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Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington
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Reagan’s conservatism forged during years with GE
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Prof. June Rose Colby lived ‘life of the mind’
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Duke Ellington big draw in Twin Cities
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Labor leader product of west side railroad shops
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Wild West legend ‘Pawnee Bill’ got start in Bloomington
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Fallen sons repatriated after World War II
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Catcher’s mitt tells story of big leaguer ‘Butch’ Henline
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Secor’s Minnie Vautrin, ‘Goddess of Mercy’
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‘Aviatrix’ Amelia Earhart twice visitor to Twin Cities

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

"Gridley High, January 1953 County Hoops Champs"

Dr. Moate becomes proficient knitter April 1946

Elizabeth Paullin Funk Undated

Three hospitals; three styles of caps June 1958

Bull in Barbershop Hudson, June 19, 1947

Beckley-Moots Wedding Saybrook, September 1938

Clarke Triplets Turn Eight Downs, August 1949

Frankie Finck, Gridley’s ‘strong baby’ August 1949

Glen Dotson and ‘Sparky’ Towanda, January 1941

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

Darlene Bishop, Doll Collector Heyworth, August 1938

Photo of the Week, 2: Don Munson & LaJean, 1968

Photo of the Week, 6: Dynamite Stump Removal

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

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

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, 30: Gertrude Fifer and Grandson Joe Bohrer

Big Dance in Colfax—100 years ago!

Photo of the Week, 53: Bloomington-Normal Branch of the NAACP, 1944

Photo of the Week, 54: Ike Sander’s “Short Order House,” ca. 1903-1911

Easter Parade, LeRoy Style, 1937

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

Photo of the Week, 84: 'Bloody 66' claims 4 victims in early February 1939

Chenoa Airport, 1948

‘Lucky Lindy’ Bails Out November 1926

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

Play Ball! Cooksville, 1909

LeRoy Centennial Parade October 19, 1935

LeRoy Centennial Queen October 19, 1935

Prairie Daze Hudson, July 12, 1980

LeRoy Fall Festival September 1963

Bird House Contest, 1930s Anchor Grade School

Jack Cruser ‘Ugliest’ Costume Winner, 1968

World War II Scrap Drive Colfax, June 1943

Television comes to Danvers June 1949

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

Pointer and Setter Club Field Trials, April 1946

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

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

Independence Day 1964 Miller Park, Bloomington

Red, White, and Kaboom! Independence Day 1941

Lexington Dog Show July 31, 1940

Mackinaw River catch, July 1940 Boolman residence, Bloomington

Roller-Skating messengers State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Red Cross knitters July 1940

Readying for college Fall of 1949

Lexington Art Show July 1962

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

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

New American citizen May 24, 1941

Museum, Prairie Pride Coalition host trip to Albert Cashier musical in Chicago

Jim Ameche and WJBC December 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

Photo of the Week, 96: The Most Popular Guy in the Room

Springtime in “BloNo’ Iris Walk, 1939

Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Fall Means College Football ISNU ‘Teachers,’ 1907

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

2018 History Makers Announced

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

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

Bzzzz! June 30, 1938

Judy Stone Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

Jeanne and Charles Morris Named 2017 History Makers Honorees

Craig Hart Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

Illinois State Normal University Junior-Senior Prom, 1949

Don Munson Named 2018 History Maker Honoree

Ms. Stanberry and Queenie July 21, 1938

Father Ric Schneider Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Private Joe’ Fifer Laid to Rest August 8, 1938

Put Up Your Dukes Small Fry Boxers, March 1958

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Happy New Year! Dale Miller’s Orchestra, mid-1930s

New Year’s Eve 1948 In with the new, out with the old …

‘Brick’ Young, March 1936 Pantagraph Sports Editor and Official

Better Babies Conference May 1929

‘Private Joe’ Fifer Memorial Day 1934

Redd-Williams Legion Post McBarnes Building, January 1942

Excuse me, comin’ through May 1968

Book Lover in Seventh Heaven May 1968

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

Franklin Park’s new evergreens April 1958

The Great Levant, February 1950 Pianist performs in Bloomington

Artist and Author Visit Bloomington May 1948

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day tradition Poppy Sales, May 1938

4-H Gathering Undated

Remember the Fallen

Flag Day, 1948

Miller Park Fishing Season Underway June 1938

Pothole Season Laesch Dairy Truck, January 1965

Mobile Home Living, Bloomington Catherine Heineman, January 1953

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Moose Hunters Bag Rabbits January 23, 1947

