TABLE OF CONTENTS


Descriptive Summary of the Collection

Administrative Information

Biography of Helen Steele Winters

Scope and Content of the Collection

Organization

Selected Search Terms

Container List

Series 1: Correspondence, 1880-1999

Subseries 1: Incoming Correspondence - Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters, 1913-1999

Subseries 2: Outgoing Correspondence - Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters Jr., 1910-1967

Subseries 3: Incoming Correspondence - Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1880-1979

Subseries 4: Outgoing Correspondence: Georgia Baker Steele, 1907-ca.1970

Subseries 5: Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence - Baker, Amanda Pake Gulliford and John Wesley Baker, 1886-1938

Subseries 6: Correspondence – Miscellaneous, 1911-1973

Series 2: School Papers, ca. 1890-1934

Series 3: European Trips – Steele, Georgia Baker and Helen Steele Winters, 1963-1984

Series 4: Family Records, 1868-1999

Series 5: Financial and Legal Records, 1921-1996

Series 6: Writings, 1900-1995

Series 7: Calendars and Cards, 1887 - 1970

Series 8: Newspaper clippings, 1918-1990

Series 9: Miscellaneous, 1860-1999

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Inventory of the Steele-Winters Family Papers 1860-1999, bulk 1905-1980


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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Creator Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999
Title Steele-Winters Family Papers
Dates 1860-1999
Dates bulk 1905-1980
Extent 15 cubic ft. (33 boxes and 3 oversize boxes)
Abstract Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to Helen Steele Winters and her extended family. Helen Steele Winters is a descendant of early pioneer families of Dover, Princeton and Illiopolis, Bureau County, Ill. Also includes estate papers, family records, farm related accounts and diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and photographs of the Steele-Winters family of Bureau County, Illinois.
Language Materials are in English.
Repository Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
Collection Call Number Midwest MS Steele-Winters
Collection Stack Location 3a 26 16

Administrative Information

Cite As

Steele-Winters Family Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

Gift, children of Helen Steele Winters, 2002.

Processed by

Christina A. Reynen, 2006.

Access

The Steele-Winters Family Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

The papers of the grandchildren and the great grand children of Helen Steele Winters are closed to the public for the next fifty years (or until 2054). They have been removed to a box at the end of the collection, and are noted as closed in the inventory.

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Steele-Winters Family Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

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Biography of Helen Steele Winters

Bureau County, Illinois early pioneers and farm families.

Helen Steele Winters was born on January 25, 1912 in Dover, Bureau County, Ill., the daughter of Forrest G. Steele and Georgia M. Baker. She was the great-granddaughter on her father’s side of the early Bureau County pioneers, James Hensel and A.L. Steele.

Helen Steele Winters was also related to two early women pioneers, Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker and Abigail Nichols. Amanda Baker was her grandmother on her mother’s side while Abigail Nichols was the mother of Elsie Hensel Nichols whose sister, Eliza Hensel, was married to Helen’s grandfather, George Steele.

Helen Steele graduated from Princeton Township High School in Princeton, Bureau County. She attended Illinois Women’s College (later MacMurray College) in Jacksonville, Ill., and completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For several years, Helen taught art in the Illiopolis, Illinois school system before she married Robert Ulney Winters II in 1935.

Robert U. Winters II was born on August 30, 1908 in Rosamond, Ill., the son of Robert Winters Sr. and Minnie Putnam. The Winters and Putnam families were also early pioneers of Bureau County.

Robert U. Winters II was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught agriculture in Illiopolis High School and farmed in Shirland, Illinois, for more than twenty years. Winters served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1945. He was president of the Winnebago Country Farm Bureau, a member of the Shirland School Board and active in the Shirland United Methodist Church. He was a Pioneer Seed Corn Dealer for thirty years.

Helen Steele Winters died in 1999 and Robert U. Winters II in 1978.

Due to the complexity of the collection, the information file contains genealogical details on the family (including genealogical charts) and biographical profiles of most of the members of the extended family.

For more detailed information on the Steele, Winters and extended families, please refer to the Information File for this collection, available in the Special Collections Department.

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Scope and Content of the Collection

Correspondence (both letters and cards), scrapbooks, yearbooks, photographs, financial records (particularly about the farm business) and other miscellaneous items primarily related to the activities of Helen Steele Winters and her extended family in Bureau County, Illinois.

Helen Steele Winters was a ferocious letter writer and so was her mother, Georgia Baker Steele. They preserved nearly every letter they received from any of the family members during their lifetimes. The bulk of the correspondence is between Helen Steele Winters and her mother, Georgia Baker Steele, and between Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert U. Winters II.

The collection depicts a farmer’s life in Bureau County from its pioneer days through modern times and describes events such as the Depression, and World War II. Helen Steele Winters’ letters are an extremely detailed account of the difficulties encountered by the individual farmer and its associated finances.

Highlights in this collection are: the cards in the card collection, particularly the Valentine cards, the World War II correspondence between Helen and Robert Winters II, the details of the European trips in 1910, 1963 and 1984, the financial records of the farm business and the personal memoirs of William N. Findley, who was a contemporary of Helen Steele Winters.

The miscellaneous material consists of address books, autograph books, broadsides, church pamphlets, diplomas, awards and teaching certificates. It also contains the farm accounts, land deeds, military records, family bibles, recipes, etc.

Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.

