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Fred B. Hackett papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Hackett
Abstract Materials pertaining to Fred B. Hackett, a member of the Chicago Corral of The Westerners, who, for a time, lived and worked among the Oglala Lakota people at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The material includes a report of the proceedings of the council held on September 21-22, 1903 at Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota between Congressman E. W. Martin and the delegates of five different tribal representatives, relative to the Black Hills treaty of 1876; a typed description of...
Dates: 1882-1963

Fred Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union...
Dates: 1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985

Frederick A. Stock Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stock
Abstract

Incoming correspondence to Frederick A. Stock, second conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also photographs of Stock rehearsing at Interlochen Music Camp, early 1940s.

Dates: 1904-1940s

Frederick W. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spiegel-Hemingway
Abstract

Collection relating to Ernest Hemingway assembled by his friend Frederick Spiegel. Contains miscellaneous correspondence including four original letters and several photostats written by Hemingway; numerous clippings and articles relating to Hemingway's life and letters; miscellaneous items about the American Red Cross ambulance service in World War I. Also, a photostat of Hemingway's will written in 1961.

Dates: 1918-1973

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract

Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.

Dates: 1941-1967

F.W. Clark papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.

Dates: 1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916

G. Etherington letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-277
Abstract

Seven letters, in French, June 10-July 14, 1763, written by Capt. George Etherington during the period of his captivity at L'Arbre Croche to Charles Langlade at Fort Michilimackinac. Correspondence concerns the assignment of command of the fort to Langlade and instructions for its operation, the ransom of captive British soldiers, English traders held at the fort, wampum for the Ojibwa, and the assistance of the Ottawa chief, La Fourche.

Dates: 1763

Gabriel Harrison letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3038
Abstract Letters regarding John Howard Payne to Gabriel Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis, William Penn Chandler of Philadelphia, George Whitfield Fish of Tunis and Flint, Mich., and Amos Perry of Providence, R.I. Also one letter, also about Payne, from Fish to Thomas J. McKee, a New York lawyer and friend of Harrison's. The letters, which were probably responses to a correspondence initiated by Harrison during the revision of his 1875 work, concern the circumstances of...
Dates: 1873-1883

Garrett A. Boge papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Boge
Abstract

Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Garrett A. Boge, lettering artist and type designer based in Kansas City, Seattle, and Rome, Italy.

Dates: 1971-2013; Majority of material found within 1982 - 2009

Geller collection of hotel postcards and luggage labels

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Identifier: Case Wing folio-NC1875-U6-G45
Abstract

Collection of hotel postcards and hotel luggage labels primarily issued in North America, South America, and Europe between 1900 and 1992.

Dates: 1900-1992; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970

George A. Gonder papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gonder
Abstract

Church-related correspondence and documents of George A. Gonder, Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion convert and official in Kansas and Illinois. Includes postcards showing Zion City parks, buildings, and church officials.

Dates: 1899-1907

George A. Seaman letters and printing specimens

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Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-16
Abstract

Letters, postcards and printed ephemera addressed to or relating to George A. Seaman, a practical printer in Chicago, Ill. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Included are letters and cards from Robert Hilton of The British Printer, W. McKetcham of the Poughkeepsie News-Press and News-Telegraph, and James W. Hinkley of the American Graphic Company.

Dates: 1883-1888

George Ade papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

George B. Simpson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-172
Abstract

Twenty letters, five clippings and one small etching retained by George B. Simpson, of Dundee, Scotland, apparently regarding art exhibitions, sales of pictures, and a stained glass restoration project.

Dates: 1867-1887

George Croghan letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-195
Abstract A collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770. In the first letter dated Mar. 1763 Croghan reports to Sir William Johnson that a draft (unidentified) was completed by his assistant Thomas Hutchins, future geographer of the U.S. In the second letter (copy) dated June 1766 to Gen. Gage, Croghan urges him to encourage the colonial governors to maintain peace with the Indians and mentions his plans...
Dates: 1763-1770

George Deal Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Deal
Abstract

Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.

Dates: 1862-1975; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864

George Frederick Augustus Ruxton papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-3614
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, manuscript notes, drafts, copies, etc., mostly relating to Ruxton's travels in America.

Dates: approximately 1839-1948

George M. Templeton papers

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Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-4099
Abstract

Includes Templeton's diaries for the years 1862-1868 when he was stationed at Fort C.F. Smith in Montana. The Fort was established in 1866 and abandoned in 1868. Collection also includes correspondence, etc., of the various collectors who have held the collection or parts of it.

Dates: 1852-1958

George Salter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Salter
Abstract Prominent German-American calligrapher and one of the most admired designers of book jackets in the United States. Papers consist chiefly of art work, correspondence, contracts, and printed materials relating to design projects executed in New York along with earlier German design projects. Also includes correspondence with American and German colleagues (some in German), most notably Walter Brudi, Kurt Schauer, E.F.H Schneidler, and Jeanyee Wong; drafts of articles by Salter; papers...
Dates: 1919-1980

George Sigerson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-173
Abstract

Six letters from Irish translator and physician George Sigerson, five of which relate to Sigerson’s health issues. Also includes a medical prescription, and one poem translated from Irish.

Dates: 1897-1916

Gintautas Vezys Bookplate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Vezys
Abstract

Collection of more than 4700 bookplates and related ephemera assembled by Lithuanian–American publisher and scholar, Gintautas Vezys. Bookplates were individually designed and hand-printed, and were executed by primarily Lithuanian artists.

Dates: approximately 1958-approximately 2006

Gladys Fornell Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fornell
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, and photographs from writer and editor Gladys Fornell. Includes drafts of short stories, poetry, stage plays, and her unpublished novel “Montel.” Also includes genealogical material about the Fornell family and the immigration of ancestor Nils Fornell from Sweden to Wisconsin in 1868.

Dates: 1938-1982

Goodman family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Goodwin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodwin
Abstract

Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).

Dates: 1802-1913

Gookin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

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Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 31
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 12
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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 8
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Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 7
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 7
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 7
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 7
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 7
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 6
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 6
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 6
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 6
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 6
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 6
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 6
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 6
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 6
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 5
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 5
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 5
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 5
Henley, David, 1749-1823 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 5
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 5
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
American Red Cross 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 4
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 4
Rand McNally and Company 4
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 4
Shaw family 4
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 4
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 4
American National Red Cross 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 3
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 3
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Chicago Sun-Times 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 3
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 3
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 3
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940 3
DaBoll, Raymond F. 3
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956 3
Fairbank, Alfred J. 3
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 3
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 3
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Johnson, William, 1715-1774 3
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 3
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 3
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 3
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 3
Limited Editions Club 3
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 3
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 3
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