Elgin History Museum

The Elgin Area Historical Society in Elgin, IL will complete the re-housing project for its entire image collection. This collection includes 130,000 photo negatives from the Elgin Courier News taken between 1935 and 1985, as well as 4,500 images from the Gylleck Collection (photos and negatives from the Adams Family Studio, a local photography business operating for two generations in the19th century). This repository of local history will be put into acid-free boxes and folders for long-term preservation, and the index will be made available for research on the museum’s Web site.