

The Iceman Cometh … but for how long? June 1957

Miller Park Beach July 1941

Paving, 400 block North Main Street June 1938

I beg to differ … Waterloo v. Bloomers, July 6, 1938

Irvin Theater, Bloomington Circa 1958

An Old Master returns home ‘Doc’ Bradshaw, July 19, 1962

Bzzzz! June 30, 1938

Penney’s Readies Eastland Store November 9, 1966

Eureka Williams aerial June 1966

Wilder Field, IWU July 1938

That’s Why They Call It Six Points Outer Bloomington, Early October 1933

Home Sweet Home Mission, 1923 1006 W. Washington St., Bloomington

Private Joe’ Fifer Laid to Rest August 8, 1938

Lucy Orme Morgan Home Washington St. Party, Aug. 1949

Pony Giveaway Courthouse Square, August 1947

Veterans Day, 1958 McLean County Courthouse Lawn

Bloomington Author Wilson Tucker Book Signing, October 1947

Valentine’s Day 1947 Raymond School, Bloomington

March of Dimes Coffee Day January 1953

Spring Training Illinois Wesleyan, early March 1942

Carrie Behrend Retires February 1, 1958

‘Craig’s Wife,’ February 1947 Community Players, Bloomington

Hot Times on in Downtown Bloomington June 19, 1949

Illini Coach Ray Eliot, 1942 Young Men’s Club luncheon

Better Babies Conference May 1929

Model-Paris, 1938 Downtown Bloomington

Cotton’s Village Inn 401 N. Main St., Bloomington

Unfinished Business Interstate 74 , October 1965

Bloomington High from Above June 1963

Bloomington Creamery 104 S. East St.

‘Fancy Pants’ Gets a Trim April 1946

‘Private Joe’ Fifer Memorial Day 1934

Hawkins Studio & Camera Shop 100 N. Center St., Bloomington, undated

Memorial Day 1964 Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington

Memorial Day 1936 Downtown Bloomington

Bloomington’s far west side Undated aerial

Vroom, vroom

Backstage, Majestic Theatre Bloomington, undated

St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bloomington Under Construction, circa 1967

Excuse me, comin’ through May 1968

Book Lover in Seventh Heaven May 1968

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

Bloomington’s Federal’s ‘electronic brain’ January 1963

Easter Lily Sales March 1958

National Air Mail Week May 1938

Franklin Park’s new evergreens April 1958

Artist and Author Visit Bloomington May 1948

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

300 Block North Main Street May 1937

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day tradition Poppy Sales, May 1938

Labor Day in Bloomington Circa 1920

Remember the Fallen

Slitherin’ no more Mystery Pic, 1958

Flag Day, 1948

Miller Park Fishing Season Underway June 1938

And the rockets' red glare … Independence Day, Miller Park, 1957

‘Modernistic’ Main Street July 1939

What a View!

What’s Your Favorite Flavor?

‘Old School’ Public Transportation Twin City Streetcars Date to 1867

Photo of the Week, 103: Broadview Mansion Bell Tower, November 1939

Mobile Home Living, Bloomington Catherine Heineman, January 1953

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Face-off! Angler’s Club, Bloomington January 1938

Lea Kallish Fashionable Hats, 1959

Christmas 1953

Bloomington Boys Visit Wrigley Field September 13, 1947

Unitarian Church of Bloomington 209 N. East St., undated

Armistice Day, 1945 Courthouse Square, Bloomington

Santa at the Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, 1948

Christmas Seals, 1937

Santa No Replacement for Mama Downtown Bloomington, December 4, 1948

December Sleigh Ride, 1963

Holiday Shopping Downtown Bloomington, December 1953

Holiday Shopping 1932 Downtown Bloomington

McLean County Fairgrounds Old East Side Location, Undated

Santa on Parade December 1948

Snow-shrouded Bloomington, undated 200 Block E. Jefferson St., north side

Mystery Snow Scene - Mystery Solved!

