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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

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

 Collection
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

 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

Field Enterprises records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Field Enterprises
Abstract

Administrative, promotional, and legal materials, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts of Field Enterprises, the umbrella conglomerate under which the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun and Times company, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Field Communications Corporation eventually fell.

Dates: 1858-2007; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1975

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 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

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

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

Raven Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raven
Abstract

Records related to Chicago’s Raven Theatre’s administration, development, history, and productions. Materials include box office reports, building plans, and correspondence, as well as budgets, flyers, photographs, reviews, press releases, programs, annotated scripts, and set designs for Raven Theatre’s main stage and “shorties”/one act productions.

Dates: approximately 1940-2015; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2013

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 12
Photographs -- 1901-1950 12
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 7
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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Playbills -- 1951-2000 3
Playbills -- 2001-2050 3
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 3
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Theater -- Production and direction 3
Theater programs -- 1951-2000 3
Theater programs -- 2001-2050 3
Video recordings -- 2001-2050 3
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 2
Authors, American 2
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Clippings -- 1851-1900 2
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 2
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. 2
Reporters and reporting 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Scripts (documents) -- 1951-2000 2
Scripts (documents) -- 2001-2050 2
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 2
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century 2
Theater architecture 2
Video recordings -- 1951-2000 2
Women journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Actors 1
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
Advertising, Newspaper 1
Advice columns 1
Alcoholics 1
Amateur arts 1
Architecture -- Middle West 1
Architecture, Domestic 1
Audiotapes -- 1901-1950 1
Ballet -- History 1
Book reviewing 1
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Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
Caricatures -- 1951-2000 1
Chesterton (Ind.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Composition (Music) 1
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Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Doodles -- 1901-1950 1
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Drama -- 20th century 1
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Ethnic neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Families 1
Families -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Indiana 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Food writing 1
Foreign correspondents 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Freedom of the press 1
Genealogical correspondence 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Glass negatives -- 1901-1950 1
Historians -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Historic buildings -- Middle West 1
Historical biographies 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Journalism -- Style manuals 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Labor laws and legislation -- United States 1
Labor unions -- United States 1
Lantern slides -- 1901-1950 1
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Names
Cassidy, Claudia 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Drury, John, 1898-1972 2
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Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Akers, Milburn P. 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Mothers 1
American Railway Union 1
American Tract Society 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Associated Press 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Beech, Keyes 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brewster family 1
Brommel, Bernard J., 1930- 1
Burck, Jacob 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Callas, Maria, 1923-1977 1
Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 1
Chicago Journal of Commerce 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Chicago sun-times. School Services Division 1
Christian family 1
Clark, Herma, 1871-1959 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Cokenhour family 1
Cooper, Marguerite Debs 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Curry, Mabel Dunlop 1
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Debs, Theodore, 1864-1945 1
Dedmon, Emmett 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Eugene V. Debs Foundation 1
Fanning, Lawrence S. 1
Federated Press 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field Communications Corporation 1
Field Enterprises 1
Field Enterprises Educational Corporation 1
Field, Henry, 1902-1986 1
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 1
Field, Marshall, 1916-1965 1
Field, Marshall, V 1
Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975 1
Fresh Air Fund 1
Gaines, Barbara 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
German American Bund 1
Geyer, Georgie Anne, 1935-2019 1
Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Helvig family 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hempstone, Smith, 1929-2006 1
Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Hoge, James F. 1
Holmes, Berenice 1
Hoyal family 1
Hull House Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
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