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Descriptive Summary of the Collection

Administrative Information

Biography of Mrs. John Beckwith

Scope and Content of the Collection

Selected Search Terms

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Inventory of the Mrs. John Beckwith Calling Cards, ca. 1890-1910 The Newberry Library Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324 USA Phone: 312-255-3506 Fax: 312-255-3646 E-Mail: specialcolls@newberry.org URL: http://www.newberry.org Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Polly Smith, 2009. ©2009.

Administrative Information

Cite As

Mrs. John Beckwith Calling Cards, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

Gift, Dr. Paul McFarlane, 1987.

Processed by

Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.

Access

The Mrs. John Beckwith Calling Cards are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Mrs. John Beckwith Calling Cards are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

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Biography of Mrs. John Beckwith

Chicago socialite.

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Scope and Content of the Collection

Ten cards and an envelope presented to Mrs. John Beckwith by the following Chicago families: Armour, Field, Grant, Lodge, McClurg, McCormick, Palmer and Scudder, ca. 1890-1910.

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Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

• Beckwith, John, Mrs.

Subjects

• Visiting cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900
• Visiting cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950

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