Navajo Tap Room and Coffee Shop Illinois Hotel, Bloomington, circa 1943

Lost Bloomington South End of Downtown

Big 4 Valley Storm Sewer Project Mid-1930s, Bloomington

Santa and His Six (?) Reindeer Bloomington Christmas Parade, 1929

East Grove Street, Bloomington July 1956

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

National Bank of Bloomington Drive-In 400 block East Washington Street, c. 1970

Country Club Place, Bloomington Berenz Home, September 1933

Courthouse Square, Bloomington East Side / Main Street, Late 1970s

Fans Field, South Bloomington Aerial, 1938

Pantagraph Expansion, Circa 1935 Madison and Washington streets Downtown Bloomington

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

Photo of the Week: Dolls On Parade O’Neil Park, July 1939

On Your Mark . . . Street Sledding, December 31, 1946

When Paperboys Were … Boys Pantagraph Carriers, May 1929

Esquire Theatre, circa 1944 Downtown Bloomington

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

200 Block W. Washington St. Downtown Bloomington, 1965

Be of Good Cheer Livingston’s, Early 1950s

Ho ho ho Livingston’s Santas, 1940s

East Side Exodus, November 1966 Penney’s to Eastland Mall

Miller Park and Bloomington’s West Side Undated Aerial

East Washington Street 200 Block, Circa 1956

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

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

Photo of the Week, 92: Thanksgiving in the Great Depression, 1938

McLean County Fairgrounds, 1956

Photo of the Week, 70: A Real Animal House

Pillsbury House The Wrecking Ball Looms

Majestic Theatre, Bloomington May 1937

Waiting for the wrecking ball, 1971 200 block South Main Street

The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport

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

Photo of the Week, 120: Carl Loeseke’s Homing Pigeons, 1938

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

Photo of the Week, 125: Coachman Motel September 1962

Photo of the Week, 128: Dog Days of Summer Miller Park, 1937

Photo of the Week, 5: Beich Employees Packing Whiz Bars

Photo of the Week 19: New Deal Rally, September 1933

Illinois Bicentennial flag raising kicks off year of programs

BPD’s Rogues Gallery August 1947

City Hoosegow September 1938

New Two-Way Radios Bloomington Fire Department, 1953

Free range … no more! City Hall booking, March 30, 1958

Municipal Workers on Strike May 1968

FDR in Bloomington October 14, 1936

Bloomington Fire Station No. 2 214 W. Washington St., c. 1883

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

Museum Saving Santa, Bringing Back a Beloved Central Illinois Christmas Tradition

We're Special! -- The MCMH Library

Museum Square Becomes First Site for International Artist EMEMEM's U.S. Debut

Museum Launches Contest to Color Upcoming Mural of Lincoln's Lost Speech in Downtown Bloomington, Illinois

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

5 items

Frontier Resources

1853 to 1899: Diversified Farming

1900 to 1945: Tenants and Labor

Marketing Crops and Livestock

Marketing Our Crops

pe-2"> Finding Aids

80 items

Bloomington School District 87

Vietnam Moving Wall

Bloomington Public Schools

Young, Fred H.

Vrooman

Knife & Fork Club

Bloomington-Normal Garden Club

Bloomington Rotary Club

Tau Epsilon Delta

Turners in Bloomington
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Community Players

Espey (Pharmacy)

Evans, J. Harwood

Family Circle (Pantagraph Employee Newsletter)
="Lincoln

Lincoln School

Steak N Shake

Withers Home
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Franklin Park
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General Electric
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Corn Belt Bank

Wood, Lois Postcard

Helm, Grover C. (National Bank of Bloomington)
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Illinois Tractor

International Tapetronics Corp

McLean County Telephone Co.

Pantagraph

Pantagraph Printing

Murray & Carmody Funeral Home

Reiner - Bennett

Scharf, Emmett Electric Co.

Stevenson, J.B. Letter Book

Vrooman Mansion - Theora Stark

Bracken Family

Carlock, W. B.

Custer, Milo

Dunn, Betty Hinckle

Ensenberger Furniture Store

Frazier-McCulley

Hayden Murray

Irvin, Clarence E.

