Showing Collections: 226 - 250 of 737
Elbert Ozial Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-TaylorE
Abstract
Sermons and other miscellaneous religious and career-related materials of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer, Reverend Elbert Ozial Taylor.
Dates:
1880-1893
Elisa Stigler Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stigler
Abstract
Materials relating to the career of Chicago dance teacher Elisa Stigler, primarily a performer and instructor in the techniques of Spanish dancing, but also a teacher of the dances of other cultures and of ballet. Includes copious handwritten notations and mimeographed instruction for teaching a wide range of dances, both American and foreign, a few articles and letters, catalogs, programs and some miscellaneous memorabilia.
Dates:
1930-1983
Ellen Goldsmith papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract
Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates:
1933-2007
Elliot Zashin Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Zashin
Abstract
Materials relating to three undergraduate research studies of American Indians done in the summers of 1961 and 1962 by Elliot Zashin. Includes correspondence, personal field notes, interviews, records, reports, surveys, and other miscellany relating to Navajos of Crownpoint, New Mexico, and the Swinomish tribe at La Conner and the Indian Reservation at Neah Bay, both in Washington state.
Dates:
1960-1962
Elmer Jacobs papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Jacobs
Abstract
Original advertising and magazine art, correspondence, speech texts, tax records, photographs, printed ephemera, and a radio interview by Chicago freelance designer and illustrator Elmer Jacobs.
Dates:
1925-1982
Elmo Scott Watson papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Watson
Abstract
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Dates:
1816-1951; Majority of material found within 1920-1951
Elvira Sheridan Badger papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Badger
Abstract
Six personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1903. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Facsimile of notebook kept by Alpheus Shreve Badger about his move to Chicago and the subsequent freedom of his slaves in 1852. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky...
Dates:
1859-approximately 1930; Majority of material found within 1859-1878
Ely Samuel Parker papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-674
Abstract
Seneca sachem, engineer, soldier, and first native American commissioner of Indian affairs, 1869-1871. Speeches, lecture notes, and correspondence, ca. 1850-1885, of Ely Samuel Parker, regarding Indian customs and traits, the Indian policies of government and religious bodies, and his own background.,Includes an undated July 4th address re temperance; lecture notes (ca. 1850) on Indian dances, games, and social and domestic habits; an address (ca. 1878) containing autobiographical notes and...
Dates:
approximately 1850-1885
Emily Elliot Daland Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-155
Abstract
Mainly letters from Emily Elliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, with a few to Gerard’s daughter Pauline, for whom Daland was acting as guardian of her small estate. Topics in letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, Hoover’s presidency, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also, three letters from Helen Gerard, a clipping, and a small collection of family snapshots.
Dates:
1916-1933
Emma Meier Rupp Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rupp
Abstract
Civil War diary of Emma Meier, who either worked for or was a relative of an unknown store owner with Southern sympathies in Brunswick, Missouri, together with fifty-four letters, 1861-1864, written to her by Adolph Rupp, a Union soldier serving in Company H, 18th Infantry Regiment, Missouri Volunteers. Rupp wrote from St. Louis, and various locations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. All the letters are in German, with place locations and personal names recorded in English.
Dates:
1861-1864
Emma Wormwood Diaries
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-221
Abstract
Three diaries kept by Emma Wormwood, a young school teacher from Carlinville in Macoupin County, Illinois, who taught in Girard (also in Macoupin County) at the Hazel Green School.
Dates:
1895-1898
Encore Theatre Posters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Encore
Abstract
Posters from Encore Theatre, an Old Town non-professional theater that produced musical theater productions year-round during the 1960s while training aspiring actors, crew members, and directors.
Dates:
approximately 1960-1970
Endicott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Endicott
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous material pertaining to the Endicott family and relatives of the Redden, Castle, and Smith families. These families lived primarily in the towns of Greenville, Stubblefield, and Villa Ridge, Pulaski County, Illinois. Topics discussed in the correspondence include marriage, domestic life, illness, and religion. Miscellaneous items include an account book, a paper written about dairy farming, and calling and greeting cards.
Dates:
1868-1986
Enid Eder Perkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Perkins
Abstract
Original calligraphic and illuminated work by self-employed New York artist, together with correspondence, photographs of commissioned work, some study materials.
