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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
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
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
Hermann Raster papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract
Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.
Dates:
1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1891
Lewis family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract
Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.
Dates:
1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950
Louis J. Cross diaries
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cross
Abstract
Diaries, date books, and a few miscellaneous items of Louis J. Cross, Chicago bonds salesman and investment banker. Diaries cover the years between 1932 and 1969, and discuss Cross' daily routine as well as political and financial developments in America, and the internal workings of the Chicago business world.
Dates:
1932-1974
Melville E. Stone Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract
Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.
Dates:
1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1929
Mitchell Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract
Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.
Dates:
1810-1988
Paul Randall Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wright
Abstract
Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.
Dates:
1899-1965
Paul Romaine Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.
Dates:
1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1983
Robert J. Casey papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1894-1964
Trumbull Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.
Dates:
1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950
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