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Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

Samuel Eddy Barrett-Barrett Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-076
Abstract

Letters written by Samuel Eddy Barrett to his wife Alice Barrett while travelling throughout the Far East; one letter addressed to Zechariah Eddy from Barrett's father Samuel Barrett regarding the death of Eddy's brother; letters to Barrett's daughter Adela Barrett pertaining to an inheritance and property.

Dates: 1829-1948

Thomas Butler Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-127
Abstract

Letters dating 1831 to 1898 from Thomas Butler Carter to his cousin Aaron Carter in New Jersey, which give descriptions of Carter’s personal and business life in Chicago, plus a few other letters. Also includes a typescript of Carter’s autobiographical sketch of his life in Chicago (1889), six studio photographic portraits, and several miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1831-1898

Thomas Conolly papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conolly
Abstract

Material collected by Thomas Conolly, decorative plasterer and handyman for fifty-two years at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, which consists mainly of autographs and autographed historical letters. Also, bookplates, clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, a few items relating to the Chicago Civic Opera Company and the Auditorium Theater, several photographs and pictures, and a group of personal letters to Conolly.

Dates: 1800-1944

Thomas Mather Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio Graff-2707
Abstract

Letters, diaries, account book, map and biographical sketch, most in connection with Mather’s activities as one of three commissioners appointed by the government to survey and mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

Dates: 1825-1886

Waller Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Waller
Abstract

Primarily letters of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky, and later Chicago, pertaining mainly to matters of family activity, family devotion to one another, and especially health. Also included are a family genealogy, biography, and letters from Henry Clay and P.G.T. Beauregard. Related family: Alexander

Dates: 1803-1938; Majority of material found within 1803 - 1888

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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 24
Manuscripts, American 16
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 13
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 11
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 6
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 6
Photographs -- 1901-1950 5
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 4
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 4
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 4
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 4
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 4
Diaries -- 1851-1900 3
Families -- Illinois 3
Photographs -- 1951-2000 3
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Diaries -- 1801-1850 2
Families -- Correspondence 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Female friendship -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 2
Illinois -- Genealogy 2
Ledgers (account books) 2
Love-letters 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
Manuscripts, German 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Sermons -- New York (State) -- 1801-1850 2
Sisters -- Correspondence 2
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 2
Temperance and religion 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Abolitionists -- 1850-1860 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Ambassadors -- Belgium 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American Civil War (1861-1865) 1
Antislavery movements 1
Antislavery movements -- Kansas 1
Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Autographs (manuscripts) 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Baptists -- Kentucky -- Paducah 1
Barrington (Ill.) 1
Bookplates 1
Brothers -- Correspondence 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 -- Sources 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century 1
Businesspeople -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Canada -- Description and travel 1
Canals -- Nicaragua -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Canals, Interoceanic -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Carpentersville (Ill.) 1
Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Children's drawings -- France 1
Children's writings, American 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
Christian education 1
Cincinnati (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Civil engineering 1
Clergy -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Clergy -- New York (State) 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Colonial agents -- Great Britain -- Biography 1
Colonial agents -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Commonplace books 1
Conduct of life -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Congregational churches -- Sermons 1
Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists -- Illinois -- Sermons 1
Cookbooks 1
Correspondence -- Louisiana -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Panama -- 1851-1900 1
Cortlandt (N.Y. : Town) -- Genealogy 1
Cosmetics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
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Language
German 2
Spanish; Castilian 2
 
Names
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 2
Harris family 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Ackerman, Simeon H. 1
Adams, Daniel W., 1821-1872 1
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Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Alexander family 1
Alexander, Robert Spruel Crawford Aitcheson, 1819-1867 1
Alford family 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
American Institute of the City of New York 1
American Missionary Association 1
American Mothers 1
American National Red Cross 1
American Tract Society 1
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Bank of the United States (1816-1836) 1
Barlow family 1
Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
Barnes family 1
Barnes, Alfred 1
Barrett family 1
Barrett, Samuel Eddy, 1834-1912 1
Barrows, Ella Cole 1
Beatty, Harry W. 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bond family 1
Bowdoin College 1
Boyce family 1
Boyce, Helen, 1875-1920 1
Boyce, Le Roy Merrick, 1810-1849 1
Boyce, Simeon Leonard, 1850- 1
Brewster family 1
Briggs family 1
Briggs, Elijah, 1810-1854 1
Brooke, Francis Taliaferro, 1763-1851 1
Brown, D. Tilden (David Tilden), 1822-1889 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
Campanini, Cleofonte 1
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 1
Carter, Thomas Butler, 1817- 1
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Relief and Aid Society 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Christian family 1
Cokenhour family 1
Cole family 1
Cole, John A. (John Adams), 1838-1932 1
Cole, Julia Alvord, 1847-1934 1
Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820 1
Compania de Vapores de Nicaragua 1
Conolly, Laura Houghton 1
Conolly, Thomas, 1856-1945 1
Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940 1
Cornell University 1
Cox, Isaac Joslin, 1873-1956 1
Curtis, Caleb 1
Davidson family 1
DeWitt family 1
Dean family 1
Dean, Lucretia Mason 1
Dearborn, H. H. 1
Delavan, Edward C. (Edward Cornelius), 1793-1871 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Downs family 1
Dufau, Jenny 1
Duke family 1
Dukes, Thomas Farmer, 1770 or 1771-1850 1
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 1
Edwards family 1
Edwards, John C., 1836-1908 1
Eleanor Association 1
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858 1
Epworth League (U.S.) 1
Everett family 1
Everett, Robert, 1791-1875 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Daniel Johnson, 1877-1970 1
Fleming, Elizabeth Cole 1
Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan) 1
Francus, active 1983 1
Furber family 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gales family 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Gilbert family 1
Gilbert, Elizabeth Boyce, 1892- 1
Gore family 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
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