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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Boyce-Gilbert family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract

Reproductions of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.

Dates: 1831-2000

Burt family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract

Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.

Dates: 1890-1951

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

Charles L. Hutchinson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hutchinson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and miscellany related to Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago financier, trustee, and philanthropist, particularly regarding Hutchinson’s relationship with the Art Institute of Chicago. Correspondence is solely incoming, mostly to Hutchinson, but also to Mrs. Hutchinson and a few others. Group of writings consists of speeches and diary notebooks. The several scrapbooks hold numerous receipts of art purchases, articles, clippings, a few letters and notes. The...
Dates: 1868-1934

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

Francis Fisher Browne papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Browne
Abstract

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.

Dates: approximately 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1873 - 1915

Goodman family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Hermann Raster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

Howe-Barnard family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Howe-Barnard
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, personal and professional materials, and photographs of the Howe and Barnard families, early Chicago settlers. Included are the materials of Annie L. Howe, a missionary, teacher, and founder of Glory Kindergarten and Training School in Japan, her brother, Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who originated the practice of field trips in science classes, and Alice Lucretia Barnard, one of the first woman principals in the Chicago schools. Also contains Civil War letters...
Dates: 1826-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

May Walden papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Walden-M
Abstract

Collection of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, as well as publications relating to the Socialist movement. Included in the papers are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.

Dates: 1869-1972; Majority of material found within 1892-1959

Melville E. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Mitchell Dawson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Reynolds-McBride family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Reynolds-McBride
Abstract

Correspondence of the Reynolds family who emigrated from Ireland to Manchester, England in 1849, and their descendants who settled in the Chicago area. Collection contains significant material of one of these descendants, Anita McBride, who was an aspiring writer. Her materials include drafts of short stories, papers pertaining to an unpublished "as-told-to" memoir of retired police detective Ed Carmody called "Chicago Cop," and diaries spanning 1972 to 1999.

Dates: 1866-2000

Stanton, Schilling, and Parsons family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SSP
Abstract

Family history of the three main branches of a large Chicago based family. Includes over eight generations of correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, and diaries, following family members across the United States, Europe, and the Philippines. Material relates to the biographical information of many family members, including their careers, family life, and hobbies.

Dates: 1733-2015; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1980

Trumbull Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.

Dates: 1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950

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German 3
 
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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 3
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 2
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 2
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 2
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American Federation of Arts 1
American Medical Association 1
American University of Beirut 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Associated Press 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Bernard family 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Boyce family 1
Boyce, Helen, 1875-1920 1
Boyce, Le Roy Merrick, 1810-1849 1
Boyce, Simeon Leonard, 1850- 1
Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913 1
Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne's Bookstore 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Herbert S. 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 1
Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873- 1
Butler, Edward Burgess, 1853-1928 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chap-book 1
Chapin family 1
Charles H. Kerr Company 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Clark, Robert R., 1834-1907 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colton family 1
Cornell University 1
Cornell family 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dabney, Samuel W. 1
Damrosch, Leopold, 1832-1885 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Dial (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy family 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Elston, Daniel, 1790-1855 1
Elwell family 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Fay, Charles Norman, 1848- 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
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