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Allan H. Stevenson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Ste
Abstract

Research notes, original manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished works, professional correspondence, and photographs of watermarks used for research by paper historian Allan H. Stevenson.

Dates: 1944-1970; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1970

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

Chicago American Indian Photography Project photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Photo Project
Abstract Photographs taken by Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Orlando Cabanban, Joe Kazumura, F. Peter Weil, and Leroy Wesaw for the Chicago American Indian Photography Project. Images document the social life and customs of the American Indian community in Chicago during the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Includes many photographs from activities of the American Indian Center. Many of these photographs were displayed in the Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery at the Newberry Library as part of an exhibition...
Dates: approximately 1950s-1987

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

Newberry Library Archives

 Collection
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

Newberry Library Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-178
Abstract

Photographs document the construction of the Henry Ives Cobb-designed Newberry Library building from May 8, 1891 to April 12, 1893, and also show parts of Washington Square Park and buildings in the surrounding area.

Dates: 1891-1893

Newberry Library postcard collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-NL
Abstract

Collection of postcards with images of the Newberry Library, most mailed with messages to addressees, dating mainly from 1898-1915. Several copies of a later postcard with postmarks dating from 1939 to 1945, shows the Newberry Library, the John Crerar Library, the Harper Memorial Library, and the Chicago Public Library.

Dates: 1898-1945; Majority of material found within 1898-1915

Official State & Provincial Road Map Collection of the United States & Canada

 Collection
Identifier: Maps-Official-State & Provincial
Abstract

Road maps issued by official state and provincial government agencies in the United States and Canada (over 2,500 maps, published 1924-ongoing).

Dates: 1924-2020; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2015

Richard Colles Johnson - Colles Family Papers

 Collection
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

Rosenthal/Mardersteig collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-RosOB
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1954-1994

Sherwood Anderson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

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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Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894 3
American Library Association 2
Boston Athenaeum 2
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933 2
Chicago Public Library 2
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Cincinnati Public Library 2
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964 2
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 2
Wells, James M. 2
Williamson, William Landram, 1920- 2
American Historical Association 1
American Indian Center of Chicago 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Baker, George Bramwell 1
Battise family 1
Battise, Dan 1
Bearskin family 1
Bearskin, Ben 1
Beck, Bruce, 1916-2009 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blew, John 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Boromé, Joseph Alfred, 1919-2002 1
Bowers, Fredson 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Cabanban, Orlando 1
Carlton, W. N. C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943 1
Catholic Church. Missale Constantiens 1
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931 1
Cohen, Herman, 1905-1997 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
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Copelin Commercial Photographers. (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Cullen, Charles T., 1940- 1
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies 1
D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian 1
Danton, Emily Miller 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 1
Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Egeland family 1
Emerson, John, 1874-1956 1
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935 1
Emmett, Mary 1
Esherick, Wharton 1
Evans, Charles, 1850-1935 1
Everett D. Graff Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Francis, Frank Chalton, Sir, 1901-1988 1
Funk, Charles 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Ginneken-van de Kasteele, B. J. van (Bé J.) 1
Glascott, J. H. 1
Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982 1
Greenlee, William Brooks 1
Harkness, Toni 1
Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography 1
Herrick, Edward Claudius, 1811-1862 1
Hild, Frederick H., 1858-1914 1
Horace Liveright, Inc. 1
Howes, Wright 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1
International Association of Paper Historians 1
Johnson family 1
Johnson, Richard Colles 1
Kazumura, Joe 1
Labarre, E. J. 1
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 1
Library of Congress 1
Liveright, Horace Brisbin 1
Liveright, Otto 1
Loos, Anita 1
MacAdam/Cage (Firm) 1
Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Monroe, Harriet 1
Nannestad family 1
Nathan, George Jean 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
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