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Frank T. Siebert Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Siebert
Abstract
Correspondence and other materials of physician, linguist, and book collector Frank T. Siebert. Mostly incoming correspondence to Siebert from his mother and a woman friend that he courted over a period of about fifteen years, with a few letters from friends and relatives, physicians, medical schools and associations. Included are three letters concerning his Indian research. Also, a small collection of memorabilia consisting of a poem, some receipts for professional dues, a tiny unidentified...
Dates:
1926-1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1956
Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract
Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.
Dates:
1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935
Franklin Rosemont-Haymarket research papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Haymarket
Abstract
Research notes, photocopies, drafts, proofs, photographs, and correspondence comprising the papers used to research and produce the Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Dave Roediger (Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). Also materials related to the activities commemorating the centennial of the 1886-1887 Haymarket Affair.
Dates:
1975-2009; Majority of material found within 1980-1993
Franklin Rosemont - T-Bone Slim research collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Slim
Abstract
Original manuscript writings by noted IWW member T-Bone Slim with research notes, book drafts, and correspondence from Franklin Rosemont used to produce his book, “Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim” (Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1992).
Dates:
approximately 1923-1993; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1993
Fred Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union members.
Dates:
1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985
Frederic Grant Gleason papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract
Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi,...
Dates:
1852-1908
Frederic Warde Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Warde
Abstract
Correspondence between Frederic Warde and William A. Kittredge with a few related items.
Dates:
1921-1939
Frederick A. Stock Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stock
Abstract
Incoming correspondence to Frederick A. Stock, second conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also photographs of Stock rehearsing at Interlochen Music Camp, early 1940s.
Dates:
1904-1940s
Frederick John Rank papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rank
Abstract
The Frederick John Rank papers contain his diaries from 1875-1939, which record his daily life and touch upon his work as a packer for Montgomery Ward. A bound volume about Rank's diaries, compiled by Rank's great-granddaughter Janet Rank Spaletto, is also present. Additionally the papers contain family correspondence, some of which relates to Rank's son's attempt for an assistant postmaster general appointment.
Dates:
1872-2013; Majority of material found within 1875-1939
Frederick Setzler papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Setzler
Abstract
Seventeen mounted photographs of opera stars, many autographed to Frederick Setzler (1904-1983), who volunteered and then worked at the Chicago Civic Opera in the 1920s and 1930s. Also includes a Chicago City Opera Company season announcement from 1939-1940, an advertisement from the Chicago booking agent Frederick Barnes featuring names of musicians represented, and a 1967 clipping remembering the soprano Mary Garden.
Dates:
1924-1967
Frederick W. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spiegel-Hemingway
Abstract
Collection relating to Ernest Hemingway assembled by his friend Frederick Spiegel. Contains miscellaneous correspondence including four original letters and several photostats written by Hemingway; numerous clippings and articles relating to Hemingway's life and letters; miscellaneous items about the American Red Cross ambulance service in World War I. Also, a photostat of Hemingway's will written in 1961.
Dates:
1918-1973
Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract
Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.
Dates:
1941-1967
F.W. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.
Dates:
1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916
Gabriel Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3038
Abstract
Letters regarding John Howard Payne to Gabriel Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis, William Penn Chandler of Philadelphia, George Whitfield Fish of Tunis and Flint, Mich., and Amos Perry of Providence, R.I. Also one letter, also about Payne, from Fish to Thomas J. McKee, a New York lawyer and friend of Harrison's. The letters, which were probably responses to a correspondence initiated by Harrison during the revision of his 1875 work, concern the circumstances of...
Dates:
1873-1883
Garrett A. Boge collection of inscriptional rubbings
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Boge Rubbings
Abstract
343 rubbings of inscriptional stones, chiefly in Florence and Rome, made to exemplify Roman capital letter forms and early Christian symbolism. Mostly art originals, a few photocopies.
Dates:
1991-2007
Garrett A. Boge papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Boge
Abstract
Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Garrett A. Boge, lettering artist and type designer based in Kansas City, Seattle, and Rome, Italy.
Dates:
1971-2013; Majority of material found within 1982 - 2009
Gene Dekovic Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dekovic
Abstract
Professional and some personal papers of Chicago and California designer and photographer, Gene Dekovic, who worked as a freelancer for most of his life. These files include professional papers relating to design and publishing ventures, and to a lesser extent his career as a photographer and author.
Dates:
1951-2006
Gene Weltfish Pawnee field notes
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Weltfish
Abstract
Field notes (1935) of Franz Boas trained anthropologist and linguist Gene Weltfish, documenting her study of Pawnee lifeways and religion. These volumes of notes focus on the yearly economic lifecycle of the Pawnee as it would have been lived in the late 19th century.
Dates:
1935
George A. Gonder Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gonder
Abstract
Church-related correspondence and documents of George A. Gonder, Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion convert and official in Kansas and Illinois. Includes postcards showing Zion City parks, buildings, and church officials.
Dates:
1899-1907
George Ade papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract
Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.
Dates:
1865-1971
George Croghan letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-195
Abstract
A collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770. In the first letter dated Mar. 1763 Croghan reports to Sir William Johnson that a draft (unidentified) was completed by his assistant Thomas Hutchins, future geographer of the U.S. In the second letter (copy) dated June 1766 to Gen. Gage, Croghan urges him to encourage the colonial governors to maintain peace with the Indians and mentions his plans for a...
Dates:
1763-1770
George Deal Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Deal
Abstract
Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.
Dates:
1862-1975; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864
George Edwin Dolton papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dolton
Abstract
Letters, diaries, printed ephemera, photographs, and other material of school teacher and surveyor George Edwin Dolton, of Thornton, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served (1862-1865) in the Battery M of the 1st Regiment of Illinois Light Artillery in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Postwar family and business correspondence, diaries, and printed ephemera from Illinois, and after 1871 from St. Louis, document Dolton's wholesale merchandising business, family life, and political...
Dates:
1862-1906; Majority of material found within 1862-1906
George Philip Krapp diaries
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Krapp
Abstract
Diaries of American scholar and university professor George Philip Krapp, kept while a student at Wittenberg College and on a trip to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Diaries provide full descriptions of the fair and Chicago, together with interesting reflections on student life and Krapp's decision to pursue scholarship.
Dates:
1890-1897; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1893
George Roth Papers on American Indians of the Southwest
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Roth
Abstract
Collection of George Roth, retired Cultural Anthropologist of the Bureau of Indian Affairs contains materials relating to American Indians of the Southwest. Mostly newsletters, clippings, periodicals, pamphlets, press releases, and newspapers related to American Indian policy, education, and legislation in the Southwest.
Dates:
1969-1987
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