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Organization

Papers are organized in the following series:

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Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

  • Baker family
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
  • McMurray College
  • Steele family
  • Steele, Georgia Baker
  • Winters family
  • Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999
  • Winters, Robert Ulney, 1908-1978

Subjects

  • Bureau County (Ill.)
  • Calendars -- Illinois -- 1887-1970
  • College students -- Illinois -- History
  • Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1880-1999
  • Courtship -- Illinois -- History
  • Diaries -- Illinois -- 1904-1995
  • Dover (Ill.)
  • Education --Illinois -- History
  • Family-- Illinois -- History
  • Greeting cards -- 1887-1970
  • Husband and wife -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century
  • Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • Mason City (Iowa)
  • Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- History
  • Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century
  • Photographs -- Illinois -- 1912-1990
  • Postcards -- 1898-1983
  • Princeton (Ill.)
  • Rural families -- Illinois -- History
  • School yearbooks -- 1906-1996
  • Scrapbooks -- Illinois -- 1880-1996
  • Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History
  • Tiskilwa (Ill.)
  • Travel literature -- Europe --1963-1984
  • Valentines --1895-1930
  • Women teachers
  • Women -- Education -- History
  • Women college students -- Illinois

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Container List

Series 1: Correspondence, 1880-1999

The correspondence constitutes the major part of the Steele – Winters collection. Most of the letters are exchanged between Helen Steele Winters and her mother, Georgia Baker Steele, and between Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert U. Winters, II or Jr.
Correspondence is organized in six subseries: Subseries I: Incoming correspondence to Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert U. Winters II; Subseries II: Outgoing correspondence from Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert Winters, II; Subseries III: Incoming correspondence to Georgia Baker Steele and her husband, Forrest G. Steele; Subseries IV: Outgoing correspondence from Georgia Baker Steele; Subseries V: Incoming and Outgoing correspondence from and to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker and her husband, John Wesley Baker; and Subseries VI: Miscellaneous correspondence from and to various members of the extended family and third parties.
 

Sub-Series 1: Incoming Correspondence - Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters, 1913-1999

The close relatives of Helen Steele Winters such as the children, siblings and in-laws, maintained a life long tradition of writing to Helen Steele Winters and informing her of their daily activities as well as ceremonies related to rites of passage.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the incoming correspondent. Relationship in parentheses is in reference to Helen Steele Winters.

Box Folder Contents
1 1 Anderson, Mildred (cousin) to Helen S. Winters, 1950-1993
1 2 Anderson, Mildred (cousin) to Helen S. Winters, 1994-1999
1 3 Coplan, Rosemary Winters (daughter) and family to Helen S. Winters, 1969-1999
1 4 Findley family to Helen S. Winters, 1964-1999
1 5 Heaton, Minerva Anderson (cousin) to Helen S. Winters, 1931-1999
1 6 Heuthe, Sarah E. Winters Schilling (sister-in-law) to Helen and Robert U. Winters, 1945-1999
2 7 Kraft, Rebecca (sister-in-law) to Helen S. Winters and Robert U. Winters, 1935-1999
2 8 Line, Marion Steele (sister) and Harold Line (brother-in-law) to Helen S. Winters, 1932-1999
2 9 Nelson, Cynthia "Cindy" (daughter) and family to Helen S. Winters, 1955-1999
2 10 Pierce, Lydia Steele (aunt) to Helen S. Winters, 1913-1999
3 11 Simon, Carol Winters (daughter) and family to Helen S. Winters, 1959-1999
3 12 Steele, George (brother) and Dorothy Steele (sister-in-law) to Helen S. Winters, 1966-1969
3 13 Steele, Harold (brother) and Margery Whitely Steele (sister-in-law)to Helen S. Winters, 1943-1999
3 14 Steele, Roger (brother) and Nancy Steele (sister-in-law) to Helen S. Winters, 1935-1999
3 15 Winters, David "Dave" (son) and family to Helen S. Winters, 1976-1999
3 16 Winters, Minnie Putnam (mother-in-law) and Robert U. Winters Sr. (father-in-law) to Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters Jr., 1934-1953
3 17 Winters, Ray V. (son) and family to Helen S. Winters, ca.1950-1999
4 18 Winters, Robert V. (son) and family to Helen S. Winters, 1956-1999
4 19 Various to Robert U. Winters (husband), 1943-1953
4 20 Various to Robert U. Winters (husband), ca. 1940-ca. 1959
4 21 Wedding anniversary cards to Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters Jr., 1930's, 1960, 1975
4 21 Wedding anniversary cards to Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters Jr., 1930's, 1960, 1975
 

Sub-Series 2: Outgoing Correspondence - Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters Jr., 1910-1967

Mainly correspondence from Helen Steele Winters to her mother, Georgia Baker Steele, to her father Forrest G. Steele, and to her husband, Robert Ulney Winters, II.
Helen Steele Winters had an intense (almost daily) correspondence with her parents (particularly her mother, Georgia Baker Steele) her entire life. Her letters home cover the time Helen was away at college in the 1920’s, courting her future husband, Robert, and her early married life. The letters provide a vivid description of her life during that period.
The letters to her husband also cover Robert’s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the impact of his enlistment in the Armed Forces during World War II. The letters document family life and the impact of economic and political events.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the addressee and then chronologically. Relationship in parentheses is in reference to Helen Steele Winters.

Box Folder Contents
4 22 Winters, Helen Steele to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker(grandmother), 1920-1922
4 23 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother), ca.1910-1922
4 24 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1928-1931
4 25 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1930-1931 and undated
5 26 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1931-1934
5 27 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1935-1939
5 28 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1940-1942
5 29 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1943-1949
6 30 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), undated
6 31 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1950-1955
6 32 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1956-1959
6 33 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother) and Forrest G. Steele (father), 1960-1962
6 34 Winters, Helen Steele to Georgia Baker Steele (mother), 1963-1967
7 35 Winters, Helen Steele to Robert U. Winters Jr. (husband), 1934
7 36 Winters, Helen Steele to Robert U. Winters Jr. (husband), 1935-1937
7 37 Winters, Helen Steele to Robert U. Winters Jr. (husband), 1940-1945
7 38 Winters, Helen Steele to Robert U. Winters Jr. (husband), undated
7 39 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1934, Jan.-Aug.
8 40 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1934, Sept.-Dec.
8 41 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1935, Jan.-Apr.
8 42 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1935, May-June
8 43 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1935, July-Nov.
8 44 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1936
8 45 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1937-1939
9 46 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1940-1944
9 47 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1945
9 48 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, 1952-1958
9 49 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, undated
9 49 Winters, Robert U. (husband) to Helen Steele Winters, undated
 

