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Amy Eleanor Wingreen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wingreen
Abstract

Material relating to Amy E. Wingreen's service as a nurse in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Consists of correspondence, mostly outgoing, memorabilia, photographs, a scrapbook of clippings and official letters and two manuscript narratives recounting her experiences.

Dates: 1898-1900

Charles H. Dennis papers

 Collection
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

Goodwin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodwin
Abstract

Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).

Dates: 1802-1913

Ira M. Whiteman Collection of Photographs and Military Paraphernalia

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Whiteman
Abstract

Sixteen photographs and fourteen artifacts of military paraphernalia belonging to Ira M. Whiteman, relating to the Spanish-American War. Includes commercial photographs by Waterman of Chicago showing Cuba in 1899 and Camp Cuba Libre in Jacksonville, Fla.; other photos are of Havana Harbor, of Whiteman and other soldiers, and of “Muster-Out Day”. Military artifacts include badges, buttons, an epaulet, medals and a reputed piece of the USS Maine.

Dates: 1898-1899

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

John T. McCutcheon papers

 Collection
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

Orville E. Babcock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Babcock
Abstract Orville E. Babcock was American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. Collection is primarily correspondence relating to Babcock’s military career, service as private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency, role in the Whiskey Ring trials of 1875-1876, and private life. Collection also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, military service records and miscellaneous...
Dates: 1849-1947; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1898

Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Second Regiment
Abstract 34 photographs depicting soldiers from the 2nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War. The majority of the photographs were taken in Jacksonville, Florida in 1898 and Havana, Cuba in 1899. Also included are 8 typed pages written by the collection's donor, Craig Pfannkuche, containing information concerning the photographer and the subjects of the photographs; print-outs from the Database of Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans; obituaries; and the History of the 2nd...
Dates: approximately 1898-approximately 2009; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1899

Victor Lawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lawson
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, legal documents, contracts, and other materials pertaining to Victor Lawson’s life and career as a pioneering newspaperman and owner of the Chicago Daily News in early 1900s Chicago.

Dates: approximately 1860-1931; Majority of material found within 1885-1925

Wallace Rice Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

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Cairo (Egypt) - Description and travel 1
Camp Cuba Libre (Fla.) -- Photographs 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
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Ade, George, 1866-1944 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 2
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
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Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 2
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Amherst College 1
Associated Press 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 1
Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bowdoin College 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Campbell family 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Commission on Race Relations 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
City News Bureau of Chicago 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
DeWitt family 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Fabens, Joseph Warren, 1821-1875 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
First Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fresh Air Fund 1
Furber family 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Goodwin family 1
Goodwin, Edward Payson, 1832-1901 1
Goodwin, Paul 1
Goodwin, Solomon, 1797-1857 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Hatch, Davis 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Joyce, John A. (John Alexander), 1842-1915 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Krum, Chester, 1840- 1
Kwong, Ki Chiu 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Maine (Battleship) 1
Mason, R. B. (Roswell B.), 1805-1892 1
McCook, Edward M. (Edward Moody), 1833-1909 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
Meeker, Arthur, 1866-1946 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Metcalf family 1
Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, 1829-1875 1
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898 1
Moderwell, Hiram Kelly, 1888-1945 1
Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1892-1977 1
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 1
Orr, 1890- 1
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