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  • The Living Museum vol. 29, no. 01; May, 1967
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    Museums -- Illinois --History -- 90th anniversary
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    90th anniversary
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  • The Living Museum vol. 16, no. 01; May, 1954
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    Herons; Daisies -- Chrysanthemum leucanthemum; Art exhibitions -- Ohio watercolor society; Museums -- Employees -- MMC meeting; Piltdown forgery; Museums -- Employees -- List; Errata
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    Young herons; White daisies; Ohio Watercolor Society show; Staff notes; Piltdown - a faked fossil; Illinois State museum Staff; Correction
  • The Living Museum
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  • Minority Report of the St. Charles Railroad Committee
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    Saint Charles (Ill.)--Railroads
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    A report by the members of the Railroad Committee regarding actions "to secure the most certain, direct and easy railroad communication with Chicago" c. September and October 1869. Other Name: Farnsworth, J. F. 1820-1897. Blank pages in original...
  • St. Charles History - Then and Now
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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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  • 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. 23, no. 03; July, 1961
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    Mantis; Microorganisms -- Aquatic life; Art exhibitions -- 15th north Mississippi valley artists exhibit; Salsify; Leaf anatomy; Green belts
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    Mantis-monster; Living water; Art gallery in summer; Salsify; Inside of a leaf; 'Never … enough of nature'
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  • The Living Museum vol. 15, no. 03; July, 1953
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    Snakes; Soils -- Prairie; Art exhibitions -- 7th north Mississippi valley artists; Locust trees; Prairies -- Illinois; Museum exhibits -- Wildlife; Museums -- Publications -- Charges
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    Snake among the rocks; Prairie soils; Art gallery in summer; Fortress of the locust tree; Picnic on Looking Glass Prairie; Museum in July; Special announcement
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  • The Living Museum vol. 39, no. 03; May - June, 1977
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    Museums -- History -- Illinois State Museum; Museums -- History -- logos; Museums -- Employees -- Memorial -- Eifert, Virginia; Museums -- Employees -- Klippel, Walter; Museum exhibits -- Centennial exhibit; Museums -- Travel -- Southern Illinois;
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    Museum on the move; Centennial logo and slogan; Memorial to Virginia S. Eifert; Dr. Klippel moves to Tennessee; Special Museum Centennial Exhibit; Natural history tour to Horseshoe Lake
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  • The Living Museum vol. 30, no. 04; August, 1968
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    Art exhibitions -- 21st North Mississippi Valley Artists; Museum buildings -- Dickson Mounds; Vertebrate animals -- Illinois -- Explorers; Prairie plants -- Goldenrod; Portrait painting -- Governor William Ewing; Museums -- Employees -- Cashatt,...
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    Art in Illinois --1968; Dickson Mounds Museum: a sesquicentennial building; Vertebrate animals first discovered in Illinois; Goldenrods! Goldenrods!; About the cover picture; Entomologist joins museum staff
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  • The Living Museum vol. 31, no. 04; August, 1969
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    Art exhibitions -- 22nd Illinois invitational; Bird nests; Birds -- Finches; Museums -- Publications -- Decoys; Museums -- Employees -- Casolari, Albert; Parmalee, Paul; geology -- Field trips; Prairie plants -- Joe-pye weed; Fungi -- Folk lore
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    22nd Illinois invitational; Goldfinch, a late nester; Joe-Pye weed; Fayerye rings and yeres ago
  • The Living Museum
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  • Watch Word April 1931
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    Clock and watch makers -- Illinois -- Elgin; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Elgin National Watch Co.;
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    The April 1931 issue of the Watch Word, a magazine for and about the employees of the National Watch Company
  • Watch Word
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  • The Living Museum vol. 63, no.0 3; fall, 2001
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    Art and state -- Illinois -- Federal Art Projects; Computer-aided instruction -- museum applications; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Work - People - Art: Federal Art Projects in Illinois during the Great Depression; New approach to museum exhibition; Museum calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 32, no. 06; October, 1970
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    Magnolias -- Cones; Glass paintings; Portraiture -- Illinois; Museums -- Employees -- Casolari, Albert; Museums -- Trustees; Kanatzar, C. Leplie; Schweizer, Ebers R.; Hagen, Richard S.; Robinson, William H.; Myers, Albert; Irwin, George M; Victor,...
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    Magnolia cone's story; Rare Illinois paintings on glass; Illinois State Museum board members; How animals survive winter; Saturday morning adventure programs; Museum director receives honorary degree
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  • Books and more / by E. Mike Alft
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    Libraries -- Illinois -- Elgin; Elgin (Ill.) -- History;
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    History of the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, Illinois
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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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  • Watch Word May 1944
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    Elgin National Watch Co.; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Clock and watch makers -- Illinois -- Elgin;
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    The May 1944 issue of the Watch Word magazine, a periodical for and about the employees of the National Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois.
  • Watch Word
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  • Watch Word September 1929
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    Clock and watch makers -- Illinois -- Elgin; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Elgin National Watch Co.;
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    The September 1929 issue of the Watch Word, a magazine for and about the employees of the National Watch Company
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  • The Living Museum vol. 15, no. 07; Nov., 1953
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    Corn; Museum exhibits -- Wolves; Art exhibitions -- Textiles; Fungi -- Pear puffballs; Prairie chickens; Place names -- Illinois; Museums -- Employees -- Meetings
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    Community of corn; 'The same of thing?'; Art gallery in November; Decorated log; Prairie chicken; They named our towns
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  • The Living Museum vol. 01, no. 12; April, 1940
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    Toads; Turquoise; Wildflowers; Museum exhibits -- Natural history; Morels; Museum techniques -- Dioramas; Radio talks -- Deuel, Thorne
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    Singing Toads; Story of turquoise; Now in April, flowers bloom; We link springtime with the museum; 'How to make a diorama' on display; Radio talks
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  • The Living Museum vol. 42, no. 04; 1980
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    Archaeozoology -- Ichthyosaurs -- Illinois; Naturalists -- Larson, Robert -- Illinois State Museum; Art -- Acquisitions; Museum exhibits -- Calendar
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    Ichthyosaurs in Illinois; A conversation with Robert Larson: Nature Art; Art: recent acquisitions; Calendar
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