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Ann Barzel papers

 Collection
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 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

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Clippings -- 1901-1950 7
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 2
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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Theater critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Actors -- United States -- 20th century 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 2
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Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Capone, Al, 1899-1947 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
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gabriel, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf), 1890-1952 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gest, Morris, 1881-1942 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Green, Abel, 1900-1973 1
Grieg, Edvard 1
Gunther, John, 1901-1970 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
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Johnston, Alva 1
Karch, Hank 1
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 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
Monroe, Harriet 1
Morgan, Anna 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Northworth, Jack 1
Norton, Charles Eliot 1
O'Brien, Howard Vincent 1
Page, Ruth 1
Peabody, Eddie, approximately 1901-1970 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Rascoe, Burton 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 1
Roughton, Janet 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
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