Iseminger Ford

Mau, McCoy, & Haskell

Portable Elevator

Ensenberger Building

People’s Bank

Fell Collection

Wilson, Harrold B. Collection

Delphi — Bloomington Chapter

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Corn on the Curb 2000

Fell Family

McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection

Independent order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cornerstones (1886 & 1900)

Thoms and O’Neil Families

Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club
="CW =""

Klemm’s Department Store

Stickrod’s Drug Store

Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (UNARCO)

Merwin

Martin Luther King Jr Awards Program — Human Relation Commissions

Clarke, Marguerite E.

Kingsley—McElroy Collection

McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

Selk, Mary

Young Men’s Club

Miller Park

Miller, George

Pratt, Awadagin

Children and Elders Forest

David Davis Mansion

Davis Correspondence

Dimmitts Grove Neighborhood Association

Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940

Bach, William
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Beich Collection

Bloomington Cemetery Association

Bloomington Gold (Corvette Show)

Bloomington High School

Bloomington High School Class Reunion

Bloomington History Club

pe-2"> Oral Histories

11 items

Beth Echeverria

Irene Barnes

Jesus Villaneuva

Lucy Woosley

Sarita Mendiola

Ethel Murray

Caribel Washington

Howard and Elaine Bell

Lucinda Posey

Roy and Delores Shavers

Vincenta "Esperanza" Cornejo

pe-2"> Publications

10 items

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1886

1917 City Directory

1919 City Directory

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1892

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1896

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1901

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1907

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1950

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois 1953

Bloomington, Illinois 1867 (Bird's-eye view)

pe-2"> Speakers Bureau

1 item

German Brewers in Bloomington, IL 1859-1920

pe-2"> Videos

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Pitfalls and Promise: Memorializing McLean County's Past
="14

Taps for last Bloomington Civil War veteran in 1940
=""

Lightning a menace, past and present
=""

Great Epizootic of 1872 ravaged the horse population
=""

Four Burger brothers served in World War I
=""

‘Trolley Days’ raised funds for the underprivileged
=""

Million-dollar cartoonist got start in Bloomington
=""

‘Welby and Pearl,’ minstrel act with local roots
=""

Memorial tablet honors ‘Great War’ dead
="A

Central Illinois final resting place for once-enslaved persons
=""

Harry Forbes, champion boxer, once made Bloomington home
=""

ISU held racially segregated spring dances in the 1930s and ’40s
="color

Long-gone Franklin Park monument dedicated 150 years ago
=""

Local tractor company never gained traction
="illustration

Adam Bogardus, world champion wing shot
=""

Harvey Hogg early martyr to Union cause
="through

Portable Elevator plant closed in 1987
="13

Washington Home couple worked ‘through the heart’
=""

Thrilling World Series captivated nation back in 1926
="An

Last local Corn Bowl held in 1953
=""

Community Christmas ‘sing’ once annual event
="a

For pioneers, river crossings sometimes matter of life and death
=""

WW I home front featured French-Belgian relief
="A

Cousin Emmy had deep ties to Bloomington
=""

Bloomington’s Oakland School a modernist architectural gem
=""

Emancipation Day once Black community’s July 4th
=""

TV’s early years included short-lived Bloomington station
=""

Twin Cities once hosted own Chautauqua
="A

Area’s deadliest cholera outbreak in 1855
=""

Undertaker’s invoice window into Bloomington’s rich past
="two

Donation illuminates Earhart’s 1936 visit to Twin Cities
=""

‘Pop’ Horton organized campus circus fraternity in 1929
="dozens

First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington
=""

Pantagraph reporter turns sci-fi writer
=""

Turner Hall lost monument to German pride
=""

Railroaders’ library once west side hub
="A

Eastland Mall transformed Twin Cities
=""

‘Black Devils’ earned fame in WW I
=""

Solar superstorm awes locals in 1859
=""

BroMenn donation speaks to 125 years of community service
=""

Before railroads, stage lines crisscrossed the prairies
=""

Stevenson faced anti-U.N. mob in 1963
=""

Campaign to aid Britain comes to Bloomington
=""

Local abolitionists faced rage, mob violence
="A

Bloomington schools integrated decade after Civil War
=""

President Johnson receives ‘stern rebuke’ from locals in 1866
=""

Virtual cemetery walk showcases amazing Florence Funk
=""