Lathrop's Barbershop, 1914

Soap Box Derby Saybrook, July 14, 1937

Redd-Williams Legion Post January 1942

Twin Cities Bowler Peggy Schultz February 1942

Rockets, mid-1940s Twin-City Recreation Center

Susan Emrath Computer Pioneer, 1968

Christmas 1953

Aaron Copland at IWU February 1958

Hougham’s Halloween Party? Village of McLean, ca. 1890

Halloween Party Mystery

World War II Home Front Gas Rationing, July 1943

Toy, toys, and more toys Christmastime 1953

George Stewart World War I veteran

Armistice Day 1945 parade Downtown Bloomington

Herman Jack’s Christmas tree December 1952

Jennie Wickizer’s Bakery Downtown Bloomington, undated

Santa at the Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, 1948

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

December Sleigh Ride, 1963

Holiday Shopping Downtown Bloomington, December 1953

Irving School, Bloomington Eighth Grade Graduates, 1925

My Store, undated Downtown Bloomington

Beich Bowlers, 1942

Memorial Day 1960 African-American Legionnaires

East Grove Street, Bloomington July 1956

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church Bloomington, June 9, 1940

Dedication of Holton Homes Bloomington’s West Side, July 1954

American Passion Play Backstage Laughs, 1954

Bohemian Bloomington Evans Building, December 1947

Twin City Stork Club New Year’s Day 1958

Idle Youth Miller Park, July 1957

North Side of Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, circa 1956

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs Annual Convention, Bloomington 1918

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

Homecoming 1949 Bloomington High School

Christmas Caravan, 1935

Courthouse Caroling December 23, 1935

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

When Paperboys Were … Boys Pantagraph Carriers, May 1929

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

October Means ‘Rocktober’ The Defenbaughs Meets Elvis, 1957

Bo Peep Has Found Her Sheep Halloween Parade, Bloomington 1938

Halloween Party, 1939 Holy Trinity Parish Kindergarten, Bloomington

Mother Road Turns Deadly October 28, 1949

Community Players Groundbreaking December 7, 1960

Winter Wonderland Miller Park Ice Skating, 1958

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

Be of Good Cheer Livingston’s, Early 1950s

Corny Christmas Contest, 1934 Guess the Number of Kernels

Grand Champion Gilt McLean County Fair, Aug. 6, 1958

Tot Tries Tiny Tractor August 1947

Photo of the Week, 129: Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Nation’s Best Corn Huskers November 1939

4-H Lamb Show June 27, 1951

Corn Belt Harvest September 1939

An apple (or bushel) a day … Lilly Orchard, October 1950

Photo of the Week, 1: Bowling Association Tournament

Photo of the Week, 108: Beekeeping During Wartime Sugar Shortage

Photo of the Week, 114: Downtown Bloomington, 1931

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, 120: Carl Loeseke’s Homing Pigeons, 1938

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

Photo of the week, 121: Miller Park Fishing Season Underway -- June 1938

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

Photo of the Week, 127: Death in Central Illinois, 1948

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

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

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

McHistory: Going to Danvers to Take the Cure

McHistory: Bloomington-Normal Under Jim Crow Law

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

Photo of the Week, 36: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."

Photo of the Week, 57: Dedication of the Normal Post Office, 1936

Photo of the Week, 99: Calling All Cars! Normal Police Department, 1938

LeRoy’s CCC Camp August 1934

BPD’s Rogues Gallery August 1947

City Hoosegow September 1938

New Two-Way Radios Bloomington Fire Department, 1953

Municipal Workers on Strike May 1968

Bloomington Centennial 65 Years Ago this Week!

Bloomington Centennial ‘Young Pioneers’ Parade, September 19, 1950

FDR in Bloomington October 14, 1936

Ready, Aim, Fire! BPD Firing Range, May 1936

Merlin Kennedy, 2015 McLean County History Maker

Paul and Sandra Harmon Named 2018 History Maker Honorees

Jill Hutchison Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Gordon Ropp Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Jesse Smart Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

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

Bloomington Bloomers Fans Field, 1913

Jack Porter Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

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Boysen-Presit, Gail

Breen, Rev. Frank L.

Brown, George W.

Chesebrough, David B.

Detloff

Kennedy, Merlin

Knight, Robert N.

Lanz, Laura

Major Collection of Letters from Liberia

Nancy J. Peairs Ramos Scrapbook Collection

Steele, Ruth Teaching

Suggs, Frank

Whittaker Family

Castle, Drew/E. M. Pike

Dossett, David C.

Dunn, Richard T.

Ela, George and Frances

Holder, John

John Howard Burnham Collection

Kelley, George R.

