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Ann Barzel papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Barzel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian Ann Barzel.

Dates: 1912-2005

Brown family papers

 Collection
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

Carroll Binder papers

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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

Clay Judson Papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC2
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer and civic leader, Clay Judson, including correspondence, mostly with family members; travel narratives of camping trips taken by Judson and his friends, chiefly in Wisconsin and Minnesota; materials relating to Judson’s experiences with the A.E.F. in World War I; and photographs of Judson and his family members, among which is an album of snapshots made while his father was stationed in Panama during the construction of the Gatun...
Dates: 1839-1960; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1926

Edna L. McRae papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates: 1910-1990

Edward Eagle Brown family papers

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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

Edward Price Bell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.

Dates: 1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900-1942

Ellen Goldsmith papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

Felix Borowski Papers

 Collection
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

Hope Abelson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Kenneth Sawyer Goodman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman
Abstract

Works and personal materials of Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, including manuscript, typescript, and published plays, poems, and short stories, correspondence, drawings, diaries, and programs from theatrical productions, photographs, and mementoes, including wood printing blocks, military items, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1883-1971; Majority of material found within 1900-1917

Mitchell Dawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Ora Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Snyder
Abstract

Writings, speeches, photographs, promotional materials, and artifacts documenting the career of Ora Snyder (1876-1948), a Chicago candy maker founder of Mrs. Snyder’s Candies in 1909. Snyder was a pioneer in marketing and promoting candy, and often gave lectures on being a woman business owner.

Dates: 1887-1955; Majority of material found within 1910-1945

Rand McNally and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract

Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.

Dates: 1856-1996

Robert Marsh Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1940-1986

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

William Morton Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract

Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.

Dates: approximately 1850-1920

Woolson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woolson
Abstract

Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago.

Dates: 1856-1950; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1910

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Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 3
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
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Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 2
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Akers, Milburn P. 1
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
America First Committee 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Art Institute of Chicago. Students' League 1
Associated Press 1
Associated Retail Confectioners of the United States 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baker family 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Balanchine, George 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Barber, ScottAllen 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Beech, Keyes 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brown family 1
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Brown, Edward Osgood, 1847-1923 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1
Brown, McAuliffe, 1889-1963 1
Brown, William, -1833 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Burck, Jacob 1
Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Chicago sun-times. School Services Division 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932 1
Conkey, William B. 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Dedmon, Emmett 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Fanning, Lawrence S. 1
Federated Press 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Field Communications Corporation 1
Field Enterprises 1
Field Enterprises Educational Corporation 1
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 1
Field, Marshall, 1916-1965 1
Field, Marshall, V 1
Fine Arts Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Fresh Air Fund 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
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