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  • The Living Museum vol. 20, no. 01; May, 1958
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    Basswood; Museum exhibits -- Audio guide; Milk glass; Art exhibitions -- Cape cod artists; Water surface; Museum exhibits -- Badger; Yellow-headed blackbirds; Publications -- Eifert, Virginia
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    museum service; Milk-white glass and its associates; Art gallery in May; Magical film; Badger in the museum; Yellowheads in Illinois; 'With a task before me'
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 67, no. 04; Winter, 2005-06
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    Northern Rough-winged Swarrow; Swallows; Melanism; Norton, John Warner; Murals -- Illinois; Illinois River -- Archaeology -- Illinois -- Peoria; Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Illinois; Bison -- Fossil -- Illinois; Museum exhibits -- Calendar
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    Melanism in the Northern Rough-winged Swallow; Memories of John W. Norton's mural masterpiece; Early confrontations with the Illinois Country's "Wild Cattle"; Museum Calendar
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  • The Living Museum vol. 68, no. 01; Spring, 2006
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    Temporary sand ponds; Dawson, Manierre -- 1887-1969 -- Exhibitions; Dawson, Manierre -- 1887 - 1969 -- Biography; Modern Art; Art, Abstract
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    Message from the new museum director; Temporary sand ponds; Abstract art: a journey toward appreciation; Manierre Dawson: an artist out of bounds; Museum calendar
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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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  • The Living Museum vol. 58, no. 01; Spring, 1996
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    Coffins -- Illinois -- 19th century; Museum employees -- editor -- Britton, Kimberly; Botany -- species identification; Museum employees -- Robinson, Orvetta; Museum employees -- Langer, Dorothy; Indians of North America -- Pueblo pottery --...
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    Kimberly K. Britton appointed Museum editor; In a box of pine: coffins from the Grafton historic cemetery; Saluting years of their faithful service; Pueblo ceramic figurines; Friends are for keeps!; North American pollen database; Shape of things...
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  • The Living Museum vol. 49, no. 01, 1987
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    Photography -- Sadorus, Frank ; Museum exhibits -- luthier; Museums -- travel; Anna pottery; Museum exhibits -- calendar; State symbols -- fish -- bluegill; White snakeroot; Bird migration
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    Upon a quiet landscape: the photographs of Frank Sadorus 1908-1912; Art of the luthier; Architectural sampler tour; Kirkpatrick's Anna pottery; Calendar; New state fish; White Snakeroot; Bird migration
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  • Memorial Day Program, May 31, 2004
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    Veterans; Elgin (Ill.); Memorial Day;
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    Program of Memorial Day events held in Elgin, Illinois on May 31, 2004. The events were organized by the Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association (http://www.elginmemorialday.org/)
  • Elgin Area History
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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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  • The Living Museum vol. 67, no. 02,03; Biennial Report 2003-2004
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    Annual reports
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    The years in review, 2003-2004: museum completes a welcome transformation;
  • The Living Museum
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  • The Living Museum vol. 59, no. 01, 02; Spring/Summer, 1997
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    Spiders -- webs; Museum exhibits -- Dickson Mounds Museum -- Four Moons Festival; Museum techniques -- collections management -- Native American antiquities -- Dickson Mounds Museum; Quilts -- Stenge, Bertha; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Spider...
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    Casting a sticky trap: spiders and the predatory ways; Converesation piece; Photographic Documentation Project; A cut and stitch above: quilts by Bertha Stenge; Calendar; Spider gorget
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  • The Living Museum vol. 42, no. 01; 1980
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    Museums -- Publications -- Anniversary; Indians of North America -- Quillwork; Art exhibitions -- Photography -- Competition; Publications -- Eifert, Virginia; Fossils -- Illinois -- Mazon Creek; Art -- Acquisitions; Museum exhibits -- Calendar;...
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    Into the 1980s: A Living Museum; The Living Museum is 40; Porcupine quillwork an Amerindian applied decorative technique; Illinois Photographers '80; Writings of Virginia Eifert; Fossils from Mazon Creek; Art: recent acquisitions; Calendar; Index...
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  • The Living Museum vol. 04, no. 03; July, 1942
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    Catfish; Museums -- Employees -- Photograph; Museums -- Employees -- Annual meetings; Art exhibitions -- 3rd annual Mississippi Valley exhibit; Indians of North America -- Industry -- Turquoise; Astronomy -- Stars; Museum exhibits -- Living map
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    Catfish and the summer pond; Museum staff; Third annual Mississippi valley exhibit; American turquoise; Summer stars; Living map
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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
  • The Living Museum
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  • Watch Word September 1926
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    Clock and watch makers -- Illinois -- Elgin; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Elgin National Watch Co.;
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    The September 1926 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. 48, no. 02; Spring, 1986
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    Worst, Edward -- Weaving ; Handicrafts -- Education; Museum exhibits -- Mississippian culture -- Dickson Mounds; Fossils -- Lesleya -- Reconstruction; Caves -- Illinois; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Rench Site; Museums -- Travel -- Acadia; Art --...
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    Edward F. Worst: craftsman and educator; Mississippian lifeways exhibit opens at Dickson Mounds; Reconstructing coal age trees; Illinois caves; Rench Site archaeological project 1977 to 1986
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  • The Living Museum vol. 62, no. 03, 2000
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    Museums -- research; Natural history -- study and teaching; Museums - acquisitions; Coen, Eleanor; Kahn, Max; Hoff, Margo; Florsheim, Richard; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Landscape history at the Illinois State Museum; Art additions; Museum calendar
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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. 59, no. 04; Winter, 1997-98
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    Wildlife refuge -- Illinois -- Emiquon; Birds -- Illinois --Eurasian collared doves; Art exhibitions -- landscape painting -- Illinois; Art exhibitions -- poetry -- Illinois; Canoes and canoeing -- history -- LaMoine River; Museum exhibits --...
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    Emiquon: a place in nature, a place in time; A new dove colonizing Illinois; An Illinois portfolio: county farm road; Floating the LaMoine to the past; Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois & Michigan canal; Shape of things to come
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  • The Living Museum vol. 41, no. 04: 1979
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    Artists -- Illinois --Armin, Emil; Indians of North America -- Agriculture; Paleontology -- Ivory; Birds -- Man-made dangers; Art -- Acquisitions; Art exhibitions -- Competition -- Photography; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Museums -- Study tours --...
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    Emil Armin: Chicago artist; Indian agriculture: development in the Midwest; Close look at ivory; Life death survival; Art: recent acquisitions; Calendar; Cave-in-rock and Shawnee national forest
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  • The Living Museum vol. 55, no. 04; Winter, 1993-94
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    Indians of North America -- collectors and collecting -- Condell, Thomas; Herbaria; Illinois -- Shildneck, Paul; Museum exhibits -- Quilts -- Illinois; Museums -- educational aspects -- quilt lesson; Index -- volume 55; Museum publications --...
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    Springfield to the Southwest: the life of collector Thomas Condell; Sildneck Herbarium: an important addition to the Illinois State Museum; Connecting stitches; Discoveries for kids: Fun with quilt art; Index to volume 55; Living in the past;...
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