Research notes
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Balk papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Balk
Abstract
Papers of Iowa-born and Northwestern-educated journalist Alfred Balk, documenting his career, first as a Chicago newswriter for WBBM, reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and freelance contributor to major national magazines, and later as an editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, World Press Review, Saturday Review, and IEEE Spectrum, and faculty member at Columbia and Syracuse. Includes correspondence, working files for his freelance articles, his books and other writings, together with files...
Dates:
1941-2010; Majority of material found within 1953-1993
Alfred F. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Young
Abstract
Research working files, correspondence, and writings of Alfred F. Young, prominent historian of the ordinary people of the American Revolution and mentor to a whole generation of younger scholars. Young taught for over 25 years at Northern Illinois University and after his retirement was a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library.
Dates:
1930-2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Donald Aucutt architecture research collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aucutt
Abstract
Research files, photographs, and secondary materials related to work done by Prairie School and Chicago School architects in the Midwest compiled by architectural historian Donald Aucutt.
Dates:
approximately 1999-2015
Franklin Rosemont - T-Bone Slim research collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Slim
Abstract
Original manuscript writings by noted IWW member T-Bone Slim with research notes, book drafts, and correspondence from Franklin Rosemont used to produce his book, “Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim” (Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1992).
Dates:
approximately 1923-1993; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1993
Peter Nabokov Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Nabokov
Abstract
Research papers of author and American Indian Studies professor Peter Nabokov relating to his books, Indian Running: Native American History and Tradition and Native American Testimony anthologies.
Dates:
1937-1984; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1984
Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers
Collection
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
Scribner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Scribner
Abstract
Approximately 300 pages of genealogical research notes from the early 1900s pertaining to the Scribner, Freeman, and Heckle families, extending back to the 17th century. Materials possibly collected by American penman William Marshall Scribner. Also includes twenty-seven photographs mostly of Scribner family members and their homesteads in Maine and New Hampshire from 1864-1900.
Dates:
1807-1947; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1900