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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

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

 Collection
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

Morse-Keith Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract

Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872

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Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
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Manuscripts, American 2
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Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
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Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- To 1950 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
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College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
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Visiting cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
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Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
American Mothers 1
American Tract Society 1
American University of Beirut 1
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Associated Press 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Bernard family 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
Brewster family 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Christian family 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Cokenhour family 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Helvig family 1
Hoyal family 1
Hyde family 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Jackson family 1
Kauffman family 1
Keith family 1
Klauder family 1
Knowles family 1
Knowles, Beatrice Michell 1
Knowles, Hannibal 1
Knowles, Julia Adgate 1
Knowles, Loren M. 1
Knowles, Sarah E. Clark 1
Lamson family 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Michel family 1
Morse family 1
Morse, Charles Ansel, 1835-1894 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Oliger family 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902 1
Small family 1
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 1
Stone family 1
Stone, Herbert Stuart, 1871-1915 1
Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929 1
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 1
Weygand family 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
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