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Joseph Kirkland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kirkland
Abstract

Correspondence, mainly written by Chicago lawyer and author Joseph Kirkland to and from members of his family, and copies of letters he wrote to Hamlin Garland. Also, a few of Kirkland's works, and some miscellaneous material including biographical, genealogical and social information regarding Kirkland, his family and his literary career.

Dates: 1842-1939

Kay Ashton-Stevens papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-StevensK
Abstract

Correspondence, personal and career related materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago actress, television and radio personality, and wife of critic Ashton Stevens, Kay Ashton-Stevens.

Dates: 1905-1978

Keith Preston papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Preston
Abstract

Small collection of correspondence and works from Chicago poet, columnist, and literary critic, Keith Preston.

Dates: 1915-1942

Lambert Tree papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract

Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1932-2004

Letter Arts Review records

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-LAR
Abstract

Correspondence, calligraphic samples, advertising and press releases, magazine issues, publications, catalogs, and photographs documenting the publication of Letter Arts Review (formerly Calligraphy Idea Exchange and Calligraphy Review), a quarterly magazine devoted to contemporary and historical lettering, calligraphy, typography, and text-based art.

Dates: 1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1998

Lewis family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Lloyd Lewis papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Louis S. Bauer Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract

Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.

Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

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

Margaret Hampton Steele Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele
Abstract Letters of Margaret “Maggie” Hampton Steele to her cousin and future husband Silas W. Hampton, primarily from 1859 and 1860. They are written from Terre Haute, Indiana, where she attended the Female College (1859), and from her family's residences in Grandview, Illinois, and later Topeka, Kansas. Steele’s minister father moved his family to Kansas in support of the free-state faction, settling in Topeka as minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Letters discuss her courtship with Silas,...
Dates: 1859-1864

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

Martin A. O'Brennan Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brennan
Abstract

Papers pertaining to Martin A. O’Brennan, an Irish nationalist activist, lawyer, newspaper editor, and amateur historian. The papers document O’Brennan’s Irish activities and his life in Chicago through correspondence and documents, manuscript copies of his speeches, printed pamphlets and copies of newspapers (both the Connaught Patriot and the Irish News), and ephemera-like advertisements, prospectuses, membership cards and printed lecture tickets.

Dates: approximately 1843-1878

Martin J. Rock Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rock
Abstract

Correspondence, legal documents, insurance documents, financial information, and other miscellaneous data pertaining to Martin J. Rock's career as an attorney for the Pullman Company, from 1947 to 1995.

Dates: 1947-1995

Maude Maury Lawrence Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lawrence
Abstract

Ephemera collection related to the college and music career of soprano Maude Maury Lawrence, an Illinois signer and performer who formed a traveling troupe during the World War I era. Includes correspondence, travel itineraries and ephemera, programs, state fair passes, tickets, and business cards.

Dates: 1912-1946; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1928

McNally family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McNallyF
Abstract Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials...
Dates: 1788-2002; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1993

Mike Nussbaum Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Nussbaum
Abstract

Playscripts, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous personal and production materials of Chicago actor and director known for his work with playwright David Mamet and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Dates: 1945-2017; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2015

Mike Royko papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

Milo Kendall papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall
Abstract

Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.

Dates: 1798-1925; Majority of material found within 1845-1906

Mina Hager Papers

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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

Mitchell Dawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Morse-Keith Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract

Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872

Morton Dauwen Zabel papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zabel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, and photographs of literary critic, editor, scholar, and educator Morton Dauwen Zabel.

Dates: 1861-1964; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

Nelson Algren-Christine and Neal Rowland Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Algren Rowland
Abstract

Nelson Algren was an American author and journalist known for his witty, humanistic depictions of postwar working-class urban life. He is most famous for his novel The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), which won the first National Book Award for fiction. Collection consists of correspondence from Algren to his friends Christine and Neal Rowland.

Dates: 1940-1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1951

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Scrapbooks 15
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Chicago (Ill.) 12
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 12
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 12
Clippings (information artifacts) 11
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 10
Clippings -- 1951-2000 10
Sound recordings 9
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 9
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 8
Diaries -- 1851-1900 8
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 7
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 7
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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 4
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 11
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 9
Art Institute of Chicago 7
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 5
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Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 5
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 5
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 5
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 5
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 4
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 4
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 4
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 4
Newberry Library 4
Shaw family 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944 3
American National Red Cross 3
American Red Cross 3
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 3
Charles H. Kerr Company 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Chicago Sun-Times 3
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 3
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 3
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 3
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 3
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 3
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Industrial Workers of the World 3
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 3
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 3
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 3
Purdue University 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 3
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 3
Socialist Party of the United States of America 3
Stevens, Ashton 3
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 3
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 3
Union League Club of Chicago 3
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 3
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 3
America First Committee 2
Arpino, Gerald 2
Arts Club of Chicago 2
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 2
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 2
Beloit College 2
Bernard family 2
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 2
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 2
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 2
Bobbs-Merrill Company 2
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 2
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 2
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 2
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 2
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 2
Carpenter family 2
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 2
Chicago Literary Club 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Chicago Public Library 2
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Clark family 2
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940 2
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 2
Cusick, Rick 2
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 2
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 2
Doctoroff, John, 1893-1970 2
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