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Frederic Grant Gleason papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Percy H. Sloan Collection of Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sloan
Abstract

Collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Chicago and environs, which includes aerial views of the city and some suburbs (1925-1930), and a large collection of church, civic, commercial and domestic architecture. Also, views of Chicago monuments and statuary and a group of Sloan’s checklists of his work. Most images are annotated with addresses and but not dates.

Dates: approximately 1890-1942

Wacker family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract

Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.

Dates: 1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970

William H. Peterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the...
Dates: 1891-2012

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 4
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
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American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Arts -- Press coverage 1
Bridgeport (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Composers -- United States -- 19th century 1
Composition (Music) 1
Conservatories of music -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Engineers -- United States 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Homosexuality and literature 1
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Letterpress copybooks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Literary critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Motion pictures -- History 1
Moving images 1
Music critics -- 19th century 1
Music teachers -- 19th century 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Printing plates -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Realism in literature 1
Romance fiction -- Europe 1
Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers' writings, American 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean -- Naval operations, American 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1
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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art 1
Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 1
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Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Aerial Survey 1
Chicago Plan Commission 1
Commercial Club of Chicago 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Floersheim, Otto, 1853-1917 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903 1
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hanley family 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Illinois Music Teachers Association 1
Johnson family 1
Kotula family 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 1
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Music Teachers National Association 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Peterson family 1
Peterson, William H. (William Hartin), 1921-2008 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Pullman Company 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), 1867-1950 1
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 1
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 1
Wacker family 1
Wacker, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1856-1929 1
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Zimmerman family 1
Zimmerman, Rosalie Wacker 1
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