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Alma Bunch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bunch
Abstract

Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950s.

Dates: 1890-1985

Daniel S. Dickinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dickinson
Abstract Daniel S. Dickinson was a prominent Civil War politician from New York, a conservative Democrat who worked toward compromise before the war began. During the war, he sought to quash Union internal political disagreement and after the war he remained in politics. He was commended by the public and politicians on both sides of the conflict for his oratorical skills and genial manner. This collection is mainly composed of correspondence to that effect, as well as some letters on the subjects of...
Dates: 1799-1892; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1860

Edwards family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edwards
Abstract

Letters, documents, photographs, and printed ephemera centering on John C. Edwards and Lydia Martin Edwards, and their immediate families, both of whom settled near Chicago in the 1840s.

Dates: 1800-1982; Majority of material found within 1847-1908

Ernest A. Griffin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract

Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.

Dates: 1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

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

Woolson family papers

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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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American Medical Association 1
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Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch), 1815-1891 1
Bouck, William C., 1786-1859 1
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 1
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Bright, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1812-1875 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Bunch family 1
Bunch, Alma, 1891-1986 1
Bunch, Richard 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 1
Catlin, George, 1796-1872 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 1
Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Clinton, George W. (George William), 1807-1885 1
Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888 1
Courtney, Lydia L. D. 1
Courtney, Samuel G. 1
Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 1
Dartmouth College 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens), 1800-1866 1
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 1
Edwards family 1
Edwards, John C., 1836-1908 1
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975 1
Epworth League (U.S.) 1
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Fairfield, John, 1797-1847 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Griffin Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Griffin family 1
Griffin, Ernest A., 1912-1995 1
Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 1
Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873 1
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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 1
Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 1
Lawrence, Robert H., 1935-1967 1
Lincoln Park Zoo 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
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Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857 1
Marshall Field & Company 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Order of the Eastern Star 1
Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980 1
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Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 1
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 28th (1861-1866) 1
United States. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 11th (1862-1865) 1
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 1
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1
Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1
Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881 1
Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869 1
Woolson Spice Company 1
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Woolson, Alvin M., 1841-1925 1
Woolson, Ira H. (Ira Harvey), 1856-1927 1
Wright, Silas, 1795-1847 1
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