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Chicago City Ballet School records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CCB School
Abstract The School of the Chicago City Ballet was founded in 1980 by Maria Tallchief and affiliated with the Chicago City Ballet, outlasting the company by six years until its closing in 1993. Includes administrative records, publicity materials, and photographs.
Dates: 1980-1994

Chicago Club Records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Club
Abstract The Chicago Club is a private social club headquartered at the corner of Van Buren Street and Michigan Avenue. Established in 1869, the Club has had many high-profile members over the years including Marshall Field and George Pullman. Historically, the most prominent members are the Chicago Club were executives of the city's most successful corporations. Collection contains menus for the traditional Chicago Club New Year’s Day Luncheon, from 1959 to 1984. Additionally, there are several notes...
Dates: 1959-1984

Chicago Community Trust Excellence in Dance Initiative Records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Dance Initiative
Abstract Administrative files, consultant files and a collection of background information and publications relating to the field of dance and specifically to the activities of a short-term initiative developed by the Chicago Community Trust which had the aim of strengthening the field of dance in Chicago.
Dates: 1999-2007

Chicago Dance and Music Alliance records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CDAMA
Abstract Records of the Chicago Dance Coalition, the Chicago Music Alliance, and the merged Chicago Dance and Music Alliance. Includes administrative, financial, and photographic materials as well as audiovisual and digital data items.
Dates: 1980-2005; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2000

Chicago Dance Medium records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CDMedium
Abstract Videos, photographs, publicity, programs, and administrative files of The Chicago Dance Medium, a dance ensemble created to bring dance as an art form to school-age children in Chicago. The ensemble was founded by dancer and choreographer Rosemary Doolas, and was active in Chicago from its founding in 1979 until Doolas's death in 2021.
Dates: 1979-2003

Chicago Design Museum ephemera collection

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-CDM
Abstract Printed ephemera from the Chicago Design Museum relating to the museum's activities from 2014-2016. Includes posters, postcards, prints, a business card, a playbill, a button, and other assorted materials.
Dates: 2014-2016

Chicago Hand Bookbinders Records

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-CHB
Abstract Business records and newsletters of The Chicago Hand Bookbinders, an association of professional, amateur, and student bookbinders founded in 1978.
Dates: 1979-2007

Chicago Headline Club records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Headline
Abstract Collection of documents and newsletters from the Chicago Headline Club, founded in 1921 by alumni of the Sigma Delta Chi professional fraternity. In addition to being a professional organization of journalists, members of Chicago Headline Club were early supporters of "right to know" laws and of promoting journalism as a career choice for Chicago's youth. Collections contains documents and photocopies of newsletters for the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Journalist from 1969-2005 and CDs...
Dates: 1960-2017

Chicago Lakefront and River Photographs

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-129
Abstract 58 prints of Chicago lakefront and river scenes, found in a manila envelope marked: “Prints from glass negatives produced by the Corps of Engineers ca. 1890; originals now with the Chicago Maritime Society.”
Dates: approximately 1890

Chicago Library Club records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Library
Abstract Formed in 1891 by newcomers into the Chicago library field from New York to encourage the acquaintance and cooperation between libraries, library schools and other fields. Founding members included W.F. Poole, Frederick H. Wild, Charles Alexander Nelson, Edith Clark and others. Collection includes one box of assorted correspondence, clippings and other miscellaneous items from 1971-84, and one ledger.
Dates: 1892-1984

Chicago Literary Club records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Literary
Abstract Chicago voluntary association founded in 1874 of men and women interested in writing original essays on topics of their own choosing and in listening to other members present their essays. Prominent members include Lorado Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Irving Kane Pond, William Rainey Harper, and Thomas Elliott Donnelly. Primarily weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks.Also includes papers of the Chicago...
Dates: 1874-2017

Chicago Musical Arts Club scrapbooks

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Musical
Abstract Scrapbooks containing incorporation documents, programs, photographs, correspondence, by-laws, and other materials of the Chicago Musical Arts Club, founded in 1936 by Mrs. H. S. Bottomleaf and Lola Robuck, who served as the club's first president. Also earlier clippings, programs, and photographs relating to Chicago music and Belle Forbes Cutter.
Dates: 1910-1987; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1987

Chicago National Association of Dance Masters Records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-CNADM
Abstract The Chicago National Association of Dance Masters (CNADM) was founded in 1912 and serves as a resource of continuing education for dance teachers and their students. Records include workshop reports, dance notes, and audiovisual recordings of CNADM workshops.
Dates: 1925-ongoing

Chicago Opera Association Records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-009
Abstract Correspondence and contracts mostly relating to singer Amerlita Galli-Curci and Cleofonte Campanini, General Director of the Chicago Opera Association. Also two leases between the Chicago Civic Opera Co. and the Auditorium Theatre.
Dates: 1916-1924

