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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

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

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Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
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Bangor (Me.) 1
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Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Christian Science 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
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Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
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Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
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Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
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Domestic relations -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
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Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
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Families -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Greeting cards 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Commerce -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Law students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Lincoln (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Mothers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Oak Park (Ill.) 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Philanthropists 1
Philippines -- Description and travel 1
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Postcards -- 1851-1900 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social life and customs 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Sermons -- 1751-1800 1
Sermons -- 1801-1850 1
Sermons -- 1851-1900 1
Shipping -- Maine -- Bangor -- History 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Sisters -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
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American University of Beirut 1
Baker family 1
Bates family 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1