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Adalaide G. Shields Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Shields
Abstract Contents of a scrapbook, entitled "My Memories," compiled by Adalaide G. Shields. The material includes New Year's letters, in the form of poetry, written to Adalaide (name changed from Adelaide) by her husband Thomas J. Shields and miscellaneous clippings, which she kept with the letters in the scrapbook. The collection also includes an annotated publication by Thomas C. Shields, the son of Adalaide and Thomas J., which provides biographical information and notes explaining the context of...
Dates: 1936-2010

Alfred E. Hamill papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates: 1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953

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

Chauncey McCormick papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCormick
Abstract Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1944-1954. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, religious, and political activities. Also contains speeches and writings, including those for the Art Institute, child...
Dates: 1887-1955

Clay Judson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson.

Dates: 1800-1966

Harold John Hartlieb Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hartlieb
Abstract

Correspondence and military documents from Harold John Hartlieb’s service during World War II.

Dates: approximately 1945

Head family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-HeadFH
Abstract

Family papers from multiple generations of the Head family. Includes letters from the 1860s-1870s from the Utah Territory from Franklin Harvey Head, later a trustee of Newberry Library. Also includes Francis M. Knight letters from WWI. Thomas C. Fischer letters from WWII. and materials about the Perkins and Durkee families.

Dates: 1860-1957

James M. Barker papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barker
Abstract Correspondence, business records, speeches, personal materials, photographs, and family newsletters of business executive James M. Barker. During his career, Barker was, among other things, banker, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and president of Allstate Insurance Company whose financial expertise made him a valued advisor in government financial matters and corporate environments. He participated in post World War II era economic missions to Iran and Turkey, and was a close...
Dates: 1825-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1970

John Lardner Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-LardnerJ
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner.

Dates: approximately 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960

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

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

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Nelson Algren-Christine and Neal Rowland Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Algren Rowland
Abstract

Nelson Algren was an American author and journalist known for his witty, humanistic depictions of postwar working-class urban life. He is most famous for his novel The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), which won the first National Book Award for fiction. Collection consists of correspondence from Algren to his friends Christine and Neal Rowland.

Dates: 1940-1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1951

Storrs & Deville Chabrol Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Storrs
Abstract Letters, World War II-era memorabilia, journals, clippings, manuscripts and photographs pertaining to Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym "Marc Debrol." Also included are letters and materials related to the Deville Chabrol family, including correspondence between family members present during the Franco-Prussian War and the colonization of Algeria. Additionally, collection includes genealogical information about...
Dates: 1850-2002; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945

Virna Harman Walker Johnston papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-JohnstonV
Abstract

Correspondence, programs, report cards, and clippings relating to Chicago dancer and dance instructor Virna Harman Walker Johnston.

Dates: 1903-1959; Majority of material found within 1918-1930

Wacker family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract

Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.

Dates: 1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970

William H. Peterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the...
Dates: 1891-2012

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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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
America First Committee 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Field Service 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Mothers 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
American Tract Society 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Brennan, Patrick T., Monsignor, 1901-1950 1
Brewster family 1
Centaur Press 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Plan Commission 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Christian family 1
Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964 1
Cokenhour family 1
Commercial Club of Chicago 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Cook, Mollie Price 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Deville Shabrol family 1
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Federated Press 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fredericks, Alexandra, 1897- 1
French family 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Gilmore, Blanche 1
Goodwin, Philip Lippincott, 1885-1958 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Gypsy Lore Society 1
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953 1
Hanley family 1
Harman, Lillian 1
Harman, Moses, 1830-1910 1
Harris, Sydney J. 1
Hartlieb, Harold John 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914 1
Helvig family 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Hoyal family 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Hyde family 1
Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society 1
J. H. Winterbotham & Sons 1
Jackson family 1
Johnson family 1
Johnston, Arthur Oliver, 1890-1972 1
Johnston, Chester 1
Johnston, Robert Harman, 1920-2011 1
Johnston, Virna Harman Walker 1
Judson family 1
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 1
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 1
Kauffman family 1
Keep the Home Fires Burning Club 1
Kelly, Walt 1
Kennelly, Martin H., 1887-1961 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Klauder family 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Knowles family 1
Knowles, Beatrice Michell 1
Knowles, Hannibal 1
Knowles, Julia Adgate 1
Knowles, Loren M. 1
Knowles, Sarah E. Clark 1
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