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Erwin Watkins-Simeon Whiteley papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3024
Abstract Erwin Watkins and Simeon Whiteley worked for the Office of Indian Affairs in the 1870s and 1860s, respectively. While the Watkins papers contain mainly official government reports and correspondence, the Whiteley papers consist of mostly personal correspondence accompanied by several photographs, three maps, and two issues of a Wyoming newspaper. The Watkins papers include: incoming correspondence and instructions from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs and other officials, copies of...
Dates: 1863-1920; Majority of material found within 1863-1878

Eugene E. Prussing Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Prussing
Abstract

Manuscript autobiography and related notes by Eugene E. Prussing (interleaved with photographs and clippings). Also clippings and letters relating to Prussing’s two books on George Washington, genealogical information about the Peltzer family, and a biography of father Ernst Prussing.

Dates: 1928-1980

Eugene Olshansky photographs

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Olshansky
Abstract

Photographs of productions staged by the Original Ballets Russes (aka the Ballet Russes du Col. W. de Basil) and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo between 1935 and 1941, taken by Chicago businessman and balletomane Eugene Olshansky. Also, two operatic portraits, a few personal photographs, and several pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1935-1986; Majority of material found within 1935-1941

Eunice Tietjens papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.

Dates: 1898-1944

Eunice Tietjens papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens2
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs.

Dates: 1847-1972

Evangelina E. Lewis photographic postcard collection of the Philippine Islands

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-LewisE
Abstract

Collection of photographic postcards collected by Evangelina E. Lewis produced possibly by the photographer Samuel M. Shera. Postcards mostly depict figures, events, architecture, and landscapes in the Philippines.

Dates: approximately 1915-1916

F. Peter Weil collection of photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Weil
Abstract

85 photographs of an amateur Detroit modern dance group led by German dancer Tosia Mundstock.

Dates: approximately 1946-1950

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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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

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

Fanny Butcher papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Felix Borowski Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Field Enterprises records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Field Enterprises
Abstract

Administrative, promotional, and legal materials, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts of Field Enterprises, the umbrella conglomerate under which the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun and Times company, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Field Communications Corporation eventually fell.

Dates: 1858-2007; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1975

Fortnightly of Chicago records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fortnightly
Abstract

Chicago Woman’s Society founded in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. Records document the founding, operations, and activities of The Fortnightly of Chicago and its members. Includes historical materials, meeting minutes (restricted), scrapbooks, notices, member biographical information, members' and guests' papers, photographs, yearbooks, and other administrative and activity records.

Dates: 1869-2018

Francis Fisher Browne papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Browne
Abstract

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.

Dates: approximately 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1873 - 1915

Frank H. Beberdick Pullman collection

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beberdick Pullman
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials relating to the historic Pullman company town and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001.

Dates: 1881-2001

Frank H. Woods, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-F
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of businessman and philanthropist Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Chicago, including family, business, personal and philanthropic-related correspondence and general files, clippings, memorabilia and photographs.

Dates: 1890-2000; Majority of material found within 1935-1980

Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract

Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.

Dates: 1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935

Franklin Rosemont-Haymarket research papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Haymarket
Abstract

Research notes, photocopies, drafts, proofs, photographs, and correspondence comprising the papers used to research and produce the Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Dave Roediger (Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). Also materials related to the activities commemorating the centennial of the 1886-1887 Haymarket Affair.

Dates: 1975-2009; Majority of material found within 1980-1993

Fred B. Hackett papers

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Hackett
Abstract Materials pertaining to Fred B. Hackett, a member of the Chicago Corral of The Westerners, who, for a time, lived and worked among the Oglala Lakota people at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The material includes a report of the proceedings of the council held on September 21-22, 1903 at Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota between Congressman E. W. Martin and the delegates of five different tribal representatives, relative to the Black Hills treaty of 1876; a typed description of...
Dates: 1882-1963

Fred Thompson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union...
Dates: 1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

George Ade papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

George Deal Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Deal
Abstract

Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.

Dates: 1862-1975; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864

George Frederick Augustus Ruxton papers

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Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-3614
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, manuscript notes, drafts, copies, etc., mostly relating to Ruxton's travels in America.

Dates: approximately 1839-1948

Gladys Fornell Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fornell
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, and photographs from writer and editor Gladys Fornell. Includes drafts of short stories, poetry, stage plays, and her unpublished novel “Montel.” Also includes genealogical material about the Fornell family and the immigration of ancestor Nils Fornell from Sweden to Wisconsin in 1868.

Dates: 1938-1982

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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 13
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Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection (Newberry Library) 10
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Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 8
Art Institute of Chicago 7
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 7
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 7
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 7
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 7
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 7
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 6
Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 6
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 6
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 6
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 6
Ade, George, 1866-1944 5
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 5
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 5
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 5
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 5
American Indian Center of Chicago 4
Anderson, Margaret C. 4
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 4
Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934 4
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 4
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 4
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chicago Sun-Times 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 4
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 4
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 4
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Graham, Martha 4
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 4
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 4
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 4
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Lyric Opera of Chicago 4
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 4
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 4
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 4
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 4
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 4
University of Chicago 4
Weidman, Charles 4
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 4
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 3
American Ballet Theatre 3
Associated Press 3
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 3
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 3
Cabanban, Orlando 3
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 3
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Chicago Opera Ballet 3
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 3
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 3
D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian 3
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 3
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 3
Gerstenberg, Alice 3
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925 3
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 3
Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931 3
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 3
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
Morrison, Helen Balfour, 1900-1984 3
New York City Ballet 3
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 3
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 3
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 3
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 3
Pullman Company 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 3
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 3
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 3
Rosemont, Franklin 3
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 3
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 3
Stevens, Ashton 3
Tallchief, Maria 3
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