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Ann Barzel papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Barzel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian Ann Barzel.

Dates: 1912-2005

Ashton Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract

The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940

Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Felix Borowski Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Harry Hansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Howard Vincent O'Brien papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brien
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, publicity materials, and personal papers of newspaper columnist and novelist Howard Vincent O'Brien.

Dates: 1894-1948

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Robert K. Elder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Elder
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1992-2020

Robert Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1940-1986

Sydney Justin Harris papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, readers' letters, and personal materials of Chicago columnist Sydney Justin Harris.

Dates: 1933-1987; Majority of material found within 1975-1985

Wallace Rice Papers

 Collection
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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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 2
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
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Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Balakirev, Miliì† Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
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Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Capone, Al, 1899-1947 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Elder, Robert K. 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Gabriel, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf), 1890-1952 1
Gest, Morris, 1881-1942 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Green, Abel 1
Grieg, Edvard 1
Gunther, John, 1901-1970 1
Hale, Edward Everett 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harris, Sydney J. 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hearst Corporation 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Holmes, Berenice 1
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
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Karch, Hank 1
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Lardner, Ring 1
Leinsdorf, Erich 1
Lewis, Kathryn 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lunt, Alfred 1
Markey, Gene, 1895-1980 1
Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles) 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Milhaud, Darius 1
Monaghan, Jay 1
Morgan, Anna 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott 1
Norris, Frank 1
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