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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

F.W. Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.

Dates: 1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916

Hambleton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-022
Abstract

Three letters by Emma Lander Hambleton, wife of Chalkley Jay Hambleton. Also one letter by Vera S. Wolfe, daughter of conductor Frederick Stock to Peggy Hambleton Murphy.

Dates: 1871-1932

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
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

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Milo Kendall papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall
Abstract

Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.

Dates: 1798-1925; Majority of material found within 1845-1906

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Accounts payable -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Ambassadors -- Belgium 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Building trades -- United States 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Business records -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Children's writings, American 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
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Construction industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Debtor and creditor -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
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Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Divorce -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Divorce suits -- Illinois 1
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Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
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Homosexuality and literature 1
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Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
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Literary critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Public opinion 1
Motion pictures -- History 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
Norfolk (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Construction 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Romance fiction -- Europe 1
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Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Speeches 1
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Trusts and trustees -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900 1
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Names
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
American Medical Association 1
American National Red Cross 1
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Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Clark Construction Company 1
Clark family 1
Clark, F. W. (Frederick William), 1857-1916 1
Clark, Jonathan, 1902- 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Hambleton, Chalkley J., 1881-1956 1
Hambleton, Emma Lander 1
Hamilton family 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Co. 1
International Medical Congress 1
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Murphy, Peggy Hambleton 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Schlesinger & Mayer 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Wolfe, Vera S. 1
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