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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

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

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

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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

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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Postcards 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
All-Girl Bands 1
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Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Camp Grant (Ill.) 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
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence 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
Editorial cartoons 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Families of military personnel -- Illinois 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Glass negatives 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
International relations -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
Jazz -- 1921-1930 1
Jazz -- 1931-1940 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Journals (accounts) -- 1901-1950 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 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
Photographic postcards 1
Photographs 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Colombia 1
Photographs -- Colorado 1
Photographs -- Ecuador 1
Photographs -- Grand Canyon 1
Photographs -- Guatemala 1
Photographs -- Jerusalem 1
Photographs -- Panama 1
Photographs -- Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Picture postcards 1
Political cartoons 1
Postcards -- 1901-1950 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Sermons -- 1751-1800 1
Sermons -- 1801-1850 1
Sermons -- 1851-1900 1
Shipping -- Maine -- Bangor -- History 1
Sketches 1
South African War, 1899-1902 1
South America -- Description and travel 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Campaigns -- Philippines -- Personal narratives 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Campaigns -- Philippines -- Pictorial works 1
Stereographs 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
Travel 1
Travel guidebooks 1
Travel literature 1
Travel literature -- 1901-1950 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 1
Vaudeville 1
Viewbooks 1
Women jazz musicians -- United States 1
Women musicians -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World politics -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
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Names
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American University of Beirut 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Bauer family 1
Bauer, Louis S., 1894-1975 1
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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
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1
Brown, McAuliffe, 1889-1963 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 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
Harry Waiman and His Debutantes 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Ingénues (Musical group) 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
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, Evelyn Shaw 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
Parisian Red Heads 1
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946 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, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926 1
Smith, Hermon Dunlap, 1900-1983 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
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
Ziegfeld follies 1
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