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Bessie Barnes papers

 Collection
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

 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

Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown Family
Abstract Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, numerous group and portrait photographs, a scrapbook, travel and souvenir items and snapshots, relating to sisters Grace and Genevieve Brown, musicians who were members of three American all-girl bands between 1923 and 1932. A large part of the collection consists of photographs of the bands and the performers: Harry Waiman and the Debutantes, the Parisian Red Heads and the Ingenues, as well as numerous small travel photographs Also a small...
Dates: 1918-1972; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1932

Doris Humphrey Society records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Humphrey-Society
Abstract

Records of the Doris Humphrey Society, a cultural non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of dance and dance theory. Includes administrative and promotional files for the Society from the 1980s to late 2000s. Collection also includes photographs, audiovisual, biographical, and promotional materials of Doris Humphrey and her dance career, with personal photographs of her childhood and family. Also includes a small number of materials from the MOMENTA dance company.

Dates: 1870-2011; Majority of material found within 1920-1997

Evangelina E. Lewis photographic postcard collection of the Philippine Islands

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-LewisE
Abstract

Collection of photographic postcards collected by Evangelina E. Lewis produced possibly by the photographer Samuel M. Shera. Postcards mostly depict figures, events, architecture, and landscapes in the Philippines.

Dates: approximately 1915-1916

John T. McCutcheon papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

Mendicant ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HV4493 .N49
Abstract

Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.

Dates: approximately 1850-approximately 2020

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
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

Zion City (Ill.) records

 Collection
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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Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American University of Beirut 1
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Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
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Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 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
Borden Company 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 1
Brockton (Mass.). Police Department 1
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1
Brown, McAuliffe, 1889-1963 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
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Carlier, Emile 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Carver, Art 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chambers, John, 1850- 1
Chapellerie du Jockey Club 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clemens, Stephanie 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Club Belladonna (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Club Madrid (Milwaukee, Wisc.) 1
Cole, Chick 1
Commonwealth Rescue League (Upton, Mass.) 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Covert, Geo. L. 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Curt Teich & Co. 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Denishawn School of Dancing 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Doris Humphrey Society 1
Dowie, John Alexander, 1847-1907 1
E.C. Kropp Co. 1
Edwards, V., Cap. 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Filip, František, 1904-1957 1
Fithen, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1882-1940 1
Folk, L. M. 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Freemasons. Medina Lodge, No. 336 (Medina, N.Y.) 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Graff, William W. 1
Guild of the Brave Poor Things 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Harriss, Daniel E. F. P. 1
Harry Waiman and His Debutantes 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Hemmerlé, Emile 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Holler, Jeanette 1
Holmes, Julian (Lyricist) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 1
Ide, Letitia 1
Illinois College 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Clinton Lodge, No. 98 (Lock Haven, Pa.) 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Ingénues (Musical group) 1
January, J. W. 1
Johnston, Clarence A. 1
Kaak, Willy, 1890- 1
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 1
Karchmar, Jacob 1
Kennedy, Willie, 1884- 1
King, Eleanor, 1906-1991 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
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