Posts about Organizations

The McLean County Legion Drum Corps, debuting their new uniforms, march south down Main Street on Saturday, May 30, 1936, during Bloomi...

These patient 4-H members are waiting for something to wrap up before they can enjoy their meal. Note the needlework in front of them a...

For much of the 20th century the Twin Cities had segregated American Legion posts. Seen here are Redd-Williams post members and auxilia...

Members of the Bloomington Loyal Order of the Moose staged a rabbit hunt in south-central Illinois, between Pana and Vandalia, in Janua...

Richard Young, a Bloomington High School student, is seen here showing an enlarged reproduction of his 1937 Christmas Seal design. That...

Corn Belt Bank executive J. Thornton Snell had this magnificent Queen Anne-style home built in 1889-1890. He died unexpectedly in April...

Home Sweet Home City Rescue Mission (now known as Home Sweet Home Ministries) has provided “food, shelter, and hope to the hungry, home...

The Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs held its nineteenth convention in Bloomington in late August 1918. Seen here are conve...

Seen here is Normal Police Chief James Clarence Land in mid-January 1938 with the department's new radio hookup (including the lou...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost African-American civil rights organi...

The Museum recently received a Normal Sanitary Dairy baseball uniform worn during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The dairy not only sp...