Sub-Series 3: Incoming Correspondence - Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1880-1979

This part of the collection contains some of the oldest dated correspondence. The correspondence includes the letters from Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker (Helen Steele Winters’ grandmother), to Amanda’s daughter, Georgia Baker Steele (Helen Steele Winters’ mother). It includes an 1885 letter from Amanda Baker’s daughter, Nellie Gulliford, written on the business stationary of J.W. Baker, manufacturer of boots and shoes, in Tiskilwa (Folder 53). It also includes the 1908 courtship letters of Forrest G. Steele to his future wife, Georgia Baker (Folder 60).
The letters to Georgia provide an insight into the lives of the various authors and their feelings regarding the events occurring in the family, in their community and in the world. The content details rural living in north central Illinois in the 19th century and throws light on the hardships of a woman’s work in the home (sewing, doing dishes, laundry), on feelings such as tiredness, worry, and loneliness, and about having too much work.
Georgia Baker attended Northwestern University and traveled extensively in the United States and Europe. The correspondence includes letters as well postcards. The views on the postcards are noteworthy by themselves.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the incoming correspondent and then chronologically. Relationship in parentheses is in reference to Georgia Baker Steele.

Box Folder Contents
9 50 Anderson, Lula Steele (sister-in-law) to Georgia Baker Steele,1912-1979
9 51 Baker, May (step sister-in-law) to Georgia Baker Steele, 1908-1911
9 52 Brokaw, Clydia to Georgia Baker Steele, 1906-1915
9 53 Brokaw, Nellie Gulliford (half-sister) to Georgia Baker Steele and Lida Gulliford Brokaw (half-sister), 1885-1946
9 54 Findley, Florence to Georgia Baker Steele, 1905-1956
9 55 Holman, Vera Randall (half-niece) to Georgia Baker Steele, 1910-1925
9 56 Randall, Lida Gulliford (half-sister) to Georgia Baker Steele, 1880-1913
9 57 Schoenermann, Marie E. "Mina" Randall (half-niece) to Georgia Baker Steele and Nellie Gulliford Brokaw, 1907-1939
9 58 Steele, Alta Mesenkop and Henry D. Steele to Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1902-1936
9 59 Steele, Charles D. and Meda Zarbell Steele to Forrest G. Steele,1949-1953
9 60 Steele, Forrest G. (husband) to Georgia Baker Steele and Lula Steele Anderson (sister-in-law), 1907-1944
9 61 Steele, John A. (uncle) and Hattie Clark Steele to Forrest G. Steele,1936-1941
9 62 Stratton, William G. (Governor of Illinois) to Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1960
9 63 Various to Forrest G. Steele, 1891-1955
10 64 Various to Georgia Baker Steele, February, 1920
10 65 Various to Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1907-1951
10 66 Wedding anniversary cards to Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1909 and 1934
10 66 Wedding anniversary cards to Georgia Baker Steele and Forrest G. Steele, 1909 and 1934
 

Sub-Series 4: Outgoing Correspondence: Georgia Baker Steele, 1907-ca.1970

Georgia Baker Steele initiated the letter writing in the family by maintaining an active correspondence between herself and her mother, her half-sisters, her husband and her daughter, Helen. Georgia Baker Steele had other children but the correspondence between Georgia and her other children is not part of this collection.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the addressee and then chronologically. The relationship in parentheses is in reference to Georgia Baker Steele.

Box Folder Contents
10 67 Steele, Georgia Baker to Amanda Melissa Gulliford Pake Baker(Mrs. J.W. Baker, mother) and Lida Anne Gulliford Randall (Mrs. Ade Randall, half-sister) and Nellie Gulliford Brokaw (Mrs. Brokaw, half-sister) - letters, 1909-1943 and n.d.
10 68 Steele, Georgia Baker to Amanda Melissa Gulliford Pake Baker(Mrs. J.W. Baker, mother) and Lida Anne Gulliford Randall (Mrs Ade Randall, half-sister) and Nellie Gulliford Brokaw (Mrs.Brokaw, half-sister) - postcards, 1907-1937
10 69 Steele, Georgia Baker to Forrest G. Steele (husband), 1908-1944
10 70 Steele, Georgia Baker to Forrest G. Steele (husband), 1909-1960
10 71 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), ca. 1920-ca. 1949
10 72 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), ca. 1950
10 73 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), ca. 1960
11 74 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), n.d.
11 75 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), n.d.
11 76 Steele, Georgia Baker to Helen Steele Winters (daughter), 1914-1970
11 77 Steele, Georgia Baker and Forrest G. Steele to family, 1917-1958
11 77 Steele, Georgia Baker and Forrest G. Steele to family, 1917-1958
 

Sub-Series 5: Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence - Baker, Amanda Pake Gulliford and John Wesley Baker, 1886-1938

Correspondence between the grandparents of Helen Steele Winters, Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker and her husband, John Wesley Baker.
Amanda and John Wesley Baker were early pioneers in Bureau Country. Amanda was first married to Farley Gulliford with whom she had two children, Nellie and Lida. Georgia Baker was her only child with her second husband, John Wesley Baker. She was originally from Canada, spent twenty years in Mason City, Iowa but lived for fifty six years in Bureau County, in the towns of Tiskilwa and Dover.
John Wesley Baker was originally from Tennessee and came to Illinois as a child. He was a manufacturer of boots and shoes and also wrote for a newspaper. He was killed at seventy eight years of age after being struck by a Rock Island Railroad train in 1911.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the incoming correspondent. The relationship in parenthesis is in reference to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker.

