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Adeline Lobdell Atwater papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Atwater
Abstract

Literary works of Adeline L. Atwater Pynchon, author, art dealer and collector. Also, a 1941 brochure for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and a photograph of Atwater’s parents.

Dates: approximately 1932-1956

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates: 1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932

Reynolds-McBride family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Reynolds-McBride
Abstract

Correspondence of the Reynolds family who emigrated from Ireland to Manchester, England in 1849, and their descendants who settled in the Chicago area. Collection contains significant material of one of these descendants, Anita McBride, who was an aspiring writer. Her materials include drafts of short stories, papers pertaining to an unpublished "as-told-to" memoir of retired police detective Ed Carmody called "Chicago Cop," and diaries spanning 1972 to 1999.

Dates: 1866-2000

Selma Walden papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-WaldenS
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, photographs, and mementos of a Chicago working woman and poet, Selma Walden. Also writings by family members, including extensive biographical writings by and about those family members.

Dates: 1890-1979; Majority of material found within 1928-1951

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Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
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Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
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Genealogical correspondence -- Connecticut 1
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Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- History -- Sources 1
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Manchester (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
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Women -- Diaries 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Women in the book industries and trade 1
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World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
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Names
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
American Committee for Devastated France 1
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Atwater, Adeline 1
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Authors' League of America 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chapin family 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974 1
Colton family 1
Cornell family 1
Dreier, Thomas, 1884-1976 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Eddy family 1
Elwell family 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gifford family 1
Glerum family 1
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
Hard, William, 1878-1962 1
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1
Holder family 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Iroquois Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Jewett, Rutger B. 1
Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Leonard family 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lincoln family 1
Lobdell family 1
Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 1
McBride family 1
McBride, Anita, 1920-2000 1
Meredyth, Bess 1
Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936 1
National Woman’s Party 1
North Shore Country Day School (Winnetka, Ill.) 1
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 1
Pynchon family 1
Reynolds family 1
Reynolds, Mary 1
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944 1
Reynolds, William, 1847-1934 1
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 1
Rubinstein, Helena, 1870-1965 1
Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960 1
Sheldon family 1
Sheridan family 1
Sheridan, Jack, 1905-1967 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, Franklin Fayette, 1817-1890 1
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 1
Steel Wings Company 1
Taliaferro, Mabel, 1889-1979 1
Walden family 1
Walden, Selma, 1884-1951 1
Webster Electric Company 1
Webster family 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1906- 1
Webster, Mary Ward Orth 1
Webster, Stokely 1
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 1
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