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Jou. Journalism

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Identifier: Jou
This topic covers manuscript collections of reporters, columnists, critics, editors, editorial cartoonists, publishers, and newspaper publishing companies. It also includes archives of clubs devoted to journalism.

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Harry Hansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

Hayden Carruth Letters and Poem

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carruth
Abstract

Letters and poem written by American poet and literary critic Hayden Carruth, primarily to Chicago Daily News reporter Van Allen Bradley.

Dates: 1949-1970

Hazel MacDonald papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-MacDonald
Abstract

This collection consists of a small amount of correspondence, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, foreign dispatches, and other works by Chicago reporter and foreign correspondent Hazel MacDonald.

Dates: 1928-1967

Helga Sandburg letter to Kenan Heise

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-188
Abstract

Letter from Helga Sandburg (daughter of Carl Sandburg) to Chicago Tribune columnist Kenan Heise dated September 12, 1994, thanking him for his obituary for Marcia Lee Masters, daughter of Edgar Lee Masters and the Tribune’s Poetry editor. Also includes typescripts of two poems; one from Marcia to Helga "For Helga Sandburg", and one from Helga to Marcia "For Marcia Masters".

Dates: 1994

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Henry Justin Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Henry Kisor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kisor
Abstract

Henry Kisor is a journalist and author. Born in 1940, Henry became deaf at the age of three. He is known for his decades long (1965-2006) journalism career at Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun Times as well as his published fiction and nonfiction books. As a journalist, he mainly worked as a book editor and was a 1981 finalist for a Pulitzer Price for Criticism.

Dates: 1904-2014; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

Henry Orland papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Orland
Abstract Music manuscripts, reel-to-reel tapes, radio scripts, correspondence, clippings, and programs of this Midwestern composer, critic, educator, and conductor. Orland was a literary and music critic for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the musicology journal Music and Man; he also served as program director for Northwestern University's radio station, WNUR, and for the program "Facets of Music" for KFUO in St. Louis (tapes of which appear in the collection). His...
Dates: 1913-2000

Herman Kogan papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kogan
Abstract

Works, professional correspondence, and photographs of Chicago journalist and corporate historian Herman Kogan.

Dates: approximately 1869-1985; Majority of material found within 1970-1985

Hermann Raster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

Hoke Norris Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Norris
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, research materials, and personal information by and about Hoke Norris, reporter, book reviewer, novelist, and public affairs director. Norris worked for several papers including the Raleigh News and Observer, the Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Daily News.

Dates: 1934-1977; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1977

Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Seymour
Abstract

Editorial columns, clippings, manuscripts, correspondence, three photographs, and family materials from publisher and editorial writer Horatio Winslow Seymour.

Dates: 1867-1948; Majority of material found within 1903 - 1918

Howard Vincent O'Brien papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brien
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, publicity materials, and personal papers of newspaper columnist and novelist Howard Vincent O'Brien.

Dates: 1894-1948

Jack Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-FullerJ
Abstract

The literary and journalistic works, correspondence, and personal materials of Chicago journalist and novelist Jack Fuller.

Dates: 1850-2016; Majority of material found within 1951-2009

Jack Mabley papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mabley
Abstract Correspondence with colleagues, congratulatory letters, inter-office memos; works including newspaper clippings, subject files dealing with important stories including the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Richard Cain case, racketeering, police corruption, and vice in Chicago, miscellaneous articles and columns; biographical clippings, publicity, and interviews, and photographs of Mabley himself and with public figures such as Hugh Hefner and Richard Nixon. Mabley was a reporter and columnist...
Dates: 1937-2003

James O'Donnell Bennett papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bennett
Abstract

Letters written to James O'Donnell Bennett while he was a journalist for the Chicago Record-Herald and the Chicago Tribune, primarily in his capacity as literary critic. Also includes inscribed photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1814-1936 ; Majority of material found within 1900-1936

James O'Shea papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Shea
Abstract Notebooks, meeting notes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, strategy documents, and other materials mainly from O’Shea’s tenure as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times (2006-2008) and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune (2001-2006), containing considerable information about the merger of the two papers and its aftermath. Also materials relating to O’Shea’s founding and leadership of the Chicago News Cooperative; subject files, articles, and reports regarding the future of...
Dates: 1995-2011

Joe Cappo papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cappo
Abstract

Administrative files, audio interviews, correspondence, photographs, and other material documenting the career of Chicago journalist Joe Cappo, who worked for the Chicago Daily News, Crain's Chicago Business, and other news outlets from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Dates: 1963-2020

Joe Geshwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Geshwiler
Abstract Papers of Joe Geshwiler, Chicago Daily News and Atlanta Constitution editor, including lengthy columns about Central and South America, Bosnia, the Mideast, and Southeast Asia which Geshwiler wrote after returning from reporting trips for the Constitution, clippings of all his Chicago Daily News editorials (1971-1974) on local, national and international affairs, and the editorial opinions he wrote for the Constitution during 1983. Also a 1994 speech on editorial writing, and recollections...
Dates: 1971-2011

John Drury-Marion Neville Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.

Dates: 1860-1970

John Fischetti papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fischetti
Abstract Political cartoons and assorted miscellaneous items (clippings, photographs, correspondence, etc.) of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist John Fischetti. Fischetti worked for several newspapers and magazines during his long career, including Coronet, Esquire, the Chicago Sun, the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and the...
Dates: 1942-1995

John Lardner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LardnerJ
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner.

Dates: approximately 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960

John Schulian papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Schulian
Abstract

Screenplays, teleplays, fiction writing, newspaper column clippings, and personal correspondence of sports writer - turned - Hollywood television writer John Schulian. Schulian wrote for both the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times, from 1975-1984.

Dates: 1970-2016

John T. McCutcheon papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Kay Ashton-Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-StevensK
Abstract

Correspondence, personal and career related materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago actress, television and radio personality, and wife of critic Ashton Stevens, Kay Ashton-Stevens.

Dates: 1905-1978