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  • The Living Museum vol. 33, no. 01; Jan. - Feb., 1971
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    Doll costumes -- Schmidt, Minna; Wasps -- Adobe nests; African art as primitive; Art exhibitions -- African American Art; Art exhibitions -- paintings -- Sidman, Marjorie; Museums -- Programs
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    Minna Schmidt, Costume Expert; Adobe nests of solitary wasps; Arts of primitive peoples; Black American artists/1971; Acrylic paintings of Marjorie Sidman; Saturday morning adventure programs
  • The Living Museum
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  • Dunham-Hunt Museum
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    Museums--Illinois--Saint Charles; Saint Charles (Ill.)--History
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    Photocopies of newspaper articles compiled by St. Charles Public Library staff. Also referred to as "Hunt House," Bela T. Hunt, one of the first settlers of St. Charles, built this home of local bricks from Penny's Brickyard (now Baker Park) in...
  • St. Charles History - Then and Now
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  • The Living Museum vol. 65, no. 01; spring, 2003
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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
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  • The Living Museum vol. 61, no. 01; Spring, 1999
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    Museum exhibits -- Dolls -- Orozco, Joy E.; Museum techniques -- conservation -- dolls; Quiltmakers -- Illinois; Lintault, M. Joan; Museums -- acquisitions -- art; Adams, Joan Crawford; Spear, John; Chicago, Judy; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Dolls in the looking glass: the Joy E. Orozco Collection; Into a new doll house; Evidence of Paradise: M. Joan Lintault; Art Additions; Museum calendar
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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
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 72, no. 04; Winter, 2010
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    Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Mary Ann MacLean Play Museum; Museum collections -- Anthropology; Black-necked Stilt -- Illinois -- Breeding ranges; Himantopus mexicanus -- Illinois -- Breeding ranges
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    In small things remembered: objects from the Illinois State Museum anthropological collections; The Flood Bird: range expansion in the Black-necked Stilt; Around the State with Director Bonnie Styles
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  • The Living Museum vol. 34, no. 01; Jan. - Feb., 1972
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    Purple martins -- Wade, J.L.; Art exhibitions -- Prints -- Audubon, John James; Art exhibitions -- Bradshaw, Glenn; Fossils, Plant -- Lacoea; Museums -- Trustees -- Appointment -- Liberta, A.E.; Eagles -- Mississippi River; Museums -- Programs
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    Mosquitoes, purple martins, and art; Three points of view; Lacoea, an unusual plant fossil; Museum Board member appointed; Icy rivers and wintering eagles; Saturday morning adventure programs;
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 03, no. 01; May, 1941
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    Moths; Woodland path -- Description; Lincoln, Abraham -- Cemetery; Aesculapius -- Diorama; Museum techniques; Iris; Museum exhibits -- Acquisitions -- Tax, Sol; Simpson, Ida; Hollingshead, H.A.; Stafford, Eugene; Blanchet, H.H.; Schoonover, Fred;...
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    Moth; Along the woodland path, no. 10; Lincoln and Oak ridge; Aesculapius; Story behind the exhibit; Art gallery in May; Iris fields
  • The Living Museum
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  • Memorial Day Program, May 30, 2005
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    Veterans; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Memorial Day;
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    Program of Memorial Day events held in Elgin, Illinois on May 30, 2005. The events were organized by the Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association (elginmemorialday.org)
  • Elgin Area History
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  • History of the Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association
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    Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Veterans; Memorial Day;
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    History of the Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association formerly known as the Grand Army Republic.
  • Elgin Area History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 68, no. 02,03; Summer, Fall 2006
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    Black, Jerome Longknife; Blackfeet Tribe; Native Americans -- Ethnography; Indians of North America -- Montana -- Ethnography; Global Climate Change -- Illinois; Climatic Changes -- Illinois; Global Warming -- Illinois; Northern Cardinal --...
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    Curious legacy of Jerome Longknife-Black (1940-2004); Global climate change and Illinois; Illinois sightings of bilateral gynandromorphism in birds; Lincoln's grand old mammoth; Museum calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 62, no. 01,02, 2000
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    Museum exhibits -- Amish quilts; Amish -- culture; Military training camps -- Illinois -- world war, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war -- Illinois -- Camp Ellis; Museum acquisitions -- Robnet, Stephen Scott; Artist -- aka Jonathan Flew; Birdsong --...
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    Discovering Illinois Amish quilts; Reveille to retreat: the story of Camp Ellis in World War II; Gifted artist-turned-writer gives gift; Singing in Sangamon County; preliminary dates on cessation of song in selected species; Mary Juan, Maricopa...
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  • The Living Museum vol. 22, no. 02; June, 1960
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    Plant habitat -- Cliffs; Art exhibitions -- Medieval glass; Sunfish; Cattail flowers; Water lilies; Oaks; Museums -- Meetings; Museums -- Trustees -- Stratton, William G.
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    Cliff dwellers; Art gallery notes; Sunfish nest; Cattail flowers; Water lily world; Significance of oaks; Professional meetings; Governor Stratton meets with museum board
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  • The Living Museum vol. 12, no. 02; June, 1950
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    Wheat; Bird nests; Art exhibitions -- University of Illinois Art Department; Twinflower -- Linnea americana; Museums -- Employees -- Wright, Gilbert; Forests -- Description
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    Sunshine on the wheat; Nests on the barn; Art gallery in June; Karl Linne's flower; Pine and a forest
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  • The Living Museum vol. 71, no. 01, 02; Spring, 2009
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    Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Museum exhibits -- Illinois; Illinois -- History -- 19th Century; Agriculture -- History -- Illinois -- 19th Century; Transportation -- History -- Illinois; Cartwright, Peter -- 1785-1872; Commerce -- History --...
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    From humble beginnings: Lincoln's Illinois 1830-1861; Around The State: An Update from Museum Director Bonnie Styles
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  • The Living Museum vol. 72, no. 02, 03; Summer, 2010
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    Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Art exhibitions -- Drawing -- Illinois State Museum; Art exhibitions -- Painting -- Illinois State Museum; Paper art -- Illinois State Museum -- Exhibitions -- Catalogs; Art, paper -- Illinois State Museum --...
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    On & of paper: selections from the Illinois State Museum collections; Around the state with director Bonnie Styles; Joseph C. Hennessy Remembered
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  • The Living Museum vol. 10, no. 02; June, 1948
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    Roses; Screech owls; Art exhibitions -- Chicago Galleries Association; Glass -- History; Trees
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    Rose for the world; Quaver in the night; Art gallery; Stories in old glass; Summer trees
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  • St. Charles Free Press
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    Saint Charles (Ill.)--History; Newspapers--Illinois--Saint Charles
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    Image of July 12, 1929 newspaper (inaugural issue). This magazine-type weekly was published by Joseph Meyer.
  • St. Charles History - Then and Now
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  • The Living Museum vol. 66, no. 01; spring, 2004
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    Museum exhibits -- African art; Illinois River (Ill.); Portrait painting -- Illinois; Museums -- calendar
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    Where animals dance: art of Africa; River through Illinois; Changing face of Illinois art: portraits 1840-1940; Museum calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 63, no. 01; spring, 2001
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    Indians of North America -- folklore; Indians -- culture; Museums -- acquisitions -- art; Steinmeyer, Nancy; Mammals, fossil -- artodus simus -- giant short-faced bear; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Birds, culture, and American Indian artifacts, part 2: wild turkeys, crows, ravens, and raptors; Art additions; Discovery of an ancient giant in an Ozark cave; Museum calendar
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