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Edwards family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edwards
Abstract

Letters, documents, photographs, and printed ephemera centering on John C. Edwards and Lydia Martin Edwards, and their immediate families, both of whom settled near Chicago in the 1840s.

Dates: 1800-1982; Majority of material found within 1847-1908

Howe-Barnard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Howe-Barnard
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, personal and professional materials, and photographs of the Howe and Barnard families, early Chicago settlers. Included are the materials of Annie L. Howe, a missionary, teacher, and founder of Glory Kindergarten and Training School in Japan, her brother, Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who originated the practice of field trips in science classes, and Alice Lucretia Barnard, one of the first woman principals in the Chicago schools. Also contains Civil War letters...
Dates: 1826-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

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Plats (maps) -- Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1885-1924 1
Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Real estate business -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
School field trips -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century 1
School principals -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science teachers -- United States 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
Travelers -- Azores -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Bernard family 1
Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1