Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 10

Ashton Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract

The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940

Augustine J. Bowe papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bowe
Abstract

Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.

Dates: approximately 1890-1966; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

Burt family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract

Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.

Dates: 1890-1951

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records - Photographs, Artwork, and Audiovisual

 Record Group
Identifier: CB&Q-A-5
Abstract

Photographs, cartoons, drawings, and paintings, and two boxes of audio media of oral histories, interviews, Burlington Route chapter readings by its author, and radio programs. Forms part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records.

Dates: approximately 1852-1975

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

Frank H. Beberdick Pullman collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beberdick Pullman
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials relating to the historic Pullman company town and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001.

Dates: 1881-2001

Mina Hager Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hager
Abstract

Material relating to the career of mezzo-soprano Mina Hager (Mrs. Fred Heidenson), including incoming correspondence from John Alden Carpenter and others, programs, clippings and other memorabilia. Also, practice and demo tapes, sound recordings (78 rpm and 45 rpm, LP) and a collection of manuscript and published sheet music, mostly by John Alden Carpenter.

Dates: 1892-1977; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1970

Pullman Company records - Record Group 13: Audiovisual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-13
Abstract

Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, films, filmstrips, and sound recordings, documenting Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company cars and car furnishings, officials and employees, properties, advertising, and employee recruitment and training. Forms part of the Pullman Company records.

Dates: 1872-1976

Raven Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raven
Abstract

Records related to Chicago’s Raven Theatre’s administration, development, history, and productions. Materials include box office reports, building plans, and correspondence, as well as budgets, flyers, photographs, reviews, press releases, programs, annotated scripts, and set designs for Raven Theatre’s main stage and “shorties”/one act productions.

Dates: approximately 1940-2015; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2013

Rudolph Ganz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract

Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.

Dates: 1864-2013

Filtered By

  • Subject: Manuscripts, American -- Illinois X
  • Subject: Photographs -- 1901-1950 X
  • Subject: Sound recordings X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs -- 1951-2000 8
Photographs -- 1851-1900 7
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 7
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 3
Clippings -- 1901-1950 2
∨ more
Clippings -- 1951-2000 2
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 2
Music teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Phonograph records -- 1901-1950 2
Sound recordings 2
Sound recordings -- 1901-1950 2
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century 2
20th century music -- History 1
Accidents 1
Actors -- United States -- 20th century 1
Advertising -- Railroads -- United States 1
Audiotapes 1
Audiotapes -- 1901-1950 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Banjo -- History 1
Banjoists 1
Building, Iron and steel -- Tables 1
Burlington Zephyr (Express train) 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Civil engineers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 2001-2050 1
Comedians -- United States -- 20th century 1
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Company towns -- United States -- History 1
Composers 1
Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Composition (Music) 1
Conductors (Music) 1
Cylinders (sound recordings) 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Drama -- 20th century 1
Dramatists 1
Dude ranches 1
Editorial cartoons -- 1851-1900 1
Editorial cartoons -- 1901-1950 1
Ensemble theater 1
Film reels -- 1901-1950 1
Film reels -- 1951-2000 1
Filmstrips -- 1901-1950 1
Filmstrips -- 1951-2000 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Judges -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Love-letters 1
Magnetic tapes 1
Mezzo-sopranos -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Middle West -- Description and travel 1
Mississippi River Valley 1
Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Musicians -- Correspondence 1
National parks and reserves 1
Opera -- 20th century 1
Opera singers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel 1
Phonograph records -- 1951-2000 1
Photographers -- West (U.S.) 1
Photographs -- 2001-2050 1
Pianists 1
Playbills -- 1951-2000 1
Playbills -- 2001-2050 1
Plays (performing arts compositions) -- 1901-1950 1
Playwriting 1
Poetry -- 1901-1950 1
Poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals 1
Poets, American -- 20th century 1
Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Pullman Strike, 1894 1
Pullman cars -- United States -- Drawings 1
Railroad cars -- History 1
Railroad travel -- West (U.S.) 1
Scenography (discipline) -- 1951-2000 1
Scenography (discipline) -- 2001-2050 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Scripts (documents) -- 1951-2000 1
Scripts (documents) -- 2001-2050 1
Sheet music -- 1851-1900 1
Sheet music -- 1901-1950 1
Sheet music -- 1951-2000 1
Singers -- Illinois 1
Singers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Sound recordings -- 2001-2050 1
Steel, Structural 1
Theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Theater -- 20th century -- Reviews 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Theater -- Production and direction 1
Theater architecture 1
Theater critics -- California -- San Francisco 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
French 2
German 2
Polish 1
 
Names
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 2
Pullman Company 2
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 1
American Theatre Wing 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
∨ more
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Beberdick, Frank H. (Frank Harry), 1927- 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulton, Inez 1
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966 1
Bowe, Julia Lecour, 1900 or 1901-1986 1
Bubley, Esther 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 1
Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873- 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Corliss Steam Engine Company 1
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 1
Fairbank, Janet, 1903-1948 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Gabriel, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf), 1890-1952 1
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 1
Gest, Morris, 1881-1942 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Green, Abel, 1900-1973 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hager, Mina 1
Hearst Corporation 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 1
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Johnston, Alva 1
Karch, Hank 1
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986 1
Lunt, Alfred 1
Markey, Gene, 1895-1980 1
Menendian, Michael 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Modern Poetry Association 1
Montemurro, JoAnn 1
Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Northworth, Jack 1
Peabody, Eddie, approximately 1901-1970 1
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Potteiger, Helen Burt, 1915-2001 1
Pullman Incorporated. Pullman-Standard Division 1
Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897 1
Raven Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Roosevelt University 1
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 1
Soldier Field (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra 1
Stevens, Ashton 1
Stevens, Georgie Cooper, 1904-1975 1
Tribune Tower (Chicago, Ill.) 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 1
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 1
Wolfe, Milton G. 1
+ ∧ less