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John Doctoroff Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Doctoroff
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, exhibition programs, and prints relating to Chicago-based portrait artist John Doctoroff.
Dates:
1924-1967
John Drury-Marion Neville Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.
Dates:
1860-1970
John E. Hart-Floyd Dell Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hart-Dell
Abstract
Correspondence, works, photographs and miscellaneous material relating to the writing of John E. Hart's biography, Floyd Dell, for the Twayne's United States Authors Series, published in 1971.
Dates:
1958-1985
John E. Rothensteiner papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Roth
Abstract
Parish priest in Fredericktown and St. Louis, Missouri; born in 1860, ordained in 1884, raised to the monsignorate in 1934. Notebooks, literary manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, greeting cards and other printed ephemera. Includes material concerning Rothensteiner's work as a Catholic parish priest in Missouri, historian and censor librorum, poet, essayist and journalist. Some published works and correspondence in German are provided with translations by Sister Callista Campion, author of...
Dates:
1880-1940
John Edgerton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edgerton
Abstract
Collection of small diaries kept between 1867 and 1912 by Michigan and New York State farmer and real estate speculator John Edgerton. Includes letters, bank transactions, receipts and other material relating to Edgerton’s investments in buying and selling stocks, buildings and land primarily dealing with Walter C. Newberry in Chicago, Illinois. Also a small group of mostly unidentified images and a girl’s autograph book.
Dates:
1867-1912
John Fischetti papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fischetti
Abstract
Political cartoons and assorted miscellaneous items (clippings, photographs, correspondence, etc.) of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist John Fischetti. Fischetti worked for several newspapers and magazines during his long career, including Coronet, Esquire, the Chicago Sun, the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and the...
Dates:
1942-1995
John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-378
Abstract
A small collection of correspondence (seven letters) written by Heckewelder from his home in Bethlehem, Pa. to three individuals between the years 1790 and 1822.,The largest group of letters were written to William Alexander, a surveyor residing in Carlisle, Pa., dated 23 March 1790 to 8 Feb. 1791. In these letters Heckewelder engages the services of Alexander to survey five warrents of land (650 acres) in eastern Ohio purchased by Heckewelder and others. He also instructs Alexander to layout...
Dates:
1790-1822
John Howard Payne Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-689
Abstract
Material collected in the 1830s and 1840s by actor, playwright and editor John Howard Payne, relating to American Indians, primarily concerning the Cherokees for Payne's intended history of the Cherokee Nation. Collection consists of fourteen volumes of correspondence, manuscript notes, transcriptions, extensive historical research, memoranda, and published and unpublished documents.
Dates:
1794-1842; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1842
John J. Russell Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Russell J
Abstract
Twelve letters of John J. Russell of Sterling, Illinois, documenting his service as a sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Company B of the 13th Illinois Infantry in Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Russell writes to his brother, Charles, and sister, Julia, from Rolla, Franklin, and Heetsville, Mo., Vicksburg, Miss., Cairo, Ill., and Bridgeport and Madison Station, Ala. One letter (Dec. 6, 1861) is written on stationery containing a printed vignette portrait of McClellan.
Dates:
1861-1864
John Lardner Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LardnerJ
Abstract
Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner.
Dates:
approximately 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960
John M. Weatherwax Popol Vuh project correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Weatherwax
Abstract
Collection of correspondence related to the publication of John M. Weatherwax’s English translation of the Popol Vuh that would include water color paintings by the artist Diego Rivera. Present are four telegrams sent by Rivera from Mexico asking for more time to complete the pictures, and arranging logistics for their transfer and payment.
Dates:
1931-1975; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1933
John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Abstract
Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.
Dates:
approximately 1750-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1900-1999
John Myers O’Hara Letters to John Hervey
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-171
Abstract
Six letters from John Myers O’Hara to his friend and occasional collaborator, John Hervey, mostly concerning his financial problems, his family and his writing.
Dates:
1914-1941
John Myers O'Hara papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Hara
Abstract
Incoming correspondence and works of poet John Myers O'Hara. The bulk of correspondence is letters from poet Sara Teasdale, 1908-1914.
Dates:
1908-1943
John Norton papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-654
Abstract
Schoolmaster, interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; also known as Teyoninhokarawen. Probably born in Scotland of Cherokee and Scottish parents, Norton was adopted by the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, as nephew, deputy, and successor (appointed non-hereditary chief for war and diplomacy in 1799). Addresses and correspondence of John Norton, with speeches and petitions of the Grand River Indians, chiefly dating 1804-1810. Includes a contemporary copy of "The address of...
Dates:
1804-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810
John T. Hanlin Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hanlin
Abstract
Correspondence from Sgt. Hanlin of the 89th Indiana Infantry, Company E, to his parents and siblings describing camp life and combat during his travels through Indiana, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Dates:
1862-1865
John T. Jacobs - Clarence Darrow papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jacobs
Abstract
Letters from Chicago lawyer Clarence Darrow to attorney and judge John T. Jacobs of Greeley, Colorado. Letters provide documentation of friendship, professional collaboration, and a shared interest in reading, as well as news of Darrow's son Paul who was living in Greeley. Also includes other miscellaneous letters and an essay by F.O. Stanley in which, though a teetotaler, he argues against prohibition.
Dates:
1909-1926
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
John Thomas Lee letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-146
Abstract
Four letters to John Thomas Lee from Walter Deane, Mrs. John B. Thacher and John Larkin Winship, 1909-1916. Also, one letter from Charles Deane to Robert C. Winthrop, 1888, and a printed obituary for Walter Deane.
Dates:
1888-1916
John Thomas Lee papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3036
Abstract
Thirty letters to Wisconsin historian John Thomas Lee from various scholars, librarians and booksellers, concerning his work on a bibliography of Jonathan Carver’s Travels through the Interior parts of North America, first published in London in 1778. Also, a letter from Grace Raymond Hebard concerning 1932 publication of The Pathbreakers, and a wax impression of a seal supposedly used at the signing of the Webster-Ashburton...
Dates:
1907-1932; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1912
John V. LeMoyne Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LeMoyne
Abstract
Mainly incoming letters to Chicago lawyer and Congressman, John V. LeMoyne, from his Washington, Pennsylvania family, including his abolitionist father. Many of the letters caution against real estate speculation and reveal strong religious beliefs.
Dates:
1851-1889; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1875
John Wilson letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3207
Abstract
Collection of correspondence (1859-1865) from Virginia City, Nevada written by or regarding John Wilson to his wife in Vermont.,Wilson, a young farmer from Vermont, left his pregnant wife and sailed for the West in Sept. 1859 to seek his fortune. After his arrival in San Francisco, he headed for Virginia City crossing the Sierra Mountains on foot in May 1860. Using his income as a bartender, Wilson immediately began to stake out claims. Many of his letters give a vivid and detailed firsthand...
Dates:
1859-1865
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
Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-NewberryJ
Abstract
Miscellaneous material relating to Julia Butler Newberry and her family. Contains original letters of Julia B. Newberry and her immediate family, 1830-1880, and photocopies of correspondence of the Butler, Clapp and Devereux families. Also, financial correspondence, a diary of Mary B. Devereux (photocopy), a small unknown diary, genealogical research on the Butler, Devereux, Kernan families, a few receipts and a photocopy of an 1877 probate record for the estate of Walter L. Newberry.
Dates:
1800-1921
Katherine Mansfield Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mansfield
Abstract
Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Katherine Mansfield, British short story writer and critic.
Dates:
1903-1942
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