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Bernard J. Brommel-Eugene V. Debs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brommel-Debs
Abstract

Research material and works of Eugene V. Debs biographer Bernard J. Brommel, including correspondence, notes, photocopies, photographs, pamphlets, newsclippings, and memorabilia. Also letters and personal materials of Grace Laird, a teacher with whom Brommel retained a long time correspondence.

Dates: 1886-2003

James M. Barker papers

 Collection
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

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Milo Kendall papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall
Abstract

Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.

Dates: 1798-1925; Majority of material found within 1845-1906

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

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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 3
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Clippings -- 1901-1950 2
Clippings -- 1951-2000 2
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 2
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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Speeches 2
Ambassadors -- Belgium 1
Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Audiocassettes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors, American 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Businessmen -- United States 1
Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
Children's writings, American 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cultural critique 1
Debtor and creditor -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Diaries 1
Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Divorce -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Divorce suits -- Illinois 1
Editorials -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Education, Higher -- United States 1
Elections -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Engineers -- United States 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Fan mail 1
Financial executives 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Iran -- Foreign economic relations -- United States 1
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Judges -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Labor laws and legislation -- United States 1
Labor unions -- United States 1
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching 1
Law -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Leases -- Illinois 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal instruments -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Public opinion 1
Microfilms -- 1951-2000 1
Newsletters 1
Norfolk (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pamphlets -- 1851-1900 1
Pamphlets -- 1901-1950 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Practice of law -- Illinois -- Princeton -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Prison reformers -- United States 1
Railroad accidents -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroad law -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Right of way -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation -- History 1
Real estate business -- Illinois 1
Real estate business -- Law and legislation -- Illinois 1
Scrapbooks 1
Secession -- Virginia -- Public opinion 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Socialists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Speeches -- 1851-1900 1
Speeches -- 1901-1950 1
Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
Temperance -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Theater critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
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Names
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 2
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
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American National Red Cross 1
American Railway Union 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
Brommel, Bernard J., 1930- 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Cooper, Marguerite Debs 1
Curry, Mabel Dunlop 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Debs, Theodore, 1864-1945 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Eugene V. Debs Foundation 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Harris, Sydney J. 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Co. 1
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899 1
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Laird, Grace, 1891-1991 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Newcomen Society of the United States 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
O'Hare, Kate Richards, 1877-1948 1
Oneal, James, 1875-1962 1
Overseas Consultants, Inc. 1
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 1
Revere, C T. (Clinton T.), 1874- 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 1
Socialist Party of the United States of America 1
Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933 1
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931 1
Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 1
United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955) 1
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 1
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978 1
World Bank 1
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