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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. 68, no. 04; Winter, 2006-7
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    Climatic Changes -- Illinois; Climatology -- Illinois -- History; Global Warming -- Illinois;Hailstorms -- Illinois; Emerald Ash Borer -- Illinois; Ash (Plants) -- Diseases and pests -- Illinois
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    Illinois climate-the last 200 years; When nature's fury strikes; The growing threat of the emerald ash borer
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  • The Living Museum vol. 08, no. 01; May, 1946
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    Mayapples; Bird eggs; Art exhibitions -- Illinois colleges; Art exhibitions -- Mink, David; Art exhibitions -- Chinese woodcuts; Indians of North America -- Mound -- Illinois; Wetlands; Mushrooms
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    Mayapples; Eggs without nests; Exhibition of Illinois college; One man show of painting; Chinese woodcuts in south gallery; Havana Mounds; Marsh in May; 'Exploring for mushrooms'
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  • The Living Museum vol. 26, no. 01; May, 1964
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    Prairie chicken -- Illinois; Wild crab apples; Art exhibitions -- Illinois youth; Burrowing crayfish; Museums -- Publications -- Anthology; Chestnut trees -- Information; Museums exhibits -- Firearms -- Call for loans; Nature -- Essay;
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    Prairie chicken in Illinois; Wild crab apples; 'Illinois youth creates'; Tunnel-digger, tower-builder; Thank you; Guns needed for new exhibit; Little night music
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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. 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
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  • A Hundred Years and More: A Historical Play of St. Charles
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    Saint Charles (Ill.)--History
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    A play set in the years 1823-1933, illustrated with photographs from a production (year unknown)
  • St. Charles History - Then and Now
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  • The Living Museum vol. 08, no. 02; June, 1946
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    Buzzards; Flint knapping; Art exhibitions -- Watercolors -- Mink, David; Art exhibitions -- Illinois colleges; Poison ivy; Art exhibitions -- Oil painting -- Abbot, Edith A.; Young birds
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    Buzzard country; Making of an arrowhead; One man show of painting by David Mink; Exhibition of college art; Poison ivy; Oil paintings by Edith R. Abbot; Hungry ones
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  • The Living Museum vol. 56, no. 01; Spring, 1994
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    Palynology -- pollen, fossil; Museum techniques -- exhibit artists; ; Indians of North America -- dogs; Museum exhibits -- U.S. in World War II -- activity; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museum exhibits -- People at war -- dolls; Museum exhibits...
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    Viewing an ancient world from a frozen lake; M.K. Hoffman: museum preparator extraordinaire; Ancient companions
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  • The Living Museum vol. 09, no. 02; June, 1947
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    Summer; Bird nests -- Swallows; Forage crops; Rock formation -- United States -- New Hampshire; Plants -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois State museum; Art exhibitions -- Paintings -- Sargent, Paul
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    Rare day; Nest in the barn; June is a clover field; Old Stony; Plant collectors; Summer gallery
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  • Elgin, Illinois
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    Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Business districts; Industry;
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    The Elgin, Illinois Association of Commerce's publication promoting Elgin as a good place for industries and people to relocate.
  • Elgin Area History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 22, no. 03; July, 1960
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    Honeysuckle; Lichens; Art exhibitions -- 14th North Mississippi Valley artists; Museums -- Employees -- Caldwell, Joseph R.; Least heron; Prairie chicken -- Illinois; Rain
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    Honeysuckle; Lichens, the pioneers; Art gallery in July; Least of the herons; Prairie chicken in Illinois; Rainy day
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  • The Living Museum vol. 28, no. 03; July, 1966
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    Conservation -- Nature preserves; Dickcissels; Naturalists -- Skills; Netsuke -- Collecting and collections -- Condell, Thomas, C.
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    Better than games; Dickcissel, prairie bird; Sidewalk botany; Condell collection
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  • The Living Museum vol. 73, no. 01,02; Spring, 2011
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    Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Art Exhibitions -- Illinois Artists -- 20th Century; Art exhibitions -- Illinois Artists -- 21st Century; Art exhibitions -- Illinois State Museum -- Gallery guides; Art, American -- Illinois; Artists -- Illinois;...
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    Luminous ground: artists with histories; Exhibition Calendar; Around the state with director Bonnie Styles
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  • The Living Museum vol. 43, no. 02,03, 1981
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    Entomology -- Collections -- Ecuador; Lepidoptera -- Ecuador; Museum exhibits -- Eifert, Virginia; Photography -- Illinois -- Ridgway, Robert; Art -- Acquisitions; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Museums -- Research -- Quaternary studies; Art...
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    Insect collector's paradise; In honor of Virginia S. Eifert; 100 Years ago...on the Wabash; Art: recent acquisitions; Calendar; Quaternary studies & the Illinois state museum; Call for entries; Dyes: an Amerindian applied decorative technique;...
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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
  • Gail Borden Public Library History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 27, no. 04; August, 1965
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    Art exhibitions -- 18th annual north Mississippi valley artists; Slender glass snake -- Ophisaurus attenuatus; Art exhibitions -- Sculpture -- Minerals; Plant galls; Museum exhibits
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    Art in the summer gallery; Slender glass snake; Minerals in modern art; Plant plus insect equals gall; August in the museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 47, no. 03; Summer, 1985
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    Museums -- Collections -- Northern Illinois Museum of Natural history; Carpenter, Charles; Museum exhibits -- Honey ants; Museums -- Buildings -- Illinois Art Gallery; Museum exhibits -- Calendar
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    Northern Illinois museum of natural history; Honey of an ant; State of Illinois art gallery opens in Chicago; Exhibition schedule
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  • The Living Museum vol. 15, no. 05; Sept., 1953
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    Nauvoo -- Illinois -- History; Archaeology -- Pottery; Museums -- Educational aspects -- Audubon, John James; Art exhibitions -- Paintings from Great Britain; Museum exhibits -- Traveling exhibits -- Museumobile; Museums -- Employees -- Illinois...
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    Deserted doorway; Piasa bird in pottery?; Museum presents Audubon program; Art gallery in September; Museumobile begins its third year tour of Illinois; Staff notes
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  • The Living Museum vol. 49, no. 02, 03, 1987
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    Coal -- Illinois; Sullins, Maurice Legrand; Fossils -- Tully monster; Museum employees -- obituary -- Thompson, Milton; Museum exhibits -- Illinois River; Archaeology -- Illinois prairie; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Art -- acquisitions --...
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    Coal: buried treasure in Illinois; Maurice Sullins: outsider artist; Tully monster: mystery animal of Illinois; Dr. Milton D. Thompson, 1908-1987; Harvesting the river: a history of a river and its resources; Prairie archaeology
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