Koos, Greg Collection

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

Spanish-American War Veterans

Streid, Robert

Sublett, Michael D.

Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers Company C.

Washburn, Dorothy M.

Woodward, Horace E.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

Brown, James Proctor

Burleigh, Cecil

Folsom, Elizabeth Irons

Frink, Dwight E.

Hart, James

Hitch, Fred

Jones, Ethel Pearle Smith
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Litta, Marie

Montgomery, Alfred

Morgan, Charles

Morgan, Raymond “Doc”

Myers, John F.
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Porter, Ida

Reis, Evelyn

Rhymer, Paul

Cumpston, Robert

Dietrich, George

Dowell, Joe
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Sanders, Josephine ("Irene Delroy") / Pike-Sanders

Sharp, Dorothy

Sinclair, Harold
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Sohl, Jerry

Steele, Nelle Theater
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Stevens, Saltzman Minnie

Tate, H. Clay
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Tucker, Wilson

Vera Pearl Kemp Scrapbooks Collection

Vogel, Joe Baseball Scrapbook

Webb, Sidney

Wilson, Edward M.

Young, Fred H.

Yoder, Wallace & Betty

Wyckoff, Martin

Wolcott, J.L.

Whitmer, Peter

Wantling, William

Yeast, Laurence (Larry) J.

Waddell, Jack

Vrooman

Fuller, Margaret Club

Kuerth, Hester Adams Cookbook

Longfellow Club

Toastmasters (Smedley) Collection

Turners in Bloomington

Tick, Irving Family

Capen Insurance / Capen Family

Carius, Larry
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Dietrich, Julius

Ensign, Preston Poster

Euleo Puppets

Evans, J. Harwood

Fenelon, Dr. J. H.

First National Bank of Normal

Garst, Elmer Record Book

Patton Cabin

Phoenix Family and Nursery

Putman, Dale and Ruth of Pleasant Hill

Steak N Shake

Village of McLean (Crain Research Project)

Withers Home

Stewart, Dr. Archibald Evan

Suicides

Stevens, Julia Palmer

Steichen, Gerard C

Soule Family

Smitson-Brown

Sebastian-Bishop

Stubblefield – Funk Reunion Minutes

Wood, Lois Postcard

Helen Littleton Burns Postcard Collection

Sage, Harold K.

Ryburn, Orendorff, Hollis Families

Rowlands Family

Ross, David C.

Ringo Family

Ramsey

Quinton

Purnell, Paul

Pistole, Richard

Perkins-Martin Family

Parker Bros. Coal Co.

Paddock, Joseph William

Outlaw, Damon G.

Orme, William W.

Orendorff, Ella

Orendorff

Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman

Munce

Gaunt, John

Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz

Goudy, Frederic W.

Helm, Grover C. (National Bank of Bloomington)

Hubbard Roycrofters Book
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Jung Family

Kirkpatrick Collection

Klemm, C.W. Family

Loeseke / Karl's Quality Café

Lundeen, Edgar and Rachael

Mandel-Cohn Collection

McEwen Brothers Blacksmith Shop

Williamson, Doug WJBC Forum

Murray & Carmody Funeral Home

Reiner - Bennett

Salch, David State Farm

Smith, Sidney

Stevenson, J.B. Letter Book

Vanderwater, Leon Musical Program

Vogel, Steve WJBC

Vrooman Mansion - Theora Stark

W. O. Davis Tributes Collection

Wallace, Glen / Diamond-Star Motors / Mitsubishi Motors

Bracken Family

Brigham, William B.

Butler, Edward

Carlock/Denman/Irvin/Porter

Carlock, W. B.

Carpenter, Ruth

Reuben Moore Benjamin Collection

Centenarians

Civil War Era Correspondence

Crissey, A Elwell

Custer, Milo

Dallinger-Rayfield Commitment Ceremony

Delbridge, Mary E.

DeMotte

Dillingham

Dooley-Fairchild

Douglas-Jones Family

Duff Family

Dunn, Betty Hinckle

Engle Family Papers

Ensenberger Furniture Store

Ewing Family Correspondence
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Ezra M. Prince

Farrell Family

Fleming Family

Frazier-McCulley

Fuller Family Collection

Gentes

Goben Family

Goelzer Karr

Graves, Harley

Gray, Vern

Hamm, Ruth Bitting

Harrison, Arlene G Elliott

Harvey Family

Hasenwinkle, Ralph

Hay Family Reunion

Hayden Murray

Higgins-Jung-Kleinau Co

Hodge-Read Family

Hoppe, Jim

Humphrey

Irvin Bros

Irvin, Clarence E.