Box Folder Contents
11 78 Baker, Amanda Pake Gulliford to Georgia Baker Steele (daughter)and Helen SteeleWinters (granddaughter), 1906-1926 and n.d.
11 79 Baker, John Wesley (husband) to Nellie Gulliford Brokaw (stepdaughter) and Georgia Baker Steele (daughter) and Mr. Cooper (friend), 1886-1911
11 80 Dale, R.D. to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1915
11 81 Pake, C.R. (brother) and Frances Pake (sister-in-law) to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1896-1938
11 82 Pake, E. M. (brother) and M.R. Pake (sister-in-law) to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1922
11 83 Pake, Samuel J. (cousin) to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1894-1896
11 84 Sevent, E. J. (friend) to John Wesley Baker, 1906-1907
11 85 Birthday cards to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1937
11 86 Postcards to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1906-1916
11 86 Postcards to Amanda Pake Gulliford Baker, 1906-1916
 

Sub-Series 6: Correspondence – Miscellaneous, 1911-1973

Correspondence between the relatives of the extended Steele and Winters’ families.
Important here is the correspondence between the children of Robert U. Winters Sr. (1870-1957) and Catherine Kemp, who was the conservator of his estate during the mid- 1950’s when Robert Sr. was ill. It mentions Mitzi Silverstein who is the foster daughter of Robert S. Winters Sr. and his wife Minnie Putnam Winters (1878-1954). Little is known about Mitzi.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the incoming correspondent

Box Folder Contents
11 87 Graden, Ruth Winters "Aunt Birdie", 1954-1956
11 88 Silverstein, Mitzi to Robert Winters Sr., 1955-1973 and n.d.
11 89 Silverstein, Sam, n.d.
11 90 Steele, Andrew to and from Georgia Baker Steele and Helen Steele Winters, 1912-1954
12 91 Steele, Charles D. to Mrs. A.L. Steele (Susan Zearing Steele), 1911-1914
12 92 Steele, Susan Zearing, Christmas cards, 1914
12 93 Steele family, 1912
12 94 Winters, Minnie Marvin Putnam, 1917-1920
12 95 Winters, Minnie Marvin Putnam to May Winters Groves Wuertzler and John Walter Wuertzler, 1951-1954
12 96 Winters, William W., 1950-1951
12 97 Winters relatives, 1924-1956
12 98 Wuertzler, Marvin "May" Groves-letters to and from, 1944-1957
12 98 Wuertzler, Marvin "May" Groves-letters to and from, 1944-1957

Series 2: School Papers, ca. 1890-1934

Writings, artwork, grade reports, early primers and notebooks, class predictions, school assignments, handmade illustrated books by Forrest G. Steele and Georgia Baker Steele (parents of Helen Steele Winters), and by Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert U. Winters, Jr., from the time they went to grade school through university.
Both Georgia Baker Steele and Helen Steele Winters attended university at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. Georgia attended Valparaiso University and Northwestern University and Helen attended Illinois Women’s College (now MacMurray College) and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Both Georgia Baker and Helen Steele were teachers before they were married.
Of particular interest in this series are the English compositions Helen Steele Winters wrote when she was at Princeton High School (1921-1928) and at Illinois Woman’s College (1928-1931). They include biographical essays of Helen’s young life in Bureau County.
The material is arranged alphabetically by author of the school papers and then chronologically.

Box Folder Contents
12 99 Steele, Forrest G., writings, ca. 1890 - ca. 1909
12 100 Steele, Georgia Baker - cards from friends (Class of 1902)
12 101 Steele, Georgia Baker - grade reports/recommendations, 1890-1908
12 102 Steele, Georgia Baker - Northwestern postcard, 1902
12 103 Steele, Georgia Baker - school yells, 1902
12 104 Steele, Georgia Baker - student letter to teacher, 1902
12 105 Steele, Georgia Baker - writings, ca. 1900
12 106 Winters, Della, Thomas and Willie - Grammar book and papers,1893 and 1897
12 107 Winters, Helen Steele - artwork/early drawings, 1914-1920
12 108 Winters, Helen Steele - artwork, ca. 1923-1925
12 109 Winters, Helen Steele - artwork: game designed for school assignment, n.d.
13 110 Winters, Helen Steele - artwork made for family members, ca. 1918
13 111 Winters, Helen Steele - class predictions, Dover High School, n.d.
13 112 Winters, Helen Steele - drawings, n.d.
13 113 Winters, Helen Steele - early primers/notebooks, ca. 1918
13 114 Winters, Helen Steele - grade reports, 1919-1925
13 115 Winters, Helen Steele - high school graduation cards, 1929
13 116 Winters, Helen Steele - schoolbook, 1920
13 117 Winters, Helen Steele - Sunday school attendance records, 1920
13 118 Winters, Helen Steele - University of Illinois documents, 1931-1934
13 119 Winters, Helen Steele - Writings, 1921-1928
13 120 Winters, Helen Steele - Writings, 1928-1931
13 121 Winters, Robert U. - engineering drawings (removed to Oversize Box 34), 1933-1934
13 121 Winters, Robert U. - engineering drawings (removed to Oversize Box 34), 1933-1934

Series 3: European Trips – Steele, Georgia Baker and Helen Steele Winters, 1963-1984

In 1963, Georgia Baker Steele and her daughter, Helen Steele Winters, took a 47-day cruise (June 27 – August 13, 1963) visiting several European countries. The series includes memorabilia from the ship MS Gripsholm such as menus, napkins, lists of shopping locations for each city visited, a passenger list, and copies of the Radio News received on board providing a glimpse of the world news at that time. They also brought back a significant postcard collection documenting each location visited. A book titled, Memories of the Cruise to the North Cape, Lands of the Vikings, Russia and Northern Europe, was printed by the Swedish American Line after the tour.
Helen Steele Winters kept a diary during the trip and Georgia Baker made some notes in a notebook.
A second diary documents 1980 and 1984 European trips taken by Helen Steele Winters.

