Browse Items (1402 total)

The logo of the Chicago Tribune from a 2010 sales catalog.

Sanborn maps from 1885 to 1912 show two businesses in the building at 110 N. Benton, a barber shop and a harness shop. There was also a third business in the basement. Sometime between 1900 and 1902, Bernie Sherman moved his "Sherman's Sporting…

Built for A. B. McConnell in 1894; plaqued house; southwest corner of South and Jefferson.

The library has glass negatives of the McConnell family photos in File Cabinet 6.

Abstract of votes at the first corporation election in the town of Woodstock in the County of McHenry and the State of Illinois on Monday the 2nd day of August AD 1852

Board of Trustees Minutes 1852-1856

Records of the Corporation of Woodstock McHenry County and State of Illinois Commencing April 14, 1856 through October 2, 1874. Includes a listing of ordinances beginning on page 599.

Part I: April 14, 1856-April 19, 1869
Part II: April 29,…

The Todd School for Boys (1848–1954) was an independent school located in Woodstock, Illinois founded by Reverend Richard Kimball Todd, a Presbyterian pastor. Under the guidance of Headmaster Noble Hill in the 1920s and Hill’s son Roger in the 1930s,…

Records October 2, 1874 through May 5, 1893 City of Woodstock. Includes a listing of Legal Voters for areas of Dorr sections 5, 6, and 7 being annexed into the City in February 1893 beginning page 552

Maps are extracted from the 1892 Plat book of McHenry County, Illinois pages 58-59, 62-63

1893 Plat of the contiguous territory annexed to the City of Woodstock, County of McHenry and State of Illinois, February 3rd A.D. 1893 as was included in the circa 1890s Ordinances

1893-1908 Proceedings of the Woodstock City Council in two parts
Map glued into place between pages 16 and 17.
Blank check/receipt for City Auditor found on page 427. Fill in date "191_”
Two tickets that read “Special Assessment No. 23 Interest…

Page two of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page one of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page five of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page six of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page five of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page six of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page eight of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page seven of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page two of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page three of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Page four of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page one of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page two of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page three of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page four of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page five of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page six of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page eight of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page nine of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page one of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page ten of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

8 sheets, sheet 5

Article page eleven of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page twelve of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page thirteen of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page fourteen of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page fifteen of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page sixteen of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

Article page eleven of the Thomas Oliver Patent #562,337. Patent granted June 16, 1896

1908-1916 Proceedings of the City Council Woodstock in two parts
Newspaper clipping were pasted onto the following pages: 150, 287, 288, 329, 402, 426, and 427

The footprint of the Oliver Typewriter Factory as represented on the 1912 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Woodstock Illinois page 6

1930 Todd School class photo with Grace Hall in the background. A young Orson Welles (age 14 or 15) is in the middle of the back row (standing in front of the tree). Roger "Skipper" Hill, headmaster, is fifth from the right in the back row.

The…

The first floor kitchen of the Sheriff's Residence & Jail after the renovation. Among the new tenants, a restaurant is slated to begin operating by early August 2023.

The first floor of the Sheriff's Residence & Jail prior to the renovation. The steel bars on the windows are from the building's past and serve as a reminder of the vital role that the Sheriff's Residence and Jail played in securing suspects…

This postcard, published circa 1910, shows the Cyrus Durfee House, 401 W. Jackson, during the years it was a hotel. Cyrus Durfee built his "mansion" in 1867. The Woodstock Sentinel extolled it as "One of the largest, most convenient, and best…

This postcard, published circa 1910, shows the Cyrus Durfee House, 401 W. Jackson, during the years it was a hotel. Cyrus Durfee built his "mansion" in 1867. The Woodstock Sentinel extolled it as "One of the largest, most convenient, and best…

The snow in this photo erases some of the clues to the date, but we know who lived in the house in 1914, the earliest City Directory in the library collection. Dexter and Mable Herrington moved there sometime between the 1900 US Census, when they…

Elijah Burbank built 517 Dean St. and 522 Dean Street in 1855. According to his great granddaughters Jennette Burbank and Dorothy Luedtke, this house (522) was occupied by the family and the one across the street (517) was for the farm hands. Elijah…