Iseminger Family

Jennie Rayburn Diaries

Jones – White Family Collection

Judd-Lucas Family

Kansas Kickapoo

Kemp, Bill

Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks

Labor Fatalities Collection

LaBounty, Perry & Edith

LaBounty, William P.

Lantz, Raymond Stanley

Lennon, Barbara E.

Lillard Collection

Mason Family

Mau, McCoy, & Haskell

Mayer, Marjorie (Wood)

McCarty Family

McKeon

McKinzie Family

McLean County Bar Association Memorials

McMackin Family

McNulta, John Time Capsule

Morrell-Moreland Family

Old Settlers Association of Eastern McLean County

Reeder, Ida

Sterzbach, Robert WWII

Wheeler Family

Brown, Fred S.

Douglass, Emmett

Ewing, N. P. Family Farm Collection
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Funk, George Washington

Hartzold Family

Hilton and Schwoerer Farms

McFee, John

Moon Family

Runge

Satterfield Farm

See Family

Walker, Frank Albert

Edward Miller Farm

Tyner Farm Collection

Historical Markers

Zobrist, Charles J.

Charles (“Old Hoss”) Radbourn

Building a Home 505 Bowles

Evans, Joseph Orme

Moratz, Paul O.

A Touch of Glass

Almon Morrow

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

Behr, Lincoln A. Theater Program

Bieber Family / General Telephone Company

Calendar Collection

Carlton Collection

Hibarger, Bessie Family

Diaries Collection

Fell Collection

May Christian Collection

Finley, Ada Collection

Floyd, Arthur Softball Collection

McNulta, John Collection

Dunn, Mark Collection

Abraham, Paul J. Collection

Wilson, Harrold B. Collection

Bogart, Ron and Doris (Stevenson Items)

Fifer-Bohrer Papers

Ives, Elizabeth Buffie

James S. Ewing Speeches

Mark & Margaret Kalahar Hayes

Markowitz, Judy

Reitan, Carol

Ronald Bogart – Adlai Stevenson I

Ropp, Gordon L. State Representative

Scott, Garrett

Stevenson, Adlai E II Newspaper Clippings

Stevenson, Adlai E. II

Underwood, Justice Robert C.

Lennon, John Brown

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Wellmerling, Louis F.

Stevenson Boyhood Home

Fell Family

Gose, Carol Mishler Scrapbooks

Hamilton, Violet

Koos Family

Lincoln, Abraham Recollections and Newspaper Articles

Scott, Judge John Milton

Barbara Findley Stuart/McLean County Board Collection

Lincoln, Abraham— Miscellaneous Publications

William B. Price—McLean County Courthouse

Irvin, Lawrence

Thoms and O’Neil Families
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Klemm’s Department Store

Gregor, Harold Collection

O’Hara, William J.

Ewing, Thomas

Merwin

Stern Family

Butler, Harry Collection

George Weldon Funk Collection

Historic American Buildings Survey Collection of Edgar Lundeen

Hodge Fuller Collection

Livingston Family Collection

Orendorff Family Collection

Packard Family Collection

Stubblefield Family Collection

Crothers, Rachel

McLean County Museum of History Asian Indian History Project

Craig Family

Draft Horses Collection

Gravestone Photographs
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Childers, James Railroad

Haxel Railroading

Railroad Fatalities

Latino History Project Collection

McLean County Poor Farm

Mennonite Hospital Newsletter

Miller, George

Pratt, Awadagin

David Davis Mansion

Davis Correspondence

Getz, Lois

Kirk, Margaret

Pierson, A.V.

Scott, Sandra

Wilson, Edith

Aldrich, Frank W.

Gossard, Steve Railroad

Annette, Mme

Armstrong, Bea

Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing

Augsperger, LaRue

Auth Family

Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940

Baas, Bea Diaries

Bach, William

Bagosy, John Jr.

Baldini, John

Barth, Pat

Bartman, Fannie Mae

Barton House Archaeology and Family History
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Beich Collection

Benjamin Farm Collection

Bent, Horatio C.

