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Harold John Hartlieb Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hartlieb
Abstract

Correspondence and military documents from Harold John Hartlieb’s service during World War II.

Dates: approximately 1945

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Harry Hansen papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

Harvey family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harvey
Abstract

Collection of letters, photographs, diaries, writings, business records, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago native and longtime Rand McNally employee Bennet B. Harvey, his wife Dorothy Wegener Harvey, their son Bennet B. Harvey, Jr., and their ancestors, many of whom were early Chicago settlers and involved in the development of the city. Families represented include Botsford, Chapin, Fisk, Gehrke, Harvey, and Wegener.

Dates: 1800-2007; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1984

Hayden Carruth Letters and Poem

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carruth
Abstract

Letters and poem written by American poet and literary critic Hayden Carruth, primarily to Chicago Daily News reporter Van Allen Bradley.

Dates: 1949-1970

Head family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-HeadFH
Abstract

Family papers from multiple generations of the Head family. Includes letters from the 1860s-1870s from the Utah Territory from Franklin Harvey Head, later a trustee of Newberry Library. Also includes Francis M. Knight letters from WWI. Thomas C. Fischer letters from WWII. and materials about the Perkins and Durkee families.

Dates: 1860-1957

Helen Ainslie Smith papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Smith
Abstract

Helen Ainslie Smith was the author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. The papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.

Dates: 1744-1950; Majority of material found within 1880-1890

Helen Balfour Morrison papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of American photographer and artist Helen Balfour Morrison. Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1900, Morrison undertook several artistic photography projects that were exhibited throughout the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Her longtime collaboration with dancer Sybil Shearer involved further artistic endeavors through stage lighting designs and filmmaking.

Dates: 1906-2001; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1984

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Henry Clay Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clay
Abstract

Letters of Henry Clay, prominent statesman and orator, during his career as US Senator, concerning political topics which include the election of Jackson, secession, the temperance movement, and slavery.

Dates: 1825-1851

Henry J. Aten Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aten
Abstract

Letters from Nicholas Harris to Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, clippings, notes pertaining to the Aten family genealogy, and a photocopy of the family history initiated by Aten and continued by other relatives.

Dates: 1896-approximately 1920

Henry Justin Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Henry Kisor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kisor
Abstract

Henry Kisor is a journalist and author. Born in 1940, Henry became deaf at the age of three. He is known for his decades long (1965-2006) journalism career at Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun Times as well as his published fiction and nonfiction books. As a journalist, he mainly worked as a book editor and was a 1981 finalist for a Pulitzer Price for Criticism.

Dates: 1904-2014; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates: 1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932

Henry Patterson and James Patterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Patterson
Abstract

Correspondence of brothers Henry Patterson and James Patterson, both privates in the 19th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company I, during the Civil War. Also includes muster rolls for Henry and his brother James as well as James’ death certificate.

Dates: 1862-1863

Henry Perry letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-709
Abstract Letters (Jan. 24, 1849-May 28, 1850) written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Henry Perry to his Bridgeport family (parents Mr. and Mrs. David Perry, sister Emmeline, and brothers Alf, Tom, and Frederick), regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento. Of particular interest are accounts of robberies in Sacramento, and pen drawings...
Dates: 1849-1850

Henry Rice Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice H
Abstract

Six letters, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 1862, from Camp Peoria in Peoria, Ill., from Henry Rice of the 103rd Illinois Infantry to family in Lewistown, Ill., describing military life in the camp. Included with the letters is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Amory Rice, Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois," illustrated in red and blue with the seal and motto of the United States

Dates: 1862

Henry Van Schaack papers

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Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3193
Abstract American loyalist.,Colonial Kinderhook and Albany, N.Y., resident. Mainly correspondence, with a few receipts, appointments, petitions, and other documents, dating primarily from 1756-1809, regarding Henry Van Schaack's Indian trade operations, Seven Years' War service, colonial political activities and opinions, Revolutionary War banishment, concern with post-war loyalist emigration, connection with Shay's Rebellion, advocacy of the U.S. Constitution, anti-church tax campaign, and party...
Dates: 1734-1896; Majority of material found within 1756 - 1809

Henshaw family papers

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Identifier: Modern-MS-Henshaw
Abstract

Materials primarily originating from Edward Henshaw (1844-1925) documenting the Henshaw family descended from Joshua Henshaw, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts about 1653. Includes manuscript and typescript writings, correspondence, genealogy notes, photographs, and the Henshaw coat of arms.

Dates: 1861-1925

Hercules L. Dousman papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-18
Abstract Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business.,Included are contractual agreements between Dousman, Sibley, and Rolette, and the American Fur Company (1834, 1841) and Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. (1842), and Dousman's statements of account (including several for the steamboat Ariel) with the firms. Also a power of attorney, correspondence, and other documents relating to Dousman's efforts...
Dates: 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1857

Herman Haupt papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-366
Notice of Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials This collection contains content identified by the library as Culturally Sensitive to Indigenous People(s): Drawings and descriptions of sacred ceremonies, burial and death rituals. For more information please see the Newberry Library’s policy on Access to Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials. Scope and Contents...
Dates: 1897-1921

Hermann Raster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

Höfeln Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Höfeln
Abstract

Chiefly letters from Germany to Charlotte Fischer, both before and after her emigration to Illinois in 1851 and her marriage to Andreas von Höfeln in 1852. Also includes correspondence with their son, Alexander Andrew Heflin, who worked for railroads in Kansas, and between Heflin and his wife, teacher Jessie Beathard Heflin.

Dates: 1831-1897

Hoke Norris Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Norris
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, research materials, and personal information by and about Hoke Norris, reporter, book reviewer, novelist, and public affairs director. Norris worked for several papers including the Raleigh News and Observer, the Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Daily News.

Dates: 1934-1977; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1977

Hope Abelson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 16
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Scrapbooks 15
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Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 6
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History 4
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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 26
United States. Army 15
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 12
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 11
Art Institute of Chicago 8
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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 8
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 7
Newberry Library 7
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 7
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 6
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 6
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 6
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 6
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 6
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 6
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 6
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 6
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 6
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 5
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 5
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 5
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 5
Henley, David, 1749-1823 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 5
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 5
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 5
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
American Red Cross 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 4
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 4
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 4
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 4
Rand McNally and Company 4
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 4
Shaw family 4
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 4
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 4
American National Red Cross 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 3
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 3
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Chicago Sun-Times 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 3
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 3
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 3
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Johnson, William, 1715-1774 3
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 3
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 3
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 3
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 3
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 3
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 3
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Purdue University 3
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 3
Socialist Party of the United States of America 3
Stevens, Ashton 3
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 3
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 3
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 3
Union League Club of Chicago 3
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