Box Folder Contents
14 122 Correspondence/postcards from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, July 4 - July 24, 1963
14 123 Correspondence/postcards from Finland, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, July 24 - August 6, 1963
14 124 Correspondence/postcards - letters from Robert Winters (Helen's husband) and their children to Helen Steele Winters, July 2 - July 28, 1963
14 125 Correspondence/postcards - letters from Helen Steele Winters to her family, July 8 - August 7, 1963
14 126 Memorabilia/itineraries etc., July - August, 1963
14 127 Memorabilia - Swedish American Line, MS Gripsholm menus and book, July - August, 1963
14 128 Writings - European trips, 1963, 1980, and 1984
14 128 Writings - European trips, 1963, 1980, and 1984

Series 4: Family Records, 1868-1999

Georgia Baker Steele and Helen Steele Winters ensured that the family history was preserved by saving the documents that came into their possession. They kept the traditional birth, marriage and death records and the documents of the ceremonies that accompanied them. They also saved less traditional items, such as a household inventory done in 1953 for insurance purposes, revealing the contents of the farm at that time, immunization and hospital records and the pedigrees of pets and livestock.
The material is arranged by subject and filed alphabetically.

Box Folder Contents
15 129 Baptism and church records - Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters family, 1947-1953
15 130 Births - Baker, Groves, Steele, Winters, 1884-1943
15 131 Deaths - Baker, Amanda Pake Gulliford - Memorial service program, 1939
15 132 Deaths - Steele, Forrest - tributes, 1960
15 133 Deaths - Steele, Forrest - sympathy cards to Georgia Baker Steele, 1960
15 134 Deaths - Steele, Georgia Baker - sympathy cards to Helen Steele Winters, 1968
15 135 Deaths - Winters, Della - Funeral Memorial Book, 1951
15 136 Deaths - Winters, Helen Steele - Funeral Memorial Book, 1999
15 137 Deaths - Winters, Helen Steele - funeral program, obituary, biographical information, 1999
15 138 Deaths - Winters, Minnie Putnam - Funeral Memorial Book and sympathy cards, 1954
15 139 Deaths - Winters, Robert Sr. - Funeral Memorial Book, 1957
16 140 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. - Funeral Memorial Book, 1978
16 141 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. - Memorial Service Program, sermon, obituaries, newspaper articles, 1978
16 142 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. - Records of help to family after death, 1978
16 143 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters - funeral home arrangements, 1978 and 1999
16 144 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. - Memorial Fund Reports from Shirland United Methodist Church, 1984-1993
16 145 Deaths - Winters, Robert U. Jr. - sympathy cards to Helen Steele Winters and family, 1978
16 146 Deaths - Winters, William Q. and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Winters, death records and auction, 1914 and 1922
16 147 Deaths - Winters William W. - Funeral Memorial Book, 1973
16 148 Deaths - Wuertzler, John W. - Memorial card and newspaper article, 1996
16 149 Deaths - Miscellaneous memorial cards, 1969-1995
16 150 Family Register - Baker family, ca. 1800-ca. 1900
16 151 Graduation - Steele, Georgia Baker and Helen Steele Winters-graduation announcements and programs, 1902-1934
16 152 Graduation - Steele - Winters relatives - graduation announcements, 1965-1975
17 153 Graduation - Winters relatives - graduation announcements,1955-1988
17 154 Household inventories - Winters, Helen Steele, 1953 and n.d.
17 155 Immunization and hospital records - Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters family, 1942-1955
17 156 Marriages - Baker Gulliford Steele Winters families (Removed to Oversize Box 35), 1882-1935
17 157 Marriages - Steele relatives - marriage announcements, 1967-1991
17 158 Marriages - Winters relatives - marriage announcements, 1960-1996
17 159 Marriage certificates - Steele and Winters families, 1868-1935
17 160 Pets and livestock - Pedigrees of Airedales and Chester white hogs - sale of livestock, 1920-1976
17 161 Programs - General - Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters and their families, 1901-1995
17 162 Programs - Virgil Fox - organ recitals, 1935 and n.d.
17 162 Programs - Virgil Fox - organ recitals, 1935 and n.d.

Series 5: Financial and Legal Records, 1921-1996

Wills, probate records, estate taxes, family trusts, mortgages, land and farm purchases of the Steele and Winters families. The records document the land and farm ownership of the families and the financial management required to maintain them as family owned farms in the 20th century. They detail the intricacies of owning and managing a family farm and the issues related to obtaining loans and paying them off on time.
This series contains 1920s bank deposit books, loan applications, tax returns, etc.
The material is arranged alphabetically according to the creator of the record.

Box Folder Contents
18 163 Pierce, Lydia L. - will and executor's account, 1966-1971
18 164 Steele, Andrew L. - Scholarship Fund in his name at Beloit College, 1992-1994
18 165 Steele, Forrest G. and Georgia B. Steele - Inheritance taxes, probate records, will, 1959-1974
18 166 Steele, William H. - will, 1978
18 167 Winters Family Trust, 1969-1984
18 168 Winters, Helen Steele and Harold Steele - Bank deposit books, 1921-1929
18 169 Winters, Helen Steele - will, 1969
18 170 Winters, Helen Steele - power of attorney and living will, 1990 - 1996
18 171 Winters, Minnie Putnam - will and probate, 1951-1954
18 172 Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters - financial statements (Shirland farm), 1966-1978
18 173 Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters - Inheritance taxes, Robert U. Winters' death, 1978
18 174 Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters - loan made to Roger Steele, 1970-1979
18 175 Winters, Robert U. Jr. and Helen Steele Winters - mortgages and land purchases, 1956-1978
18 176 Winters, Robert U. Jr. - tax returns, 1941-1972
18 177 Winters, Robert U. Jr. - Teacher's retirement Illinois, 1968-1978
18 178 Winters, Robert Sr. and Catherine Kemp - conservator correspondence, 1954-1957
18 179 Winters, Robert Sr. - will, 1956
18 180 Winters, Robert Sr. - probate records, ca. 1953-1957
18 180 Winters, Robert Sr. - probate records, ca. 1953-1957