Biederman Correspondence

Stevenson, Adlai E II Miscellaneous

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Civil War Diaries of James W. Jessee 1861-1865

Etnataek, the Arrowsmith battlefield

History Of African Americans In McLean County

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

The William Carey Barton Family: A Study in Historical Archaeology

Biographical History of the Members of the McLean County Medical Society: 1854-1954

Irish Immigrants In McLean County

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 1: Home Town Childhood

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 2: Entertainments and Pastimes

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 3: Home Town Personalities

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 4: For the People—Public Institutions

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 5: Home Town Clubs and Organizations

Evolution of the Jail of McLean County, Illinois

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

McLean County Holiday Stories

Lucy's Girls: Lucy Orme Morgan and the Girl's Industrial Home

Freedom, Land, and Community

McLean County Workers & Their World

Hellraisers & Heroines

McLean County Lost: An Illustrated Tour of Vanished Worlds

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

"Gridley High, January 1953 County Hoops Champs"

Dr. Moate becomes proficient knitter April 1946

Elizabeth Paullin Funk Undated

Three hospitals; three styles of caps June 1958

Bull in Barbershop Hudson, June 19, 1947

Beckley-Moots Wedding Saybrook, September 1938

Clarke Triplets Turn Eight Downs, August 1949

Frankie Finck, Gridley’s ‘strong baby’ August 1949

Glen Dotson and ‘Sparky’ Towanda, January 1941

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

Darlene Bishop, Doll Collector Heyworth, August 1938

Photo of the Week, 2: Don Munson & LaJean, 1968

Photo of the Week, 6: Dynamite Stump Removal

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

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

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, 30: Gertrude Fifer and Grandson Joe Bohrer

Big Dance in Colfax—100 years ago!

Photo of the Week, 53: Bloomington-Normal Branch of the NAACP, 1944

Photo of the Week, 54: Ike Sander’s “Short Order House,” ca. 1903-1911

Easter Parade, LeRoy Style, 1937

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

Photo of the Week, 84: 'Bloody 66' claims 4 victims in early February 1939

Chenoa Airport, 1948

‘Lucky Lindy’ Bails Out November 1926

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

Play Ball! Cooksville, 1909

LeRoy Centennial Parade October 19, 1935

LeRoy Centennial Queen October 19, 1935

Prairie Daze Hudson, July 12, 1980

LeRoy Fall Festival September 1963

Bird House Contest, 1930s Anchor Grade School

Jack Cruser ‘Ugliest’ Costume Winner, 1968

World War II Scrap Drive Colfax, June 1943

Television comes to Danvers June 1949

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

Pointer and Setter Club Field Trials, April 1946

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

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

Independence Day 1964 Miller Park, Bloomington

Red, White, and Kaboom! Independence Day 1941

Lexington Dog Show July 31, 1940

Mackinaw River catch, July 1940 Boolman residence, Bloomington

Roller-Skating messengers State Farm Insurance, summer 1940

Red Cross knitters July 1940

Readying for college Fall of 1949

Lexington Art Show July 1962

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

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

New American citizen May 24, 1941

Museum, Prairie Pride Coalition host trip to Albert Cashier musical in Chicago

Jim Ameche and WJBC December 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

Photo of the Week, 96: The Most Popular Guy in the Room

Springtime in “BloNo’ Iris Walk, 1939

Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Fall Means College Football ISNU ‘Teachers,’ 1907

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

2018 History Makers Announced

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

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

Bzzzz! June 30, 1938

Judy Stone Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

Jeanne and Charles Morris Named 2017 History Makers Honorees

Craig Hart Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

Illinois State Normal University Junior-Senior Prom, 1949

Don Munson Named 2018 History Maker Honoree

Ms. Stanberry and Queenie July 21, 1938

Father Ric Schneider Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Private Joe’ Fifer Laid to Rest August 8, 1938

Put Up Your Dukes Small Fry Boxers, March 1958

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Happy New Year! Dale Miller’s Orchestra, mid-1930s

