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  • The Living Museum vol. 04, no. 01; May, 1942
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    India; Australia; China; Art exhibitions -- Birds -- Illinois Audubon Society Meeting; Museum exhibits -- Elephant; Government buildings; Birds -- Illinois -- Capitol; Museum employees -- Kerr , Ruth; Klespitz, Barbara; WPA -- Staff; Museum...
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    India, Australia, and China; As others see them; Moving day, and an old, old elephant; Hall of flags; Birds in the capitol grounds; Museum staff; Australian exhibit
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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. 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
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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. 38, no. 01; Jan. - Feb., 1976
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    White oaks -- Illinois; Birthstones -- January -- February; Modernism, (Art) -- Illinois; Museums -- Employees -- Promotions; Johnson, Judi; Newman, Betsy; Weedman, William; Madden, Betty; Ahler, Stanley; Obituary -- Dickson, Evalyn Irene Fike
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    White oak: state tree of Illinois; Birthstones; Staff promotions; Betty Madden receives state historical award; 'Illinois heritage days'; Stanley A. Ahler awarded doctorate degree; Emergence of Modernism in Illinois (1914 - 1940); Widow of Don...
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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. 43, no. 01; 1981
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    Kington, Brent ; Art metal-work; Rare birds -- Alert line; Fossils, Plant; Art -- Acquisitions -- White, Bruce; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Index -- volume 42
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    Brent Kington: sculptor jeweler metalsmith; (217)785-1083: "Hello, this is the Illinois State Museum rare bird alert; "Plant fossils: impressions of the past; Art: recent acquisition; Subject index volume 42;
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  • The Living Museum vol. 28, no. 02; June, 1966
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    Cretaceous Period -- Ferns -- Illinois; Art exhibitions -- Children's art; Museum exhibits -- Indians of North America -- Technology; Museums -- Publications -- Reptiles; Lizards; Sassafras
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    Trees that used to be; Illinois youth create; Indian and his arts; Lizard tails; Tea in the woods
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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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  • Memorial Day remarks by E.C. Alft, May 26, 2008
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    Memorial Day; Veterans; Elgin (Ill.) -- History;
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    Memorial Day remarks made by Mike E. C. Alft at the Memorial Day ceremony held in Elgin, Illinois on May 26, 2008.
  • Elgin Area History
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  • The Living Museum vol. 54, no. 02, 1992
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    Indians of North America -- pottery; Paleobotany -- Patagonia; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museums -- research -- curators; Museum exhibits -- At Home in the Heartland; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Crinoidea, fossil; Archaeology --...
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    Native North American pottery: the Illinois State Museum collection; Travels in Patagonia: Adventures in Paleobotany; On the edge: museum scientists in action; What is 'At home in the heartland?'; Calendar; Page for Discovery: Crinoids; Illinois...
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  • The Living Museum vol. 38, no. 03; May-June, 1976
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    Flowers -- Borage family; Birthstones -- May -- June; Art exhibitions -- Mahmoud, Ben; Publications -- Archaeology -- McMillan, R. Bruce; Museums -- Employees -- Diegl, Paul; Museums -- Employees -- Bohlen, H. David; Museums -- Employees -- Leary,...
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    Forget-me-nots and Virginia blue bells; Birthstones of May and June; Ben Mahmoud Exhibit; Technical assistants promoted; Adjunct appointments announced; Richard L. Leary elected President
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  • The Living Museum vol. 52, no. 03
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    Artists -- Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo ; Mammals -- North America -- Illinois; Art exhibitions -- Forms of contemporary Illinois (FOCI); Geology -- Rock layers; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Museum publications
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    Moholy-Nagy: a new vision for Chicago; Mammals of Illinois: an introduction; Foci: what is it and what's next?; History in the rocks; Calendar; Curator's bookshelf
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  • The Living Museum vol. 06, no. 05; Sept., 1944
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    Indians of North America -- Technology -- Baskets; Milkweeds; Ferns -- Illinois; Insect poisons; Art exhibitions -- Military paintings -- Beaumont, Arthur; Maps -- Illinois -- History
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    Story of baskets; Milkweed silks upon the wind; Ferns in the Illinois woods; War on garden pests; Army and Navy paintings on display; Map-makers of the rivers
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  • The Living Museum vol. 57, no. 03; Fall, 1995
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    Handicrafts -- Illinois -- Artisans program; Tramp art -- Collections and collectors -- Illinois State Museum; Mammoths -- Russia ; Murals -- Illinois -- Chicago; Museum exhibits -- calendar
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    Craft: the living art for Illinois artisans; Conversation piece: 'Find the missing man'; Sojourning with Russian mammoths; Healing walls: murals and community; Shape of things to come
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  • The Living Museum vol. 05, no. 06; Oct., 1943
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    Masks -- Museum exhibits; October; Airplanes -- Models -- Exhibitions; Illinois potters -- Exhibition; Apples; Mississippi River
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    Masks; October, the storehouse; Airplanes of ally and axis; Art of the Illinois potter; Story of Apples; Mississippi
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  • The Living Museum vol. 06, no. 06, Oct., 1944
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    Snow geese -- Chen hyperboreus; Brachiopods; Art exhibitions -- Military painting; Shaggy mane mushrooms; Prairie grass; Gold
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    Snow geese flying; Antiques of the sea; Army, the Navy, and the art gallery; Shaggy manes; Prairie grass; 'Gold is where you find it'
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  • Watch Word, January 1942
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    Clock and watch makers -- Illinois -- Elgin; Elgin (Ill.) -- History; Elgin National Watch Co.;
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    January 1942 issue of The Watch Word, a magazine for and about the employees of the Elgin National Watch Company.
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  • The Living Museum vol. 05, no. 07; Nov., 1943
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    Forest path; Radar; Ceramics -- Exhibitions; Projectile points; Art exhibitions -- Illinois -- Pottery; Art exhibitions -- Prints
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    Thanksgiving walk; Radar, the magician; Stone, clay, and art; Stories behind the arrowheads
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