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Finley Peter Dunne Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dunne
Abstract

Chicago-based writer Finley Peter Dunne’s correspondence, essays, and memoirs. Collection also includes a photograph of Dunne, an etched stamp, and an adaptation of Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley” series for the stage, by his son, Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer Philip Dunne.

Dates: 1925-1992

Frank R. Grover papers

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Grover
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten, by amateur historian Frank Grover to and from members of Antoine Ouilmette’s family inquiring into the ethnicity of Ouilmette. Also includes two copies, one with annotations, of Grover's Some Indian Land Marks of the North Shore.

Dates: 1905-1908

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract

Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.

Dates: 1941-1967

F.W. Clark papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.

Dates: 1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916

Hamilton Forrest papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Forrest
Abstract

Correspondence, music and lyrics (including scripts with stage directions), newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs pertaining to Hamilton Forrest, a 20th-century composer known for his arrangements of American folksongs, most notably “He’s Got the Whole Word in His Hands.”

Dates: 1940-1951

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

Harry Hansen papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

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 J. Aten Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aten
Abstract

Letters from Nicholas Harris to Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, clippings, notes pertaining to the Aten family genealogy, and a photocopy of the family history initiated by Aten and continued by other relatives.

Dates: 1896-approximately 1920

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

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

Isham Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Isham
Abstract

Transcribed letters between Dr. Ralph N. Isham, his father Nelson Isham, brother Charles Isham, and son George S. Isham mostly pertaining to the home and estate of Nelson Isham. Also photographs of Ralph N. Isham and other Isham family members, and a few mementos.

Dates: 1875-1923

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 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 M. Barker papers

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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

James O'Donnell Bennett papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bennett
Abstract

Letters written to James O'Donnell Bennett while he was a journalist for the Chicago Record-Herald and the Chicago Tribune, primarily in his capacity as literary critic. Also includes inscribed photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1814-1936 ; Majority of material found within 1900-1936

Jenny Dufau papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dufau
Abstract

Love letters written during World War I from an Italian in Florence, Italy, to French opera singer Jenny Dufau living in Chicago. Also, brief correspondence concerning Dufau’s passport, a note from a New York opera company, and three photographs of musicians.

Dates: 1913-1917

John Alden Carpenter Letters to Remsen Bird

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-164
Abstract

Six letters to friend Remsen Bird and his wife mostly regarding Carpenter’s “Carmel Concerto”. Also, a review of the concerto from the Monterey Peninsula Herald, Nov. 21, 1949.

Dates: 1947-1950

John Doctoroff papers

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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

John Lardner Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-LardnerJ
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner.

Dates: approximately 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960

Kay Ashton-Stevens papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-StevensK
Abstract

Correspondence, personal and career related materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago actress, television and radio personality, and wife of critic Ashton Stevens, Kay Ashton-Stevens.

Dates: 1905-1978

Keith Preston papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Preston
Abstract

Small collection of correspondence and works from Chicago poet, columnist, and literary critic, Keith Preston.

Dates: 1915-1942

Lambert Tree papers

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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

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract

Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1932-2004

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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 4
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 4
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 4
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 4
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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 4
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 3
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 3
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 3
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 2
America First Committee 2
Art Institute of Chicago 2
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 2
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 2
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 2
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 2
Chicago Historical Society 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Dufau, Jenny 2
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 2
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
Green, Abel, 1900-1973 2
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 2
Hearst Corporation 2
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 2
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 2
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Markey, Gene, 1895-1980 2
McCormick Theological Seminary 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 2
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 2
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 2
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 2
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Shaw family 2
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 2
Stevens, Ashton 2
Stevens, Georgie Cooper, 1904-1975 2
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 2
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 2
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
A.W. Wall Ltd. 1
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
Adolphus Hotel (Dallas, Tex.) 1
Albers, Charles H. 1
Alford family 1
All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
Ambassador East Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Field Service 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
American Medical Association 1
American National Red Cross 1
American Railway Union 1
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American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
Andover Theological Seminary 1
Anshe Emet Synagogue (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Arden Farms, Inc. 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Asheville School (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Aten family 1
Aten, Henry J., 1841-1913 1
Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
Baird, Warner G. 1
Baker family 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
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