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Carroll Binder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Binder
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, personal and family materials, and photographs of newspaper editor and foreign correspondent Carroll Binder.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

Carter H. Harrison IV papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harrison
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953), and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.

Dates: 1637-1953; Majority of material found within 1840-1950

Edward Eagle Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown
Abstract

Materials pertaining to the family of Chicago banker Edward Eagle Brown, primarily of Brown's father Edward Osgood Brown, great grandfather William Brown, and descendants in the Ipswich and Salem Massachusetts areas.

Dates: 1749-1955; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1900

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

Platt R. Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spencer
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business. In his later years, Spencer became involved in the...
Dates: 1827-1951; Majority of material found within 1850-1900

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Abolitionists -- Ohio 1
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African American artists 1
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Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- History 1
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Bankers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Business cards -- 1851-1900 1
Business education 1
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Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Ipswich (Mass.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Landscape painters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
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Middle West -- Description and travel 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Pulitzer Prizes 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
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Reporters and reporting 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Sources 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
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American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Red Cross 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
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Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Brown, Edward Osgood, 1847-1923 1
Brown, William, -1833 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Chicago (Ill.). Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Democratic Party (Cook County, Ill.) 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Downs family 1
Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872 1
Dunne, Edward F. (Edward Fitzsimons), 1853-1937 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Federated Press 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Harrison family 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Harrison, Edith Ogden 1
Harrison, William Preston, 1870-1940 1
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 1
Hull, Cordell 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Indiana University 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, James, 1863-1939 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
Minneapolis tribune 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussey, Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, Persis Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Delevan), 1833-1892 1
Muzzy family 1
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 1
Osgood family 1
Parker, Lawton, 1868-1954 1
Rex, Frederick, 1880-1961 1
Sabath, Adolph Joachim, 1866-1952 1
Seymour, Gideon Deming, 1901-1954 1
Sloan family 1
Sloan, Junius R., 1827-1900 1
Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), 1867-1950 1
Sloan, Sarah Spencer, 1832-1923 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, H. C. (Henry Caleb) 1
Spencer, Harvey Alden, 1838- 1
Spencer, Lyman Potter, 1840-1915 1
Spencer, Persis Duty, 1806-1862 1
Spencer, Platt R. (Platt Rogers), 1800-1864 1
Spencer, Robert C. (Robert Closson), 1829- 1
Spencer, Warren Platt 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Stowe, Leland, 1899-1994 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 1
United States. Army. Ohio Heavy Artillery Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865) 1
United States. Internal Revenue Service. Collection Division 1
Walters, Basil Leon, 1896-1975 1
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