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Goodman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Goodwin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodwin
Abstract

Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).

Dates: 1802-1913

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Graham Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Taylor
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and family papers of minister, social worker, professor, and founder of Chicago Commons settlement house, Graham Taylor.

Dates: 1820-1975; Majority of material found within 1866-1940

Hambleton Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-022
Abstract

Three letters by Emma Lander Hambleton, wife of Chalkley Jay Hambleton. Also one letter by Vera S. Wolfe, daughter of conductor Frederick Stock to Peggy Hambleton Murphy.

Dates: 1871-1932

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Harvey family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harvey
Abstract

Collection of letters, photographs, diaries, writings, business records, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago native and longtime Rand McNally employee Bennet B. Harvey, his wife Dorothy Wegener Harvey, their son Bennet B. Harvey, Jr., and their ancestors, many of whom were early Chicago settlers and involved in the development of the city. Families represented include Botsford, Chapin, Fisk, Gehrke, Harvey, and Wegener.

Dates: 1800-2007; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1984

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Henry Justin Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

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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

Herman Kogan papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kogan
Abstract

Works, professional correspondence, and photographs of Chicago journalist and corporate historian Herman Kogan.

Dates: approximately 1869-1985; Majority of material found within 1970-1985

Hermann Raster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

Howe-Barnard family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Howe-Barnard
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, personal and professional materials, and photographs of the Howe and Barnard families, early Chicago settlers. Included are the materials of Annie L. Howe, a missionary, teacher, and founder of Glory Kindergarten and Training School in Japan, her brother, Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who originated the practice of field trips in science classes, and Alice Lucretia Barnard, one of the first woman principals in the Chicago schools. Also contains Civil War letters...
Dates: 1826-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Irene Alexander papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Alexander
Abstract

Irene Alexander’s subject files and records from her role as Special Supervisor for the Committee on Cultural and Economic Development of the City Council under Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Dates: 1937-1986; Majority of material found within 1965-1982

Irwin Fischer Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fischer
Abstract

Irwin Fischer (1903-1977), composer, professor, conductor, and musician. Enjoyed a long career teaching at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Also worked as an organist for the Chicago Symphonic Orchestra and various churches, a conductor for the National Youth Symphony, South Side Symphony, and West Suburban Symphony. Known primarily for scores such as the Hungarian Set (Pearly Bouquet) and Symphony I.

Dates: 1903-1992; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1977

Jack Conroy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

Jack Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-FullerJ
Abstract

The literary and journalistic works, correspondence, and personal materials of Chicago journalist and novelist Jack Fuller.

Dates: 1850-2016; Majority of material found within 1951-2009

Jack Mabley papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mabley
Abstract Correspondence with colleagues, congratulatory letters, inter-office memos; works including newspaper clippings, subject files dealing with important stories including the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Richard Cain case, racketeering, police corruption, and vice in Chicago, miscellaneous articles and columns; biographical clippings, publicity, and interviews, and photographs of Mabley himself and with public figures such as Hugh Hefner and Richard Nixon. Mabley was a reporter and columnist...
Dates: 1937-2003

James D. and Joseph W. Harris papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-HarrisJ
Abstract

Correspondence from James Duncan Harris and brother Joseph Whipple Harris of Massachusetts and New Hampshire to members of their family, mostly written while they were in military service in the 1860's. Also, a few letters James wrote from Chicago in the 1850's; letters concerning Joseph Harris's death in 1861 while serving in the United States Navy; a few historic family letters and a genealogical pamphlet.

Dates: 1824-1862

James Shores Griffith papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffith
Abstract Materials from four binders about Griffith and his family. Two binders containing records of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Local No. 147, 1882-1971, including records of wages of Mr. Griffith's grandfather, Griffith's own 1909 apprentice contract, records of union dues payments, notices of periodic wage and by-law changes, union assessments, elections, and other union activities. Also contains fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversary souvenir booklets,...
Dates: 1882-1971; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1969

James T. Farrell Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-156
Abstract

Seven manuscript items written by author James T. Farrell. Includes two letters to Robert Hardy Andrews, editor of a Chicago literary magazine Midweek; one letter to “Louis”; and four one-page pieces of commentary on his short stories. Also, a large signed photograph of Farrell speaking at the “Mobilization of the International Peace and Freedom Day” in Paris, 1949.

Dates: 1949-1967

Jan Erkert and Dancers Records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Erkert
Abstract

Jan Erkert founded jansdances in 1979 as a vehicle for her own works. The company evolved to Jan Erkert & Dancers and explored collaboration with other types of artists and dance presentations. The records include awards, clippings, newsletters, photographs, publicity materials, and videocassettes.

Dates: 1974-2000

John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blew
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, interviews, writings, and other materials related to the lives and careers of Wright and Zoe Howes, their families, and Wright Howes' bibliographical work U.S.IANA. Materials were compiled by John Blew, a Chicago lawyer and book collector who became interested in the life of Wright Howes through his use of Howes' U.S.IANA.

Dates: 1790s-2012; Majority of material found within 1870-1999

John Doctoroff papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Doctoroff
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, exhibition programs, and prints relating to Chicago-based portrait artist John Doctoroff.

Dates: 1924-1967

John Drury-Marion Neville Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.

Dates: 1860-1970

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 10
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 8
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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 10
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 8
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 7
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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 6
Charles H. Kerr Company 5
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 5
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 5
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 5
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
Art Institute of Chicago 4
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 4
Chicago Reader (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 4
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 4
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Newberry Library 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
American Indian Center of Chicago 3
Anderson, Margaret C. 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 3
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 3
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 3
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 3
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 3
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 3
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 3
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 3
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 3
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 3
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Pullman Company 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 3
Rosemont, Franklin 3
Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942 3
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 3
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 3
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 3
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958 3
A.C. McClurg & Co. 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 2
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 2
American Library Association 2
Bernard family 2
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 2
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 2
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 2
Bobbs-Merrill Company 2
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Bornarth, Christine 2
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 2
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 2
Boston Athenaeum 2
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933 2
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 2
Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990 2
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 2
Cabanban, Orlando 2
Caylor, Rose 2
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 2
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 2
Chicago Historical Society 2
Chicago Literary Club 2
Chicago Public Library 2
Chicago Sun-Times 2
Cincinnati Public Library 2
City News Bureau of Chicago 2
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 2
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 2
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 2
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 2
Fischer, Irwin, 1903-1977 2
Fischer, Marion H. 2
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
Frederking, William 2
Gerstenberg, Alice 2
Gongora, Anthony 2
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 2
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 2
Harris family 2
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 2
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 2
Harrison, Edith Ogden 2
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 2
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