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Mitchell Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract
Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.
Dates:
1810-1988
Monroe Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William Monroe...
Dates:
1868-1949
Morse-Keith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract
Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.
Dates:
1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872
Morton Dauwen Zabel Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zabel
Abstract
Correspondence, works, personal materials, and photographs of literary critic, editor, scholar, and educator Morton Dauwen Zabel.
Dates:
1861-1964; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960
Nathaniel Gates Chapin collection of 136 photographs and portraits of eminent musicians
Collection
Identifier: Case-V-25-185
Abstract
The collection was made by Nathaniel Gates Chapin (1817-1893) of Boston. It is contained in wooden box 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Includes biographical sketch of each subject of portrait in manuscript.
Dates:
approximately 1890
Native Americans in Film collection
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-NAIF
Abstract
Collection of movie scripts featuring Native American themes, characters, and actors, augmented by a variety of visual materials. Consists of over 300 items including scripts, press and promotional booklets, lobby cards, posters, and photographs.
Dates:
1912-2018; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1995
Newberry Library Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-178
Abstract
Photographs document the construction of the Henry Ives Cobb-designed Newberry Library building from May 8, 1891 to April 12, 1893, and also show parts of Washington Square Park and buildings in the surrounding area.
Dates:
1891-1893
Olin D. Wheeler collection of photographs of Yosemite Valley
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-68-70, 88
Abstract
This collection of 179 photographic prints contains 71 views of Yosemite National Park, including tourists traveling in Yosemite Transportation vehicles and private cars. Wheeler also compiled a collection of photographs of the landscapes and Native Americans along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition while researching his two-volume book The Trail of Lewis and Clark. This collection is part of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Photographs.
Dates:
approximately 1880-1925
Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barrett-Sandburg
Abstract
Correspondence between Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Lincoln, plus a few other letters of Oliver Barrett and his son Roger; numerous brief undated notes from Sandburg to Barrett and work notes on Lincoln's biography by both men; copies of several articles and numerous poems by Sandburg; miscellaneous printed items relating to Sandburg, his work and his public appearances; and...
Dates:
approximately 1860-1966
Oliver Perry Newberry Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newberry
Abstract
Mainly correspondence of Cameron, Missouri resident Oliver Perry Newberry, 1860-1867, primarily relating to his Civil War service in the Union army; and cabinet, carte-de-visite and a few tintype photographs of Newberry family and friends dating primarily from the 1880's.
Dates:
1860-1895
Olivia Monona Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monona
Abstract
Performance photographs, snapshots, newspaper clippings, and opera ephemera relating to the career of Olivia Monona Goldenberger, known professionally as Olivia Monona, from 1899 to 1943. Photographs illustrate the world of Chicago opera and musicals during the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, with photographs of performances in Chicago, Highland Park, IL, and at the Ravinia Festival. Collection also contains portraits, passport, and news clippings about opera maestro Attico Bernabini.
Dates:
1899-1943
Orlando Cabanban photographs
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Cabanban
Abstract
Negatives (35 mm and 120 film format), contact sheets, prints, and transparencies created by Chicago photographer Orlando Cabanban primarily of events related to the American Indian Center of Chicago during the late 1960s. Social activities documented include powwows, day camps, the AIC canoe club and basketball team, and the American Indian Festival held at the Field Museum. Also includes images of AIC meetings, demonstrations, individual and family portraits, miscellaneous photographs and...
Dates:
approximately 1920s-1991; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1986
Orville E. Babcock Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Babcock
Abstract
Orville E. Babcock was American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. Collection is primarily correspondence relating to Babcock’s military career, service as private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency, role in the Whiskey Ring trials of 1875-1876, and private life. Collection also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, military service records and miscellaneous items.
Dates:
1849-1947; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1898
Paul Randall Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wright
Abstract
Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.
Dates:
1899-1965
Paul Romaine Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.
Dates:
1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1983
Paul Scott Mowrer papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
Abstract
Correspondence, works, photographs and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, author, newspaper editor, and poet. Mowrer was Paris correspondent for the Chicago Daily News beginning in 1910, headed the foreign news service until 1934, and editor of the paper from 1935-1944. He was foreign editor of the New York Post from 1944-1947. An accomplished poet, Mowrer published nine...
Dates:
1894-2007; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1971
Percy H. Sloan Collection of Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sloan
Abstract
Collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Chicago and environs, which includes aerial views of the city and some suburbs (1925-1930), and a large collection of church, civic, commercial and domestic architecture. Also, views of Chicago monuments and statuary and a group of Sloan’s checklists of his work. Most images are annotated with addresses and but not dates.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1942
Photographic copies of Grace Carpenter Hudson's paintings of Pomo Indians
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-102-104
Abstract
Black and white gelatin photographic prints (ca. 1920-1937), captioned with numbers and mounted on sheets of cardboard, of Grace Carpenter Hudson's paintings of Pomo Indians.,Included are portraits and scenes, primarily of children, but also of adults. The children are often depicted with dogs or other animals.
Dates:
approximately 1920-approximately 1937
[Photographs of Quiriguá]
Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer.Art-Photographs.of-Quirigua
Abstract
Nine black-and-white photographic prints of the Mayan ruins at Quiriguá, Guatemala in the Motagua Valley. Depicted are eight steles, pillar-like carved slabs of stone, and one zoömorph. The photographs are signed "Janette W. Dixon." The photographer remains unknown. The photographs are undated, but were a gift of Janette Dixon of Chicago from May 29, 1946.
Dates:
approximately 1920-1946
Pullman Company Records - Audiovisual Materials
Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-13
Abstract
Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, films, filmstrips, and sound recordings, documenting Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company cars and car furnishings, officials and employees, properties, advertising, and employee recruitment and training. Forms part of the Pullman Company Records.
Dates:
1872-1976
R. Ford Bentley Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Bentley
Abstract
Personal, family, and professional papers including photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. Also includes promotional materials and correspondence pertaining to many of the printing related companies that Ford worked for.
Dates:
approximately 1830-1990; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Railroad Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-145
Abstract
Two groups of railroad photographs, including 15 reproductions related to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, ca. 1868-1869, and 34 snapshots and postal cards of railroad men, engines, cars, stations and wrecks apparently taken in Wisconsin, ca. 1913-1914.
Dates:
approximately 1868-1914
Ralph Korngold papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Korngold
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.
Dates:
1867-1994; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1964
Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference Photographs and Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Graham
Abstract
Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. The collection is composed of a State Department-created scrapbook with an assortment of photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps and relevant...
Dates:
1945
Rand McNally and Company records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract
Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.
Dates:
1856-1996
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