Carillon Belles/Rees Carillon Bell Society

The Carillon Belles/Rees Carillon Bell Society Collection is an integration and reorganization of documents, newspaper clippings, carillon programs, memoranda and photographs from the collection of Mrs. Violet Touch, longtime RCS Board member and founder of the Carillon Belles, a group supporting the Rees Carillon in Springfield, Illinois. The Thomas Rees Carillon was built in 1962 and named after the former Illinois State Register publisher who had bequeathed money for the carillon upon his death nearly 30 years prior.