Dates:
1929-1972
Enos Brown & Co. Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-153
Abstract
Collection formerly called Bowen Bros. Records, consists mainly of letters, orders and receipts generated by Enos Brown & Co., a Chicago firm selling machinery parts, warps, dyes and other manufacturing supplies to woolen mills in Utah in the 1870s. Bowen Bros., a dry goods firm associated with Enos Brown & Co., is briefly represented in the collection, and there is one letter to George S. Bowen, mayor of Elgin, Illinois and organizer of the Chicago & Pacific Railroad, demanding...
Dates:
1867-1894; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1876
Enquirer Printing Co. Records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Enquirer
Abstract
Chiefly correspondence between the Enquirer Printing Co. and the circuses for which it printed between 1948 and 1978. There are also photocopies of some ledger sheets from the 1920s concerning shipments to theater companies.
Dates:
1922-1979
Ephraim C. Dawes papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.
Dates:
1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Wheeler-Voegelin
Abstract
Notes and draft materials for writings on Native Americans, and Indian Claims Commission case documents and research reports, created by anthropologist Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin. Also field notebooks, photographs and correspondence.
Dates:
1934-1985
Ernest A. Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract
Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.
Dates:
1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995
Ernest J. Wessen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wessen
Abstract
Correspondence and related materials, 1956-1971, of Ernest J. Wessen of the Midland Rare Book Company of Mansfield, Ohio, and Joseph F. Dush, an Ohio book collector who acquired much of his collection from Wessen. Also contains correspondence with Arthur Duncan, Jim Scott, biographical material and photographs of Wessen, and four dealer catalogs.
Dates:
1942-1999; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1971
Ernest McGaffey letters and poems
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-168
Abstract
Four letters and three poems from poet Ernest McGaffey, sent to Matthew Mills in 1939. Also includes one undated signed photograph of Ernest McGaffey.
Dates:
1939
Ernestine Stodelle Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stodelle
Abstract
Collection of files kept by Ernestine Stodelle regarding her professional life as dancer, teacher, author and dance critic. Material relates to Stodelle’s own career and her association with dance figures Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limon and Louis Horst. Consists of correspondence, articles, clippings, lectures, programs, reviews, tributes, photographs, dance descriptions and reconstructions.
Dates:
1925-2006
Ernst F. Detterer papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dett
Abstract
Chicago designer and calligrapher, founding head of the Department of Printing Arts of the School of the Art Institute, and Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1931-1947. Collection focuses on Detterer's career before he came to the Newberry Library, and includes notes, memorabilia, correspondence, drawings, sketches, rubbings, and a few finished art works, including many by his Art Institute students.
Dates:
1897-1968; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1931
Eugene E. Prussing Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Prussing
Abstract
Manuscript autobiography and related notes by Eugene E. Prussing (interleaved with photographs and clippings). Also clippings and letters relating to Prussing’s two books on George Washington, genealogical information about the Peltzer family, and a biography of father Ernst Prussing.
Dates:
1928-1980
Eugene F. Ballard papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-159
Abstract
Materials of Eugene F. Ballard of Denver, Colorado, kept for his genealogical work on the Ballard family. Contains a bound record book and a few letters relating to his quest for information.
