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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

Clay Judson Papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC2
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer and civic leader, Clay Judson, including correspondence, mostly with family members; travel narratives of camping trips taken by Judson and his friends, chiefly in Wisconsin and Minnesota; materials relating to Judson’s experiences with the A.E.F. in World War I; and photographs of Judson and his family members, among which is an album of snapshots made while his father was stationed in Panama during the construction of the Gatun...
Dates: 1839-1960; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1926

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Harold L. Stuart travel scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stuart
Abstract

Scrapbooks compiled by Chicago investment banker Harold L. Stuart documenting his travels in Europe from 1912 to 1939. Contains travel ephemera and written narratives of each trip.

Dates: 1912-1939

John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blew
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, interviews, writings, and other materials related to the lives and careers of Wright and Zoe Howes, their families, and Wright Howes' bibliographical work U.S.IANA. Materials were compiled by John Blew, a Chicago lawyer and book collector who became interested in the life of Wright Howes through his use of Howes' U.S.IANA.

Dates: 1790s-2012; Majority of material found within 1870-1999

Winterbotham-French family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-French
Abstract Correspondence, personal materials, diaries, financial and estate documents, genealogical research, and photographs of the Winterbotham and French families who were united by the marriage of John R. Winterbotham III and Chloe T. French. Papers include correspondence pertaining to Chloe Tyler French's work at Mathieson Alkali Works, courtship letters between Seth B. French and Mary Tyler Duffy, and letters and photographs of Hilah French, an aunt of Chloe Tyler French, who served at a Red...
Dates: 1850-2005; Majority of material found within 1900-1950

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Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 2
Travel literature 2
Air travel 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Americana -- Collectors and collecting 1
Antiquarian booksellers 1
Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting 1
Audiocassettes 1
Automobile travel -- Europe 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Book collecting 1
Bookstores -- Illinois -- Chicago Region 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Canada -- Description and travel 1
Capitalists and financiers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Children's drawings -- France 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Commercial art -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
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Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- New York (N.Y.) 1
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Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
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Gatun Locks (Panama) -- Photographs 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Greeting cards -- Specimens 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
International travel 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Long Island (N.Y.) 1
Love-letters -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
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Pets -- 1900-1920 1
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Philippines -- Description and travel 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Photographs -- Colombia 1
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Photographs -- Ecuador 1
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Photographs -- Jerusalem 1
Photographs -- Panama 1
Photographs -- Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Postcards 1
Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1801-1850 1
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A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
American Red Cross 1
American University of Beirut 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1