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  • The Living Museum vol. 11, no. 01; May, 1949
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    Spring; Museums -- Location; Museums - Publications -- Braille; Glacier lake; Squirrels; Art exhibitions -- Coverlets -- Hunter collection
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    Northern spring; 'Just where is the Illinois State museum?'; New museum publications; Once upon a time there was a lake; Young squirrels; Art gallery in May
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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
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  • The Living Museum vol. 25, no. 01, May, 1963
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    Ospreys; Orchids; Bowfin; Museums -- Employees -- Ridgely, Frances; Indians of North America -- Paintings; Museums -- Tours
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    Osprey; Orchids; Bowfin; Tours of the museum; Indian paintings at the 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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  • 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. 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. 02, no. 02; June, 1940
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    Museum buildings; Trees -- Illinois State Capitol; Woodlands -- Description; Prairie -- Illinois; Museum exhibits -- Fossil shark teeth; Museum exhibits -- Mammoths; Butterflies
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    Modern Youth Museum Opens; Have you met these trees?; Adventures down the woodland path, no. 2; This is the Illinois prairie; Exhibits for June; June is the month of butterflies;
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  • The Living Museum vol. 05, no. 03; July, 1943
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    Box turtles; Art exhibitions -- Sculpture; Burrows; Dickcissels; American flags; Museums -- Wartime
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    Armored division; Art gallery in June; Holes in the ground; Birds of the sun; 'Broad stripes and bright stars'; Role of the museum in war
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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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  • The Living Museum vol. 44, no. 02; Spring, 1982
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    Archaeology -- Dickson Mounds; Depression glass; Art -- Acquisitions; Art exhibitions -- Illinois -- Photographers; Museums -- Travel -- St. Francois mountains; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Kimmswick Site; Indians of North America -- Clovis people;...
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    Dickson Mounds: rich site for archaeologists; Story behind depression era glass; Art: recent acquisitions; Illinois photographers '82; Active volcanoes in Missouri?; Clovis peoples in the Midwest: importance of the Kimmswick site; Books: Exploring...
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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. 53, no. 02, 1991
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    Freshwater mussels -- Missouri; Freshwater mussels -- Arkansas; Freshwater mussels -- Oklahoma; Freshwater mussels -- Kansas; Play -- toys -- 19th century; Trees -- growth; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Dragonflies -- Ohio emerald dragonfly; Museum...
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    Ozark mussels: struggling for survival; Children's toys: the nature of play in the nineteenth century; Mystery in the backyard: Case of the surrounding limb; Vulnerable species: Calendar; Ohio emerald dragonfly; Living in the past; FOCI: Nereyda...
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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. 03, no. 03; July, 1941
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    Aquatic plants -- Lotus; Grasshopper -- Anatomy; Indians of North America -- Cahokia; Rhinoceros horn -- Sculpture -- Museum collection; Minerals mining during wartime; Night -- wildlife -- Sounds; Museum publications -- Birds
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    Lotus land; Speaking of faces; People of the Cahokia community; Magic in a cup; Minerals are news; Quiet night
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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. 55, no. 02, 1993
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    Cultural exchange -- Russia; Cultural exchange -- United States; Museums -- educational aspects -- teacher training -- science; Art exhibitions -- Hammons, David; Handicrafts -- Illinois; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museum exhibits --...
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    From the grand prairie to the mighty Neva; Teaching teachers about science; David Hammons : hometown; Crafting currents; Living in the past; Calendar; FOCI: Philip hanson
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  • The Living Museum vol. 30, no. 03; July, 1968
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    19th century architecture -- Illinois; Venomous snakes; Wildflowers -- Bouncing Bets; Museums -- Acquisitions -- Pottery -- Illinois -- Saline Springs
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    Builders in a proud new state; Poisonous snakes; Bouncing bets; Saline springs pottery donated to museum
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  • The Living Museum Vol. 66, no. 02,03; Summer, Fall, 2004
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    Natural history -- exhibitions; Geology -- Illinois; Museum exhibits -- Changes; Museum exhibits - calendar
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    Changes in the air at the Illinois State Museum; Foreword: with Changes comes a brand new natural history experience; Changes: dynamic Illinois environments; Illinois' rocky past unearthed; Summer-fall 2004 museum exhibitions
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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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  • 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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