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Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown Family
Abstract Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, numerous group and portrait photographs, a scrapbook, travel and souvenir items and snapshots, relating to sisters Grace and Genevieve Brown, musicians who were members of three American all-girl bands between 1923 and 1932. A large part of the collection consists of photographs of the bands and the performers: Harry Waiman and the Debutantes, the Parisian Red Heads and the Ingenues, as well as numerous small travel photographs Also a small...
Dates: 1918-1972; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1932

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
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Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Christian Science 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 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
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
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Commerce -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Jazz -- 1921-1930 1
Jazz -- 1931-1940 1
Journals (accounts) -- 1901-1950 1
Law students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Lincoln (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Photographic postcards 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Picture postcards 1
Postcards 1
Postcards -- 1851-1900 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social life and customs 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Sisters -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Soldiers -- Vermont -- Correspondence 1
Tiskilwa (Ill.) -- History 1
Travel literature -- 1901-1950 1
Travel literature -- Europe 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Valentines 1
Vaudeville 1
Viewbooks 1
Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Winnebago County (Ill.) -- History 1
Women -- Education -- History 1
Women college students -- Illinois 1
Women jazz musicians -- United States 1
Women musicians -- United States 1
Women teachers 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 1
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Baker family 1
Bates family 1
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1