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  • The Living Museum vol. 64, no. 01; spring, 2002
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    Indians of North America -- beadwork; beads -- European; Art exhibitions -- sculpture, American -- Illinois; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Beauty and the Beads; Not of Iron; Museum calendar
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 30, no. 01; May, 1968
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    Flowering plants -- Viola; Trees -- Oaks; Cardinals -- Illinois; Prairies -- Illinois -- Early descriptions; Art exhibitions -- Calendar
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    Violets; 'Native oak' - Quercus sp.; Cardinals sing in Illinois; Prairie splendors lost; Art Gallery June 1-23
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  • The Living Museum vol. 05, no. 01; May, 1943
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    Bird-watching; American silk moths; Art exhibitions -- 4th annual show by artists of the North Mississippi valley; Museum publications -- Guides -- Native Illinois shrubs; Flowers -- March marigolds; Vegetable gardens -- History; Museum exhibits --...
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    Century run; American silk moth; Flower of the week; Back of the American garden; Price memorial bird egg collection
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  • The Living Museum vol. 18, no. 01; May, 1956
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    Swallowtail butterfly -- Life cycle; Art exhibitions -- Renaissance painting -- Chesrow, Colonel Frank; Red-winged blackbird; Museums -- Buildings -- Renovation; Caltrop -- Tribulus terrestris; River conservation -- U.S Corps of Engineers
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    One morning in May; Renaissance art in the museum; Redwing in the marsh; Plant 'caltrop'; Guardians of the river
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 60, no. 01; spring, summer 1998
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    Natural history -- Illinois -- Emiquon; Indians of North America -- Illini; Museum exhibits -- basketry -- From Limb to Limb; Museum exhibits -- bird nests; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Emiquon: a place in nature, a place in time; Illini indiands in the Illinois Country, 1673- 1882; From limb to limb; Museum calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 24, no. 01; May, 1962
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    vonLinne, Karl; Sparrows; Museum buildings -- Moving; Grasshopper mouse; Museum -- Trustees -- Leighton, M.M. -- Kanatzar, C. Leplie; Trees -- Use; Museums -- Films; Bird watching
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    May birthday; World sparrow; Something to think about; Killer in the grass; Board changes; Uses of trees; Last new bird
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  • The Living Museum vol. 55, no. 01; Spring, 1993
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    Armadillos; Fish decoys; Decoy fishing -- history; French -- Illinois -- Peoria -- History; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Moths -- identification; Butterflies -- identification; Museum exhibits -- Pueblo pottery
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    Armadillos: invasion or return?; Ancient art of decoy fishing; French Peoria; Living in the past; Calendar; Pueblo pottery of the American southwest
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  • Memorial Day remarks by E.C. Alft, May 26, 2008
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    Memorial Day; Veterans; Elgin (Ill.) -- History;
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    Memorial Day remarks made by Mike E. C. Alft at the Memorial Day ceremony held in Elgin, Illinois on May 26, 2008.
  • Elgin Area History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 51, no. 02, 1989
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    Museums -- traveling exhibits -- Harvesting the River -- boats; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; museums -- preparators; Mammoths; Mastodons; Museums -- tours -- Africa; Museums -- tour -- Harvesting the river
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    Voice from the river: part 2. Life afloat; "Mastodon Factory" at the museum; Calendar; Page for discovery: Mammoth or Mastodon: What is the difference?; Wildlife and conservation tour of Africa
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  • The Living Museum vol. 56, no. 02; Summer, 1994
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    Rocks-- Illinois -- Tower rock; Birds -- protecting species; Pueblo pottery -- collectors and collecting -- Illinois State Museum; Art exhibitions -- prints -- U.S. -- Mexico; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Watercolor...
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    Tower Rock: sentinel of the Mississippi; Breeding Birds at risk in Sangamon County; Pueblo pottery at the Illinois State Museum; Conversation piece: Phyllis Bramson; Living in the past; Calendar; Seth Eastman
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  • The Living Museum vol. 24, no. 04; August, 1962
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    Beaches -- Lake Michigan; Queen Anne's lace; Natural science -- Common names; Skunks; Astronomy -- August sky; Museums -- Employees -- Leary, Richard L.
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    Sand beach; Name for naming; Memphitis, the skunk; Sky in August, 1962; New curator of geology for the museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 28, no. 04; Aug., 1966
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    Eifert, Virginia; Museums -- Employees
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    Devoted to the recognition and the memory of Virginian S. Eifert
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  • Highland Avenue Bridge Memorial Day Ceremony, Monday, May 30th 2005
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    Memorial Day; Veterans; Elgin (Ill.) -- History;
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    Program of Memorial Day events held at the Highland Avenue Bridge on May 30, 2005 in Elgin, Illinois. The events of the day were organized by the Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association (http://www.elginmemorialday.org/
  • Elgin Area History
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  • Elgin and surroundings
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    Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Elgin (Ill.) --Pictorial works; Industrial facilities; Industry; Churches -- Illinois -- Elgin;
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    Book published in 1891 with photos, maps and text describing Elgin, Illinois as a good place for industry and a good place to live.
  • Elgin Area History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 16, no. 05; Sept., 1954
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    Carolina paroquets -- Illinois; Museums -- Trustees -- Meeting; Museums -- Acquisitions -- Bunn, Alice; Quarries; Steamboats -- Wrecks -- Belle Memphis
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    Paroquet in Illinois; Museum board meets; Alice Bunn collection; Natural quarries; Wreck of the Belle Memphis
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  • The Living Museum vol. 17, no. 04; August, 1955
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    Steamboats -- Delta Queen; Museums -- collecting and collectors -- French painting; Museum publications -- Living Museum; forest layers -- Floor
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    Story of the Delta Queen; Gift from France; Very-much-alive museum; Forest floor
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  • The Living Museum vol. 12, no. 06; Oct., 1950
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    Dinosaurs; Museums -- Employees -- Meetings; Flowering dogwood; Art exhibitions; Museum exhibits -- Black bear -- Description
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    Dinosaurs and the dim past; Museum staff notes; Scarlet fruits of autumn; Gallery in October; Hour of the bear
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  • The Living Museum vol. 62, no. 04; winter, 2000-1
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    Museums -- buildings -- Norton Building; Museums -- calendar -- Lockport Gallery; Indians of North America -- folklore -- birds; Indians -- culture -- birds; Index -- volume 62; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    A short trip down the canal...ISM Lockport facility finds new home in historic Norton Building; Upcoming Lockport exhibitions; Birds, culture, and American Indian artifacts. Part 1; Volume 62 index; Illinois State museum calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 15, no. 06; Oct., 1953
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    Indians of North America -- Prehistoric -- Costume; Art exhibitions -- Scalamandres textiles; Badgers; Museums -- Educational aspects -- Programs; Publications -- Eifert, Virginia -- 'Three rivers south'
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    Illinois fashions a thousand years ago; Scalamandre textiles in the art gallery; Badger, master excavator; Science adventure program for school age young people; Science adventure program for school age young people; 'Three rivers south' by Eifert:...
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  • The Living Museum vol. 07, no. 07; Nov., 1945
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    Museum exhibits -- Totem pole; American glass; Museums -- Laboratories; Museums -- Employees -- Frost, Bartlett; Snow; Persimmons
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    Lincoln and the raven clay; Early American glass; Museum laboratories; First snow; Persimmon in the snow
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