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Chicago Daily News, Inc.

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Fort Sheridan postcard collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fort Sheridan
Abstract This collection contains over 500 postcards acquired from the former museum at the Fort Sheridan U.S. Army Post (1887-1993). These materials relate primarily to World Wars I and II. There are many Chicago Daily News Postals printed of European locations during World War I, as well as views of military life in several American installations, such as Camp Custer, Michigan. A small number of views related to topics such as medicine and the Red Cross are also part of this collection. Oversize...
Dates: approximately 1914-1945

Paul Scott Mowrer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
Abstract Correspondence, works, photographs and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, author, newspaper editor, and poet. Mowrer was Paris correspondent for the Chicago Daily News beginning in 1910, headed the foreign news service until 1934, and editor of the paper from 1935-1944. He was foreign editor of the New York Post from 1944-1947. An accomplished poet, Mowrer published...
Dates: 1894-2007; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1971

Victor Lawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lawson
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, legal documents, contracts, and other materials pertaining to Victor Lawson’s life and career as a pioneering newspaperman and owner of the Chicago Daily News in early 1900s Chicago.

Dates: approximately 1860-1931; Majority of material found within 1885-1925

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  • Subject: World War, 1914-1918 X

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Foreign news 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Advertising -- Medicine 1
Advertising, Classified 1
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Advertising, Newspaper 1
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Artifacts 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Balkan Peninsula 1
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- War of 1912-1913 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Dramatists, American 1
Fishing stories 1
Foreign correspondents 1
Foreign correspondents -- United States 1
Green Lake County (Wis.) 1
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Journalists 1
Letterpress copybooks -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
London (England) 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Moving images 1
New Hampshire -- Poetry 1
News agencies 1
Newspaper carriers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper employees -- Labor unions 1
Newspaper industry 1
Newspaper layout and typography -- History 1
Newspaper presses 1
Newspaper publishing -- Economic aspects 1
Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Newspapers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Paris (France) 1
Philanthropists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Photographs 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Poets, American -- 20th century 1
Pulitzer Prizes 1
Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History 1
Race relations 1
Reporters and reporting 1
Rif Mountains (Morocco) 1
Rif Revolt, 1921-1926 1
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 1
Scrapbooks 1
Screenplays 1
Screenwriters -- United States 1
Sound recordings 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Syndicates (Journalism) -- United States 1
Typewriters 1
United States -- Foreign relations 1
War correspondents 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath -- Germany -- Berlin 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Journalists 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Palestine 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works 1
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