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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

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

Dean Diggins Papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Diggins
Abstract

Material regarding Diggins’s career as a tap dancer and teacher, including class notes while studying with Paul Draper, plus clippings, photographs, programs, publicity items and scrapbooks relating to his ten years as a part of the Mattison Trio. Also, his choreographic notes for tap routines composed for classical music and audio and video tapes of some of those dances.

Dates: 1956-1995

Edna L. McRae papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates: 1910-1990

Ellen Goldsmith papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

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

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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

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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

Mitchell Dawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Rand McNally and Company records

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract

Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.

Dates: 1856-1996

Robert Marsh Papers

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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

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

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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Dancers -- Portraits 2
Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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Reporters and reporting 2
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Advertising, Newspaper 1
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 1
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Industries 1
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Europe -- Description and travel 1
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Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Foreign correspondents 1
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Fourierism -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
Freedom of the press 1
Glass negatives -- 1901-1950 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996. Concertos, tap dancer, orchestra 1
Greeting cards 1
Hammond (Ind.) -- Industries 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Imposters and imposture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Investigative reporting 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews 1
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Journalism -- Style manuals 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Lantern slides -- 1901-1950 1
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Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Love-letters 1
Male dancers 1
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Map publishing -- Canada 1
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Names
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 2
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Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Akers, Milburn P. 1
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Associated Press 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baker family 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Balanchine, George 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Beech, Keyes 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Burck, Jacob 1
Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Chicago sun-times. School Services Division 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Conkey, William B. 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Dedmon, Emmett 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Diggins, Dean 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Draper, Paul, 1909-1996 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Fanning, Lawrence S. 1
Federated Press 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Field Communications Corporation 1
Field Enterprises 1
Field Enterprises Educational Corporation 1
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 1
Field, Marshall, 1916-1965 1
Field, Marshall, V 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Fresh Air Fund 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
German American Bund 1
Geyer, Georgie Anne, 1935-2019 1
Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Graham, Martha 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 1
Hempstone, Smith, 1929-2006 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Hoge, James F. 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 1
Holmes, Berenice 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
Karsavina, Tamara 1
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