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Ellen Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Ensemble Espanol
Abstract

Material collected by Libby Komaiko, founder of the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, relating to her and the dance company. Consists mostly of photographs of Komaiko and other dancers, plus a few clippings, flyers, posters, programs, and miscellaneous pieces. Also, two copies of a videotape entitled “The First 20 Years, 1976-1996.”

Dates: 1974-2003

Ernest A. Griffin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract

Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.

Dates: 1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

Eugene E. Prussing Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Prussing
Abstract

Manuscript autobiography and related notes by Eugene E. Prussing (interleaved with photographs and clippings). Also clippings and letters relating to Prussing’s two books on George Washington, genealogical information about the Peltzer family, and a biography of father Ernst Prussing.

Dates: 1928-1980

Eugene Olshansky photographs

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Olshansky
Abstract

Photographs of productions staged by the Original Ballets Russes (aka the Ballet Russes du Col. W. de Basil) and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo between 1935 and 1941, taken by Chicago businessman and balletomane Eugene Olshansky. Also, two operatic portraits, a few personal photographs, and several pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1935-1986; Majority of material found within 1935-1941

Eunice Tietjens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.

Dates: 1898-1944

Eunice Tietjens papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens2
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs.

Dates: 1847-1972

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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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....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

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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...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

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

Field Enterprises records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Field Enterprises
Abstract

Administrative, promotional, and legal materials, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts of Field Enterprises, the umbrella conglomerate under which the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun and Times company, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Field Communications Corporation eventually fell.

Dates: 1858-2007; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1975

Fortnightly of Chicago records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fortnightly
Abstract

Chicago Woman’s Society founded in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. Records document the founding, operations, and activities of The Fortnightly of Chicago and its members. Includes historical materials, meeting minutes (restricted), scrapbooks, notices, member biographical information, members' and guests' papers, photographs, yearbooks, and other administrative and activity records.

Dates: 1869-2018

Francis Fisher Browne papers

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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

Frank H. Beberdick Pullman collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beberdick Pullman
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials relating to the historic Pullman company town and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001.

Dates: 1881-2001

Frank H. Woods, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-F
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of businessman and philanthropist Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Chicago, including family, business, personal and philanthropic-related correspondence and general files, clippings, memorabilia and photographs.

Dates: 1890-2000; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1980

Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract

Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.

Dates: 1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935

Franklin Rosemont-Haymarket research papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Haymarket
Abstract

Research notes, photocopies, drafts, proofs, photographs, and correspondence comprising the papers used to research and produce the Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Dave Roediger (Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). Also materials related to the activities commemorating the centennial of the 1886-1887 Haymarket Affair.

Dates: 1975-2009; Majority of material found within 1980-1993

Fred Thompson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union...
Dates: 1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

George Ade papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

Goodman Family Papers

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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

Graham Taylor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Taylor
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and family papers of minister, social worker, professor, and founder of Chicago Commons settlement house, Graham Taylor.

Dates: 1820-1975; Majority of material found within 1866-1940

Harris-MacLean Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1940

Harry Hansen papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

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

Dates: 1900-1974

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Chicago (Ill.) 11
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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 4
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Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 3
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 13
Monroe, Harriet 11
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 9
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 8
Art Institute of Chicago 7
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Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 7
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 7
Mowrer, Paul Scott 7
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 7
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 6
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 6
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 6
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 6
Ade, George, 1866-1944 5
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 5
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 5
Newberry Library 5
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 5
American Indian Center of Chicago 4
Anderson, Margaret C. 4
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 4
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 4
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 4
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chicago Sun-Times 4
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 4
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 4
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 4
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 4
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 4
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lyric Opera of Chicago 4
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 4
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 4
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 4
University of Chicago 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 4
American Ballet Theatre 3
Associated Press 3
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 3
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 3
Cabanban, Orlando 3
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 3
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Chicago Opera Ballet 3
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 3
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 3
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Gerstenberg, Alice 3
Graham, Martha 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 3
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 3
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 3
Moore, Marianne 3
New York City Ballet 3
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 3
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 3
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 3
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 3
Pullman Company 3
Rand McNally and Company 3
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 3
Rosemont, Franklin 3
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 3
Stevens, Ashton 3
Tallchief, Maria 3
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938 3
Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987 3
Weidman, Charles 3
Wesaw family 3
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 3
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958 3
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 2
America First Committee 2
American National Red Cross 2
American Red Cross 2
Arpino, Gerald 2
Arts Club of Chicago 2
Balanchine, George 2
Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil 2
Barzel, Ann 2
Battise family 2
Battise, Dan 2
Bearskin family 2
Bearskin, Ben 2
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 2
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 2
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