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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

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

Mendicant ephemera collection

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Identifier: Case-folio-HV4493 .N49
Abstract

Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.

Dates: approximately 1850-approximately 2020

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Photographs 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Picture postcards 2
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Accidents 1
All-Girl Bands 1
Alms boxes 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Begging 1
Begging poems 1
Blind 1
Broadside poems 1
Broadsides 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Charitable giving 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Christian Science 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Deaf 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Domestic relations -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dry-goods -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Editorial cartoons 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Europe -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Glass negatives 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Greeting cards 1
Homeless persons 1
Homelessness 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Commerce -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 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
Law students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Lincoln (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Mothers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
People with disabilities 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 -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 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
Poems 1
Political cartoons 1
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Language
Czech 1
Danish 1
Dutch; Flemish 1
French 1
German 1
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Names
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American University of Beirut 1
Armitage, Walter J. 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Axelrod, Mark 1
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Bach, Ed. 1
Bates family 1
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
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 1
Brockton (Mass.). Police Department 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
Campbell, Robert, active 20th century 1
Carlier, Emile 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Carver, Art 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chambers, John, 1850- 1
Chapellerie du Jockey Club 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
Cole, Chick 1
Commonwealth Rescue League (Upton, Mass.) 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Covert, Geo. L. 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Edwards, V., Cap. 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Filip, František, 1904-1957 1
Fithen, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1882-1940 1
Folk, L. M. 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Freemasons. Medina Lodge, No. 336 (Medina, N.Y.) 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Graff, William W. 1
Guild of the Brave Poor Things 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Harriss, Daniel E. F. P. 1
Harry Waiman and His Debutantes 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Hemmerlé, Emile 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Holler, Jeanette 1
Holmes, Julian (Lyricist) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Illinois College 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Clinton Lodge, No. 98 (Lock Haven, Pa.) 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Ingénues (Musical group) 1
January, J. W. 1
Johnston, Clarence A. 1
Kaak, Willy, 1890- 1
Karchmar, Jacob 1
Kennedy, Willie, 1884- 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Krÿnberg, A. 1
Lampérière, G. 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lentini, Frank A., 1889-1966 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Ligue des Droits du religieux ancien combattant 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lutz family 1
Lutz, Adeline Louise 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
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