Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Marsh Papers
Collection
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
Sherwood Ross papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ross
Abstract
Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.
Dates:
1956-2014
Sydney Justin Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, readers' letters, and personal materials of Chicago columnist Sydney Justin Harris.
Dates:
1933-1987; Majority of material found within 1975-1985
William Douglas Johns papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3123
Abstract
Typescript of an undated manuscript entitled The Early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike Discovery, written by Seattle journalist and gold prospector William Douglas Johns. Also, 49 photographs to accompany Johns’ draft of the book which includes the early history of Alaska, the development of the gold rush, life in the mining camps and in Dawson City, and Johns’ own explorations and hardships while traveling in the region starting in 1895.
Dates:
1895-approximately 1941