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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago American Indian Photography Project photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Photo Project
Abstract Photographs taken by Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Orlando Cabanban, Joe Kazumura, F. Peter Weil, and Leroy Wesaw for the Chicago American Indian Photography Project. Images document the social life and customs of the American Indian community in Chicago during the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Includes many photographs from activities of the American Indian Center. Many of these photographs were displayed in the Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery at the Newberry Library as part of an exhibition...
Dates: approximately 1950s-1987

John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blew
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, interviews, writings, and other materials related to the lives and careers of Wright and Zoe Howes, their families, and Wright Howes' bibliographical work U.S.IANA. Materials were compiled by John Blew, a Chicago lawyer and book collector who became interested in the life of Wright Howes through his use of Howes' U.S.IANA.

Dates: 1790s-2012; Majority of material found within 1870-1999

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.

Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Mendicant ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HV4493 .N49
Abstract

Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.

Dates: approximately 1850-approximately 2020

Native Americans in Film collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-NAIF
Abstract

Collection of movie scripts featuring Native American themes, characters, and actors, augmented by a variety of visual materials. Consists of over 300 items including scripts, press and promotional booklets, lobby cards, posters, and photographs.

Dates: 1912-2018; Majority of material found within 1932-1995

Newberry Library Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-178
Abstract

Photographs document the construction of the Henry Ives Cobb-designed Newberry Library building from May 8, 1891 to April 12, 1893, and also show parts of Washington Square Park and buildings in the surrounding area.

Dates: 1891-1893

Richard Colles Johnson - Colles Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Johnson
Abstract

Material relating to the genealogy of Richard Colles Johnson’s family, especially his Colles ancestors and relations, including correspondence, clippings, copies of documents and publications, memorabilia, and photographs.

Dates: 1746-2002; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1998

Sherwood Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

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Photographs -- 1951-2000 4
Manuscripts, American 3
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Photographs 3
Photographs -- 1901-1950 3
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Authors, American -- 20th century 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Accidents 1
Alms boxes 1
Ambrotypes 1
Americana -- Collectors and collecting 1
Antiquarian booksellers 1
Artifacts 1
Artist colonies -- New York (State) 1
Audiocassettes 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Begging 1
Begging poems 1
Blind 1
Book collecting 1
Book editors -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Bookstores -- Illinois -- Chicago Region 1
Broadside poems 1
Broadsides 1
Budgets 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Charitable giving 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Photographs 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Communism and literature -- History -- Sources 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Ireland 1
Correspondence -- United States 1
Critics -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Deaf 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Europe -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Europe -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Families -- Georgia 1
Families -- Ireland 1
Families -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- United States 1
Genealogical correspondence -- Ireland 1
Genealogy 1
Greeting cards 1
Greeting cards -- Specimens 1
Homeless persons 1
Homelessness 1
Indians in the motion picture industry 1
Indians of North America -- Culture 1
Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 1
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures 1
Ireland -- Genealogy 1
Librarians -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lobby cards 1
Manuscripts, Irish 1
Moving images 1
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
People with disabilities 1
Periodical editors -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Photographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Picture postcards 1
Poems 1
Poets, American -- 20th century 1
Poor 1
Posters 1
Poverty 1
Press kits 1
Printed ephemera 1
Programs (documents) 1
Scrapbooks 1
Screenplays 1
Sideshows 1
Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries 1
Sound recordings 1
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Posters 1
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures 1
United States -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Genealogy 1
United States -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Veterans 1
Western films 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans 1
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