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Officers of the Pekin Zouaves

On the last page of the very first Pekin City Directory, published by Omi...

‘Big Pete,’ W.H. Bates and The Star Spangled Banner

By Jared Olar Library assistant Question: What do Pekin’s pioneer historian William H. Bates,...

William H. Bates of Pekin, ‘the historian of the city’

By Jared Olar Library assistant Note: Archivists and historians in Missouri recently contacted the...

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