Bloomington’s oldest park turns 165 this week
=""

Donated Vrooman letter speaks to wartime loss
=""

Community fund drive kept C&A Shops in Bloomington
=""

Buck Mann Park hidden west side gem
="a

Spirits high for Depression-era Christmas
=""

Hollywood Legends Brought Local Author’s Novel to Silver Screen
="a

Beloved ‘Rags’ rode the rails to local fame
="16

Bloomers photo features bevy of big leaguers
="postcard

‘Spanish craze’ of 1920s left imprint on area architecture
="Gulf,

West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s
="Bloomington

Passage of 1920 suffrage amendment end of long struggle
="This

Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington
="aerial

Railroad shops center of deadly 1920 typhoid outbreak
="Regan

Reagan’s conservatism forged during years with GE
="This

Short-lived performance hall once city’s finest
="The

Airship pays visit to downtown Bloomington in 1910
="Charles

Depression-era art show one for the ages

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel
="Illinois

Back to school 1946 meant return to normalcy
="lithograph

Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois
="This

Celebrity life of ‘Baby’ Bliss mired in tragedy
="shortstop

Bloomers had some success against big league clubs
="aerial

‘New’ Bloomington High opened in 1959
="The

Standpipe once towered over Twin Cities
="The

In 1955, downtown Bloomington 'dressed in holiday style'
="two

Holidays bring turbulent year of ’68 to a close
="Santa's

Intrepid Pantagrapher paid visit to Santa’s North Pole
="Located

Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition
="Flying

Circus train wreck takes life of local aerialist Jennie Ward
=""

Early African-American doctor faced segregated Twin Cities
="1947

‘Angel of the West Side’ met daycare needs a century ago
="This

Bloomington witness to 1869 total solar eclipse
="This

Cuban ‘Chico’ Hernandez star of 1938 Bloomers
="“In

Labor leader product of west side railroad shops
=""

Oxen the original ‘work horses’ of the prairie
="Although

Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill
="The

Stipp house was Bloomington’s oldest
="The

Catcher’s mitt tells story of big leaguer ‘Butch’ Henline
=""

Julia Vrooman brought jazz to WW I doughboys
=""

Courts offered women few protections in cases of rape
=""

May Christian, forever her own woman
=""

Bloomington’s Fifer Bohrer first state Senator
="A

‘Dr. Mrs. Keck’ battled male-dominated medical establishment
="This

Women’s suffrage debate captivates Twin Cities in 1870
="During

‘Aviatrix’ Amelia Earhart twice visitor to Twin Cities
="portrait

Bloomington’s Cliff Carroll 19th century baseball standout
="Located

Indoor baseball once popular winter pastime
="6

Project to mark firefighter graves lesson in history
="Peter

Duff, Peter
="Grace

Austin, Grace Jewett
="Susan

Anthony, Susan B.
=""

Claxton, Belle Blue
="Ruby

Edwards, Ruby
="Mary

Gridley, Mary
="Helen

Stevenson, Helen Davis
="Sarah

Withers, Sarah
="Rose

Northrup, Rose Whipp
="" ="Rectangular

Loomis, Emily Hanks
="Willis

Stearles, Willis
="" =""

Annette, Madame
=""

Blue, Richard
="Almira

Burnham, Almira Sarah Ives
=""

Christian, Annie May
="David

Davis, Judge David
="Sarah

Davis, Sarah
="Alverta

Duff, Alverta
="Emily

Howard, Emily
=""

King, Mary Reed
=""

King, Samuel Noble
="Hilda

Livingston, Hilda
="Mary

Marmon, Mary Ann
=""

Mayes, John Jackson
="Helen

McCurdy, Helen Clark
=""

Rhymer, Paul
="Grace

Stewart, Grace Huddleston
="Ella

Stokes, Ella Lee
=""

Jones, Annie Ethel
="Crude

Fox, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Irons Folsom
="Grace

Wagner, Grace B.
=""

Colby, Dr. June Rose
=""

Christian, Elizabeth Jane Mitchell
="Augusta

Becker, Augusta "Gussie"
="Dr.

