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Stanton, Schilling, and Parsons family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SSP
Abstract Family history of the three main branches of a large Chicago based family. Includes over eight generations of correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, and diaries, following family members across the United States, Europe, and the Philippines. Material relates to the biographical information of many family members, including their careers, family life, and hobbies.
Dates: 1733-2015; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1980

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.
Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

Stella Skiff Jannotta Scrapbooks

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jannotta
Abstract Three disbound scrapbooks compiled by Stella Skiff Jannotta for her youngest son, Joseph Edwin Jannotta, in the early 1930s. Titled, “The Evolution of a Man: Joseph Edwin Jannotta, His Story in Pictures,” the volumes contain a variety of materials including photographs, correspondence, clippings, programs, and family histories along with Stella Jannotta’s extensive handwritten annotations. Also includes separated materials related to the family and the founding of Jewel Tea Company by the Skiff...
Dates: 1801-1996; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1930

Stephen C. Foster Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-167
Abstract Twelve letters from surviving relatives of composer Stephen C. Foster. Correspondence addressed to Frederick Morgan Steele of Chicago concerning Steele’s desire to buy and collect original Foster music and memorabilia.
Dates: 1882-1926

Stephen Williams papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3208
Abstract Longmeadow, Mass., Congregational clergyman. Correspondence, 1716-1753, between Stephen Williams and his father, Rev. John Williams; his brothers, Rev. Eleazer Williams of Mansfield, Conn., and Rev. Warsham Williams of Waltham, Mass; his son, Nathan Williams, then a student at Yale College; and Rev. William Williams of Hatfield, Mass. b Subjects include the estate of a relative, family illnesses, college living expenses, resistance of worldly temptations, trips to New York City and Boston, a...
Dates: 1716-1753

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.
Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1988

Storrs & Deville Chabrol Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Storrs
Abstract Letters, World War II-era memorabilia, journals, clippings, manuscripts and photographs pertaining to Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym "Marc Debrol." Also included are letters and materials related to the Deville Chabrol family, including correspondence between family members present during the Franco-Prussian War and the colonization of Algeria. Additionally, collection includes genealogical information about the...
Dates: 1850-2002; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945

Susanne Suba papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.folio-Wing-MS-133
Abstract Letters, illustration samples, telegram, and photograph, dated between July 21, 1939 and Jan. 28, 1965, concerning the illustration work done by Susanne Suba of New York, for William A. Kittredge, of R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Press, and the Chicago book design and publishing scene in general during the 1940s.
Dates: 1939-1965; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1948

Sydney Justin Harris papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris
Abstract Correspondence, clippings, readers' letters, and personal materials of Chicago columnist Sydney Justin Harris.
Dates: 1933-1987; Majority of material found within 1975-1985

Theodore Watson Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Watson
Abstract Letters from Theodore Watson to his brother John in Hillsboro, Illinois, during the early months of the Civil War. Correspondence describes his life as a three-month enlistee in the Illinois 3rd Company (later the Illinois 9th Regiment) stationed at Camp Defiance to defend Cairo, Illinois.
Dates: 1861 April 27-July 7

Thomas Butler Carter Papers

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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

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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 Jefferson Oxley letters

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Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-3151
Abstract Thomas J. Oxley, after 1855, became heavily involved in California politics. He was a Whig and later a Know-nothing leader and a member of the state legislature. In 1857, he joined Henry A. Crabb in the ill-fated filibustering expedition into Sonora as surgeon-general. He was among those who lost their lives before the Mexican firing squads at Caborca. Oxley's letters to his family describe his overland journey to California, his difficulties and delights of living in California and the details...
Dates: 1850-1853

Thomas Mather Papers

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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

