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Robert H. Just music manuscripts
Music manuscripts of Robert H. Just, German-American composer, violinist, and educator.
Robert Hunter Middleton papers
Diaries, notes, original manuscripts of writings, design art, correspondence, financial records, printed ephemera, and type specimens from the collection of Robert Hunter Middleton, type designer and fine printer.
Robert J. Casey papers
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.
Robert James Havighurst papers
University of Chicago professor and education scholar who directed the National Study of American Indian Education, a comprehensive, national fact-finding study on the education of American Indians, from 1968-1971. Collection contains reports and research materials (student surveys, interview transcriptions, etc.) pertaining to this study.
Robert K. Elder papers
Articles by Robert K. Elder, a Chicago-area film and culture critic. The collection spans his entire career, with the bulk of material from his time at the Chicago Tribune (2000-2016).
Robert Karrow Research Papers
Primarily of photocopies of printed and archival material relating to the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1869-1884), its director, George M. Wheeler, other staff of the survey, and to the use of the electric telegraph for longitude determination in the 19th century. Also seminar papers and notes, 1986-1988.
Robert Knowles Boyd letters
Five letters, Oct. 28, 1925 - Feb. 13, 1927, from Boyd to his cousin, Edith M. Smith, discussing the reception of his pamphlets about the Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s and 1870s. Included are comments on the Battle of Birch Coulee, the Chippewa Valley, the Chippewa Indians, and the Eau Claire family of novelist G.P.R. James. There is also a carbon typescript of a review of Boyd's works from Minnesota History, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1926 (pp. 354-355).
Robert L. Hall papers
Professional papers, published and unpublished, of anthropologist and author Robert L. Hall (1927-2012). Hall was a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and is most well-known for his 1997 book "An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual." Hall's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.
Robert Laughlin Rea papers
Robert Leslie Wiles journal
Robert M. Hutchins speeches
Robert Marsh Papers
Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.
Robert Moir Papers
Professional correspondence, papers, and documents of Oquawka, Illinois, businessman Robert Moir, owner of Robert Moir & Co., a firm with wide-ranging investments in land, livestock, lumber, railroads, and other industries. Also a few letters from family and friends.
Robert Scott Franklin Scrapbook
Robert W. Bennett Letters
Correspondence from Pvt. Bennett of the 72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry, Company D, written to his father, mother and sisters during his travels through Tennessee and Kentucky.
Robert W. Bergstrom papers
Research and legal case files for the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder criminal court proceedings, and the 1959-1970 civil suits of Leopold vs. Meyer Levin et al. over Levin's book Compulsion. Bergstrom represented Levin in the latter case.
Robert Williams papers
Sketches and finished pieces of design work by Robert Williams, a Chicago-based calligrapher. Many of the pieces were designed for events or special documents for the Newberry Library. Also includes some correspondence to and from Williams.
Rodgers Family Papers
Rodgers square dance research collection
Square dance historian and collector Donna Rodgers is the daughter and the wife of professional square dance callers, and a lifelong enthusiast. Formerly a part of the Crossing Trails Square Dance Heritage Society, an organization created by Donna and Duane Rodgers, the collection includes correspondence, organizational documents, books, magazines, photographs, recordings, videotapes, art work, and artifacts.
Roger S. Baskes playscript collection
Playscripts, some signed, and primarily from the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, all in Chicago. Also includes three screenplays from the Saul Zaentz Company: The English Patient, The Mosquito Coast, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Rogers Park Masonic Lodge records
Minute books, registers, financial information, and petitions for affiliation and degree for the Rogers Park Masonic Lodge. Also includes some masonic handbooks and a few photographs.
Ron Grossman papers
Reporter's notebooks, correspondence (including reader mail), rolodex, writings, and lectures from Chicago Tribune staff reporter Ron Grossman. Topics covered include Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods, higher education, and culture wars.
Root, Frank A. Letter to Byron Smith regarding Root's book "The Overland Stage to California."
Letter written by Frank A. Root of Topeka, Kansas to Byron Smith of Lake Forest, Illinois regarding an order for a copy of Root's book, "The Overland Stage to California." Root describes his relationship with co-author William Elsey Connelley.
Rose Gartner Payson Papers
Rosenthal/Mardersteig collection
Correspondence and subject files relating to Samuel R. Rosenthal’s collection of the work of Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977) and his Officina Bodoni press (1923-1977).