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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

Gridley-Hitchcock Family Papers

 Collection
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

James M. Barker papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barker
Abstract Correspondence, business records, speeches, personal materials, photographs, and family newsletters of business executive James M. Barker. During his career, Barker was, among other things, banker, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and president of Allstate Insurance Company whose financial expertise made him a valued advisor in government financial matters and corporate environments. He participated in post World War II era economic missions to Iran and Turkey, and was a close...
Dates: 1825-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1970

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

Paul Romaine papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.

Dates: 1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937-1983

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 5
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 4
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Photographs -- 1951-2000 4
Diaries -- 1901-1950 3
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Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1951-2000 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Accountants -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Adopted children -- Wisconsin 1
Adultery -- United States 1
Airplanes, Military -- Armament -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Amboy (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Businessmen -- United States 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Diaries 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Divorce -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Education, Higher -- United States 1
Engineers -- United States 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Fascists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
Financial executives 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Foreign news -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Iran -- Foreign economic relations -- United States 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
London (England) 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Newsletters 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Pass Christian (Miss.) 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Prohibited books -- United States 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Social security -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Society of Friends 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Speeches 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
America First Committee 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
Baker family 1
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Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Beloit College 1
Bleamer family 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Brush, Albert 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Carlisle, Harry 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
College of Complexes (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
De Granamour, A., 1915-1987 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Downs family 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Edgewater Beach Tennis Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
Gibson, Paul, 1907- 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Gridley family 1
Grinnell College 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Hitchcock, Marion Gridley, 1929- 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane (Elgin, Ill.) 1
Ilma, Viola 1
Indiana University 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Katō, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lloyd, William Bross, Jr., 1908-1995 1
London Naval Conference (1930 : London, England) 1
Lott, George 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
MacMurray College 1
Marx, Wilhelm, 1863-1946 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Nash, Jay Robert 1
New Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Newcomen Society of the United States 1
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865-1922 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Overseas Consultants, Inc. 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 1
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 1
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 1
Poincaré, Raymond, 1860-1934 1
Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944 1
Revere, C T. (Clinton T.), 1874- 1
Rockford Female Seminary 1
Romaine, Paul, -1986 1
Roman family 1
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Shidehara, Kijūrō, 1872-1951 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931 1
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