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Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

George Ade papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
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

Jack Mabley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mabley
Abstract Correspondence with colleagues, congratulatory letters, inter-office memos; works including newspaper clippings, subject files dealing with important stories including the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Richard Cain case, racketeering, police corruption, and vice in Chicago, miscellaneous articles and columns; biographical clippings, publicity, and interviews, and photographs of Mabley himself and with public figures such as Hugh Hefner and Richard Nixon. Mabley was a reporter and columnist...
Dates: 1937-2003

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

Mike Royko papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

Ring Lardner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lardner
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of journalist and humorist author Ring Lardner. Also estate papers, including royalty records through 2003, biographical materials, publicity and reviews, adaptations of writings, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1805-2003; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1987

Sherwood Ross papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ross
Abstract

Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.

Dates: 1956-2014

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African Americans in radio broadcasting 1
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Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Abbott family 1
Ade family 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Associated Press 1
Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928 1
Bell Syndicate, Inc. 1
Brice, Fanny 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cain, Richard, -1973 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Chicago Urban League 1
Chicago record 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), 1884-1972 1
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942 1
Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Creel, George, 1876-1953 1
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Ebert, Roger 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fernald, Charles Edward, 1902- 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
George Ade Memorial Association 1
Gilman, Evelyn 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1
Indiana Society of Chicago 1
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 1
Kurfess, William F. 1
Lardner family 1
Lardner, Ellis Abbott, 1887-1960 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Mabley, Jack 1
Mark Twain Society of Chicago 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Meine, Franklin J., 1896-1968 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
National Urban League 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Ostrander, Wilma Johnson 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969 1
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Purdue University 1
Rathbun, James D. 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Ring, Blanche, 1871-1961 1
Ross family 1
Ross, Sherwood 1
Royko, Mike, 1932-1997 1
Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sherwood Ross Associates, Inc. 1
Sigma Chi Fraternity 1
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
Stone family 1
Stone, Herbert Stuart, 1871-1915 1
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