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Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tallmadge
Abstract
Correspondence to Abby L. Tallmadge from fellow scholars regarding her work on Jane Austen, a few manuscript copies of her scholarly work, a family scrapbook and printed material relating to the architectural work of her brother, Thomas Eddy Tallmadge.
Dates:
approximately 1860-1952
Addie V. Hibbard Gregory Travel Diaries and Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hibbard
Abstract
Travel diaries (Europe, Albania) of Addie V. Hibbard Gregory of Chicago, 1875-1931, together with travel photographs of Europe, Estes Park, Colorado, and Santa Barbara, California. Also numerous 19th and early 20th century family photographs (carte de visite, cabinet, Kodak, etc.) of the Hibbard, Gregory, Buckingham, Casselberry, and Durham families of Chicago and St. Paul, and a few stereograph images of Chicago, including Lyon & Healy.
Dates:
approximately 1871-1938
Adeline Lobdell Atwater Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Atwater
Abstract
Literary works of Adeline L. Atwater Pynchon, author, art dealer and collector. Also, a 1941 brochure for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and a photograph of Atwater’s parents.
Dates:
approximately 1932-1956
Alice Judson Ryerson Hayes Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-HayesA
Abstract
Daily journals, travel journals, sketchbooks, writings, and other papers of Chicago writer Alice Judson Ryerson Hayes, who founded and ran Ragdale, a retreat for writers, musicians, and artists, at her family's Lake Forest estate designed by her grandfather, Howard Van Doren Shaw. Dating from 1934-2001, Hayes' journals contain extensive reflections on motherhood, marriage, writing, and a host of other topics, as well as her own creative work. They document an independent woman entering...
Dates:
1934-2006
Alma Boge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-BogeA
Abstract
Appointment calendars, daily journals, photo albums and supplemental material preserved by Alma Boge, from her high school age onward, documenting her life as a wife, mother of five children, and working woman actively involved in her communities of Spokane WA, Park Ridge, IL, Gig Harbor, WA, Scottsdale, AZ, and Barrington, IL.
Dates:
1944-2015
Blatchford family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates:
1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839 - 1965
Blatchford family papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford 2
Abstract
Chicago lead manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Dates:
1841-1947; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1914
Boyce-Gilbert Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract
Diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.
Dates:
1831-2000
Burt Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract
Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.
Dates:
1890-1951
Catherine Eddy Beveridge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract
Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.
Dates:
1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1910
Charles Andrews Heath Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Heath
Abstract
Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes Charles Andrews Heath's diaries, 1880-1949, with typed excerpts, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Parliament of Religions, the Galveston flood, several wars, and many Chicago related events. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, photographs of Heath and his family, including the European trip,...
Dates:
1880-1999
Charles L. Hutchinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hutchinson
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and miscellany related to Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago financier, trustee, and philanthropist, particularly regarding Hutchinson’s relationship with the Art Institute of Chicago. Correspondence is solely incoming, mostly to Hutchinson, but also to Mrs. Hutchinson and a few others. Group of writings consists of speeches and diary notebooks. The several scrapbooks hold numerous receipts of art purchases, articles, clippings, a few letters and notes. The...
Dates:
1868-1934
Edward A. Barnes Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-BarnesE
Abstract
Diaries, poetry, music and program and newspaper clippings written by Edward A. Barnes, a Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter. The diaries pertain to Barnes’s songwriting career, his religious beliefs, and his relationship with his sisters, Lillie and Della.
Dates:
1865-1893
Edward Price Bell Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bell
Abstract
Correspondence, works, and other items related to Edward Price Bell's career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest.
Dates:
1886-1951; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1942
Elvira Sheridan Badger Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Badger
Abstract
Six personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1903. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Facsimile of notebook kept by Alpheus Shreve Badger about his move to Chicago and the subsequent freedom of his slaves in 1852. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky...
Dates:
1859-approximately 1930; Majority of material found within 1859 - 1878
Fairbank-Graham Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract
Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S. Davis...
Dates:
1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract
Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of the...
Dates:
1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1931
Frances Wells Shaw Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ShawF
Abstract
Papers of Frances Wells Shaw of Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois, wife of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Bulk consists of material related to the frequent domestic and international travels of Frances Shaw during the first half of the 20th century. Includes her diaries, travel materials and memorabilia, and photographs. Also includes correspondence to and from Frances Shaw and her daughters, plus the diaries of her brother-in-law, Charles T. Atkinson.
Dates:
1866-1976; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1937
Francis Fisher Browne papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Browne
Abstract
Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.
Dates:
approximately 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1873 - 1915
Frederick John Rank Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rank
Abstract
The Frederick John Rank Papers contain his diaries from 1875-1939, which record his daily life and touch upon his work as a packer for Montgomery Ward. A bound volume about Rank's diaries, compiled by Rank's great-granddaughter Janet Rank Spaletto, is also present. Additionally the papers contain family correspondence, some of which relates to Rank's son's attempt for an assistant postmaster general appointment.
Dates:
1872-2013; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1939
George Philip Krapp diaries
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Krapp
Abstract
Diaries of American scholar and university professor George Philip Krapp, kept while a student at Wittenberg College and on a trip to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Diaries provide full descriptions of the fair and Chicago, together with interesting reflections on student life and Krapp's decision to pursue scholarship.
Dates:
1890-1897; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1893
Goodman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract
Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.
Dates:
1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1995
Gookin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract
Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates:
1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1921
Gridley-Hitchcock Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitchcock
Abstract
Copies of letters, diaries, and photographs of Ruth Daube Gridley (diaries from 1917-1950) and daughter Marion Gridley Hitchcock (diary from 1951-1958). Also copies of letters to Marion by her father, William Whiting Gridley, after the death of his wife that concern his life as sole caretaker for Marion's sister, who was treated for mental illness. Collection also contains a large set of original correspondence from Marion's great-aunt, Josephine Wheat Gridley, primarily concerning family...
Dates:
1860-2007; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970
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
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