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Arthur Davison Ficke Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ficke
Abstract
Mostly correspondence to poet Arthur D. Ficke from Newberry Library trustee and lifelong friend Chalkley J. Hambleton, plus several letters written by Hambleton. Also, a few works of Ficke's and pieces of memorabilia, an obituary clipping, a photograph of Ficke and photos of two portraits of Ficke by Bror J.O. Nordfeldt.
Dates:
1904-1945
Arthur Meeker, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Meeker
Abstract
Correspondence, personal materials, works, and photographs of Chicago author Arthur Meeker, Jr.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1972; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Arts Club records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract
Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.
Dates:
1892-2004
Ashton Stevens Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract
The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940
Augustine J. Bowe papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bowe
Abstract
Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1966; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Barkhausen family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-074
Abstract
Small collection of family documents, all in German, relating to the Barkhausen family of Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Includes correspondence, 1854-1862, a small notebook, ca. 1857-1872, and an account book, 1888-1889.
Dates:
1854-1889
Barlow Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-041
Abstract
A small collection of material relating to two men, both named William Barlow, possibly father and son. Consists of letters, a poem, a notebook of a sermon and a draft of an address to the American Institute in Washington, D.C. by Reverend William Barlow; correspondence from William Barlow the younger to Matilda Richards Barlow, and an undated, unidentified cabinet photo of two women.
Dates:
1816-1851
Benjamin D. Hitz-Willa Cather Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitz-Cather
Abstract
Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers and experts, relating to his search for first editions of Willa Cather; together with notes for studies on her biography, bibliographies and criticism. Also, a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence, including twelve original Cather letters and a few copies, plus several relating to Cather.
Dates:
1913-1949
Benjamin Hawkins letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-368
Abstract
North Carolina planter, U.S. senator, and Indian agent. Letters concerning southern Indian affairs, 1796-1812, from Hawkins to Col. David Henley, U.S. War Dept. agent based in Knoxville; James Jackson, governor of Georgia, 1798-1801; and Harry Toulmin, a prominent Mobile resident and later federal judge in the Mississippi Territory.,Subjects include setting the boundary line between the U.S. and the Creek Nation along the Clinch River and settlers on Indian lands there (1797); horse thefts and...
Dates:
1797-1812
Benjamin Henry Grierson papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3039
Abstract
Volunteer military officer during the Civil War, organizer of the U.S. Army Tenth Cavalry in 1866, commander of various Western army posts and active in opening the Western frontier until retirement in 1890. Grierson’s papers consist of correspondence (including over a hundred letters to his wife, Alice Kirk Grierson), documents such as orders, reports and maps and other military material, as well as personal miscellany relating to his service in the Western Territories. Microfilm copy...
Dates:
1865-1890
Bernard J. Brommel-Eugene V. Debs papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brommel-Debs
Abstract
Research material and works of Eugene V. Debs biographer Bernard J. Brommel, including correspondence, notes, photocopies, photographs, pamphlets, newsclippings, and memorabilia. Also letters and personal materials of Grace Laird, a teacher with whom Brommel retained a long time correspondence.
Dates:
1886-2003
Blatchford family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates:
1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965
Blatchford family papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford 2
Abstract
Chicago lead manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Dates:
1841-1947; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1914
Boyce-Gilbert family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract
Reproductions of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.
Dates:
1831-2000
Briggs Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-072
Abstract
Letters from Elijah Briggs of Indiana to parents Benjamin and Susanna Briggs of Ohio and brothers Alexander and Benjamin; letters from Elijah Briggs' wife Helen Briggs to her mother-in-law; two essays written by Elijah Briggs; a few miscellaneous letters; and one photo, possibly of Benjamin and Susanna Briggs.
Dates:
1837-1910
Brown family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown Family
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, numerous group and portrait photographs, a scrapbook, travel and souvenir items and snapshots, relating to sisters Grace and Genevieve Brown, musicians who were members of three American all-girl bands between 1923 and 1932. A large part of the collection consists of photographs of the bands and the performers: Harry Waiman and the Debutantes, the Parisian Red Heads and the Ingenues, as well as numerous small travel photographs Also a small...
Dates:
1918-1972; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1932
Bruce Rogers Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rogers
Abstract
Correspondence, a few works, and miscellaneous items relating to Bruce Rogers, an American typographer and designer of books.
Dates:
1902-1951
Burt Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract
Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.
Dates:
1890-1951
Burton Cherry ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 1-183
Abstract
Materials designed and collected by Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry, between approximately 1929 and approximately 1962. The collection includes correspondence to and from Cherry, items he designed or which were produced under his supervision, items possibly designed by Cherry, articles containing information about his work, and ephemera he collected.
Dates:
approximately 1929-approximately 1962
Byrne-MacKenzie family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Byrne-MacKenzie
Abstract
Correspondence and documents of the extended family of working-class Irish immigrant Daniel J. Byrne and his Scottish-born wife, Mary MacKenzie. Most correspondence is related to two of their daughters, Mary MacKenzie “Mamie” Byrne and Catherine MacKenzie Byrne Austin. The parents lived mainly in the Washington, D.C. area, but Mary the mother also wrote from Chicago while living with her daughter Mamie and from Scotland and England while visiting relatives. Mamie was a singer in Washington,...
Dates:
1870-1931
C. Frederick Kittle collection of Doyleana
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Modern-MS-Kittle-Doyle
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, and artwork of and relating to Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, forming a small part of the C. Frederick Kittle Collection of Doyleana, most of which is individually cataloged. Includes 140 letters, notes and cards written by Arthur Conan Doyle, 12 letters to him, and 57 other letters, some by Doyle family members and others retained by C. Frederick Kittle (mostly regarding his collecting of Doyle materials). Also artwork by Doyle’s father, grandfather and uncle,...
Dates:
1836-2000
C. H. Barstow Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3014
Abstract
United States Indian Service employee stationed at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory. Mainly correspondence, 1870-1891, mostly written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow’s wife, Lizzie, to his sister and brother, and a few miscellaneous letters of Rogers Barstow, other family members and friends, 3 small clippings, plus a November 10, 1887, issue of The Montana Stock Gazette.
Dates:
1870-1891
Caleb Thomas Curtis Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-199
Abstract
Nine letters written by Caleb Thomas Curtis of Boston, Massachusetts during his travels by steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Dates:
1836-1838
Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Roden
Abstract
Correspondence, writings and research materials assembled by Chicago Public Library chief librarian, Carl B. Roden. Research materials include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and publications concerning or authored by William F. Poole.
Dates:
1852-1956
Carlos Montezuma papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Montezuma
Abstract
Mostly correspondence, but also writings, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, clippings and photographs relating to Indian rights activist and physician Carlos Montezuma of Arizona and Chicago, Illinois.
Dates:
1888-1936; Majority of material found within 1888-1922
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