Newberry Library
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA
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.
Mendicant ephemera collection
Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.
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- Subject: Greeting cards X
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- Accidents 1
- Alms boxes 1
- Americana -- Collectors and collecting 1
- Antiquarian booksellers 1
- Audiocassettes 1
- Begging 1
- Begging poems 1
- Blind 1
- Book collecting 1
- Bookstores -- Illinois -- Chicago Region 1
- Broadside poems 1
- Broadsides 1
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Charitable giving 1
- Deaf 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
- Europe -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
- Families -- Georgia 1
- Families -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Greeting cards -- Specimens 1
- Homeless persons 1
- Homelessness 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- People with disabilities 1
- Photographs 1
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
- Picture postcards 1
- Poems 1
- Poor 1
- Poverty 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Sideshows 1
- Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries 1
- United States -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
- Veterans 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans 1 + ∧ less