New Year’s Eve 1948 In with the new, out with the old …

‘Brick’ Young, March 1936 Pantagraph Sports Editor and Official

Better Babies Conference May 1929

‘Private Joe’ Fifer Memorial Day 1934

Redd-Williams Legion Post McBarnes Building, January 1942

Excuse me, comin’ through May 1968

Book Lover in Seventh Heaven May 1968

Bloomington High Aegis staff October 1954

Franklin Park’s new evergreens April 1958

The Great Levant, February 1950 Pianist performs in Bloomington

Artist and Author Visit Bloomington May 1948

BHS Student Lounge May 1948

Local Guardsmen Head to Chicago June 1938

Memorial Day tradition Poppy Sales, May 1938

4-H Gathering Undated

Remember the Fallen

Flag Day, 1948

Miller Park Fishing Season Underway June 1938

Pothole Season Laesch Dairy Truck, January 1965

Mobile Home Living, Bloomington Catherine Heineman, January 1953

Emerson School, Bloomington March 1976

Moose Hunters Bag Rabbits January 23, 1947

Lathrop's Barbershop, 1914

Soap Box Derby Saybrook, July 14, 1937

Redd-Williams Legion Post January 1942

Twin Cities Bowler Peggy Schultz February 1942

Rockets, mid-1940s Twin-City Recreation Center

Susan Emrath Computer Pioneer, 1968

Christmas 1953

Aaron Copland at IWU February 1958

Hougham’s Halloween Party? Village of McLean, ca. 1890

Halloween Party Mystery

World War II Home Front Gas Rationing, July 1943

Toy, toys, and more toys Christmastime 1953

George Stewart World War I veteran

Armistice Day 1945 parade Downtown Bloomington

Herman Jack’s Christmas tree December 1952

Jennie Wickizer’s Bakery Downtown Bloomington, undated

Santa at the Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, 1948

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

December Sleigh Ride, 1963

Holiday Shopping Downtown Bloomington, December 1953

Irving School, Bloomington Eighth Grade Graduates, 1925

My Store, undated Downtown Bloomington

Beich Bowlers, 1942

Memorial Day 1960 African-American Legionnaires

East Grove Street, Bloomington July 1956

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church Bloomington, June 9, 1940

Dedication of Holton Homes Bloomington’s West Side, July 1954

American Passion Play Backstage Laughs, 1954

Bohemian Bloomington Evans Building, December 1947

Twin City Stork Club New Year’s Day 1958

Idle Youth Miller Park, July 1957

North Side of Courthouse Square Downtown Bloomington, circa 1956

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs Annual Convention, Bloomington 1918

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

Homecoming 1949 Bloomington High School

Christmas Caravan, 1935

Courthouse Caroling December 23, 1935

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

When Paperboys Were … Boys Pantagraph Carriers, May 1929

Spooktacular 1957 Jefferson School, Bloomington

October Means ‘Rocktober’ The Defenbaughs Meets Elvis, 1957

Bo Peep Has Found Her Sheep Halloween Parade, Bloomington 1938

Halloween Party, 1939 Holy Trinity Parish Kindergarten, Bloomington

Mother Road Turns Deadly October 28, 1949

Community Players Groundbreaking December 7, 1960

Winter Wonderland Miller Park Ice Skating, 1958

Patrol Boys Confab, January 1946 Franklin School, Bloomington

Be of Good Cheer Livingston’s, Early 1950s

Corny Christmas Contest, 1934 Guess the Number of Kernels

Grand Champion Gilt McLean County Fair, Aug. 6, 1958

Tot Tries Tiny Tractor August 1947

Photo of the Week, 129: Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Nation’s Best Corn Huskers November 1939

4-H Lamb Show June 27, 1951

Corn Belt Harvest September 1939

An apple (or bushel) a day … Lilly Orchard, October 1950

Photo of the Week, 1: Bowling Association Tournament

Photo of the Week, 108: Beekeeping During Wartime Sugar Shortage

Photo of the Week, 114: Downtown Bloomington, 1931

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, 120: Carl Loeseke’s Homing Pigeons, 1938

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

Photo of the week, 121: Miller Park Fishing Season Underway -- June 1938

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

Photo of the Week, 127: Death in Central Illinois, 1948

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

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

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

McHistory: Going to Danvers to Take the Cure

McHistory: Bloomington-Normal Under Jim Crow Law

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

Photo of the Week, 36: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."

Photo of the Week, 57: Dedication of the Normal Post Office, 1936

Photo of the Week, 99: Calling All Cars! Normal Police Department, 1938

LeRoy’s CCC Camp August 1934

BPD’s Rogues Gallery August 1947

City Hoosegow September 1938

New Two-Way Radios Bloomington Fire Department, 1953

Municipal Workers on Strike May 1968

Bloomington Centennial 65 Years Ago this Week!

Bloomington Centennial ‘Young Pioneers’ Parade, September 19, 1950

FDR in Bloomington October 14, 1936

Ready, Aim, Fire! BPD Firing Range, May 1936

Merlin Kennedy, 2015 McLean County History Maker

Paul and Sandra Harmon Named 2018 History Maker Honorees

Jill Hutchison Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Gordon Ropp Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Jesse Smart Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

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

Bloomington Bloomers Fans Field, 1913

Jack Porter Named 2016 History Makers Honoree

Boysen-Presit, Gail

Breen, Rev. Frank L.

Brown, George W.

Chesebrough, David B.

Detloff

Kennedy, Merlin

Knight, Robert N.

