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Alma Schmidt Petersen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Petersen
Abstract Correspondence of Alma Schmidt Petersen of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European, Canadian and American spas and vacation sites, and at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young...
Dates: 1909-1988; Majority of material found within 1911-1985

Edward Price Bell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.

Dates: 1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900-1942

Keep the Home Fires Burning Club records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Home Fires
Abstract

Club formed in Chicago during World War II, the purpose of which was to "cheer folks at home and keep up morale." The club often sent care packages of food or candy to servicemen overseas. Includes letters from servicemen, a few photographs, club minutes, and membership and dues lists.

Dates: 1943-1946

Paul Scott Mowrer papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
Abstract Correspondence, works, photographs and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, author, newspaper editor, and poet. Mowrer was Paris correspondent for the Chicago Daily News beginning in 1910, headed the foreign news service until 1934, and editor of the paper from 1935-1944. He was foreign editor of the New York Post from 1944-1947. An accomplished poet, Mowrer published...
Dates: 1894-2007; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1971

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Paris (France) 1
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Rif Mountains (Morocco) 1
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Typewriters 1
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Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
America First Committee 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bell, Mary Alice Mills 1
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Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Brown, Constantine, 1889-1966 1
Bullen, Percy Sutherland, 1869- 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Fortnightly of Chicago (Organization) 1
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986 1
Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961 1
Hirschberger, Fritz, Lieutenant 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 1
Katō, Takaaki, 1860-1926 1
Keep the Home Fires Burning Club 1
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lloyd, William Bross, Jr., 1908-1995 1
London Naval Conference (1930 : London, England) 1
Légion d'honneur (France) 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
Maher, John 1
Marx, Wilhelm, 1863-1946 1
Mount Vernon College 1
Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1892-1977 1
Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891-1979 1
Mowrer, Lilian T. (Lilian Thomson) 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865-1922 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 1
Petersen, Alma Schmidt, 1894-1989 1
Petersen, William F., 1887-1950 1
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 1
Poetry Society of New Hampshire 1
Poincaré, Raymond, 1860-1934 1
Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944 1
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 1
Sarton, May, 1912-1995 1
Schmidt, Emma Seipp 1
Schmidt, Otto L. (Otto Leopold), 1863-1935 1
Shidehara, Kijūrō, 1872-1951 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Tang, Shaoyi, 1860-1938 1
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 1
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 1
Vildrac, Charles, 1882-1971 1
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