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Carroll Binder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Binder
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, personal and family materials, and photographs of newspaper editor and foreign correspondent Carroll Binder.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

Edna L. McRae papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates: 1910-1990

Edward Eagle Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown
Abstract

Materials pertaining to the family of Chicago banker Edward Eagle Brown, primarily of Brown's father Edward Osgood Brown, great grandfather William Brown, and descendants in the Ipswich and Salem Massachusetts areas.

Dates: 1749-1955; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1900

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

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

Ora Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Snyder
Abstract

Writings, speeches, photographs, promotional materials, and artifacts documenting the career of Ora Snyder (1876-1948), a Chicago candy maker founder of Mrs. Snyder’s Candies in 1909. Snyder was a pioneer in marketing and promoting candy, and often gave lectures on being a woman business owner.

Dates: 1887-1955; Majority of material found within 1910-1945

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

William Morton Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract

Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.

Dates: approximately 1850-1920

Woolson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woolson
Abstract

Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago.

Dates: 1856-1950; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1910

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Names
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 2
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 2
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
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America First Committee 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Associated Retail Confectioners of the United States 1
Baker family 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Balanchine, George 1
Barber, ScottAllen 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Brown, Edward Osgood, 1847-1923 1
Brown, William, -1833 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Federated Press 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Graham, Martha 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Karsavina, Tamara 1
Katō, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Legat, Nikolaĭ Gustavovich, 1869-1937 1
Lincoln Park Zoo 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
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 1
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
McRae, Edna L. 1
McRae, Elma Marie 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Minneapolis tribune 1
Mrs. Snyder's Candies 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs 1
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865-1922 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 1
Osgood family 1
Oukrainsky, Serge, 1886-1972 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 1
Payne, William Morton, 1858-1919 1
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 1
Poincaré, Raymond, 1860-1934 1
Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944 1
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 1
Seymour, Gideon Deming, 1901-1954 1
Shidehara, Kijūrō, 1872-1951 1
Shorey, Paul, 1857-1934 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Snyder, Ora, 1876-1948 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
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