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Lord family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lord
Abstract Papers from the Lord family, including the associated Brown, Blayney and McDougal families. Includes letters, manuscript and printed poems by William Sinclair Lord, illustrated manuscript verses by Robert H. Lord, genealogies of the McDougal, Blayney and Lord families and miscellaneous publications about early Peoria, Illinois. Family letters include an 1860 letter from Julia Brown, the daughter of Samuel Robbins Brown, an early American missionary to Japan, describing life in Japan, and an...
Dates: 1833-1990; Majority of material found in 1840-1920

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Louis J. Cross diaries

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cross
Abstract

Diaries, date books, and a few miscellaneous items of Louis J. Cross, Chicago bonds salesman and investment banker. Diaries cover the years between 1932 and 1969, and discuss Cross' daily routine as well as political and financial developments in America, and the internal workings of the Chicago business world.

Dates: 1932-1974

Louis McLane Hamilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-356
Abstract Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867, possibly collected by Benson John Lossing, concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita. Includes correspondence of Philip Hamilton (father) to Lossing, and Robert Mayhew West (forwarding copy of 7th Cavalry resolution on Hamilton's death to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle); ms. extracts from Custer's July 6, 1867, order praising Hamilton's...
Dates: 1867-1869

Louis S. Bauer Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract

Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.

Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Lucy Monroe Calhoun Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-126
Abstract

Six letters by Lucy Monroe Calhoun and three by her husband, William J. Calhoun (U.S. Minister to China, 1909-1913), regarding their experiences in China during the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which includes a description of the December 1922 wedding of Emperor Puyi. Another letter relates Monroe’s visit to Le Mans, France, the American Red Cross embarkation camp at the end of World War I. Also, a newspaper clipping and a photograph of Emperor Puyi as a child.

Dates: 1909-1922 or 1923

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

M. M. Liberman Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-138
Abstract

Correspondence between scholar M.M. Liberman and author Katherine Anne Porter and her lawyer regarding Liberman’s access to Porter’s papers and the short-lived designation of Liberman as Porter’s literary executor. Also, one short letter from Allen Tate and three from Malcolm Cowley, plus three off-prints of Liberman’s articles on Porter and a copy of Porter’s early cancelled will.

Dates: 1953-1974

M. W. Newman Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newman
Abstract

Works, correspondence, personal materials, and memorabilia of Chicago newspaper editor, reporter, and critic M. W. Newman.

Dates: 1917-2002

M.A. Donohue & Co. records

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Donohue
Abstract

Original artwork, proofs, and prints created by the M.A. Donohue & Co. printers. Donohue specialized in children's books, and published the Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy series.

Dates: approximately 1920s-1930s

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.

Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Marcia Slater Johnston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Johnston
Abstract

Published articles, clippings, correspondence, and manuscript drafts written by Chicago freelance journalist Marcia Slater Johnston. Dating from the 1970s, Johnston’s work covers issues such as immigration, gangs, sex trafficking, women’s justice, medicine, and consumer issues. Also includes audiocassettes of radio shows featuring Johnston and her articles.

Dates: 1947-2019; Majority of material found within 1966 - 2010

Margaret Hampton Steele Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele
Abstract Letters of Margaret “Maggie” Hampton Steele to her cousin and future husband Silas W. Hampton, primarily from 1859 and 1860. They are written from Terre Haute, Indiana, where she attended the Female College (1859), and from her family's residences in Grandview, Illinois, and later Topeka, Kansas. Steele’s minister father moved his family to Kansas in support of the free-state faction, settling in Topeka as minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Letters discuss her courtship with Silas,...
Dates: 1859-1864

Margot Grimmer papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Grimmer
Abstract

Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.

Dates: 1956-1984

Marion Cummings papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cummings
Abstract

Papers of Marion Cummings (1876-1926), a teacher, philosopher, and poet, which include both her works and a collection of letters and works of American poet Sara Teasdale.

