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Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

Mary Sackett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-038
Abstract

A journal kept by Mary Sackett when she and her family emigrated from New York state to Laona, Winnebago County, Illinois, 1841-1842, three numbers of a manuscript pioneer newspaper with original work done by members of an Illinois reading circle in 1849, a recipe for taffy, some penmanship exercises and two colored drawings. Also, photocopies of genealogical material relating to the Sackett family collected in 1945.

Dates: 1841-1945; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1849

May Walden papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Walden-M
Abstract

Collection of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, as well as publications relating to the Socialist movement. Included in the papers are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.

Dates: 1869-1972; Majority of material found within 1892-1959

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Prescott family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Prescott
Abstract

Collection of family papers, genealogical material, books, and some correspondence about the Baumann Family side of the Prescott, Lyons, Carrington, and René families. Also includes photographs of various family branches, including Lyons, Carrington, Prescott, and Ferguson.

Dates: 1900s-2010s

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
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

Steele-Winters Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

Thomas Butler Carter Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-127
Abstract

Letters dating 1831 to 1898 from Thomas Butler Carter to his cousin Aaron Carter in New Jersey, which give descriptions of Carter’s personal and business life in Chicago, plus a few other letters. Also includes a typescript of Carter’s autobiographical sketch of his life in Chicago (1889), six studio photographic portraits, and several miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1831-1898

Wacker family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract

Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.

Dates: 1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970

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

Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans...
Dates: 1909-1991

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 21
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 13
Photographs -- 1901-1950 13
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Manuscripts, American 8
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Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 6
Photographs -- 1951-2000 6
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Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 5
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 4
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 4
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 3
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Illinois -- Genealogy 3
Love-letters 3
Upper class families -- Family relationships 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Account books -- Illinois -- 1801-1850 2
African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 2
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
Correspondence 2
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 2
Diaries -- 1901-1950 2
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 2
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 2
Europe -- Description and travel 2
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
Germans -- Illinois 2
Immigrants -- Illinois 2
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 2
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 2
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Moultrie County (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 2
Moving images 2
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Photograph albums 2
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs 2
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 2
Scrapbooks 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Sullivan (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 2
Women -- Diaries 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
African American business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
African American nursing students 1
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Pictorial works 1
Amateur journalism -- Illinois -- Laona (Township) 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Apple growers -- Illinois -- Lake County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Apples -- Varieties -- Illinois -- Lake County 1
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography 1
Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography 1
Autobiographies (literary works) -- United States 1
Autobiography -- Women authors 1
Autochromes (photographs) 1
Autograph albums 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Automobile travel -- Europe 1
Balloon framing 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Business records -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cairo (Egypt) - Description and travel 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Camp Douglas (Ill.) 1
Canada -- Description and travel 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Canal-boats -- New York (State) 1
Capitalists and financiers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
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Eden-Martin family 2
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American Red Cross 1
Amherst College 1
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Arts Club of Chicago 1
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Atwater, Adeline 1
Badger family 1
Badger, Alpheus C. 1
Badger, Alpheus Shreve 1
Badger, Elvira Cecelia Sheridan, 1832-1911 1
Baker family 1
Bates family 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bond family 1
Botsford family 1
Brennan, Patrick T., Monsignor, 1901-1950 1
Brown, Theodora Winterbotham 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Bunch family 1
Bunch, Alma, 1891-1986 1
Bunch, Richard 1
Bzduch, Maria Kostial, 1892-1963 1
Bzduch, Samuel, 1887-1939 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Benjamin, 1809-1881 1
Carpenter, George A., 1867-1944 1
Carpenter, Harriet Isham, 1869-1948 1
Carter, Thomas Butler, 1817- 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Charles H. Kerr Company 1
Chicago Plan Commission 1
Chicago Relief and Aid Society 1
Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clark, Robert R., 1834-1907 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Commercial Club of Chicago 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Dartmouth College 1
Davidson family 1
Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970 1
Dean family 1
Dean, Lucretia Mason 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Dresmal, Ann, 1914-2004 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Eden family 1
Eden, John R. (John Rice), 1826-1909 1
Eleanor Association 1
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975 1
Elston, Daniel, 1790-1855 1
Endicott family 1
Endicott, Louis E., 1869-1939 1
Federal Art Project 1
First Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fisk family 1
French family 1
Gales family 1
Georgetown Visitation Academy (Washington, D.C) 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Goodman family 1
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 1
Goodwin family 1
Goodwin, Edward Payson, 1832-1901 1
Goodwin, Paul 1
Goodwin, Solomon, 1797-1857 1
Gore family 1
Graff, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman, 1914-2009 1
Griffin Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Griffin family 1
Griffin, Ernest A., 1912-1995 1
Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 1
Hampton, Silas Wade 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
Harris, Sydney J. 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Harvey family 1
Harvey, Bennet B. (Bennet Botsford), 1903-1998 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Hayes, Max S., 1866-1945 1
Heflin family 1
Heflin, Alexander Andrew 1
Heflin, Jessie Beathard 1
Heyerdahl, Thor 1
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