Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1823 - 1887
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Blatchford family papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford 2
Abstract
Chicago lead manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Dates:
1841-1947; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1914
Richard Irving Dodge Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio Graff-1110
Abstract
Twenty pocket journals (all but six with transcriptions), 1875-1883, kept during Richard Irving Dodge’s active service as a United States Army colonel in the American West, plus correspondence, military documents, broadsides, miscellany and photographs relating to Dodge’s life and career.
Dates:
1863-1905
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- Autobiographies (literary works) -- 1851-1900 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Dry Tortugas (Fla.) 1
- Great Plains -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, American -- West 1
- Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
- Powder River Expedition, 1865 1
- Theological seminaries -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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