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Christopher Gardner Pearce papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Pearce
Abstract Correspondence between Christopher Gardner Pearce, who was a Mississippi steamboat captain, and his wife Jane Ann (Sackett), beginning during their courtship in 1839 and continuing until 1851, the year in which Jane Ann died. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including Pearce's life on the river, Jane Ann’s domestic life in Cincinnati, business, religion, politics, and family news and gossip. Also included is Pearce’s obituary from 1882, and a 1943 newspaper clipping that reprints a...
Dates: 1839-1943; Majority of material found within 1839 - 1851

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

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

Rodgers Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 3
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Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Baptists -- Kentucky -- Paducah 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Cincinnati (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Diseases -- Ohio -- Cincinnati 1
Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Maine 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Ohio 1
Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Floods -- Mississippi River 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Logbooks 1
Louisville (Ky.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Love-letters 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mississippi River 1
Mormons -- Illinois -- Nauvoo 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Ohio River 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Paducah (Ky.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Revivals -- Kentucky -- Paducah 1
River boats -- Mississippi River -- History 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
Ship captains -- United States 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River 1
Temperance and religion 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Upper class families -- Family relationships 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Voyages and travels 1
Warren County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whaling -- New England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whitman Massacre, 1847 1
Women college teachers 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
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Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bowdoin College 1
Davidson family 1