The Peoria Historical Society’s Collection includes over 60,000 items, including artifacts, photographs, and printed materials related to the history of the Peoria area. The primary collection of images, books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera is housed at the Bradley University Cullom-Davis Library in the environmentally controlled Special Collections Center.

The process of developing an extensive database is ongoing. Keywords may be entered above, such as “Whiskey Capital of the World”, “photograph”, or “obituary”, to access currently available materials from the PHS database. Copies of photographs and printed materials may be available for a nominal fee.

For additional help, please contact the Peoria Historical Society.