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Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
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

George Ade papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

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

Jack Mabley papers

 Collection
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

M. W. Newman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newman
Abstract

Works, correspondence, personal materials, and memorabilia of Chicago newspaper editor, reporter, and critic M. W. Newman.

Dates: 1917-2002

Mike Royko papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

Sherwood Ross papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ross
Abstract

Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.

Dates: 1956-2014

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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
African Americans in radio broadcasting 1
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Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Arts -- Press coverage 1
Authors, American 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
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Boxing -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
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Names
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
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Ade family 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cain, Richard, -1973 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Chicago Urban League 1
Chicago record 1
Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), 1884-1972 1
Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Ebert, Roger 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fernald, Charles Edward, 1902- 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
George Ade Memorial Association 1
Gilman, Evelyn 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1
Indiana Society of Chicago 1
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 1
Kurfess, William F. 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Mabley, Jack 1
Mark Twain Society of Chicago 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Meine, Franklin J., 1896-1968 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
National Urban League 1
Newman, M. W. (Morton William), 1917-2001 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
Purdue University 1
Rathbun, James D. 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Ross family 1
Ross, Sherwood 1
Royko, Mike, 1932-1997 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sherwood Ross Associates, Inc. 1
Sigma Chi Fraternity 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1
Union League Club of Chicago 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Webster, Harold Tucker, 1885-1952 1
Whitechapel Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Young, Whitney M. 1
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