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Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Carter H. Harrison IV papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harrison
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953), and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.

Dates: 1637-1953; Majority of material found within 1840-1950

Chauncey McCormick papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCormick
Abstract Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1944-1954. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, religious, and political activities. Also contains speeches and writings, including those for the Art Institute, child...
Dates: 1887-1955

Cloyd Head papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Head
Abstract

Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.

Dates: 1881-1968

Horace Sweeney Oakley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Oakley
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of lawyer and civic leader Horace S. Oakley. Also photographs, memorabilia, writings, and materials relating to his work with The Orchestral Association in Chicago, the American Red Cross Commission to Macedonia, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Dates: 1881-1929

Welling Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Welling
Abstract

Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Harriet Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; John P. Welling material includes military records from his service in World War I.

Dates: 1899-1988

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Amateur theater -- Production and direction -- Florida 1
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Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Charities -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- To 1950 1
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France -- History -- 20th century 1
Greece -- History -- 1917-1944 1
Invitations 1
Little theater movement -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Macedonia -- History -- 1912-1945 1
Mayors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Medals -- 1901-1950 1
Missions -- California 1
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One-act plays, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Patronage, Political -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Symphony orchestras -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century 1
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Theater -- Production and direction -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Theatrical producers and directors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Travel literature -- 1921-1928 1
Travel literature -- Egypt -- 1895 1
Trusts and trustees -- Correspondence 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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Aldis, Arthur T. 1
American Field Service 1
American National Red Cross 1
American Red Cross 1
American Red Cross in France 1
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American Relief Administration 1
American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Casino (Club : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cassimatis, George N. 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education 1
Chicago (Ill.). Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Chicago Bar Association 1
Chicago Chamber Music Society 1
Chicago Federation of Musicians 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Civic Music Association of Chicago 1
Civic Orchestra of Chicago 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Democratic Party (Cook County, Ill.) 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dunne, Edward F. (Edward Fitzsimons), 1853-1937 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Goodwin, Philip Lippincott, 1885-1958 1
Graham, Martha 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hamill, Charles H. (Charles Humphrey), 1868-1941 1
Harrison family 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Harrison, Edith Ogden 1
Harrison, William Preston, 1870-1940 1
Hawley, Mary Oakley 1
Head, Cloyd 1
Hektoen, Eleanor 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 1
Hull, Cordell 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society 1
Jarvis, Isabel 1
Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982 1
Julien Levy Gallery 1
Junior League of Chicago 1
Kennelly, Martin H., 1887-1961 1
Klee, Rogers, Loeb and Wolff (Firm) 1
Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 1
Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949 1
Kusama, Yayoi 1
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lenroot, Katharine F. (Katharine Fredrica), 1891-1982 1
Lewis, James, 1863-1939 1
Lockett, Robbin 1
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet (Firm) 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 1
Magnusson, M. J. 1
Mamet, David 1
Man Ray, 1890-1976 1
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
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