Adams, Dr. William Henry Harrison
="Nannie

Dyson, Nancy “Nannie” McCullough Orme
="" =""

Hamilton, Kate Waterman
=""

Cotting, Katherine M.J. Vanderpool
="Sarah

Jackman, Sarah Farnum Sargent
="Beulah

Locher, Beulah Baker
="Mary

Merchant, Mary Arenz
="Susan

Sanders, Susan Pike
="Samuel

Hawks, Samuel Lockhart
="Portrait

Pillsbury, Arthur L.
="Florence

Funk, Florence Mae Risser
="Lincoln

Bynum, Lincoln
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Geneva, Carolyn Schertz
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Holder, Julia
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Hanson, Ethel Hamilton
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Murray, Ethel
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Thompson, Jennie
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Calcote, Matilda
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Ela, Frances Harriet Rowell
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Ela, George Porter
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Esque, Eliza (Davis)
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Noble, Emily Vecchi
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Brown, Henry L.
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Rice, Martha Baker
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Roeder, John Conrad
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Huggins, Sophia
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Scott, Charlotte Ann Perry
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Trotter, Georgina
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Wunderlich, Gerald “Jerry” White
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Hawkins, Julia Bee
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Milner, Angeline Vernon
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Morgan, Lucy Orme
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Jones, Eva
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Kessler, Frances
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Fitzwilliam, Sarah Raymond
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Elder, Mary
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MacGillivray, Dr. Margaret
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Bach, Maria Sophia
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Brokaw, Abraham
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Bradner, Judith Ann
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Moratz, Paul
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White, Samuel
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Hall, Helen Ross
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Stevenson, Letitia Green
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Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald
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Allin, James
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Kimball, Luella
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Davis, Elmer
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Gage, Dorothy Louise

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

Whites-only beach Miller Park, Bloomington, July 1940

Bloomington Municipal Airport June 20, 1941

Future Flying Farmers? Bloomington Municipal Airport, 1953

Ozark Air Lines Touches Down Bloomington Municipal Airport, Nov. 6, 1950

Men with Hats Passenger Service Inaugurated Old ‘Bloomington’ Airport, 1931

Bloomington Municipal Airport Terminal, April 1964

Inaugural Bloomington Flight Ozark Air Lines, Nov. 6, 1950

Photo of the Week, 3: C.U. Wiliams and Son Co., 1914

Photo of the Week, 8: Ike Sanders "Up, Up and Away"

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

Photo of the Week, 15: Play Ball!

Photo of the Week, 20: Grocery Shopping in the Great Depression

Photo of the Week, 21: Kadgihn’s, downtown Bloomington, 1921

Photo of the Week, 22: A Little Off the Top

Photo of the Week, 23: World War II Drinking Fountain Flows Once More!

Photo of the Week, 25: Et tu, Brute? “Julius Caesar” at the Consistory, 1931

Photo of the Week, 26: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Photo of the Week, 27: Shhhhh!

Photo of the Week, 28: Waaaaaa!

Photo of the Week, 29: Blue Collar Bloomington

Photo of the Week, 30: Gertrude Fifer and Grandson Joe Bohrer

Sinoark’s ‘Frontier Room’ Opens October 1959

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

University School of Beauty Culture September 1939

Independence Day 1964 Miller Park, Bloomington

Red, White, and Kaboom! Independence Day 1941

Downtown Bloomington September 1938

Mackinaw River catch, July 1940 Boolman residence, Bloomington

Roller-Skating messengers State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Woops! Roller-skating messenger State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

