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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

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

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
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Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Society of Friends 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
Travelers -- Europe -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Warren County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whitman Massacre, 1847 1
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American Medical Association 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Davidson family 1