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Alice Gerstenberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.

Dates: 1903-1971

Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Jack Conroy papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

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Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems.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

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...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

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

Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Signer
Abstract

Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for an unfinished biography on Ben Hecht during the 1980s. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer.

Dates: 1970s-2006; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1996

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Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
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Collective settlements -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
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Names
Anderson, Margaret C. 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Caylor, Rose 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Browne, Maurice, 1884-1961 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Donahey, William, 1883-1970 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1
Ebert, Roger 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hecht family 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Kogan, Herman 1
Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001 1
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966 1
Kroch, Adolph, 1882- 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 1
Manierre, Edward 1
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953 1
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956 1
National League of American Pen Women 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
Price, Emerson 1
Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950 1
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 1
Rogers, John, 1907- 1
Rowland, Neal 1
Royko, Mike, 1932-1997 1
Sayers, Lionel 1
Sheaffer, Robert Faust 1
Signer, Robert A., 1942-2022 1
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973 1
Society of Midland Authors 1
Stracke, Win, 1908-1991 1
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 1
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 1
Tobey, Mark 1
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