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A.C. McClurg & Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McClurg
Abstract

Correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, record books, a scrapbook, and other materials from the A.C. McClurg publishing company, which was established in Chicago in 1872.

Dates: 1873-1967; Majority of material found within 1910-1950

Advertising trade cards

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 3-885
Abstract

Advertising materials including cards and booklets issued by retail stores, product manufacturers, and providers of services. Geographic areas covered include the United States (primarily Minnesota, Illinois, and New York) and London.

Dates: 1860s-1890s

Benjamin D. Hitz-Willa Cather Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitz-Cather
Abstract

Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers and experts, relating to his search for first editions of Willa Cather; together with notes for studies on her biography, bibliographies and criticism. Also, a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence, including twelve original Cather letters and a few copies, plus several relating to Cather.

Dates: 1913-1949

Chiswick Book Shop records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Chs
Abstract

Correspondence between Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Book Shop and important calligraphers and members of the book trade, including: Dorothy Abbe, Wilfrid Blunt, Elizabeth Downs, Alfred J. Fairbank, Tom Gourdie, Philip Hofer, Anna Hornbye, E. Harold Hugo, Percy Muir, Stanley Pargellis, Nancy Price, Will Ransom, Rudolph Ruzicka, and James M. Wells. Cataloged separately are four folders of Herman Cohen correspondence and notes, call number VAULT Wing MS 21.

Dates: 1952-1958

David C. Meyer collection of letterheads and stationery

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing-NC1002-L47 D38
Abstract

Collection of letterheads and stationery from David C. Meyer, owner of Meyerbooks and its imprint David Meyer Magic Books. Collection consists of single sheet letterheads, envelopes, stationery packets, and advertising materials originally issued by hotels, businesses, organizations, and performers.

Dates: 1861? to approximately 2013; Majority of material found within 1915 - 2000

Ernest J. Wessen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wessen
Abstract

Correspondence and related materials, 1956-1971, of Ernest J. Wessen of the Midland Rare Book Company of Mansfield, Ohio, and Joseph F. Dush, an Ohio book collector who acquired much of his collection from Wessen. Also contains correspondence with Arthur Duncan, Jim Scott, biographical material and photographs of Wessen, and four dealer catalogs.

Dates: 1942-1999; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1971

Francis Fisher Browne papers

 Collection
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

Herman Cohen correspondence and notes

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-21
Abstract

Correspondence and notes concerning the copy of Isaiah Thomas's A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, 1785. which was acquired from Cohen's Chiswick Book Shop in 1954 by the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Leslie E. Bliss, John Eliot Alden, R.W.G. Vail, Roland Orvil Baughman, and Philip Hofer.

Dates: 1954

Jerry Nedwick papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Nedwick
Abstract Jerrold (Jerry) Nedwick (1895?-1966) was a Chicago native who owned and operated Nedwick’s Book Store for over forty years. He married Rhoda Katz in 1925 and wrote to her almost daily during her two extended stays at sanatoriums, one in Winfield, Illinois, the other in Denver, Colorado. Both Jerry and Rhoda were originally from Illinois and active in the Chicago Jewish and literary communities. This collection is mostly his letters to her about his life while she was away, and contains no...
Dates: 1918-1928; Majority of material found within 1924 - 1928

Paul Romaine papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.

Dates: 1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937-1983

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Alden, John Eliot, 1914-1991 1
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Benson, Esther Fisher 1
Best Western Hotels (Firm) 1
Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974 1
Bleamer family 1
Blew, John 1
Bliss, Leslie E. 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brown, E. K. (Edward Killoran), 1905-1951 1
Browne's Bookstore 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Herbert S. 1
Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph), 1876-1954 1
Brush, Albert 1
Bullock, Flora 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1
Carlisle, Harry 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chap-book 1
College of Complexes (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cruikshank, Frank Xavier 1
Curtis Brown Ltd. 1
Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 1
De Granamour, A., 1915-1987 1
Dial (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald), 1842-1926 1
Duschnes, Philip C. 1
Dush, Joseph F. 1
Edgewater Beach Tennis Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Friend, Oscar J. (Oscar Jerome), 1897-1963 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 1838-1909 1
Gibson, Paul, 1907- 1
Grey, Zane, 1872-1939 1
Grosset & Dunlap 1
Hale, Edward Everett, Jr., 1863-1932 1
Harrison, Edith Ogden 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hitz, Benjamin D. 1
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Ilma, Viola 1
InterContinental Hotels Group 1
International Brotherhood of Magicians 1
Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964 1
Katz, Rhoda 1
Lott, George 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
McCarter, Margaret Hill, 1860-1938 1
McClurg, Alexander C. (Alexander Caldwell), 1832-1901 1
Meyer, David, 1943- 1
Midland Rare Book Co. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1
Mott, Howard S. 1
Muir, John, 1838-1914 1
Mulford, Clarence Edward, 1883-1956 1
Nash, Jay Robert 1
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives (U.S.) 1
Nedwick's Book Store 1
Nedwick, Jerrold, 1895-1966 1
New Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Pound, Louise, 1872-1958 1
Rockwell, Cleveland, 1837-1907 1
Romaine, Paul, -1986 1
Roman family 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Schmedtgen, William, 1862-1936 1
Scott, Jim, 1887-1950 1
Scottish Association of Magical Societies 1
Sioussat, St. George L. (St. George Leakin), 1878-1960 1
Society of American Magicians 1
Society of Osiris, Magicians 1
The Lakeside monthly 1
Vail, R. W. G. (Robert William Glenroie), 1890-1966 1
Waters-Son (Firm) 1
Wessen, Ernest James, 1887-1974 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1
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