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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
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

Edward Price Bell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.

Dates: 1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900-1942

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

Mitchell Dawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Robert J. Casey papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and personal materials of writer Robert J. Casey, who served in World War I and covered World War II for the Chicago Daily News. Casey was also a humor columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer who traveled all over the world and wrote of his adventures in newspapers and in books.

Dates: 1894-1964

Winterbotham-French family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-French
Abstract Correspondence, personal materials, diaries, financial and estate documents, genealogical research, and photographs of the Winterbotham and French families who were united by the marriage of John R. Winterbotham III and Chloe T. French. Papers include correspondence pertaining to Chloe Tyler French's work at Mathieson Alkali Works, courtship letters between Seth B. French and Mary Tyler Duffy, and letters and photographs of Hilah French, an aunt of Chloe Tyler French, who served at a Red...
Dates: 1850-2005; Majority of material found within 1900-1950

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Diaries -- 1851-1900 3
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
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Europe -- Description and travel 2
Foreign news -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photograph albums 2
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Airplanes, Military -- Armament -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting 1
Artillerymen -- United States 1
Authors, American 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Automobile travel -- Europe 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Capitalists and financiers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Collective settlements -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Commercial art -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Correspondence 1
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Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- New York (N.Y.) 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Easter Island -- Description and travel 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
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Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Imposters and imposture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
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Novelists, American 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Pass Christian (Miss.) 1
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Philanthropists 1
Philippines -- Description and travel 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Photographs -- Colombia 1
Photographs -- Colorado 1
Photographs -- Ecuador 1
Photographs -- Grand Canyon 1
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A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
America First Committee 1
American Red Cross 1
American University of Beirut 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
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Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 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
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 1
Borglum, Mary Montgomery, 1874-1955 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
French family 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
J. H. Winterbotham & Sons 1
Katō, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lloyd, William Bross, Jr., 1908-1995 1
London Naval Conference (1930 : London, England) 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
MacDonald, Hazel Christie 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
Manierre, Edward 1
Marx, Wilhelm, 1863-1946 1
Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. 1
McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865-1922 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 1
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 1
Poincaré, Raymond, 1860-1934 1
Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944 1
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Shidehara, Kijūrō, 1872-1951 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
St. Mary's College (Saint Marys, Kan.) 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Tang, Shaoyi, 1860-1938 1
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Williams family 1
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 1
Winterbotham family 1
Winterbotham, Chloe T., 1922-2012 1
Winterbotham, J. H. 1
Winterbotham, John R., 1919-1995 1
Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
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