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Ashton Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract

The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940

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

Felix Borowski Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

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Clippings -- 1951-2000 3
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 3
Photographs -- 1951-2000 3
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
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Phonograph records -- 1901-1950 2
Actors -- United States -- 20th century 1
Audiotapes 1
Audiotapes -- 1901-1950 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors, American 1
Banjo -- History 1
Banjoists 1
Book reviewing 1
Bookstores 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Comedians -- United States -- 20th century 1
Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Composition (Music) 1
Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Cylinders (sound recordings) 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Doodles -- 1901-1950 1
Drama -- 20th century 1
Dramatists 1
Engravings 1
Farm life -- Indiana 1
Historians -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Historical biographies 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lithographs 1
Love-letters 1
Mother and child -- Correspondence 1
Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Music teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. 1
Opera -- 20th century 1
Phonograph records -- 1951-2000 1
Plays (performing arts compositions) -- 1901-1950 1
Playwriting 1
Publicity photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Publicity photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Quakers -- Indiana 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Sheep ranches -- West (U.S.) 1
Sound recordings -- 1901-1950 1
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Theater -- 20th century -- Reviews 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century 1
Theater critics -- California -- San Francisco 1
Theater critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Vaudeville -- United States -- History 1
Wire recordings 1
Women critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Women journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Language
French 1
German 1
Polish 1
 
Names
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Balakirev, Miliì† Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1