Chicago Opera Theatre records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Opera
Abstract Founded in 1974 as the Chicago Opera Studio, the organization's goal was to provide high quality opera productions in English and designed for contemporary tastes using younger Chicago singers and musicians. Records include budgets, proposals, notes, invitations, brochures, programs, and window posters.
Dates: 1975-1978

Chicago Press Club Chicagoan of the Year Committee records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Press Club
Abstract Records compiled by the Chairman of the Chicagoan of the Year Award Committee, Roger B. Johnston, that include Press Club newsletters, publicity material, awardee biographical information, correspondence, and information about the nomination process. Also includes a plaque with award winner names from 1959 to 1985.
Dates: 1973-1986

Chicago Reader artwork collection

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Reader A
Abstract Original works by various artists commissioned for the Chicago Reader alternative weekly newspaper.
Dates: 1973-2005

Chicago Reader photographs: News collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Reader PN
Abstract Photographs used to accompany front page and other feature stories in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly newspaper, as well as the columns Calendar, Hot Type, Neighborhood News, Our Town, TheWorks, and Chicago Anti-Social.
Dates: 1973-2007

Chicago Reader photographs: Performance collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Reader PP
Abstract Publicity and live photographs of Midwest area dance, drama, comedy, and music performers and performances from the files of the Chicago Reader weekly newspaper.
Dates: approximately 1960s-2006; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2000

Chicago Reader records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Reader R
Abstract Original copy of articles, legal files, miscellaneous administrative files, and unsolicited manuscripts of the Chicago Reader alternative weekly newspaper.
Dates: 1971-2000

Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Chicago-Repertory
Abstract A troupe that showcased the works of Chicago choreographers, the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble was founded in 1981 by Tara Mitton and headquartered at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts building until its dissolution in 1992. Records include administrative files, photographs, publicity, and audiovisual materials.
Dates: 1981-1992

Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-176
Abstract Sixteen professional photographs of the area of Chicago known as the Stockyards Industrial Park which was developed after the closing of the Union Stock Yards in 1971. The Industrial Park is home to various small factories, none of which are involved in meatpacking. Few of the original structures remain, excepting the great limestone arch erected in 1879 to mark the stockyard entrance.
Dates: approximately 1975

Chicago Tribune daily assignment records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tribune
Abstract Daily weekday reporting staff assignment sheets, often providing summaries of specific events that were to be covered, dating from May 2, 1983 to July 5, 1984.
Dates: May 2, 1983-Jul. 5, 1984

Chicago Union Station Company Records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-110
Abstract Documents relating to Issue Series "C" bonds (printed volume, 1920), together with a file containing letters, memoranda, and other documents relating to vacations with pay authorized for war veterans returning from service with the armed forces, 1942-1958. Also an "M" series sinking fund bond, 1963.
Dates: 1920-1963

Chicago Woman's Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Woman's
Abstract Chicago philanthropic and social organization formed in 1876. Members have included Jane Addams, Helen S. Shedd, and Bertha Palmer. Collection includes a guest book and donor’s book, both leather bound, gilded and inset with semiprecious stone, and Annals of the Club volume 2.
Dates: 1914-1929

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Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection (Newberry Library) 15
Lake County Forest Preserve District (Ill.) 15
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Sandburg, Carl 12
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 11
Darrow, Clarence 11
Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection (Newberry Library) 11
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 11
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 10
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 10
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 10
Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 10
Garland, Hamlin 10
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 10
Art Institute of Chicago 9
Chicago sun-times 9
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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 8
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 8
Charles H. Kerr Company 8
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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 8
Ade, George, 1866-1944 7
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 7
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 7
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 7
Cowley, Malcolm 7
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 7
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 7
Dennis, Charles Henry 7
Howells, William Dean 7
Industrial Workers of the World 7
Lincoln, Abraham 7
Mowrer, Paul Scott 7
Rand McNally and Company 7
Rosemont, Franklin 7
Rosemont, Penelope 7
Tietjens, Eunice 7
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 6
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 6
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company 6
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 6
Chicago Reader 6
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 6
D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian 6
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 6
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 6
Hayes, James 6
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 6
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 6
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 6
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 6
Thomas, Theodore 6
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 6
United States. Office of Indian Affairs 6
University of Chicago 6
American Indian Center of Chicago 5
American Red Cross 5
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 5
Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934 5
Barzel, Ann 5
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 5
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 5
Catich, Edward M. 5
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 5
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 5
Dreiser, Theodore 5
Fairbank, Alfred J. 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison 5
Geronimo 5
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 5
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Henley, David 5
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 5
Illinois Central Railroad Company 5
Lawson, Victor Freemont 5
Lewis, Lloyd 5
Long, Larry 5
Michael Brown Rare Books 5
MoMing Dance and Arts Center (Chicago) 5
Morrison, Helen Balfour, 1900-1984 5
Newberry, Walter Loomis 5
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