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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

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

 Collection
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

Harris-MacLean family papers

 Collection
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

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

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cairo (Egypt) - Description and travel 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Clergy -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
Commercial art -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Congregationalists -- United States 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Correspondence -- New York (State) 1
Courtship -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- 1852-1925 1
Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Dwellings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Education -- History -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Faith -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Kindergarten -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Kindergarten -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten teachers 1
Kindergarten teachers -- Training of 1
Kobe, Japan 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Landlords -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Love-letters -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle East -- Description and travel 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- Correspondence 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Mortgages -- United States -- History 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Pets -- 1900-1920 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Plats (maps) -- Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1885-1924 1
Real estate business -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Religion 1
Rome (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
School field trips -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century 1
School principals -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Names
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
American Medical Association 1
Amherst College 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Bent family 1
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Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bernard family 1
Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Dabney, Samuel W. 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Eleanor Association 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
First Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Froebel Society 1
Gales family 1
Glory Kindergarten and Training School 1
Goodwin family 1
Goodwin, Edward Payson, 1832-1901 1
Goodwin, Paul 1
Goodwin, Solomon, 1797-1857 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
Howe family 1
Howe, Annie Lyon, 1852-1943 1
Howe, Charles Oliver, 1822- 1
Howe, Edward Gardiner, 1849-1931 1
International Medical Congress 1
Kindergarten Union of Japan 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
MacLean, Annie Marion 1
MacLean, M. H. (Murdoch Haddon), 1872-1954 1
MacLean, Pearl Emma Harris 1
McLean family 1
Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Princeton University 1
Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley), 1824-1895 1
Union Central Life Insurance Company 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1866). Company K 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
Yale University 1
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