Box 1
Container
Contains 9 Results:
MC18. Donner-Hill Family Papers, 1890-1982
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-18
Scope and Contents
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1890 - 1982; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1982
Irven Donner family photographs, 1890-1915
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents
Includes photos of a schoolhouse, ca. 1910
Dates:
Created: 1890-1915
Irven Donner family photographs, 1915-1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1915-1980
Veta Donner Cloomer scrapbook, 1921
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1921
Donner family news clippings, 1959-1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
Includes post card of Donner monument, emigrant trip article
Dates:
Created: 1959-1982
Memorial Book, Gordon Donner, 1960
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1960
Memorial Book, Veta Donner Cloomer, 1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Emma Hill trip diary, 1892-1893
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates:
Created: 1892-1893
Hill family reunion Name Lists & Correspondence, 1952 & 1956
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents
Loami and Decatur
Dates:
Created: 1952 & 1956