Series 6: Writings, 1900-1995

Memoirs, diaries, speeches, notebooks, journals, etc. Both Georgia Baker Steele and Helen Steele Winters kept diaries throughout their lives. Some of the diaries have loose inserts of interest to the original writer. Of special note are the five-year diaries that provide a five-year glance at the author’s daily life on one page.
Diaries of Robert U. Winters II record the daily weather and the work he did around the farm and the house. His notebooks are also a financial record of his farm purchases and sales.
Some family members (such as William Findley) wrote down their early memories of growing up in Bureau County at the request of Helen S. Winters. The journal of William Wilson Winters, younger brother of Robert U. Winters I, and son of the early pioneers William Q. Winters and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, was written between 1900 (when he was 18 years old) and 1905.
The material is arranged alphabetically by author and then chronologically.

Box Folder Contents
19 180a Anderson, Mildred L. - My Experiences in the Working World, 1951-1967
19 181 Findley, William - Early Memories, ca. 1913-1925
19 182 Findley, William - The Peaks in My Life, 1932-1989
19 183 Findley, William - Cars I have Known, 1923-1952
19 184 Findley, William - Around the World, January 1967
19 185 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1904 - 1908, 1916 and later
19 186 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1933 - 1940
19 187 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1941 - 1948
19 188 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1950 - 1961
19 189 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1955 - 1962
20 190 Steele, Georgia B. - Diaries, 1960 - 1965
20 191 Steele, Georgia B. - Speeches and Public Recitations compiled by family members, 1960
20 192 Steele, Henry D. - Midnight Musings of a Medical Man, 1926
20 193 Winters, Helen S. - Diaries, 1930 - 1936
20 194 Winters, Helen S. - Diaries, 1968 - 1995
20 195 Winters, Minnie P. - Diaries, 1914
20 196 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1926 - 1928
20 197 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1930 - 1939
21 198 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1940 - 1943
21 199 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1947 - 1949
21 200 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1950 - 1954
21 201 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1955 - 1961
22 202 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1962 - 1967
22 203 Winters, Robert U. - Diaries, 1970 - 1978
22 204 Winters, William Wilson - Journal, 1900-1905

Series 7: Calendars and Cards, 1887 - 1970

The collection contains a rich variety of calendars and cards dating back to the late 19th century, including advertising calendars, Christmas cards, dance cards, Easter cards, Halloween cards, invitations, place cards, postcard books and Valentine cards. They document virtually one hundred years of card history. The family also relished making their own cards for all occasions. The collection also includes some travel souvenir cards.
A. L. Steele collected calendars and almanacs. Included are several HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA household calendar covers copyrighted to C.I. HOOD & Co., and printed in Lowell, Massachusetts. Covers depict scenes of little girls wearing bonnets, a child sitting in a sleigh, children playing musical instruments, The American Girl, The Young Discovers, etc. Among the products advertised in these calendars are Hood’s Sarsaparilla medicine, (1887,1889, 1897, 1891, 1896, 1898, 1899), Horsford’s Baking Powder (1893), Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil (1894), Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup (1889), and the Diamond Dye Almanac and Household Guide published by Wells-Richardson & Co. in 1887. There is a 1904 calendar of the W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, a 1938 American Book Company School calendar depicting scenes of the social customs of early American life, and a 1924 calendar of the H.D. Copeland & Company, depicting the raising of the American flag in Frederick, Maryland during the civil war.
The Christmas cards date back to the late 19th century and include cut out Santa Claus figures. The 1930s dance cards are from the various dances Helen Steele and Robert Winters attended during their college years. Some of the Easter cards were printed by Raphael Tuck and Sons (Publishers to Her Majesties the King and Queen) and by Davidson Bros., of London, and New York. There are also cut out Easter cards and many self-made Easter cards as well as hand-made, Halloween cards.
The invitation cards include invitations to bridge parties, tea parties, school banquets, church socials, homecoming, and proms. Many of these cards are handmade. The place cards include cut out cards printed by the Gibson Art Company and the Henderson Line Company, both of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the early decades of the 20th century.
Of particular significance is the Postcard Book Collection, a handmade album, with cards from as early as 1898 and the first decade of the 20th century. They include “The Value of a Smile” printed by M.T. Sheahan’s Good Mottos, Boston, 1906, birthday cards printed by Whitney Company of Worcester, Mass., tennis cards printed by Bamforth & Co. of Holmirth (England) and New York, and an Image of Western Canada printed by Lewis Rice, Moose Jaw, Canada, It also contains a postcard of Mason City, Iowa, in 1906 and a postcard of a small public school photographed in winter in Fertile, Iowa in 1909. There are also early Thanksgiving and Christmas Cards.
There is a significant collection of vintage Valentine cards containing Valentine cut outs and mechanical fold out cards, mostly printed by the Whitney Company of Worcester, Mass, and the Carrington Company of Chicago. Several cards are printed in Germany. There are also vintage Valentine cards printed by F.A. Owen Co., Dansville, N.Y. and the International Art Publishing Co., of New York and Berlin (some by the artist Ellen H. Clapsaddle).
Souvenir travel postcards can also be found in other parts of the Steele-Winters collection, particularly among the correspondence. There are additional Victorian cards in the scrapbook made by Georgia B. Steele in the late 19th century (See Oversize Box 34, Folder 267).
The cards are arranged alphabetically by type of card and then alphabetically by name of the addressee on the cards.

