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Edwards family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edwards
Abstract

Letters, documents, photographs, and printed ephemera centering on John C. Edwards and Lydia Martin Edwards, and their immediate families, both of whom settled near Chicago in the 1840s.

Dates: 1800-1982; Majority of material found within 1847-1908

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

Goodman family papers

 Collection
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

Howe-Barnard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Howe-Barnard
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, personal and professional materials, and photographs of the Howe and Barnard families, early Chicago settlers. Included are the materials of Annie L. Howe, a missionary, teacher, and founder of Glory Kindergarten and Training School in Japan, her brother, Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who originated the practice of field trips in science classes, and Alice Lucretia Barnard, one of the first woman principals in the Chicago schools. Also contains Civil War letters...
Dates: 1826-1999; 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

Scribner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Scribner
Abstract

Approximately 300 pages of genealogical research notes from the early 1900s pertaining to the Scribner, Freeman, and Heckle families, extending back to the 17th century. Materials possibly collected by American penman William Marshall Scribner. Also includes twenty-seven photographs mostly of Scribner family members and their homesteads in Maine and New Hampshire from 1864-1900.

Dates: 1807-1947; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1900

Stella Skiff Jannotta scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jannotta
Abstract Three disbound scrapbooks compiled by Stella Skiff Jannotta for her youngest son, Joseph Edwin Jannotta, in the early 1930s. Titled, “The Evolution of a Man: Joseph Edwin Jannotta, His Story in Pictures,” the volumes contain a variety of materials including photographs, correspondence, clippings, programs, and family histories along with Stella Jannotta’s extensive handwritten annotations. Also includes separated materials related to the family and the founding of Jewel Tea Company by the...
Dates: 1801-1996; Majority of material found within 1850-1930

Woolson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woolson
Abstract

Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago.

Dates: 1856-1950; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1910

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Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 3
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
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Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Illinois -- Genealogy 2
Photographs 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
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Automobile travel -- Florida 1
Automobile travel -- Ohio 1
Automobile travel -- United States 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Barrington (Ill.) 1
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Carpentersville (Ill.) 1
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China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Egypt -- Description and travel -- 20th century 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
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Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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Kobe, Japan 1
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Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
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Mortgages -- United States -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
Newton (Iowa) 1
Ohio -- History -- 19th century 1
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American Medical Association 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Bernard family 1
Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
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Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chicago Political Equality League (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Coffin family 1
Dabney, Samuel W. 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Delzell family 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Downs family 1
Dunton, S. (Seldom) 1
Edwards family 1
Edwards, John C., 1836-1908 1
Epworth League (U.S.) 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Freeman family 1
Froebel Society 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Glory Kindergarten and Training School 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Goodman family 1
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 1
Graff, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman, 1914-2009 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Heckle family 1
Howe family 1
Howe, Annie Lyon, 1852-1943 1
Howe, Charles Oliver, 1822- 1
Howe, Edward Gardiner, 1849-1931 1
Indiana University 1
International Medical Congress 1
Jannotta family 1
Jannotta, A. Vernon (Alfred Vernon), 1894-1972 1
Jannotta, Alfredo Antonio, 1843-1913 1
Jannotta, Frank Skiff, 1896-1942 1
Jannotta, Joseph Edwin, 1898-1986 1
Jannotta, Stella Skiff, 1867-1954 1
Jewel Tea Company 1
Kindergarten Union of Japan 1
Lega-Weekes, Ethel 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lincoln Park Zoo 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Long, John Conant 1
Marshall Field & Company 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Order of the Eastern Star 1
P.E.O. Sisterhood 1
Payson, J. W. (Jesse Wentworth) 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Scribner family 1
Scribner, W. M. (William M.) 1
Skiff family 1
Starbuck family 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Thompson family 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1866). Company K 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1
Woolson Spice Company 1
Woolson family 1
Woolson, Alvin M., 1841-1925 1
Woolson, Ira H. (Ira Harvey), 1856-1927 1
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