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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

Frances Wells Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ShawF
Abstract

Papers of Frances Wells Shaw of Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois, wife of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Bulk consists of material related to the frequent domestic and international travels of Frances Shaw during the first half of the 20th century. Includes her diaries, travel materials and memorabilia, and photographs. Also includes correspondence to and from Frances Shaw and her daughters, plus the diaries of her brother-in-law, Charles T. Atkinson.

Dates: 1866-1976; Majority of material found within 1925-1937

John T. McCutcheon papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Louis S. Bauer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract

Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.

Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

Steele-Winters Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 3
Postcards 3
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 2
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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Postcards -- 1901-1950 2
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Camp Grant (Ill.) 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Christian Science 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Domestic relations -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Dry-goods -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Editorial cartoons 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families of military personnel -- Illinois 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Glass negatives 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Greeting cards 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Commerce -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
International relations -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
Japan -- Guidebooks 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Law students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Lincoln (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Mothers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Philanthropists 1
Philippines -- Description and travel 1
Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Personal narratives 1
Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Pictorial works 1
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Names
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 2
McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American University of Beirut 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
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Baker family 1
Bates family 1
Bauer family 1
Bauer, Louis S., 1894-1975 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
King, Frances Theodora 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lutz family 1
Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
MacMurray College 1
McCormick, Chauncey, 1884-1954 1
McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936 1
McCormick, Harold F. (Harold Fowler), 1872-1941 1
McCormick, Medill, 1877-1925 1
McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1866-1946 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
Orr, 1890- 1
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946 1
Peck family 1
Purdue University 1
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 1
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 1
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944 1
Ryerson, Edward L. (Edward Larned), 1886-1971 1
Shaw family 1
Shaw, Frances Wells, 1872-1937 1
Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926 1
Smith, Hermon Dunlap, 1900-1983 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Stevens, Ashton 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
Tribune Company 1
Tyng, Olive Wyndham 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
United States. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 11th (1862-1865) 1
Williams family 1
Winters family 1
Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999 1
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