This collection contains articles, photographs, letters, documents, and more pertaining to Allan Pinkerton and family, as well as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Allan Pinkerton lived in Chicago but moved to West Dundee and lived here for a few years before moving back to Chicago. The content in this collection ranges from 1836 to 1999.
- “Description of Items Loaned”, compiled by Dundee Library staff member, exact date unknown
- The Pinkerton family loaned some items to us at one point. Many of those items were returned but there are several that we were able to keep copies of. The items circled on this list are the ones we still have copies of.
- “Inscriptions From Headstones of Family Plot in Chicago”, exact date unknown
- “The Allan Pinkerton Story: Dundee Cooper to World’s Top Detective”, publication title and exact date unknown
- Letter from Allan Pinkerton to Harry E. Hunt, June 3, 1836
- Letter from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to Allan Pinkerton, April 23, 1865
- Photograph of Allan Pinkerton, signed and dated 1867
- “Pinkerton on Guard”, The Sunday Herald, November 7, 1886
- “The Pinkertons: An Outline of the Life Work of Allan Pinkerton”, The Detective, March 1887
- A thumbnail sketch of the hold-up and robbery of the Union Pacific Train, Tipton, Wyoming, 1900
- Biography of William Pinkerton, written around the early 1900’s
- “Allan Pinkerton, Dundee’s World Famous Detective”, Countryside, September 14, 1967
- “Dundee’s Detective Discovers Fame”, Countryside, November 9, 1967
- “Allan Pinkerton-Celebrated Dundee Citizen”, Countryside, January 21, 1972
- “Track Down Evidence on Geneva Bank Heist (Over 100 Years Ago)”, Geneva Republican, January 22, 1976
- “Search Continues for Information About Bank Robbery in Geneva”, Geneva Republican, February 5, 1976
- “B. C. Yates Was Oldest Detective in Northwest About 93 Years Ago”, Geneva Republican, February 12, 1976
- “Pinkerton Built Fame on Exploits in Kane”, Courier News, February 6, 1980
- “Super Snooper Pinkerton Carved Niche in Dundee”, Fox Valley Countryside, June 19, 1980
- “We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons” booklet by Frederick Voss and James Barber, ©1981
- “1800s James Bond? Pinkerton a ‘Morally Upright’ Dundee Legend”, Courier News, April 4, 1982
- “Famous Detective Called West Dundee Home”, Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1991
- “Pinkerton Mysteries”, Courier News, April 25, 1999
