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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

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

Bernard J. Brommel-Eugene V. Debs papers

 Collection
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

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

Claudia Cassidy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cassidy
Abstract

Articles and reviews, correspondence, broadcast scripts, photographs, and clippings of the Chicago Tribune performing arts critic from 1942 to 1965. Cassidy wrote her influential "On the Aisle" column for the Tribune, then wrote freelance criticism and hosted a weekly program of arts criticism for WFMT, helping to shape the course of music, theater, and dance in Chicago.

Dates: 1880s-1996; Majority of material found within 1930-1985

Edward Price Bell papers

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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

Fanny Butcher papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Felix Borowski Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Hope Abelson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

John Drury-Marion Neville Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.

Dates: 1860-1970

Lloyd Lewis papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Melville E. Stone papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Mike Nussbaum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Nussbaum
Abstract

Playscripts, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous personal and production materials of Chicago actor and director known for his work with playwright David Mamet and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Dates: 1945-2017; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2015

Olivia Monona papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monona
Abstract

Performance photographs, snapshots, newspaper clippings, and opera ephemera relating to the career of Olivia Monona Goldenberger, known professionally as Olivia Monona, from 1899 to 1943. Photographs illustrate the world of Chicago opera and musicals during the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, with photographs of performances in Chicago, Highland Park, IL, and at the Ravinia Festival. Collection also contains portraits, passport, and news clippings about opera maestro Attico Bernabini.

Dates: 1899-1943

Orville E. Babcock Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Babcock
Abstract Orville E. Babcock was American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. Collection is primarily correspondence relating to Babcock’s military career, service as private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency, role in the Whiskey Ring trials of 1875-1876, and private life. Collection also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, military service records and miscellaneous...
Dates: 1849-1947; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1898

Paul Randall Wright papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wright
Abstract

Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.

Dates: 1899-1965

Paul Scott Mowrer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
Abstract Correspondence, works, photographs and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, author, newspaper editor, and poet. Mowrer was Paris correspondent for the Chicago Daily News beginning in 1910, headed the foreign news service until 1934, and editor of the paper from 1935-1944. He was foreign editor of the New York Post from 1944-1947. An accomplished poet, Mowrer published...
Dates: 1894-2007; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1971

Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Graham
Abstract Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. The collection is composed of a State Department-created scrapbook with an assortment of photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps and relevant...
Dates: 1940-1946

William Morton Payne Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract

Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.

Dates: approximately 1850-1920

Zion City (Ill.) records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zion
Abstract

Mainly newspaper clipping scrapbooks, but also correspondence, and miscellaneous material relating to John Alexander Dowie and the founding of the Christian Catholic Church and Zion City, Illinois.

Dates: 1888-1974; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1907

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Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 3
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Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 2
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
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Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
America First Committee 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Mothers 1
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American Tract Society 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Associated Press 1
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 1
Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Bernabini, Attico, 1884-1934 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brewster family 1
Brommel, Bernard J., 1930- 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Callas, Maria, 1923-1977 1
Campbell family 1
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 1
Chicago Grand Opera Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Journal of Commerce 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion 1
Christian family 1
Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Clark, Herma, 1871-1959 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Cokenhour family 1
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cooper, Marguerite Debs 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Curry, Mabel Dunlop 1
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
Debs, Theodore, 1864-1945 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dowie, John Alexander, 1847-1907 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Eugene V. Debs Foundation 1
Fabens, Joseph Warren, 1821-1875 1
Federated Press 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Henry, 1902-1986 1
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