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Conservation Districts are the grassroots way to preservation, recreation, and outdoor education. Let's make sure McLean County has good parks now and into the future.

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Signed typed manuscript copy of a speech given by Rachel Crothers at the White House upon receipt of a Chi Omega National Achievement Award in April 1939. The ceremony was attended by Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Two pages from a scrapbook of clippings of short articles by Celestia R. Colby written between 1853 and 1857. The articles on these pages are titled "A Wholesome Moral Influence At Home," "Patience," and "Cultivator Circle--Girls' Wages--Ohio…

Two pages from a scrapbook of clippings of short articles by Celestia R. Colby written between 1853 and 1857. The articles on these pages are titled "'I Have No Time To Read,'" "Letter From The West," and "Rainy Days." They are pasted over household…

Short essay by Celestia Colby in which she recounts an incident in the life of her young daughter J. Rose Colby. The poem they reference is Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Transcript: Little Rose was busily engaged to night watching the…