Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Variety of papers from and about the Witkowsky family of Chicago.Papers include unsigned valentines with intricate paper cutouts and bas-relief imprinted envelopes, addressed to Pauline, James, or Esther Witkowsky. One valentine is dated 1875; the others are undated and are estimated to be from the 1840s to the 1870s. There is one letter from Pauline (age 13) to her betrothed (Conrad, age 19) while he was in California in 1858; among other topics, she mentions the ship ...