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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

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

Rowley Family Journals

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-096
Abstract

Two journals by Mrs. Jane Rowley of the Chicago area, including descriptions of family and farming life, and various trips to Chicago and elsewhere.

Dates: 1851-1887

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Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American University of Beirut 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
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Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Rowley family 1
Rowley, Jane Perry 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
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