Dates:
1907-1933
Filtered By
- Subject: Manuscripts, American X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 474
- Manuscripts, American 202
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 118
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 112
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 80
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 78
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 73
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000 61
- Photographs 51
- Correspondence 47
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850 31
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 31
- Clippings -- 1901-1950 30
- Scrapbooks 30
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 28
- Clippings (information artifacts) 28
- Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 28
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 27
- Chicago (Ill.) 25
- Clippings -- 1951-2000 21
- World War, 1914-1918 21
- Sound recordings 20
- Authors, American -- 20th century 17
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 17
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 17
- Soldiers' writings, American 17
- Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 17
- Diaries -- 1851-1900 16
- Programs 16
- American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 15
- Correspondence -- United States -- 1901-1950 15
- Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 14
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 14
- Genealogical correspondence -- United States 14
- Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 14
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 14
- Diaries -- 1901-1950 13
- Moving images 13
- Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 13
- Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 12
- Dance -- Illinois -- Chicago 11
- Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 11
- Dancers -- Portraits 11
- Parent and child -- Correspondence 11
- Railroads -- Management 11
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 11
- Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 10
- Clippings -- 1851-1900 10
- Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago 10
- Diaries 10
- Europe -- Description and travel 10
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 10
- Audiocassettes 9
- Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 9
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 9
- Dance -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Poems -- 1901-1950 9
- Reporters and reporting 9
- Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 9
- Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Videocassettes 9
- Audiovisual materials 8
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 8
- Correspondence -- United States -- 1951-2000 8
- Genealogies (histories) 8
- Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 8
- Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 8
- Ledgers (account books) 8
- Newspapers 8
- Postcards 8
- Railroads -- Illinois 8
- Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 8
- Tintypes (prints) 8
- World War, 1939-1945 8
- Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
- Dance schools -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
- Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
- Illinois -- Genealogy 7
- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 7
- Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
- Periodicals 7
- Photograph albums 7
- Poets, American -- 20th century 7
- Programs -- 1951-2000 7
- Publicizing 7
- Research notes 7
- Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 7
- Women dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 7
- Authors, American 6
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History 6
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 6
- Clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 6
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 6
- Correspondence -- Tennessee -- 1851-1900 6
- Correspondence -- United States -- 1851-1900 6
- Families -- Illinois 6
- Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 6 ∧ less
- Language
- English 734
- German 23
- French 15
- Spanish; Castilian 7
- Italian 4
- Polish 3
- Swedish 3
- Cherokee 2
- Japanese 2
- Yiddish 2
- Siksika 1
- Hebrew 1
- Lithuanian 1
- Navajo; Navaho 1
- Russian 1
- Slovak 1
- Thai 1
- Welsh 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 33
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 24
- Chicago Daily News, Inc 22
- Pullman Company 20
- United States. Army 19
- Newberry Library 15
- Monroe, Harriet 14
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 11
- Page, Ruth 11
- Art Institute of Chicago 9
- Carpenter, John Alden 9
- Fuller, Henry Blake 9
- Garland, Hamlin 9
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) 9
- Sandburg, Carl 9
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 8
- Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 8
- Darrow, Clarence 8
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 8
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) 8
- Ade, George, 1866-1944 7
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 7
- Charles H. Kerr Company 7
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra 7
- Chicago sun-times 7
- Dell, Floyd 7
- Dennis, Charles Henry 7
- Field, Eugene 7
- Hecht, Ben 7
- Industrial Workers of the World 7
- Mowrer, Paul Scott 7
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 7
- Tietjens, Eunice 7
- Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 6
- Bolm, Adolph 6
- Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company 6
- Chicago Tribune (Firm) 6
- Cowley, Malcolm 6
- Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 6
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 6
- Howells, William Dean 6
- Lindsay, Vachel 6
- Masters, Edgar Lee 6
- Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 6
- Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
- Rand McNally and Company 6
- Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 6
- Turbyfill, Mark 6
- University of Chicago 6
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 6
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 5
- Barzel, Ann 5
- Bodenheim, Maxwell 5
- Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) 5
- Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 5
- Cliff Dwellers (Club) 5
- Conroy, Jack 5
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong) 5
- Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 5
- Dreiser, Theodore 5
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 5
- Ficke, Arthur Davison 5
- Geronimo 5
- Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 5
- Hansen, Harry 5
- Henley, David 5
- Hoover, Herbert 5
- Lawson, Victor Freemont 5
- Lewis, Lloyd 5
- Lincoln, Abraham 5
- Long, Larry 5
- MoMing Dance and Arts Center (Chicago) 5
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 5
- Pound, Ezra 5
- Rosemont, Franklin 5
- American Red Cross 4
- Anderson, Margaret C. 4
- Bell, Edward Price 4
- Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes) 4
- Borowski, Felix 4
- Bryan, William Jennings 4
- Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer) 4
- Butcher, Fanny 4
- Cather, Willa 4
- Chicago Reader 4
- DaBoll, Raymond F. 4
- Frost, Robert 4
- Graham, Martha 4
- Grainger, Percy 4
- Illinois Central Railroad Company 4
- Lipinski, Dolores 4
- Morrison, Helen Balfour, 1900-1984 4
- Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 4
- Reader (Chicago, Ill.) 4
- Rice, Wallace 4
- Rosemont, Penelope 4
- Shaw family 4
- Sheridan, Philip Henry 4
- Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company 4 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more