Box Folder Contents
22 205 Birthday cards/poems - Steele, Forest G., 1955
22 206 Birth announcements - Steele, Georgia Baker and Forrest G. Steele, 1912
22 207 Birthday cards - Steele, Helen Winters, ca. 1919-ca. 1950
22 208 Birthday cards - Steele, Robert U. Winters Jr., ca. 1930-ca. 1970
22 209 Bridge cards - Winters, Helen Steele, ca. 1940-ca. 1970
22 210 Calendars - Steele Family, 1887-1938
22 211 Calling cards - Baker, Steele and Pake families, ca. 1890
22 212 Christmas cards - Winters, Helen Steele, ca. 1890-ca. 1920
23 213 Christmas cards/letters - Winters, Helen Steele and Robert U. Winters Jr., ca. 1940-1992
23 214 Dance cards - Illinois Women's College (MacMurray college) and University of Illinois - Steele - Winters, ca. 1930
23 215 Dance cards - University of Illinois - Winters, Robert Jr. and Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1930
23 216 Easter cards - Steele, Georgia Baker, ca. 1890-ca. 1920
23 217 Easter cards- Winters, Helen Steele, ca. 1890-ca. 1920
23 218 Get Well cards - Winters, Robert U. Jr., 1953
23 219 Get Well cards - Winters, Robert U. Jr., ca. 1970
23 220 Halloween cards - Winters, Helen Steele, n.d.
23 221 Invitation cards - Winters, Helen Steele, 1896-1941
23 222 Place cards - Winters, Helen Steele, ca. 1930 - ca. 1950
23 223 Postcard book collection - Steele, Georgia Baker, 1898 - ca. 1920
23 224 Postcards - Steele, Georgia Baker and Forrest G. Steele, 1908-1966
23 225 Postcards - Winters, Helen Steele and Robert U. Winters, Jr., 1940-1983
24 226 Sewn animal cards - Pierce, Lydia Steele and Andrew Steele
24 227 Thanksgivings cards - Winters, Helen Steele, 1913-1918
24 228 Valentine cards - Anderson, Lula Steele to Helen Steele Winters, 1915-1920
24 229 Valentine cards - Baker, John and Amanda Pake Baker to Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1910-ca. 1920
24 230 Valentine cards - Brokaw, Nellie Gulliford to Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1910-ca. 1920
24 231 Valentine cards - Friends to Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1910- ca. 1930
24 232 Valentine cards - Line, Marion Steele, 1919
24 233 Valentine cards - Pierce, Carl and Lydia to Helen Steele Winters, 1914-1919
24 234 Valentine cards - Steele, George and Eliza Hensel Steele to Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1910-ca. 1930
24 235 Valentine cards - Steele, Forrest and Georgia Baker Steele to Helen Steele Winters, 1914-1924
24 236 Valentine cards - Steele, Georgia Baker, 1895-1921
24 237 Valentine cards - Steele family, ca. 1907-1918
24 237 Valentine cards - Steele family, ca. 1907-1918

Series 8: Newspaper clippings, 1918-1990

The Steele-Winters Papers contain many newspaper clippings about various members of the extended Baker, Hensel, Nichols, Steele, Winters and Zearing families published in the local newspapers. They include obituaries as well as articles documenting family activities. There are clippings on the social life of Georgia Baker Steele, Forrest Steele and Helen Steele Winters in Dover in the early part of the 20th century.
The newspaper clippings also contain articles on the towns of Dover, Illiopolis, Princeton, Shirland, and Tiskilwa, all in Bureau County, Illinois.
Arranged by family and then alphabetically.

Box Folder Contents
24 238 Hensel - Nichols - Zearing families, 1918-1989
24 239 Steele, Georgia B. and family, 1920-1970
24 240 Steele, Georgia B. and Helen Steele Winters - clippings on Dover, Shirland, Illiopolis, Bureau County, Ill., ca. 1920 - ca. 1930
25 240a Winters, Helen S., children, cousins, grandchildren, siblings, ca. 1970-1990
25 240b Winters, Robert U. and Helen Steele Winters, ca. 1950-ca. 1970
25 241 Winters, Robert U. Jr., collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1970
25 241 Winters, Robert U. Jr., collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1970

Series 9: Miscellaneous, 1860-1999

Documents created and collected during the lifetime of prominent pioneer and farm families in Bureau County such as land deeds, autograph books, birth certificates, diplomas, photographs, scrapbooks and yearbooks.
Included are the 1860 land deed of Jonathan Remington of Tiskilwa, Ill., the 1863 Civil War military discharge papers of William Q. Winters, an 1839 family Bible and the family recipes. One of the autograph books belonged to Minnie Winters, nee Putnam (1878-1954), one of the early pioneer women and the mother-in-law of Helen Steele Winters (1912-1999). The other two autograph books (1891 and 1908) belonged to Georgia M. Baker, Helen Steele Winters’ mother. Two folders of recipes provide an insight into the culinary tastes of farm families in the 20th century. The scrapbooks are a diverse mix of old fashioned scrapbooks containing Victorian cards and Victorian cut outs and contemporary scrapbooks celebrating, for example, the 80th birthday of Helen Steele.
One of the birthday books was edited by Edwin Osgood Grover and copyrighted by The P.F. Volland Company in 1931. The Sands of Time, A Book of Birthday Gems compiled by Thomas W. Handford and published in 1901 by the M.A. Donohoe & Company, is a birthday book containing a text, a proverb, and a sentiment for every day in the Year. A Farmer’s Compendium and Business Record, published by The Crescent Publishing Company in St. Louis, Mo. in 1890 is designed for the use of the farmer. It is illustrated and has a Veterinary Department, demonstrating the causes, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. It comprises departments in agriculture, architecture, facts and figures, arithmetical rules and business forms. It contains the list of the “American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association” for 1891.
The photographs in the collection are mostly family pictures. Photo album 1 (1912-1937) consists of pictures of the Steele family at the house and on the family farm, photo album 2 contains pictures taken during Helen’s years of study and reunion (1922-1979); and photo album 3 (1935-1937) depicts the early married life of Helen Steele Winters and her husband, Robert, Jr.
The various yearbooks cover the school and universities attended by Georgia M. Baker, Helen Steele Winters and Robert U. Winters, Jr. The yearbook, Syllabus 1906, of Northwestern University is the school where Georgia M. Baker received her teaching credentials in 1905. The Tiger, the yearbook of Princeton High School in Princeton, Illinois, is the school where Helen Steele attended high school. The Panorama, the yearbook of Pana Township High School in Pana, Illinois, is the school where Robert U. Winters, Jr. attended high school. The yearbooks of The Illio, published by the University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 1931- 1934 was the university attended by Robert U. Winters, Jr. and Helen F. Steele. The illiwoco, the Illinois Woman’s College Yearbook of 1931 and the (renamed) MacMurray College yearbook of 1932 are the yearbooks from the college were Helen Steele spent her first years of college. The Pirate Log yearbooks are from the period that Robert U. Winters, Jr. was on the faculty of Illiopolis High School in Illiopolis, Illinois in the 1950s and when his children attended the same high school.

