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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

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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Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Japan -- Guidebooks 1
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Postcards 1
Postcards -- 1901-1950 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Tiskilwa (Ill.) -- History 1
Travel diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Travel guidebooks -- 1901-1950 1
Travel literature -- Europe 1
United States -- Guidebooks 1
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 1
Valentines 1
Winnebago County (Ill.) -- History 1
Women -- Education -- History 1
Women college students -- Illinois 1
Women teachers 1
Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Names
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Baker family 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1