Fifth annual Corn Belt Coin Show July 14-15, 1962

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

Irvin Theatre, June 1938 202 E. Jefferson St., Bloomington

The Iceman Cometh … but for how long? June 1957

Miller Park Beach July 1941

Paving, 400 block North Main Street June 1938

I beg to differ … Waterloo v. Bloomers, July 6, 1938

Irvin Theater, Bloomington Circa 1958

An Old Master returns home ‘Doc’ Bradshaw, July 19, 1962

Bzzzz! June 30, 1938

Penney’s Readies Eastland Store November 9, 1966

Eureka Williams aerial June 1966

Wilder Field, IWU July 1938

That’s Why They Call It Six Points Outer Bloomington, Early October 1933

Home Sweet Home Mission, 1923 1006 W. Washington St., Bloomington

Private Joe’ Fifer Laid to Rest August 8, 1938

Lucy Orme Morgan Home Washington St. Party, Aug. 1949

Pony Giveaway Courthouse Square, August 1947

Veterans Day, 1958 McLean County Courthouse Lawn

Bloomington Author Wilson Tucker Book Signing, October 1947

Valentine’s Day 1947 Raymond School, Bloomington

March of Dimes Coffee Day January 1953

Spring Training Illinois Wesleyan, early March 1942

Carrie Behrend Retires February 1, 1958

‘Craig’s Wife,’ February 1947 Community Players, Bloomington

Hot Times on in Downtown Bloomington June 19, 1949

Illini Coach Ray Eliot, 1942 Young Men’s Club luncheon

Better Babies Conference May 1929

Model-Paris, 1938 Downtown Bloomington

Cotton’s Village Inn 401 N. Main St., Bloomington

Unfinished Business Interstate 74 , October 1965

Bloomington High from Above June 1963

Bloomington Creamery 104 S. East St.

‘Fancy Pants’ Gets a Trim April 1946

‘Private Joe’ Fifer Memorial Day 1934

Hawkins Studio & Camera Shop 100 N. Center St., Bloomington, undated

Memorial Day 1964 Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington

Memorial Day 1936 Downtown Bloomington

Bloomington’s far west side Undated aerial

Vroom, vroom

Backstage, Majestic Theatre Bloomington, undated

St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bloomington Under Construction, circa 1967

Excuse me, comin’ through May 1968

Book Lover in Seventh Heaven May 1968

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

Bloomington’s Federal’s ‘electronic brain’ January 1963

Easter Lily Sales March 1958

National Air Mail Week May 1938

Franklin Park’s new evergreens April 1958

Artist and Author Visit Bloomington May 1948

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

300 Block North Main Street May 1937

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day tradition Poppy Sales, May 1938

Labor Day in Bloomington Circa 1920

Remember the Fallen

Slitherin’ no more Mystery Pic, 1958

Flag Day, 1948

Miller Park Fishing Season Underway June 1938

And the rockets' red glare … Independence Day, Miller Park, 1957

‘Modernistic’ Main Street July 1939

What a View!

What’s Your Favorite Flavor?

‘Old School’ Public Transportation Twin City Streetcars Date to 1867

Photo of the Week, 103: Broadview Mansion Bell Tower, November 1939

Mobile Home Living, Bloomington Catherine Heineman, January 1953

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Face-off! Angler’s Club, Bloomington January 1938

Lea Kallish Fashionable Hats, 1959

Christmas 1953

Bloomington Boys Visit Wrigley Field September 13, 1947

Unitarian Church of Bloomington 209 N. East St., undated

Armistice Day, 1945 Courthouse Square, Bloomington

Santa at the Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, 1948

Christmas Seals, 1937

Santa No Replacement for Mama Downtown Bloomington, December 4, 1948

December Sleigh Ride, 1963

Holiday Shopping Downtown Bloomington, December 1953

Holiday Shopping 1932 Downtown Bloomington

McLean County Fairgrounds Old East Side Location, Undated

Santa on Parade December 1948

Snow-shrouded Bloomington, undated 200 Block E. Jefferson St., north side

Mystery Snow Scene - Mystery Solved!

Navajo Tap Room and Coffee Shop Illinois Hotel, Bloomington, circa 1943

Lost Bloomington South End of Downtown

Big 4 Valley Storm Sewer Project Mid-1930s, Bloomington

Santa and His Six (?) Reindeer Bloomington Christmas Parade, 1929

East Grove Street, Bloomington July 1956

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

National Bank of Bloomington Drive-In 400 block East Washington Street, c. 1970

Country Club Place, Bloomington Berenz Home, September 1933

Courthouse Square, Bloomington East Side / Main Street, Late 1970s

Fans Field, South Bloomington Aerial, 1938

Pantagraph Expansion, Circa 1935 Madison and Washington streets Downtown Bloomington

