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Edward Price Bell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.

Dates: 1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900-1942

Gridley-Hitchcock Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitchcock
Abstract Copies of letters, diaries, and photographs of Ruth Daube Gridley (diaries from 1917-1950) and daughter Marion Gridley Hitchcock (diary from 1951-1958). Also copies of letters to Marion by her father, William Whiting Gridley, after the death of his wife that concern his life as sole caretaker for Marion's sister, who was treated for mental illness. Collection also contains a large set of original correspondence from Marion's great-aunt, Josephine Wheat Gridley, primarily concerning family...
Dates: 1860-2007; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

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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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Photographs -- 1901-1950 3
Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1901-1950 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
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Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Accountants -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Airplanes, Military -- Armament -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Amboy (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Diaries -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Divorce -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Foreign news -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
London (England) 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Pass Christian (Miss.) 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Social security -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Society of Friends 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
Tiskilwa (Ill.) -- History 1
Travel literature -- Europe 1
Travelers -- Europe -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Valentines 1
Warships 1
Winnebago County (Ill.) -- History 1
Women -- Education -- History 1
Women -- Suffrage -- England 1
Women college students -- Illinois 1
Women teachers 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Journalists 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs 1
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Names
America First Committee 1
Baker family 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
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Beloit College 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Downs family 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gridley family 1
Grinnell College 1
Hitchcock, Marion Gridley, 1929- 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane (Elgin, Ill.) 1
Indiana University 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Katō, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lloyd, William Bross, Jr., 1908-1995 1
London Naval Conference (1930 : London, England) 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
MacMurray College 1
Marx, Wilhelm, 1863-1946 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865-1922 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 1
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 1
Poincaré, Raymond, 1860-1934 1
Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944 1
Rockford Female Seminary 1
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 1
Shidehara, Kijūrō, 1872-1951 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Tang, Shaoyi, 1860-1938 1
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 1
Thomas family 1
Winters family 1
Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999 1
Winters, Robert Ulney, Jr., 1908-1978 1
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