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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

Charles H. Dennis papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dennis
Abstract

Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to Charles H. Dennis, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News.

Dates: 1868-1942; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1929

Chauncey McCormick papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCormick
Abstract Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1944-1954. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, religious, and political activities. Also contains speeches and writings, including those for the Art Institute, child...
Dates: 1887-1955

Clay Judson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson.

Dates: 1800-1966

Dankmar Adler papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adler
Abstract Correspondence, autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect, acoustician, and partner of Louis Sullivan in the Adler and Sullivan architectural firm. Also other family and research materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater, Stock Exchange Building, Garrick Theater Building, and the...
Dates: 1857-1984

Edwards family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edwards
Abstract

Letters, documents, photographs, and printed ephemera centering on John C. Edwards and Lydia Martin Edwards, and their immediate families, both of whom settled near Chicago in the 1840s.

Dates: 1800-1982; Majority of material found within 1847-1908

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
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

Fanny Butcher papers

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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

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Isham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Isham
Abstract

Transcribed letters between Dr. Ralph N. Isham, his father Nelson Isham, brother Charles Isham, and son George S. Isham mostly pertaining to the home and estate of Nelson Isham. Also photographs of Ralph N. Isham and other Isham family members, and a few mementos.

Dates: 1875-1923

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Monroe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Morton Dauwen Zabel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zabel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, and photographs of literary critic, editor, scholar, and educator Morton Dauwen Zabel.

Dates: 1861-1964; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

Rudolph Ganz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract

Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.

Dates: 1864-2013

Trumbull Family Papers

 Collection
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

William Morton Payne Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract

Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.

Dates: approximately 1850-1920

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French 2
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Names
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
America First Committee 1
American Field Service 1
American Medical Association 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 1
Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873- 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932 1
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Downs family 1
Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997 1
Edwards family 1
Edwards, John C., 1836-1908 1
Eleanor Association 1
Epworth League (U.S.) 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gales family 1
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Goodwin, Philip Lippincott, 1885-1958 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society 1
Indiana University 1
International Medical Congress 1
Isham, Nelson, 1805-1895 1
Isham, Ralph N., 1831-1904 1
Isom family 1
James, Henry, 1843-1916 1
Judson family 1
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 1
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 1
Kennelly, Martin H., 1887-1961 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Kohn, A. (Abraham) 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
Lenroot, Katharine F. (Katharine Fredrica), 1891-1982 1
Leschetizky, Theodor, 1830-1915 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Kathryn 1
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