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

Photo of the Week: Dolls On Parade O’Neil Park, July 1939

On Your Mark . . . Street Sledding, December 31, 1946

When Paperboys Were … Boys Pantagraph Carriers, May 1929

Esquire Theatre, circa 1944 Downtown Bloomington

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

200 Block W. Washington St. Downtown Bloomington, 1965

Be of Good Cheer Livingston’s, Early 1950s

Ho ho ho Livingston’s Santas, 1940s

East Side Exodus, November 1966 Penney’s to Eastland Mall

Miller Park and Bloomington’s West Side Undated Aerial

East Washington Street 200 Block, Circa 1956

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

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

Photo of the Week, 92: Thanksgiving in the Great Depression, 1938

McLean County Fairgrounds, 1956

Photo of the Week, 70: A Real Animal House

Pillsbury House The Wrecking Ball Looms

Majestic Theatre, Bloomington May 1937

Waiting for the wrecking ball, 1971 200 block South Main Street

The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport

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

Photo of the Week, 120: Carl Loeseke’s Homing Pigeons, 1938

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

Photo of the Week, 125: Coachman Motel September 1962

Photo of the Week, 128: Dog Days of Summer Miller Park, 1937

Photo of the Week, 5: Beich Employees Packing Whiz Bars

Photo of the Week 19: New Deal Rally, September 1933

Illinois Bicentennial flag raising kicks off year of programs

BPD’s Rogues Gallery August 1947

City Hoosegow September 1938

New Two-Way Radios Bloomington Fire Department, 1953

Free range … no more! City Hall booking, March 30, 1958

Municipal Workers on Strike May 1968

FDR in Bloomington October 14, 1936

Bloomington Fire Station No. 2 214 W. Washington St., c. 1883

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

Museum Saving Santa, Bringing Back a Beloved Central Illinois Christmas Tradition

We're Special! -- The MCMH Library

Museum Square Becomes First Site for International Artist EMEMEM's U.S. Debut

Museum Launches Contest to Color Upcoming Mural of Lincoln's Lost Speech in Downtown Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington School District 87

Vietnam Moving Wall

Bloomington Public Schools

Young, Fred H.

Vrooman

Knife & Fork Club

Bloomington-Normal Garden Club

Bloomington Rotary Club

Tau Epsilon Delta

Turners in Bloomington
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Community Players

Espey (Pharmacy)

Evans, J. Harwood

Family Circle (Pantagraph Employee Newsletter)
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Lincoln School

Steak N Shake

Withers Home
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Franklin Park
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General Electric
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Corn Belt Bank

Wood, Lois Postcard

Helm, Grover C. (National Bank of Bloomington)
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Illinois Tractor

International Tapetronics Corp

McLean County Telephone Co.

Pantagraph

Pantagraph Printing

Murray & Carmody Funeral Home

Reiner - Bennett

Scharf, Emmett Electric Co.

Stevenson, J.B. Letter Book

Vrooman Mansion - Theora Stark

Bracken Family

Carlock, W. B.

Custer, Milo

Dunn, Betty Hinckle

Ensenberger Furniture Store

Frazier-McCulley

Hayden Murray

Irvin, Clarence E.

Iseminger Ford

Mau, McCoy, & Haskell

Portable Elevator

Ensenberger Building

People’s Bank

Fell Collection

Wilson, Harrold B. Collection

Delphi — Bloomington Chapter

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Corn on the Curb 2000

Fell Family

McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection

Independent order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cornerstones (1886 & 1900)

Thoms and O’Neil Families

Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club
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Klemm’s Department Store

Stickrod’s Drug Store

Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (UNARCO)

Merwin

Martin Luther King Jr Awards Program — Human Relation Commissions

Clarke, Marguerite E.

Kingsley—McElroy Collection

McLean County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

Selk, Mary

Young Men’s Club

Miller Park

Miller, George

Pratt, Awadagin

Children and Elders Forest

David Davis Mansion

Davis Correspondence

Dimmitts Grove Neighborhood Association

Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940

Bach, William
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Beich Collection

Bloomington Cemetery Association

Bloomington Gold (Corvette Show)

Bloomington High School

Bloomington High School Class Reunion

Bloomington History Club