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Addie V. Hibbard Gregory travel diaries and family photographs

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hibbard
Abstract

Travel diaries (Europe, Albania) of Addie V. Hibbard Gregory of Chicago, 1875-1931, together with travel photographs of Europe, Estes Park, Colorado, and Santa Barbara, California. Also numerous 19th and early 20th century family photographs (carte de visite, cabinet, Kodak, etc.) of the Hibbard, Gregory, Buckingham, Casselberry, and Durham families of Chicago and St. Paul, and a few stereograph images of Chicago, including Lyon & Healy.

Dates: approximately 1871-1938

Alan Howard papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Howard
Abstract

Clippings, photographs, programs, assorted miscellaneous printed material and memorabilia relating to ballet dancers and dance companies.

Dates: 1924-2002; Majority of material found within 1980-2002

Alfred E. Hamill papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates: 1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953

Alice Gerstenberg Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.

Dates: 1903-1971

Allied Arts records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues...
Dates: 1913-1997

Alma Bunch Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bunch
Abstract

Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950s.

Dates: 1890-1985

Ann Barzel papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Barzel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian Ann Barzel.

Dates: 1912-2005

Anne Siewers Coyne papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Coyne
Abstract Papers (correspondence, photographs, poems, clippings, programs, and other materials) of Anne Siewers Coyne, who began working at 14 at Ralph G. Newman's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. There she met, became friends with, and corresponded with Nelson Algren. In 1957 and 1958 she initiated Loyola University Chicago's David B. Steinman Visiting Poets series, corresponding with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Dame Edith Sitwell. The papers also include materials related to her...
Dates: 1943-1999; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1969

Arthur and Lila Weinberg Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Weinberg
Abstract

Works, Research files, and secondary source materials created and compiled by Arthur and Lila Weinberg for their works on Clarence Darrow and other topics.

Dates: 1950-1988

Arthur Meeker, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Meeker
Abstract

Correspondence, personal materials, works, and photographs of Chicago author Arthur Meeker, Jr.

Dates: approximately 1850-1972; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945

Arts Club records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Ashton Stevens Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract

The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940

Augustine J. Bowe papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bowe
Abstract

Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.

Dates: approximately 1890-1966; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

Bernard J. Brommel-Eugene V. Debs papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brommel-Debs
Abstract

Research material and works of Eugene V. Debs biographer Bernard J. Brommel, including correspondence, notes, photocopies, photographs, pamphlets, newsclippings, and memorabilia. Also letters and personal materials of Grace Laird, a teacher with whom Brommel retained a long time correspondence.

Dates: 1886-2003

Bertha Ott Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ott
Abstract

Business papers of Chicago concert manager Bertha Ott, including box office statements, photographs, correspondence, and programs. Ott was secretary to the impresario F. Wight Neumann for 20 years. After his death in 1924, she continued his work by forming her own company and managing concerts at the Auditorium Theatre, Studebaker Theatre, Civic Opera House, and a variety of other venues.

Dates: 1890s-1961; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1961

Bessie Barnes papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Barnes
Abstract

Photographs, newspaper reviews and miscellaneous personal items relating to Bessie Barnes, producer of nightclub theatrical reviews in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: 1896-1992

Blatchford family papers

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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

Bob Sickinger Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sickinger
Abstract Press reviews and photographs of Hull House Theater productions directed by Bob Sickinger, 1963-1969, together with copies of Sickinger's 1963 essay on the state of theater in Chicago and his press release regarding his involuntary departure from Hull House in 1969. Also a few programs, press releases, advertisements, a fan letter, and a thesis on Hull House children's theater programs. As director of Hull House Theater between 1963 and 1969, Sickinger was instrumental in founding Chicago’s...
Dates: 1934-1985; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1969

Boyce-Gilbert family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract

Reproductions of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.

Dates: 1831-2000

Burt family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract

Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.

Dates: 1890-1951

Bzduch Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bzduch
Abstract Postcards and photographs relating to Slovak woman Maria Kostial Bzduch (1892-1963), who immigrated to Chicago in 1907 and with her husband Samuel (Sanko) Bzduch ran a grocery store in the McKinley Park neighborhood. Postcards are primarily to Maria from Samuel, who was a Sargeant in World War I and was stationed in Rockford, Illinois and Texas. Photographs show women, couples, children, wedding parties, and couples who lived in the neighborhood. Photographic studios from the Pilsen and Back...
Dates: approximately 1900-1945

C. Frederick Kittle collection of Doyleana

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Identifier: VAULT-Modern-MS-Kittle-Doyle
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and artwork of and relating to Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, forming a small part of the C. Frederick Kittle Collection of Doyleana, most of which is individually cataloged. Includes 140 letters, notes and cards written by Arthur Conan Doyle, 12 letters to him, and 57 other letters, some by Doyle family members and others retained by C. Frederick Kittle (mostly regarding his collecting of Doyle materials). Also artwork by Doyle’s father, grandfather and...
Dates: 1836-2000

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

Carpenter family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carpenter Family
Abstract

Genealogical information, correspondence, photographs, and other mementos of the Carpenter family, and other related families including Snow, Isham, and Manierre.

Dates: 1813-1947

Carroll Binder papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Binder
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, personal and family materials, and photographs of newspaper editor and foreign correspondent Carroll Binder.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 10
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Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 6
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 5
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 5
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 5
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 4
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 4
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 4
Chicago Sun-Times 4
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 4
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 4
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 4
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 4
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 4
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 4
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 4
University of Chicago 4
American Ballet Theatre 3
American Indian Center of Chicago 3
Anderson, Margaret C. 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 3
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 3
Charles H. Kerr Company 3
Chicago Opera Ballet 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 3
Gerstenberg, Alice 3
Graham, Martha 3
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 3
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 3
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 3
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 3
Lyric Opera of Chicago 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
New York City Ballet 3
Newberry Library 3
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 3
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 3
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 3
Pullman Company 3
Rosemont, Franklin 3
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 3
Stevens, Ashton 3
Tallchief, Maria 3
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 3
Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987 3
Weidman, Charles 3
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 3
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 2
America First Committee 2
American National Red Cross 2
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Arpino, Gerald 2
Arts Club of Chicago 2
Associated Press 2
Balanchine, George 2
Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil 2
Barzel, Ann 2
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 2
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 2
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 2
Bornarth, Christine 2
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 2
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 2
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 2
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 2
Cabanban, Orlando 2
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 2
Carpenter family 2
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 2
Cassidy, Claudia 2
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Chicago City Ballet 2
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Chicago Historical Society 2
Chicago Moving Company 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2
Cunningham, Merce 2
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 2
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 2
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 2
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 2
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 2
Drury, John, 1898-1972 2
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