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Ann Barzel papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Claudia Cassidy papers

 Collection
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

Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Harry Hansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

James O'Donnell Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bennett
Abstract

Letters written to James O'Donnell Bennett while he was a journalist for the Chicago Record-Herald and the Chicago Tribune, primarily in his capacity as literary critic. Also includes inscribed photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1814-1936 ; Majority of material found within 1900-1936

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
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

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.

Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Morton Dauwen Zabel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zabel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, and photographs of literary critic, editor, scholar, and educator Morton Dauwen Zabel.

Dates: 1861-1964; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

Robert Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1940-1986

Wallace Rice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

William Morton Payne Papers

 Collection
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

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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 6
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Clippings -- 1851-1900 2
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Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Drama -- 20th century 2
Manuscripts, American 2
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Phonograph records -- 1901-1950 2
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Theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism 2
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Artist colonies -- New York (State) 1
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Language
French 2
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Names
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 2
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
Yaddo (Artists' colony) 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1
American Writers' Congress 1
Aragon, 1897-1982 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Asch, Nathan, 1902-1964 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Basso, Hamilton, 1904-1964 1
Bennett, James O'Donnell, 1870-1940 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Best, Marshall, -1982 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 1
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977 1
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Callas, Maria, 1923-1977 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Cassidy, Claudia 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Cheever, John 1
Chicago Journal of Commerce 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Record-Herald 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932 1
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gabriel, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf), 1890-1952 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gest, Morris, 1881-1942 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Green, Abel, 1900-1973 1
Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Gunther, John, 1901-1970 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hearst Corporation 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Holmes, Berenice 1
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
James, Henry, 1843-1916 1
Johnston, Alva 1
Josephson, Matthew, 1899-1978 1
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