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Scharmel Iris Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-137
Abstract
Small collection of material relating to minor Chicago poet. Iris proved to be a plagiarist and forger who engaged in a life-long campaign not only to have his verse published but also to be regarded as a colleague of more successful writers and poets. Consists of correspondence, poetry, and miscellaneous items such as clippings and photographs.
Dates:
1911-1964
Sluby Collection of Portrait Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sluby
Abstract
Paul E. Sluby, Sr., a genealogist and historian from Washington D.C., compiled this collection of early photographs of identified individuals. Many of the photographs were acquired at flea markets and antique stores in the northeastern United States. Also included are some letters, funeral notices, and a high school diploma.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1953; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1930
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
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
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 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
Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract
Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans families....
Dates:
1909-1991
Woods Family Papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-2
Abstract
Materials gathered and retained by Frank H. Woods Jr. relating to Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada and his Woods descendants. Includes Frank H. Woods’s correspondence and research notes for a biography of Henry Ruiter, notebooks with accounts, poetry and stories of his great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, and an account book of his great-grandfather, Elias Woods, Woods family deeds and receipts from Boone County, Illinois (1840s-1860s), and other miscellaneous early Woods...
Dates:
1842-1980
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- Hull House Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.) 2
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- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 2
- Mowrer, Paul Scott 2
- New York City Ballet 2
- Nilsson, Birgit 2
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 2
- Rand McNally and Company 2
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- Tietjens, Eunice 2
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- Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 2
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- Wright, Frank Lloyd 2
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- Abelson, Hope 1
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- Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 1
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 1
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