Thorvald Otterström Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Otterström
Abstract Collection of sheet music, correspondence, photographs, programs, advertisements, reviews, and notes belonging to the Danish-born Chicago composer and teacher Thorvald Otterström. Sheet music includes Otterström's original published compositions, manuscripts, and notes, in addition to works that he arranged and ghostwrote for his contemporary composers. Photographs include portraits from 1910 until his death 1942. Otterström's correspondence regarding art, philosophy, music, and literature...
Dates: 1904-1952

Timothy Pickering letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-926
Abstract Correspondence, dating mainly from 1795, of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, primarily with David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but also with David Campbell, William Blount, and John McNairy, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee.,Much of the 1795 correspondence, including an extract of a letter to Gov. Blount and an Aug. 28, 1795, letter to Judge David Campbell, concerns the U.S. refusal to support the...
Dates: 1795-1798; 1795

Trumbull Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.
Dates: 1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950

Victor Lawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lawson
Abstract Correspondence, reports, legal documents, contracts, and other materials pertaining to Victor Lawson’s life and career as a pioneering newspaperman and owner of the Chicago Daily News in early 1900s Chicago.
Dates: approximately 1860-1931; Majority of material found within 1885-1925

Virna Harman Walker Johnston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-JohnstonV
Abstract Correspondence, programs, report cards, and clippings relating to Chicago dancer and dance instructor Virna Harman Walker Johnston.
Dates: 1903-1959; Majority of material found within 1918-1930

Vytautas Virkau Papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Virkau
Abstract Consists mainly of correspondence, exhibition materials, ex libris examples, and periodicals relating to bookplates.
Dates: approximately 1966-approximately 2003; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1993

W. A. Dwiggins papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio-Wing-MS-12
Abstract Autograph correspondence and sketches in pencil and in pen-and-ink, most done at Dwiggins studio in Hingham Center, Massachusetts between 1906 and 1915 for Chicago clients.
Dates: 1906-1915

W. Irving Way papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-141
Abstract Chicago author and publisher. Way was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams, and was responsible for much of its editorial policy. Correspondence with authors, collectors, and publishers, newspaper clippings, sample sheets, and notes, dated between 1885 and 1931.
Dates: 1885-1931, bulk 1892-1900; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1900

Wacker family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.
Dates: 1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970

Waldo Frank Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-166
Abstract Nine letters from novelist, historian, and political activist Waldo Frank to Lucille R. Stern, mostly concerning Frank’s social activities and criticisms of Stern’s attempts at writing.
Dates: approximately 1925-1935

Wallace Rice Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.
Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 16
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Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
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Poets, American -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 6
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 6
Sisters -- Correspondence 6
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Women poets, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
World War, 1939-1945 6
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 5
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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 5
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
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Masters, Edgar Lee 8
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Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 7
Lindsay, Vachel 7
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 7
Sandburg, Carl 7
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 7
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 6
Darrow, Clarence 6
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 6
Field, Eugene 6
Fuller, Henry Blake 6
Howells, William Dean 6
Lincoln, Abraham 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 6
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 6
Tietjens, Eunice 6
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 5
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 5
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 5
Dennis, Charles Henry 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison 5
Hansen, Harry 5
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 5
Henley, David 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott 5
Page, Ruth 5
Pound, Ezra 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
American Red Cross 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Bryan, William Jennings 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Cowley, Malcolm 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont 4
Lewis, Lloyd 4
Rand McNally and Company 4
Rice, Wallace 4
Shaw family 4
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Stock, Frederick 4
Teasdale, Sara 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Wilder, Thornton 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd 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 Tribune (Firm) 3
Chicago sun-times 3
Clay, Henry 3
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 3
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Cooper, Oswald Bruce 3
DaBoll, Raymond F. 3
Dawes, Charles Gates 3
Dreiser, Theodore 3
Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison) 3
Fairbank, Alfred J. 3
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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield 3
Frost, Robert 3
Grainger, Percy 3
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Johnson, William 3
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 3
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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 3
Lewis, Sinclair 3
Limited Editions Club 3
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 3
Millay, Edna St. Vincent 3
Moore, Marianne 3
Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 3
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