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Byrne-MacKenzie family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Byrne-MacKenzie
Abstract Correspondence and documents of the extended family of working-class Irish immigrant Daniel J. Byrne and his Scottish-born wife, Mary MacKenzie. Most correspondence is related to two of their daughters, Mary MacKenzie “Mamie” Byrne and Catherine MacKenzie Byrne Austin. The parents lived mainly in the Washington, D.C. area, but Mary the mother also wrote from Chicago while living with her daughter Mamie and from Scotland and England while visiting relatives. Mamie was a singer in Washington,...
Dates: 1870-1931

Caroline M. McIlvaine papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-139
Abstract

Papers of Chicago historian and librarian at the Chicago Historical Society and an early member of the Newberry Library staff. Included are letters, some of which are to or from editors of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Tribune regarding historical features of the papers. Also, many examples of McIlvaine’s drafts and writings on Chicago history, especially of buildings, streets and landmarks, a few pieces of memorabilia, and seven snapshots of 1920s Chicago.

Dates: 1927-1937

Charles Andrews Heath Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Heath
Abstract Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes Charles Andrews Heath's diaries, 1880-1949, with typed excerpts, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Parliament of Religions, the Galveston flood, several wars, and many Chicago related events. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, photographs of Heath and his family, including the European...
Dates: 1880-1999

Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park Photographs

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-176
Abstract

Sixteen professional photographs of the area of Chicago known as the Stockyards Industrial Park which was developed after the closing of the Union Stock Yards in 1971. The Industrial Park is home to various small factories, none of which are involved in meatpacking. Few of the original structures remain, excepting the great limestone arch erected in 1879 to mark the stockyard entrance.

Dates: approximately 1975

City News Bureau records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-City News Bureau
Abstract

Reporters' copy and supporting subject materials of the City News Bureau of Chicago news agency, filed from four beat locations: Federal Court, Cook County Civil Court, Cook County Criminal Court, and Chicago City Hall.

Dates: 1944-2005; Majority of material found within 1990-2000

Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract

Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.

Dates: 1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935

F.W. Clark papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.

Dates: 1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916

Welling Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Welling
Abstract

Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Harriet Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; John P. Welling material includes military records from his service in World War I.

Dates: 1899-1988

William H. Peterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the...
Dates: 1891-2012

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Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990 1
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Byrne, Alexander MacKenzie, 1884-1931 1
Byrne, Daniel Jameson, 1839-1923 1
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Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961 1
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H. O. Stone & Co. 1
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Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928 1
Heath, Charles A. (Charles Andrews) 1
Hill, Joe, 1879-1915 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
Industrial Workers of the World. General Defense Committee 1
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Junior League of Chicago 1
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Marcy, Mary, 1877-1922 1
McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, 1872-1932 1
McIlvaine, Caroline Margaret 1
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Peterson, William H. (William Hartin), 1921-2008 1
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1
Pullman Company 1
Rosemont, Franklin 1
Rosemont, Penelope 1
Schlesinger & Mayer 1
Smithsonian Institution 1
St. John, Vincent, 1876-1929 1
Stock Yard Inn (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987 1
Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago 1
Voevodsky, George 1
Welling, Harriet Walker, 1892-1989 1
Welling, John Calvin, 1840-1906 1
Welling, John Paul, 1880-1957 1
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