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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

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

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Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Japan -- Guidebooks 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Philanthropists 1
Philippines -- Description and travel 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Colombia 1
Photographs -- Colorado 1
Photographs -- Ecuador 1
Photographs -- Grand Canyon 1
Photographs -- Guatemala 1
Photographs -- Jerusalem 1
Photographs -- Panama 1
Photographs -- Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Postcards 1
Postcards -- 1901-1950 1
Sermons -- 1751-1800 1
Sermons -- 1801-1850 1
Sermons -- 1851-1900 1
Shipping -- Maine -- Bangor -- History 1
South America -- Description and travel 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
Travel diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Travel guidebooks 1
Travel guidebooks -- 1901-1950 1
Travel literature 1
United States -- Guidebooks 1
Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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American University of Beirut 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1