Dates: 1895-1956; Majority of material found within 1909-1917

Mark J. Satter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Satter
Abstract

Papers of Chicago lawyer and civil rights activist Mark J. Satter, documenting his crusade against wage garnishment, his writings against public aid and for a new Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for the under and unemployed, and his battle against redlining and the predatory real estate practice of contract selling. Includes correspondence, clippings, articles and essays, speeches, research notes, audiovisual materials, photographs, and personal items.

Dates: 1931-1965; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1965

Mark Turbyfill Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Turbyfill
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.

Dates: 1911-1985

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

Martin A. O'Brennan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brennan
Abstract

Papers pertaining to Martin A. O’Brennan, an Irish nationalist activist, lawyer, newspaper editor, and amateur historian. The papers document O’Brennan’s Irish activities and his life in Chicago through correspondence and documents, manuscript copies of his speeches, printed pamphlets and copies of newspapers (both the Connaught Patriot and the Irish News), and ephemera-like advertisements, prospectuses, membership cards and printed lecture tickets.

Dates: approximately 1843-1878

Martin J. Rock Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rock
Abstract

Correspondence, legal documents, insurance documents, financial information, and other miscellaneous data pertaining to Martin J. Rock's career as an attorney for the Pullman Company, from 1947 to 1995.

Dates: 1947-1995

Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Parton
Abstract

Material relating to the friendship between Clarence Darrow and journalist Mary Field Parton, which includes sixty-one of his letters to her, several other letters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Included are numerous transcripts of Darrow's letters, a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, all done by Parton's daughter Margaret Parton (Hussey).

Dates: 1909-1975

Mary Gehr Papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Gehr
Abstract

Original work, reproductions of work, correspondence and subject files of Chicago artist Mary Gehr.

Dates: 1828-1997; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1997

Mary Hartwell Catherwood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Catherwood
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, notes and works of writer Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Also, a few photographs, clippings and articles relating to Catherwood.

Dates: 1865-1945

Mary Sackett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-038
Abstract

A journal kept by Mary Sackett when she and her family emigrated from New York state to Laona, Winnebago County, Illinois, 1841-1842, three numbers of a manuscript pioneer newspaper with original work done by members of an Illinois reading circle in 1849, a recipe for taffy, some penmanship exercises and two colored drawings. Also, photocopies of genealogical material relating to the Sackett family collected in 1945.

Dates: 1841-1945; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1849

Materials for history of Vermont regiments in the Civil War : consisting of manuscript notes and newspaper clippings

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Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-F 8349 .924
Abstract

Notes and newspaper clippings collected by an unknown person regarding the history of Vermont regiments in the Civil War.

Dates: approximately 1862-1865

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Monroe, Harriet 14
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 11
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Art Institute of Chicago 9
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 9
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 9
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 9
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 9
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 9
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 8
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 8
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 8
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 8
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 8
Ade, George, 1866-1944 7
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 7
Charles H. Kerr Company 7
Chicago Sun-Times 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 7
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 7
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 7
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 7
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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 7
Industrial Workers of the World 7
Mowrer, Paul Scott 7
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 7
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 7
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 6
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 6
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company 6
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 6
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 6
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 6
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 6
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 6
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 6
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 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, 1896-1990 6
University of Chicago 6
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 6
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 5
Barzel, Ann 5
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 5
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 5
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 5
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 5
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 5
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 5
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 5
Geronimo, 1829-1909 5
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Henley, David, 1749-1823 5
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 5
Lawson, Victor Freemont 5
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 5
Lincoln, Abraham 5
Long, Larry 5
MoMing Dance and Arts Center (Chicago) 5
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 5
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 5
Rosemont, Franklin 5
American Red Cross 4
Anderson, Margaret C. 4
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 4
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 4
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 4
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 4
Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer), 1858-1949 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 4
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 4
Chicago Reader 4
DaBoll, Raymond F. 4
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 4
Graham, Martha 4
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 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, 1859-1939 4
Rosemont, Penelope 4
Shaw family 4
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 4
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
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