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Letter Arts Review records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-LAR
Abstract
Correspondence, calligraphic samples, advertising and press releases, magazine issues, publications, catalogs, and photographs documenting the publication of Letter Arts Review (formerly Calligraphy Idea Exchange and Calligraphy Review), a quarterly magazine devoted to contemporary and historical lettering, calligraphy, typography, and text-based art.
Dates:
1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1998
Lewis family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract
Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.
Dates:
1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950
Lily Pagratis Venson papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Venson
Abstract
Journalism, research materials, and personal papers of Chicago journalist Lily Pagratis Venson, who wrote for Lerner Newspapers from 1963 to 1973. The papers include feature stories and editorials written by Venson as well as feature stories and editorials about her and her journalism. The papers also contain her research materials for ongoing stories she covered during her time at Lerner Newspapers: the Edgewater Golf Club land crusade and the demolition of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. She...
Dates:
1962-2011; Majority of material found within 1963-1973
Little Room Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Little Room
Abstract
Business records of the Little Room, an early twentieth century Chicago social club composed of artists, writers, musicians, etc., including correspondence, memorabilia and membership material.
Dates:
1898-1931
Lloyd Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.
Dates:
1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949
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 York,...
Dates:
1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961
Louise St. John Westervelt Collection of Theatrical and Musical Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Westervelt
Abstract
Photographs, mainly cabinet photographs, of nineteenth-century musical and theatrical persons.
Dates:
1869-1930; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1891
Lutz-Chamberlin family papers
Collection
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
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
Margot Grimmer Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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 Turbyfill Papers
Collection
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 as...
Dates:
1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950
Martin J. Feenan papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Graff-1302
Abstract
Includes ms. account of the Sully campaign against the Indians of the West, 1863-1865 (59 leaves.), written in 1920 from memoranda, notes and correspondence; ms. account of the Feenan genealogy (12 leaves), photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, documents, etc.
Dates:
1864-1920
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
Matt Rizzo papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rizzo
Abstract
Typescript essays and a treatise (some in Braille) by Matt Rizzo, Chicago philosopher/writer who was blinded in a robbery at age 22. Collection also includes photo-reproductions of Rizzo with son Charlie and guide dogs, a news clipping about Rizzo's life, audiocassettes of Rizzo dictating parts of his works, a Perkins Brailler, and Rizzo's two Brailling slates with an accompanying stylus for writing Braille.
Dates:
approximately 1940s-2002
May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Valentine
Abstract
Photographs of opera singers and conductors, collected by May Valentine, chorus director and music librarian for the Chicago Lyric Opera for 44 years. Mostly undated professional stills of individuals, plus a few stage scenes and miscellaneous group shots.
Dates:
approximately 1910-1972
May Walden Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-WaldenM
Abstract
Collection of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, as well as publications relating to the Socialist movement. Included in the papers are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.
Dates:
1869-1972; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1959
McNally family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McNallyF
Abstract
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials...
Dates:
1788-2002; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1993
Melville E. Stone Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract
Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.
Dates:
1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1929
Mendicant ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HV4493 .N49
Abstract
Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.
Dates:
approximately 1850-approximately 2020
Mike Nussbaum Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Nussbaum
Abstract
Playscripts, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous personal and production materials of Chicago actor and director known for his work with playwright David Mamet and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Dates:
1945-2017; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2015
Mike Royko papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract
Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his best-seller...
Dates:
1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997
Milward Adams photograph collection [OFFSITE]
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adams
Abstract
STORED OFFSITE – Contact reference@newberry.org for access. Collection of portraits of statesmen, orators, lecturers, musicians, singers, composers, and conductors collected by and autographed to Milward Adams, manager of Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1889 to 1910.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1910
Mina Hager Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hager
Abstract
Material relating to the career of mezzo-soprano Mina Hager (Mrs. Fred Heidenson), including incoming correspondence from John Alden Carpenter and others, programs, clippings and other memorabilia. Also, practice and demo tapes, sound recordings (78 rpm and 45 rpm, LP) and a collection of manuscript and published sheet music, mostly by John Alden Carpenter.
Dates:
1892-1977; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1970
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