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Allen Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allen
Abstract Courtship letters of lawyer and Wisconsin statesman Gideon W. Allen and his future wife Annie Cox during the years of 1863-1865 in which they discuss current their political and religious beliefs, Allen's travels throughout Wisconsin while looking for work, and Cox's life as a woman in Madison, Wisconsin. Also an unfinished biography of renowned botanist Ruth F. Allen by Mabel Nebel, incoming correspondence of Ruth F. Allen, and other family correspondence, photographs, and personal...
Dates: 1862-1964

C. Frederick Kittle collection of Doyleana

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Modern-MS-Kittle-Doyle
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and artwork of and relating to Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, forming a small part of the C. Frederick Kittle Collection of Doyleana, most of which is individually cataloged. Includes 140 letters, notes and cards written by Arthur Conan Doyle, 12 letters to him, and 57 other letters, some by Doyle family members and others retained by C. Frederick Kittle (mostly regarding his collecting of Doyle materials). Also artwork by Doyle’s father, grandfather and...
Dates: 1836-2000

Chauncey McCormick papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCormick
Abstract Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1944-1954. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, religious, and political activities. Also contains speeches and writings, including those for the Art Institute, child...
Dates: 1887-1955

Clay Judson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson.

Dates: 1800-1966

Clay Judson Papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC2
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer and civic leader, Clay Judson, including correspondence, mostly with family members; travel narratives of camping trips taken by Judson and his friends, chiefly in Wisconsin and Minnesota; materials relating to Judson’s experiences with the A.E.F. in World War I; and photographs of Judson and his family members, among which is an album of snapshots made while his father was stationed in Panama during the construction of the Gatun...
Dates: 1839-1960; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1926

Dankmar Adler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adler
Abstract Correspondence, autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect, acoustician, and partner of Louis Sullivan in the Adler and Sullivan architectural firm. Also other family and research materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater, Stock Exchange Building, Garrick Theater Building, and the...
Dates: 1857-1984

Edward Price Bell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.

Dates: 1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900-1942

Fanny Butcher papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Gridley-Hitchcock Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitchcock
Abstract Copies of letters, diaries, and photographs of Ruth Daube Gridley (diaries from 1917-1950) and daughter Marion Gridley Hitchcock (diary from 1951-1958). Also copies of letters to Marion by her father, William Whiting Gridley, after the death of his wife that concern his life as sole caretaker for Marion's sister, who was treated for mental illness. Collection also contains a large set of original correspondence from Marion's great-aunt, Josephine Wheat Gridley, primarily concerning family...
Dates: 1860-2007; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.

Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Rudolph Ganz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract

Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.

Dates: 1864-2013

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

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Photographs -- 1901-1950 14
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 11
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Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1901-1950 2
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 2
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements 2
20th century music -- History 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Accountants -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Airplanes, Military -- Armament -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Amboy (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Ambrotypes 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography 1
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Artist colonies -- New York (State) 1
Artists -- Great Britain 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
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Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Book editors -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Book reviewing 1
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Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
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Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Canada -- Description and travel 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Children's drawings -- France 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
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College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
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Copperhead movement 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
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Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Critics -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Divorce -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Doodles -- 1901-1950 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Drawings (visual works) -- Great Britain 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
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Europe -- Description and travel 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Farm life -- Indiana 1
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Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Foreign news -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
France -- History -- 20th century 1
Gatun Locks (Panama) -- Photographs 1
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Language
French 3
German 1
 
Names
America First Committee 2
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 2
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 2
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 2
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
A.W. Wall Ltd. 1
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, Annie Cox, 1840-1895 1
Allen, Gideon W., 1835-1912 1
Allen, Ruth F., 1879-1963 1
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1
American Field Service 1
American Mothers 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American Tract Society 1
American Writers' Congress 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Aragon, 1897-1982 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Asch, Nathan, 1902-1964 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baker family 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barr, Robert, 1849-1912 1
Basso, Hamilton, 1904-1964 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Beecher, Edward N. 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Beloit College 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Best, Marshall, -1982 1
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977 1
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992 1
Brewster family 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 1
Cheever, John 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Christian family 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Cokenhour family 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 1
Curnow, Leslie 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Downs family 1
Doyle family 1
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 1
Doyle, Charles Altamont 1
Doyle, Jean Leckie 1
Doyle, John, 1797-1868 1
Doyle, Lena Annette Jean Conan 1
Doyle, Mary Louise Conan 1
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Eleanor Association 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Fast, Francis R. 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Ford, Arthur, 1896-1971 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gales family 1
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Goodwin, Philip Lippincott, 1885-1958 1
Gridley family 1
Grinnell College 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Helvig family 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
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