Lanz, Laura

Major Collection of Letters from Liberia

Nancy J. Peairs Ramos Scrapbook Collection

Steele, Ruth Teaching

Suggs, Frank

Whittaker Family

Castle, Drew/E. M. Pike

Dossett, David C.

Dunn, Richard T.

Ela, George and Frances

Holder, John

John Howard Burnham Collection

Kelley, George R.

Koos, Greg Collection

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

Spanish-American War Veterans

Streid, Robert

Sublett, Michael D.

Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers Company C.

Washburn, Dorothy M.

Woodward, Horace E.

World War II Home Front Oral Histories

World War II Interview Papers Collection

Brown, James Proctor

Burleigh, Cecil

Folsom, Elizabeth Irons

Frink, Dwight E.

Hart, James

Hitch, Fred

Jones, Ethel Pearle Smith
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Litta, Marie

Montgomery, Alfred

Morgan, Charles

Morgan, Raymond “Doc”

Myers, John F.
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Porter, Ida

Reis, Evelyn

Rhymer, Paul

Cumpston, Robert

Dietrich, George

Dowell, Joe
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Goforth

Sanders, Josephine ("Irene Delroy") / Pike-Sanders

Sharp, Dorothy

Sinclair, Harold
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Sohl, Jerry

Steele, Nelle Theater
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Stevens, Saltzman Minnie

Tate, H. Clay
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Tucker, Wilson

Vera Pearl Kemp Scrapbooks Collection

Vogel, Joe Baseball Scrapbook

Webb, Sidney

Wilson, Edward M.

Young, Fred H.

Yoder, Wallace & Betty

Wyckoff, Martin

Wolcott, J.L.

Whitmer, Peter

Wantling, William

Yeast, Laurence (Larry) J.

Waddell, Jack

Vrooman

Fuller, Margaret Club

Kuerth, Hester Adams Cookbook

Longfellow Club

Toastmasters (Smedley) Collection

Turners in Bloomington

Tick, Irving Family

Capen Insurance / Capen Family

Carius, Larry
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Dietrich, Julius

Ensign, Preston Poster

Euleo Puppets

Evans, J. Harwood

Fenelon, Dr. J. H.

First National Bank of Normal

Garst, Elmer Record Book

Patton Cabin

Phoenix Family and Nursery

Putman, Dale and Ruth of Pleasant Hill

Steak N Shake

Village of McLean (Crain Research Project)

Withers Home

Stewart, Dr. Archibald Evan

Suicides

Stevens, Julia Palmer

Steichen, Gerard C

Soule Family

Smitson-Brown

Sebastian-Bishop

Stubblefield – Funk Reunion Minutes

Wood, Lois Postcard

Helen Littleton Burns Postcard Collection

Sage, Harold K.

Ryburn, Orendorff, Hollis Families

Rowlands Family

Ross, David C.

Ringo Family

Ramsey

Quinton

Purnell, Paul

Pistole, Richard

Perkins-Martin Family

Parker Bros. Coal Co.

Paddock, Joseph William

Outlaw, Damon G.

Orme, William W.

Orendorff, Ella

Orendorff

Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman

Munce

Gaunt, John

Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz

Goudy, Frederic W.

Helm, Grover C. (National Bank of Bloomington)

Hubbard Roycrofters Book
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Jung Family

Kirkpatrick Collection

Klemm, C.W. Family

Loeseke / Karl's Quality Café

Lundeen, Edgar and Rachael

Mandel-Cohn Collection

McEwen Brothers Blacksmith Shop

Williamson, Doug WJBC Forum

Murray & Carmody Funeral Home

Reiner - Bennett

Salch, David State Farm

Smith, Sidney

Stevenson, J.B. Letter Book

Vanderwater, Leon Musical Program

Vogel, Steve WJBC

Vrooman Mansion - Theora Stark

W. O. Davis Tributes Collection

Wallace, Glen / Diamond-Star Motors / Mitsubishi Motors

Bracken Family

Brigham, William B.

Butler, Edward

Carlock/Denman/Irvin/Porter

Carlock, W. B.

Carpenter, Ruth

Reuben Moore Benjamin Collection

Centenarians

Civil War Era Correspondence

Crissey, A Elwell

Custer, Milo

Dallinger-Rayfield Commitment Ceremony

Delbridge, Mary E.

