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Blatchford family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

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

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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
American University of Beirut 1
Barker family 1
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Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newcomen Society of the United States 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Overseas Consultants, Inc. 1
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 1
Revere, C T. (Clinton T.), 1874- 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955) 1
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
World Bank 1
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