Box Folder Contents
25 242 Address books, ca. 1950- ca. 1990
25 243 Autograph books, 1889-1908
25 244 Birthday books, 1907- ca. 1950
26 245 Broadsides, "Remember the Stunt Night", 1914
26 245a Catalogue - Dover Academy, Princeton, Illinois, 1883
26 246 Church pamphlets, United Methodist Church, Shirland, 1968-1988
26 247 Album of the Heart, copy book, Leavitt & Allen, ca. 1880-ca. 1890
26 248 Diplomas, Awards and Teaching Certificates (see also Oversize Box 35), 1902-1942
26 250 Farm Accounts - Winters, William Q., ca. 1905
26 251 Land Deed Tiskilwa - Remington, Jonathan (see Oversize Box 34), January 7, 1860
26 252 Military Records (see also Oversize Box 34), 1863-1933
27 253 Family Bibles - Holy Bible - Old and New Testament published by Hogan & Thompson, 1839
27 254 Photographs - Album 1 - Steele, Andrew Lathrop descendants - cover photo album, ca. 1912-1947
27 255 Photographs - Album 1 - Steele, Andrew Lathrop descendants - part 1, ca. 1912-1947
27 256 Photographs - Album 1 - Steele, Andrew Lathrop descendants, part 2, ca. 1912-1947
27 257 Photographs - Album 1 - Steele, Andrew Lathrop descendants - loose photographs, ca. 1912-1947
28 258 Photographs - Album 2 - Steele, Helen - school years, 1922-1927 and 1979
28 259 Photographs - Album 3 - Steele, Helen and Robert Winters Jr. - Early Married Life, 1935-1937
28 260 Photographs - Winters, Helen Steele - Photos of family and family farm (formerly Sidney Smith home), ca. 1970-ca. 2000
28 261 Postcards - Century of Progress, 1933
28 262 Postcards - City of Chicago, 1916-1955
29 263 Recipes - Wedding - Steele, Georgia Baker, 1909
29 264 Recipes - Winters, Helen Steele, ca. 1930 - ca. 1980
29 264a Scrapbook - Anderson, Mildred L. - The Zearings, Steeles and Hensels in Picture Genealogy (see Oversize Box 36), 1990
29 265 Scrapbook - Nelson, Cindy and Dan - Helen S. Winters 80th birthday, collected cards and stories (see Oversize Box 34), 1992
29 266 Scrapbook - Steele, Forrest (?) - Cover "The Illustrated Sporting Scrap Album" - Collection of Victorian cards (see Oversize Box 34), ca. 1880-ca. 1900
29 267 Scrapbook - Steele, Georgia B. - Young girl on cover - collection of Victorian cards including name cards of Mrs. J.W. Baker, Nellie S. Gulliford, Claude Baker, and Fred Hartley(see Oversize Box 34), ca. 1880-ca. 1900
29 268 Scrapbook - Steele, Georgia Baker - newspaper clippings, ca. 1945-ca. 1950
29 269 Scrapbook - Winters - collection of Victorian cards and cut outs.
29 270 Scrapbook -Winters, Helen S.- "Life with the Winters" with newspaper comics and poems, ca. 1941
29 271 Scrapbook -Winters, Helen S.- "For Marion and Harold" with newspapers comics and poems, ca. 1941
29 272 Scrapbook - Winters, Helen Steele and Jessica Petersen - "You and Me Scrapbook Girl Scouts", (see Oversize Box 34), 1996
29 273 Scrapbook - booklet - "Go In Peace" entered for a contest, n.d.
30 274 Yearbook - The Illio - University of Illinois at Champaign - Urbana, 1931
30 275 Yearbook - The Illio - University of Illinois at Champaign - Urbana, 1932
31 276 Yearbook - The Illio - University of Illinois at Champaign - Urbana, 1933
31 277 Yearbook - The Illio - University of Illinois at Champaign - Urbana, 1934
31 278 Yearbooks - The Pirate Log - Illiopolis High School, 1952-1953
32 279 Yearbooks - The Pirate Log - Illiopolis High School, 1954-1955
32 280 Yearbook - The Pirate Log - Illiopolis High School, 1957
32 281 Yearbook - illiwoco - Illinois Womans College, 1931
32 282 Yearbook - illiwoco - MacMurray College, 1932
32 283 Yearbook - Syllabus 1906 - Class of 1906 of Northwestern University, 1905
33 284 Yearbook - The Panaroma - Pana Township High School, 1926
33 285 Yearbooks - The Tiger - Princeton High School, 1926-1927
33 286 Yearbooks - The Tiger - Princeton High School, 1928-1929
34 Oversize Box
35 Oversize Box
36 Oversize Box
36 Oversize Box