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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

Gookin family papers

 Collection
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

Harold L. Stuart travel scrapbooks

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stuart
Abstract

Scrapbooks compiled by Chicago investment banker Harold L. Stuart documenting his travels in Europe from 1912 to 1939. Contains travel ephemera and written narratives of each trip.

Dates: 1912-1939

John Blew collection on Wright Howes, Zoe Howes, and U.S.IANA

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blew
Abstract

Correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, interviews, writings, and other materials related to the lives and careers of Wright and Zoe Howes, their families, and Wright Howes' bibliographical work U.S.IANA. Materials were compiled by John Blew, a Chicago lawyer and book collector who became interested in the life of Wright Howes through his use of Howes' U.S.IANA.

Dates: 1790s-2012; Majority of material found within 1870-1999

John T. McCutcheon papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Robert J. Casey papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and personal materials of writer Robert J. Casey, who served in World War I and covered World War II for the Chicago Daily News. Casey was also a humor columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer who traveled all over the world and wrote of his adventures in newspapers and in books.

Dates: 1894-1964

Winterbotham-French family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-French
Abstract Correspondence, personal materials, diaries, financial and estate documents, genealogical research, and photographs of the Winterbotham and French families who were united by the marriage of John R. Winterbotham III and Chloe T. French. Papers include correspondence pertaining to Chloe Tyler French's work at Mathieson Alkali Works, courtship letters between Seth B. French and Mary Tyler Duffy, and letters and photographs of Hilah French, an aunt of Chloe Tyler French, who served at a Red...
Dates: 1850-2005; Majority of material found within 1900-1950

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Antiquarian booksellers 1
Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting 1
Artillerymen -- United States 1
Audiocassettes 1
Authors, American 1
Automobile travel -- Europe 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Book collecting 1
Bookstores -- Illinois -- Chicago Region 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Capitalists and financiers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
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College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
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Glass negatives 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
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Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
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Bobbs-Merrill Company 2
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American Red Cross 1
American University of Beirut 1
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Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Blew, John 1
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 1
Borglum, Mary Montgomery, 1874-1955 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
French family 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howes, Wright 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
J. H. Winterbotham & Sons 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
MacDonald, Hazel Christie 1
Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. 1
McCormick, Chauncey, 1884-1954 1
McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936 1
McCormick, Harold F. (Harold Fowler), 1872-1941 1
McCormick, Medill, 1877-1925 1
McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955 1
McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1866-1946 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Orr, 1890- 1
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946 1
Purdue University 1
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 1
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 1
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944 1
Ryerson, Edward L. (Edward Larned), 1886-1971 1
Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926 1
Smith, Hermon Dunlap, 1900-1983 1
St. Mary's College (Saint Marys, Kan.) 1
Stevens, Ashton 1
Stuart, Charles J. B. (Charles Jenckes Barnes), 1891-1964 1
Stuart, Harold Leonard, 1881-1966 1
Stuart, Harriet Frances Barnes 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
Tribune Company 1
Tyng, Olive Wyndham 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Wells, James M. 1
Williams family 1
Winterbotham family 1
Winterbotham, Chloe T., 1922-2012 1
Winterbotham, J. H. 1
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