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  • The Living Museum vol. 62, no. 01,02, 2000
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    Museum exhibits -- Amish quilts; Amish -- culture; Military training camps -- Illinois -- world war, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war -- Illinois -- Camp Ellis; Museum acquisitions -- Robnet, Stephen Scott; Artist -- aka Jonathan Flew; Birdsong --...
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    Discovering Illinois Amish quilts; Reveille to retreat: the story of Camp Ellis in World War II; Gifted artist-turned-writer gives gift; Singing in Sangamon County; preliminary dates on cessation of song in selected species; Mary Juan, Maricopa...
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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. 54, no. 01, 1992
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    Indians of North America -- pottery; Museums -- research -- DNA; Museums -- development -- Illinois State Museum Society; Art exhibitions -- calendar; Mr. Imagination; Nettles, Bea; Geichman, Judith; Altman, Edith; Museum publications --...
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    Pre-Columbian pottery: form, function , and symbol; Discovering a Final Frontier; Partners for the Future; Upcoming art exhibitions; Living in the past; Calendar; Thinking Modern
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  • The Living Museum vol. 17, no. 01; May, 1955
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    Iris -- Iris versicolor; Mussels -- industry; Art exhibitions -- Glass decoration; Museum publications -- Living Museum
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    World of iris; Buttons, pearls and fertilizer; Art gallery in May; Living museum in Illinois
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  • The Living Museum vol. 32, no. 01; May, 1970
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    Cottontails; American toads -- Bufo americanus; Lilies; Museums -- Publications -- Decoys
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    How many cottontails? Summer in the life of a toad; Wild spring lilies; Staff notes
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  • The Living Museum vol. 53, no. 01, 1991
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    Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Archaic; Woven matting; Shell beads; Art exhibitions -- Abercrombie, Gertrude ; Museums -- educational aspects -- Brown bag lectures; Museums -- educational aspects -- Nagy, Moholy L.; Museum exhibits --...
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    Modoc matting and beads: cultural complexity in the early archaic period; Gertrude Abercrombie Revisited; Food for Thought: Lunchtime at the Museum's Research and Collections center; 26in motion; Calendar; Curator's bookshelf
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  • The Living Museum vol. 70, no. 04; Winter, 2008
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    Decoration and ornament -- Illinois -- History; Home arts -- Illinois -- History; Art exhibitions -- Decorative arts
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    The urge to embellish
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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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  • The Living Museum vol. 40, no. 01; Jan. - Feb., 1978
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    Snow; Art exhibitions -- Folk art; Environmental archaeology -- Research ; Natural history -- Illinois -- Southern Illinois; Museums -- Employees -- Hedrick, Basil C.; Styles, Bonnie Whatley; Mercer, Steven; Museums -- Acquisitions -- Archaeology...
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    Snow - snow - snow; 150 years of painting and sculpture from the museum's collection; Contract archaeology and museum research; Southern Illinois: land between the Ohio and the Mississippi; the new assistant director; Collection donated to the...
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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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  • The Living Museum vol. 23, no. 01; May, 1961
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    Northern pike; Art exhibitions -- Schwartz, William S.; Museum exhibits -- Hall of Life; Red pine; Predators -- Speed; Prothonotaries
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    Northern pike; Art gallery for April; Hall of Developing life; 'Rills dyed yellow with the golden dust'; Jumpers, racers, and rockets; Golden bird
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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. 35, no. 01; Jan. - Feb., 1973
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    Art exhibitions -- Healy, George Peter Alexander; Museum exhibits -- Late Victorian room; Drainage -- Illinois -- Sangamon River watershed; Archaeological survey -- Sangamon River watershed; Minks; National Historic Register -- Archaeological...
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    G.P.A. Healy: painter; Friends furnish a room; Lower Sangamon River drainage archaeological survey; Mustela vison, the night wanderer; Archaeological sites on National historic register; Ruth Kerr retires; Palynologist joins anthropology staff;...
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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. 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. 55, no. 01; Spring, 1993
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    Armadillos; Fish decoys; Decoy fishing -- history; French -- Illinois -- Peoria -- History; Museum publications -- excerpts; Museum exhibits -- calendar; Moths -- identification; Butterflies -- identification; Museum exhibits -- Pueblo pottery
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    Armadillos: invasion or return?; Ancient art of decoy fishing; French Peoria; Living in the past; Calendar; Pueblo pottery of the American southwest
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  • The Living Museum vol. 46, no. 01; Winter, 1983-84
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    Archaeology -- Rench Site; Archaeology -- East Africa; Art -- Acquisitions; Photography -- Allen, Harold; Museums -- Travel; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Museum exhibits -- Peoples of the past
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    Saving the past: highway salvage archaeology at the Rench site; East Africa: Land of Zinj and Kilimanjaro; Art: recent acquisitions; Art in architecture: photography by Harold Allen; Grand Safari; Calendar; New exhibit hall opens soon
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  • The Living Museum vol. 44, no. 01; Winter, 1981-82
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    Petroglyphs -- Nicaragua; Anthropology -- Nicaragua; Art -- Acquisitions; Ethnobotany -- Europe - Pre-Columbian era; Art exhibitions -- Folk art -- Illinois; Osteology; Museum exhibits -- Calendar; Museums -- Travel -- Eastern U.S.
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    Rock carvings from the "Isle of the Dead"; Art: recent acquisitions; Roast bream and darioles: food and dietary habits before Columbus' time; Folk art of Illinois; Bones: permanent record of the past; Calendar; Eastern sampler tour
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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. 68, no. 02,03; Summer, Fall 2006
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    Black, Jerome Longknife; Blackfeet Tribe; Native Americans -- Ethnography; Indians of North America -- Montana -- Ethnography; Global Climate Change -- Illinois; Climatic Changes -- Illinois; Global Warming -- Illinois; Northern Cardinal --...
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    Curious legacy of Jerome Longknife-Black (1940-2004); Global climate change and Illinois; Illinois sightings of bilateral gynandromorphism in birds; Lincoln's grand old mammoth; Museum calendar
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