Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), 1867-1950
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1867 - 1950
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Percy H. Sloan Collection of Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sloan
Abstract
Collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Chicago and environs, which includes aerial views of the city and some suburbs (1925-1930), and a large collection of church, civic, commercial and domestic architecture. Also, views of Chicago monuments and statuary and a group of Sloan’s checklists of his work. Most images are annotated with addresses and but not dates.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1942
Platt R. Spencer papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spencer
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business. In his later years, Spencer became involved in the...
Dates:
1827-1951; Majority of material found within 1850-1900
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- Subject
- Abolitionists -- Ohio 1
- African American artists 1
- Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Art, American 1
- Arts -- Ohio 1
- Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- History 1
- Business cards -- 1851-1900 1
- Business education 1
- Businesswomen 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
- Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
- Landscape painters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ohio -- Pictorial works 1
- Ohio -- Politics and government -- 19th century 1
- Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
- Penmanship -- Technique 1
- Penmanship, American 1
- Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Portrait painters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Temperance 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Writing -- History 1
- Writing instruments -- 1851-1900 1 + ∧ less
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