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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

Brown family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown Family
Abstract Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, numerous group and portrait photographs, a scrapbook, travel and souvenir items and snapshots, relating to sisters Grace and Genevieve Brown, musicians who were members of three American all-girl bands between 1923 and 1932. A large part of the collection consists of photographs of the bands and the performers: Harry Waiman and the Debutantes, the Parisian Red Heads and the Ingenues, as well as numerous small travel photographs Also a small...
Dates: 1918-1972; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1932

Frances Wells Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ShawF
Abstract

Papers of Frances Wells Shaw of Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois, wife of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Bulk consists of material related to the frequent domestic and international travels of Frances Shaw during the first half of the 20th century. Includes her diaries, travel materials and memorabilia, and photographs. Also includes correspondence to and from Frances Shaw and her daughters, plus the diaries of her brother-in-law, Charles T. Atkinson.

Dates: 1866-1976; Majority of material found within 1925-1937

John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Abstract

Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.

Dates: approximately 1750-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1900-1999

John T. McCutcheon papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Louis S. Bauer Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract

Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.

Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

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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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 4
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Postcards 4
Photographs -- 1901-1950 3
Correspondence 2
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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Greeting cards 2
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Postcards -- 1901-1950 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 2
Valentines 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Advertisements 1
Advertising 1
Advertising cards 1
All-Girl Bands 1
Alternative publications 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Announcements 1
Annual reports 1
Artists' books 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Birthday cards 1
Blank forms 1
Book jackets 1
Book prospectuses 1
Bookmarks 1
Bookplates 1
Booksellers' advertisements 1
Booksellers' catalogs 1
Broadsides 1
Brochures 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Business cards 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Buttons (informational artifacts) 1
Calendars 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Calligraphy 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Camp Grant (Ill.) 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Catalogs 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Certificates 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Christian Science 1
Christmas cards 1
Clippings 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Conference programs 1
Congregationalists 1
Contracts 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Dance cards 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Direct mail 1
Domestic relations -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Dry-goods -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Editorial cartoons 1
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Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
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Names
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 2
McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aliquando Press 1
American Institute of Graphic Arts 1
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American University of Beirut 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Baker family 1
Bates family 1
Bauer family 1
Bauer, Louis S., 1894-1975 1
Beck, Bruce, 1916-2009 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 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
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Booklyn Artists Alliance 1
Bremer Presse 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Brighton Press 1
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1
Brown, McAuliffe, 1889-1963 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Centro del bel libro (Ascona, Switzerland) 1
Challenge Machinery Company 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
ELM Press 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Foolscap Press 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gregynog Press 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Harry Waiman and His Debutantes 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Idaho Center for the Book 1
Illinois College 1
Imago Press (Toronto, Ont.) 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Indulgence Press 1
Ingénues (Musical group) 1
International Printing Museum (Carson, Calif.) 1
King, Frances Theodora 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Limited Editions Club 1
Liturgy Training Publications (Firm) 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lutz family 1
Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
MacMurray College 1
McCormick, Chauncey, 1884-1954 1
McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936 1
McCormick, Harold F. (Harold Fowler), 1872-1941 1
McCormick, Medill, 1877-1925 1
McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
McKittrick, Bruce 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1866-1946 1
Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
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