The Aurora Historical Society is excited to announce its latest exhibition on clothing, entitled Wedding Attire: Gowns & Formal Wear of Yesteryear. [...]
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Continue reading Lincoln Is Coming in 2013 Here’s the Schedule Aurora High School senior Livia Ward is the 2011 winner of the $1,000 Aurora Historical Society’s Veron Biggar Scholarship. Livia created a PowerPoint presentation entitled Mid-Century Aurora Businesses: As Seen Through the Eyes of A Local Family. The program chronicles the history of the Hanes’ and their connections to Aurora via their real [...] #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } We are slowly re-organizing and re-indexing all items that were moved from the storage room during the flooding. Here are some photos of the room with the new shelving and organizational floor plan. All items are being entered into our Past Perfect Software catalog as we go. The Aurora High School’s 1924 Victorious Girls' Basketball Team. 1st row seated l-r: Nellie (Nella) Isham & Mabel Jackson, second row, Agnes Dreyer, Coach & Principal J.O. Fox, & Alice Dreyer, third row, Lois Riley, Leila Riley, Florence Dreese. The Dreyer twins in the second row are Donna Mattmuller and Jane Burns' Mother [...] Refurbishing the storage room and other areas of the basement is almost complete. Mold damage was remediated by removing the lower 4 ft of drywall. A backup sump system and a waterproofing system was also installed by the city. In these photos you can see the mold damage and the extensive plastic sheeting containment [...] A Docent Appreciation luncheon was held held on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at Paws in The Bertram. Without these volunteers we would not be able to accommodate and welcome our visitors. Here are a few pics from the day. [...] 
Our storage room has had water infiltration from a faulty air conditioning system. To abate the mold we have had to empty that room and move our collection to table tops in our museum and other display spaces. Most of the items were undamaged by water but everything was affected by mold growth resulting [...] If you haven’t visited the Aurora Historical Society recently, then you’ll want to stop in soon. Our current exhibition is on textiles—hand-made doilies, table clothes, quilts, towels, pillow cases, and cloth. The examples come from the AHS’s artifacts’ collection and represent the work of local women, pieces handed down from generation to generation, and [...] 
If you haven’t visited the Aurora Historical Society recently, then you’ll want to stop in soon. Our current exhibition is on textiles—hand-made doilies, table clothes, quilts, towels, pillow cases, and cloth. The examples come from the AHS’s artifacts’ collection and represent the work of local women, pieces handed down from generation to generation, and [...] |
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