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Carolyn Ashbaugh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ashbaugh
Abstract

Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Carolyn Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.

Dates: 1970-1976

Edith Borroff papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borroff
Abstract

Musicologist, Composer, Author, Professor, Pianist, Vocalist, and Lecturer, Edith Borroff lived from 1925 to 2019, boasting a career that spanned at least 7 books and over 60 compositions.

Dates: 1800-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1999

Henry Kisor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kisor
Abstract

Henry Kisor is a journalist and author. Born in 1940, Henry became deaf at the age of three. He is known for his decades long (1965-2006) journalism career at Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun Times as well as his published fiction and nonfiction books. As a journalist, he mainly worked as a book editor and was a 1981 finalist for a Pulitzer Price for Criticism.

Dates: 1904-2014; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

James T. Farrell-Cleo Paturis papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Paturis
Abstract Stories, articles, manuscript and photocopy drafts and notes by Farrell; a small collection of Farrell correspondence; miscellaneous material including reviews and appreciations of Farrell’s work; photographs of Farrell, Paturis, friends and occasions; and many audiocassettes of Farrell lectures, speeches and interviews. Paturis material includes several drafts of her unpublished memoir of her life with Farrell, a synopsis of his work, correspondence dating mainly after Farrell’s death in...
Dates: 1909-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blew
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, interviews, writings, and other materials related to the lives and careers of Wright and Zoe Howes, their families, and Wright Howes' bibliographical work U.S.IANA. Materials were compiled by John Blew, a Chicago lawyer and book collector who became interested in the life of Wright Howes through his use of Howes' U.S.IANA.

Dates: 1790s-2012; Majority of material found within 1870-1999

Sydney Justin Harris papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, readers' letters, and personal materials of Chicago columnist Sydney Justin Harris.

Dates: 1933-1987; Majority of material found within 1975-1985

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