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Alfred E. Hamill papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates: 1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953

Audrey Niffenegger papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Niffenegger
Abstract

Typescript drafts of The Time Traveler’s Wife and other works; related sketches, drawings, correspondence, and ephemera; press clips and other biographical information.

Dates: 1990-1993

Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Roden
Abstract

Correspondence, writings and research materials assembled by Chicago Public Library chief librarian, Carl B. Roden. Research materials include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and publications concerning or authored by William F. Poole.

Dates: 1852-1956

John Thomas Lee papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3036
Abstract Thirty letters to Wisconsin historian John Thomas Lee from various scholars, librarians and booksellers, concerning his work on a bibliography of Jonathan Carver’s Travels through the Interior parts of North America, first published in London in 1778. Also, a letter from Grace Raymond Hebard concerning 1932 publication of The Pathbreakers, and a wax impression of a seal supposedly used at the signing of the Webster-Ashburton...
Dates: 1907-1932; Majority of material found within 1907-1912

Lewis family papers

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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

Newberry Library Archives

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Identifier: NL-Archives
Abstract

The Newberry Library's institutional records, records of the Walter L. Newberry estate, personal papers of staff members and trustees, photographs, and publications that document the establishment and operation of the library, its growth and transformation over time, and its active participation in the cultural and intellectual life of Chicago and the nation. Also information on the Newberry family and property development in Chicago.

Dates: 1885-ongoing

Richard Colles Johnson - Colles Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Johnson
Abstract

Material relating to the genealogy of Richard Colles Johnson’s family, especially his Colles ancestors and relations, including correspondence, clippings, copies of documents and publications, memorabilia, and photographs.

Dates: 1746-2002; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1998

W.L. Williamson - William F. Poole research papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Williamson
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, and research notes of W. L. Williamson in support of his biography of William Frederick Poole. Also copies of William Frederick Poole correspondence 1856-1894, microfilm, a few newspaper clippings 1874-1895, a few Poole photographs, and one Poole original publication.

Dates: 1865-1959

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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Sources 1
Bibliographers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Book collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780. Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 -- Bibliography 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
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Newberry Library 5
Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894 3
American Library Association 2
Boston Athenaeum 2
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933 2
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Chicago Public Library 2
Cincinnati Public Library 2
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 2
Williamson, William Landram, 1920- 2
American Historical Association 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Baker, George Bramwell, 1832-1865 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Boromé, Joseph Alfred, 1919-2002 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946 1
Carlton, W. N. C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943 1
Centaur Press 1
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964 1
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931 1
Cole, George Watson, 1850-1939 1
Colles family 1
Colles, Abraham, 1773-1843 1
Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816 1
Colles, John Armstrong Purefoy, 1834- 1
Colles, William Morris, 1819-1889 1
Cullen, Charles T., 1940- 1
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies 1
Danton, Emily Miller 1
Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931 1
Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope), 1848-1917 1
Doughty, Arthur G., Sir (Arthur George), 1860-1936 1
Downs family 1
Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History 1
Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937 1
Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Egeland family 1
Evans, Charles, 1850-1935 1
Everett D. Graff Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Fredericks, Alexandra, 1897- 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gagnon, Phileas 1
Glascott, J. H. 1
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964 1
Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935 1
Greenlee, William Brooks 1
Gypsy Lore Society 1
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953 1
Harper, Lathrop C. (Lathrop Colgate), 1867-1950 1
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 1
Hebard, Grace Raymond, 1861-1936 1
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography 1
Herrick, Edward Claudius, 1811-1862 1
Hild, Frederick H., 1858-1914 1
Indiana University 1
Johnson family 1
Johnson, Richard Colles 1
Lee, John Thomas 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936 1
Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960 1
MacAdam/Cage (Firm) 1
Nannestad family 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Newberry, Julia Rosa, 1853-1876 1
Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868 1
Niffenegger, Audrey 1
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952 1
Phepoe family 1
Poole family 1
Poole, Charles H. 1
Printworks Gallery 1
Roden, Carl B. (Carl Bismarck), 1871-1956 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Ruggles, Rudy Lamont 1
Severance, Frank H. (Frank Hayward), 1856-1931 1
Shiels family 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 1
Towner, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1921-1992 1
University of Liverpool 1
Utley, George Burwell, 1876-1946 1
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1
Willoughby, Véra, 1870-1939 1
Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952 1
Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 1
Wire, George E., 1859-1936 1
Yates, Dora Esther, 1879- 1
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