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Steele-Winters Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract
Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.
Dates:
1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970
Stella Skiff Jannotta Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jannotta
Abstract
Three disbound scrapbooks compiled by Stella Skiff Jannotta for her youngest son, Joseph Edwin Jannotta, in the early 1930s. Titled, “The Evolution of a Man: Joseph Edwin Jannotta, His Story in Pictures,” the volumes contain a variety of materials including photographs, correspondence, clippings, programs, and family histories along with Stella Jannotta’s extensive handwritten annotations. Also includes separated materials related to the family and the founding of Jewel Tea Company by the Skiff...
Dates:
1801-1996; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1930
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract
Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.
Dates:
1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1988
Storrs & Deville Chabrol Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Storrs
Abstract
Letters, World War II-era memorabilia, journals, clippings, manuscripts and photographs pertaining to Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym "Marc Debrol." Also included are letters and materials related to the Deville Chabrol family, including correspondence between family members present during the Franco-Prussian War and the colonization of Algeria. Additionally, collection includes genealogical information about the...
Dates:
1850-2002; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
The Negro in the City
Collection
Identifier: VAULT Case folio-E185.6-.M48-1922
Abstract
Set of 44 lantern slides produced by the Committee on Conservation and Advance of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) that document the daily life of African Americans during the early years of the Great Migration from the rural American South, as well as outreach activities conducted by the MEC to assist them with finding work and social services. A majority of the slides show African American Methodist Episcopal church buildings in cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, New York,...
Dates:
1922?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Walter Ansel Strong Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Strong
Abstract
Correspondence, personal documents, photographs, and family materials related to Walter Ansel Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News from 1925-1931.
Dates:
1847-2008; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1931
Warner-Haskins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Warner-Haskins
Abstract
Mementos and photographs relating to the Warner and Haskins families and friends; many photographs unidentified; materials seem to have belonged primarily to Mrs. R. C. (Hattie) Haskins and Mrs. Rawleigh (Dorothy Haskins) Warner.
Dates:
approximately 1860-1953
Welling Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Welling
Abstract
Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Harriet Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; John P. Welling material includes military records from his service in World War I.
Dates:
1899-1988
Will Ransom papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rans
Abstract
Printer, commercial artist, bibliographer and author of works on American printing history and private presses who did freelance work in lettering, design and typography before becoming art editor at the University of Oklahoma Press. Largely the correspondence between Ransom and members of the Anglo-American fine press movement between 1920 and 1950, together with printed ephemera from these presses, and detailed notes about their history and publications. There are also files on Ransom's own...
Dates:
1883-1954
William Douglas Johns papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3123
Abstract
Typescript of an undated manuscript entitled The Early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike Discovery, written by Seattle journalist and gold prospector William Douglas Johns. Also, 49 photographs to accompany Johns’ draft of the book which includes the early history of Alaska, the development of the gold rush, life in the mining camps and in Dawson City, and Johns’ own explorations and hardships while traveling in the region starting in 1895.
Dates:
1895-approximately 1941
William Edward Parsons papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Parsons
Abstract
Professional and personal materials and photographs of Chicago architect and city planner William Edward Parsons.
Dates:
1873-1992; Majority of material found within 1873 - 1939
William Frederking dance photographs
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Frederking
Abstract
Black and white photographs of Chicago area dance companies and dancers taken by professional photographer William Frederking. Also included are publicity materials related to the dance companies and dancers Frederking photographed as well as personal materials such as correspondence.
Dates:
1985-2016; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000
William H. Peterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the Swedish-American...
Dates:
1891-2012
William Horne-Ernest Hemingway papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Horne-Hemingway
Abstract
Correspondence, works, articles, clippings and memorabilia relating to Ernest Hemingway and William Horne.
Dates:
1913-1985
William Morton Payne Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract
Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1920
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