DeMotte

Dillingham

Dooley-Fairchild

Douglas-Jones Family

Duff Family

Dunn, Betty Hinckle

Engle Family Papers

Ensenberger Furniture Store

Ewing Family Correspondence
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Ezra M. Prince

Farrell Family

Fleming Family

Frazier-McCulley

Fuller Family Collection

Gentes

Goben Family

Goelzer Karr

Graves, Harley

Gray, Vern

Hamm, Ruth Bitting

Harrison, Arlene G Elliott

Harvey Family

Hasenwinkle, Ralph

Hay Family Reunion

Hayden Murray

Higgins-Jung-Kleinau Co

Hodge-Read Family

Hoppe, Jim

Humphrey

Irvin Bros

Irvin, Clarence E.

Iseminger Family

Jennie Rayburn Diaries

Jones – White Family Collection

Judd-Lucas Family

Kansas Kickapoo

Kemp, Bill

Klein, Lois Welsh School Textbooks

Labor Fatalities Collection

LaBounty, Perry & Edith

LaBounty, William P.

Lantz, Raymond Stanley

Lennon, Barbara E.

Lillard Collection

Mason Family

Mau, McCoy, & Haskell

Mayer, Marjorie (Wood)

McCarty Family

McKeon

McKinzie Family

McLean County Bar Association Memorials

McMackin Family

McNulta, John Time Capsule

Morrell-Moreland Family

Old Settlers Association of Eastern McLean County

Reeder, Ida

Sterzbach, Robert WWII

Wheeler Family

Brown, Fred S.

Douglass, Emmett

Ewing, N. P. Family Farm Collection
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Funk, George Washington

Hartzold Family

Hilton and Schwoerer Farms

McFee, John

Moon Family

Runge

Satterfield Farm

See Family

Walker, Frank Albert

Edward Miller Farm

Tyner Farm Collection

Historical Markers

Zobrist, Charles J.

Charles (“Old Hoss”) Radbourn

Building a Home 505 Bowles

Evans, Joseph Orme

Moratz, Paul O.

A Touch of Glass

Almon Morrow

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

Behr, Lincoln A. Theater Program

Bieber Family / General Telephone Company

Calendar Collection

Carlton Collection

Hibarger, Bessie Family

Diaries Collection

Fell Collection

May Christian Collection

Finley, Ada Collection

Floyd, Arthur Softball Collection

McNulta, John Collection

Dunn, Mark Collection

Abraham, Paul J. Collection

Wilson, Harrold B. Collection

Bogart, Ron and Doris (Stevenson Items)

Fifer-Bohrer Papers

Ives, Elizabeth Buffie

James S. Ewing Speeches

Mark & Margaret Kalahar Hayes

Markowitz, Judy

Reitan, Carol

Ronald Bogart – Adlai Stevenson I

Ropp, Gordon L. State Representative

Scott, Garrett

Stevenson, Adlai E II Newspaper Clippings

Stevenson, Adlai E. II

Underwood, Justice Robert C.

Lennon, John Brown

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Wellmerling, Louis F.

Stevenson Boyhood Home

Fell Family

Gose, Carol Mishler Scrapbooks

Hamilton, Violet

Koos Family

Lincoln, Abraham Recollections and Newspaper Articles

Scott, Judge John Milton

Barbara Findley Stuart/McLean County Board Collection

Lincoln, Abraham— Miscellaneous Publications

William B. Price—McLean County Courthouse

Irvin, Lawrence

Thoms and O’Neil Families
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Klemm’s Department Store

Gregor, Harold Collection

O’Hara, William J.

Ewing, Thomas

Merwin

Stern Family

Butler, Harry Collection

George Weldon Funk Collection

Historic American Buildings Survey Collection of Edgar Lundeen

Hodge Fuller Collection

Livingston Family Collection

Orendorff Family Collection

Packard Family Collection

Stubblefield Family Collection

Crothers, Rachel

McLean County Museum of History Asian Indian History Project

Craig Family

Draft Horses Collection

Gravestone Photographs
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Childers, James Railroad

Haxel Railroading

Railroad Fatalities

Latino History Project Collection

McLean County Poor Farm

Mennonite Hospital Newsletter

Miller, George

Pratt, Awadagin

David Davis Mansion

Davis Correspondence

Getz, Lois

Kirk, Margaret

Pierson, A.V.

Scott, Sandra

Wilson, Edith

Aldrich, Frank W.

Gossard, Steve Railroad

Annette, Mme

Armstrong, Bea

Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing

Augsperger, LaRue

Auth Family

Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940

Baas, Bea Diaries

Bach, William

Bagosy, John Jr.

Baldini, John

Barth, Pat

Bartman, Fannie Mae

Barton House Archaeology and Family History
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Beich Collection

Benjamin Farm Collection

Bent, Horatio C.

Biederman Correspondence

Stevenson, Adlai E II Miscellaneous