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Anne Siewers Coyne papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Coyne
Abstract Papers (correspondence, photographs, poems, clippings, programs, and other materials) of Anne Siewers Coyne, who began working at 14 at Ralph G. Newman's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. There she met, became friends with, and corresponded with Nelson Algren. In 1957 and 1958 she initiated Loyola University Chicago's David B. Steinman Visiting Poets series, corresponding with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Dame Edith Sitwell. The papers also include materials related to her...
Dates: 1943-1999; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1969

Burt family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract

Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.

Dates: 1890-1951

Dankmar Adler papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adler
Abstract Correspondence, autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect, acoustician, and partner of Louis Sullivan in the Adler and Sullivan architectural firm. Also other family and research materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater, Stock Exchange Building, Garrick Theater Building, and the...
Dates: 1857-1984

Eugene E. Prussing Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Prussing
Abstract

Manuscript autobiography and related notes by Eugene E. Prussing (interleaved with photographs and clippings). Also clippings and letters relating to Prussing’s two books on George Washington, genealogical information about the Peltzer family, and a biography of father Ernst Prussing.

Dates: 1928-1980

Fanny Butcher papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Francis Fisher Browne papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Browne
Abstract

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.

Dates: approximately 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1873 - 1915

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

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

Melville E. Stone papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barrett-Sandburg
Abstract Correspondence between Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Lincoln, plus a few other letters of Oliver Barrett and his son Roger; numerous brief undated notes from Sandburg to Barrett and work notes on Lincoln's biography by both men; copies of several articles and numerous poems by Sandburg; miscellaneous printed items relating to Sandburg, his work and his public appearances; and...
Dates: approximately 1860-1966

Trumbull Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.

Dates: 1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950

Wallace Rice Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

William H. Peterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the...
Dates: 1891-2012

Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans...
Dates: 1909-1991

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Clippings -- 1951-2000 2
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Women journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
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Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Authors, European -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
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Bookstores -- United States 1
Bridgeport (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Building, Iron and steel -- Tables 1
Buildings -- Salvaging -- Middle West 1
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Cartes de visite 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1
Chesterton (Ind.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Diaries 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Engineers -- United States 1
Engravings 1
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Fathers and sons -- Correspondence 1
Food writing 1
Foreign correspondents 1
Foreign news 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- Photographs 1
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Middle West 1
Historic buildings -- Middle West 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Investigative reporting 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century 1
Lawyers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography 1
Lithographs 1
Lost architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lyricists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Mothers and sons -- Correspondence 1
Music -- Instruction and study -- Austria -- Vienna 1
News agencies 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspapers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. 1
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel 1
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Names
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 3
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 2
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 2
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 1
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Associated Press 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950 1
Barrett, Roger 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Brown, Theodora Winterbotham 1
Browne's Bookstore 1
Browne, Herbert S. 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 1
Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873- 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cain, Richard, -1973 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
Carruthers, Olive 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chap-book 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Clark, Herma, 1871-1959 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Coyne, Anne Siewers 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Dial (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Dyer-Bennet, Richard 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Henry, 1902-1986 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 1
Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 1838-1909 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hale, Edward Everett, Jr., 1863-1932 1
Hanley family 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Johnson family 1
Kohn, A. (Abraham) 1
Kotula family 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Law Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lerner, Leo A. (Leo Alfred), 1907-1965 1
Leschetizky, Theodor, 1830-1915 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Loyola University Chicago 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Mabley, Jack 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Mitgang, Herbert 1
Monroe family 1
Monroe, Henry Stanton 1
Monroe, William Stanton 1
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 1
Muir, John, 1838-1914 1
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
Neville, Marion, 1901-1967 1
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