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Newberry Library. Board of Trustees

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

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Ambassadors -- Belgium 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Judges -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Norfolk (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Philanthropists 1
Philippines -- Description and travel 1
Photographs -- Colombia 1
Photographs -- Colorado 1
Photographs -- Ecuador 1
Photographs -- Grand Canyon 1
Photographs -- Guatemala 1
Photographs -- Jerusalem 1
Photographs -- Panama 1
Photographs -- Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Postcards 1
Secession -- Virginia -- Public opinion 1
Sermons -- 1751-1800 1
Sermons -- 1801-1850 1
Sermons -- 1851-1900 1
Shipping -- Maine -- Bangor -- History 1
South America -- Description and travel 1
Speeches -- 1851-1900 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
Travel guidebooks 1
Travel literature 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900 1
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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