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Adalaide G. Shields Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Shields
Abstract Contents of a scrapbook, entitled "My Memories," compiled by Adalaide G. Shields. The material includes New Year's letters, in the form of poetry, written to Adalaide (name changed from Adelaide) by her husband Thomas J. Shields and miscellaneous clippings, which she kept with the letters in the scrapbook. The collection also includes an annotated publication by Thomas C. Shields, the son of Adalaide and Thomas J., which provides biographical information and notes explaining the context of...
Dates: 1936-2010

Alfred E. Hamill papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates: 1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953

Ben Hecht papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

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

Chauncey McCormick papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCormick
Abstract Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1944-1954. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, religious, and political activities. Also contains speeches and writings, including those for the Art Institute, child...
Dates: 1887-1955

Clay Judson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson.

Dates: 1800-1966

Harold John Hartlieb Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hartlieb
Abstract

Correspondence and military documents from Harold John Hartlieb’s service during World War II.

Dates: approximately 1945

Hazel MacDonald papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-MacDonald
Abstract

This collection consists of a small amount of correspondence, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, foreign dispatches, and other works by Chicago reporter and foreign correspondent Hazel MacDonald.

Dates: 1928-1967

Head family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-HeadFH
Abstract

Family papers from multiple generations of the Head family. Includes letters from the 1860s-1870s from the Utah Territory from Franklin Harvey Head, later a trustee of Newberry Library. Also includes Francis M. Knight letters from WWI. Thomas C. Fischer letters from WWII. and materials about the Perkins and Durkee families.

Dates: 1860-1957

Jacque B. Jacobsen Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jacobsen
Abstract

Photographs, slides, correspondence, family papers, and printed ephemera from Jacque B. Jacobsen, his wife Ann Dresmal, and other family members. Jacobsen was a Chicago painter and photographer active from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

Dates: approximately 1900s-1980s

James M. Barker papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barker
Abstract Correspondence, business records, speeches, personal materials, photographs, and family newsletters of business executive James M. Barker. During his career, Barker was, among other things, banker, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and president of Allstate Insurance Company whose financial expertise made him a valued advisor in government financial matters and corporate environments. He participated in post World War II era economic missions to Iran and Turkey, and was a close...
Dates: 1825-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1970

John Lardner Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-LardnerJ
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner.

Dates: approximately 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960

Joseph Giganti papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Giganti
Abstract

Papers and photographs pertaining to Chicagoan Joe Giganti, a labor defense activist who served as the Chairman of the Board of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. The collection includes 1930s periodicals, documents, and ephemera of Communist and Socialist groups in Chicago, New York, Italy, and elsewhere. Also included are Giganti's University papers, a file on Giorgio del Vecchio, an audio recording of Giganti, and a photograph album, which features Joe's wife, Rose.

Dates: 1917-1986; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950

Leland Stowe Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stowe
Abstract

Mostly photocopies of writings and some correspondence of newspaper foreign correspondent and author Leland Stowe. Stowe witnessed and wrote about many historic events and subject such as the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Russo-Finnish War, experiencing the Russian front during World War II, and the corruption in the regime of Chiang Kai-Shek.

Dates: 1929-1988

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Nelson Algren-Christine and Neal Rowland Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Algren Rowland
Abstract

Nelson Algren was an American author and journalist known for his witty, humanistic depictions of postwar working-class urban life. He is most famous for his novel The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), which won the first National Book Award for fiction. Collection consists of correspondence from Algren to his friends Christine and Neal Rowland.

Dates: 1940-1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1951

Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Graham
Abstract Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. The collection is composed of a State Department-created scrapbook with an assortment of photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps and relevant...
Dates: 1940-1946

Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Signer
Abstract

Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for an unfinished biography on Ben Hecht during the 1980s. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer.

Dates: 1970s-2006; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1996

Robert J. Casey papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and personal materials of writer Robert J. Casey, who served in World War I and covered World War II for the Chicago Daily News. Casey was also a humor columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer who traveled all over the world and wrote of his adventures in newspapers and in books.

Dates: 1894-1964

Ruth Nelson Redstrom Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Redstrom
Abstract

Family histories of the Dahlgren and Redstrom families, correspondence, photographs, Greek menus and travelogues, and newspaper clippings of Ruth Nelson Redstrom's "One Woman's View" column. All materials relating to Ruth Nelson Redstrom, teacher and writer, from 1930 to transcriptions and reproductions from 2011.

Dates: 1930-2011

Storrs & Deville Chabrol Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Storrs
Abstract Letters, World War II-era memorabilia, journals, clippings, manuscripts and photographs pertaining to Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym "Marc Debrol." Also included are letters and materials related to the Deville Chabrol family, including correspondence between family members present during the Franco-Prussian War and the colonization of Algeria. Additionally, collection includes genealogical information about...
Dates: 1850-2002; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945

Virna Harman Walker Johnston papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-JohnstonV
Abstract

Correspondence, programs, report cards, and clippings relating to Chicago dancer and dance instructor Virna Harman Walker Johnston.

Dates: 1903-1959; Majority of material found within 1918-1930

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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American Red Cross 2
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962 2
Caylor, Rose 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
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MacDonald, Hazel Christie 2
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Stowe, Leland, 1899-1994 2
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 2
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
America First Committee 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Field Service 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Mothers 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
American Tract Society 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 1
Borglum, Mary Montgomery, 1874-1955 1
Brennan, Patrick T., Monsignor, 1901-1950 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brewster family 1
Centaur Press 1
Charles H. Kerr Company 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Plan Commission 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Christian family 1
Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1
Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964 1
Cokenhour family 1
Commercial Club of Chicago 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Cook, Mollie Price 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Deville Shabrol family 1
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dresmal, Ann, 1914-2004 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Farson, Negley, 1890-1960 1
Federal Art Project 1
Federated Press 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fredericks, Alexandra, 1897- 1
French family 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
Giganti, Joseph, 1904-1986 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Gilmore, Blanche 1
Goodwin, Philip Lippincott, 1885-1958 1
Graham, Ralph L., 1919-1986 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Gypsy Lore Society 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975 1
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953 1
Hanley family 1
Harman, Lillian 1
Harman, Moses, 1830-1910 1
Harris, Sydney J. 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hartlieb, Harold John 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914 1
Hecht family 1
Helvig family 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
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