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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Blatchford family papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford 2
Abstract

Chicago lead manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.

Dates: 1841-1947; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1914

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

Frederick John Rank papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rank
Abstract

The Frederick John Rank papers contain his diaries from 1875-1939, which record his daily life and touch upon his work as a packer for Montgomery Ward. A bound volume about Rank's diaries, compiled by Rank's great-granddaughter Janet Rank Spaletto, is also present. Additionally the papers contain family correspondence, some of which relates to Rank's son's attempt for an assistant postmaster general appointment.

Dates: 1872-2013; Majority of material found within 1875-1939

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Hermann Raster papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

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

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

Rowley Family Journals

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-096
Abstract

Two journals by Mrs. Jane Rowley of the Chicago area, including descriptions of family and farming life, and various trips to Chicago and elsewhere.

Dates: 1851-1887

Waller Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Waller
Abstract

Primarily letters of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky, and later Chicago, pertaining mainly to matters of family activity, family devotion to one another, and especially health. Also included are a family genealogy, biography, and letters from Henry Clay and P.G.T. Beauregard. Related family: Alexander

Dates: 1803-1938; Majority of material found within 1803 - 1888

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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 6
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Photographs -- 1901-1950 3
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Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 2
Missionaries -- Arab countries 2
Oak Park (Ill.) 2
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Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
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Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Forty-Eighters (American immigrants) 1
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Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
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Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Oak Park (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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German 1
 
Names
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 2
Adams, Daniel W., 1821-1872 1
Alexander family 1
Alexander, Robert Spruel Crawford Aitcheson, 1819-1867 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
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America First Committee 1
American University of Beirut 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Andover Theological Seminary 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Belfield, Henry H. (Henry Holmes), 1837-1912 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Blatchford family 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Academy of Sciences 1
Chicago Manual Training School 1
Chicago Theological Seminary 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Damrosch, Leopold, 1832-1885 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Downs family 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Indiana University 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
Katò„, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 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
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lloyd, William Bross, Jr., 1908-1995 1
London Naval Conference (1930 : London, England) 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
Manierre, Edward 1
Marx, Wilhelm, 1863-1946 1
McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956 1
McCormick Theological Seminary 1
Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Montgomery Ward Workers of Chicago 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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