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Theodore Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thomas
Abstract
Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases.
Dates:
1852-1926
Theodore Watson Letters
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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 Lee Ballenger papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Ballenger
Abstract
Correspondence and writings of author, educator, and historian Thomas Lee Ballenger; photographs, legal papers, and documents of the Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history; genealogical materials including detailed tables, charts, and diagrams of individual Cherokee families; and extensive collections of archaeological artifacts.
Dates:
1730-1968; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1968
Thomas Martin Easterly daguerreotypes
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-3648-3662
Abstract
Fifteen daguerreotypes depicting images of Sauk, Fox, and Iowa Native Americans, as well as two non-native men.
Dates:
approximately 1845-1849
Thomas Mather Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Tia Chucha Press records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tia Chucha
Abstract
Administrative and literary materials including correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and financial documents pertaining to the establishment and operation of publishing company Tia Chucha Press.
Dates:
1989-1999
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
Todd Bauer Collection of Chicago Writers' Playscripts
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer
Abstract
Todd Bauer's collection of 31 playscripts written by Chicagoans.
Dates:
2003-2014
Tom Greensfelder design records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Greensf
Abstract
Chicago calligrapher and designer. Files concerning Oakdale Press children’s bookplate designs and other projects.
Dates:
1989-2015
Tom Greenwood papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Greenwood
Abstract
Papers of Thomas J. Greenwood, Housing Chairman of the American Indian Chicago Conference, sponsored by the University of Chicago in June, 1961. Mostly printed material consisting of correspondence, articles and pamphlets that relate to Indian policy in general and specifically the Conference, its preparation and its aftermath, as well as a few miscellaneous Indian-related items. Includes an autobiographical letter from Tom Greenwood to anthropologist Brian Bardy, and a videotaped conversation...
Dates:
1960-1986; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1961
Town and Country Arts Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-TownandCountry
Abstract
Records of the Town and Country Arts Club of Chicago, previously known as the Art Study Class and the North Shore Arts Club. Conceived in 1932 and continuing to the present, the group meets “to study the great world arts that have gone before, to assist in their preservation for future generations, and to encourage the arts of the present day.” Records include president’s books, minutes, reports, membership rosters and attendance records, directories, presentations, photographs, histories, and...
Dates:
1944-2007
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
Val Lauder Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lauder
Abstract
Proof copy and final draft of The Back Page, by former Chicago Daily News columnist and feature writer Valarie (Val) Lauder. Also includes some press clippings and items from her tenure as a journalist.
Dates:
1940s-2013
Victor Lawson papers
Collection
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
Virgil J. Vogel research and personal papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Vogel
Abstract
Writings and research material on American Indian place names and other subjects relating to Native Americans of the Chicago author and professor Virgil J. Vogel. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles, correspondence, and a few photographs.
Dates:
1941-1993
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
Collection
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. Irving Way papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Wales family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wales
Abstract
Collection of letters of the family of HGO (Harrison Grey Otis) Wales (1812-1889), born in Newton, Massachusetts, who settled in Knox County, Illinois and enlisted in the Union Army along with three of his sons at the beginning of the Civil War.
Dates:
1836-1873
Wallace Rice Papers
Collection
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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