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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
Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lee
Abstract
35 letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer), one typed poem and one galley sheet.
Dates:
1919-1933
Alfred F. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Young
Abstract
Research working files, correspondence, and writings of Alfred F. Young, prominent historian of the ordinary people of the American Revolution and mentor to a whole generation of younger scholars. Young taught for over 25 years at Northern Illinois University and after his retirement was a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library.
Dates:
1930-2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Alice Gerstenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract
Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.
Dates:
1903-1971
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
Anne Siewers Coyne Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Coyne
Abstract
Papers (correspondence, photographs, poems, clippings, programs, and other materials) of Anne Siewers Coyne, who began working at 14 at Ralph G. Newman's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. There she met, became friends with, and corresponded with Nelson Algren. In 1957 and 1958 she initiated Loyola University Chicago's David B. Steinman Visiting Poets series, corresponding with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Dame Edith Sitwell. The papers also include materials related to her other...
Dates:
1943-1999; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1969
Audrey Niffenegger papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Niffenegger
Abstract
Typescript drafts of The Time Traveler’s Wife and other works; related sketches, drawings, correspondence, and ephemera; press clips and other biographical information.
Dates:
1990-1993
Bess Winakor Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winakor
Abstract
Newspaper articles and story files of Bess Winakor, Chicago correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, 1967-1974, and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1974-1978. Includes background materials, interview notes, and dispatches for stories about Hugh Hefner, Judge Julius Hoffman and Pat Nixon, materials from trips to Iran in 1976, and Washington D.C. in 1977 for the Carter inauguration, as well as scrapbooks containing her articles...
Dates:
1967-1977
Bessie Barnes Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Barnes
Abstract
Photographs, newspaper reviews and miscellaneous personal items relating to Bessie Barnes, producer of nightclub theatrical reviews in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920s and 1930s.
Dates:
1896-1992
Carolyn Ashbaugh Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ashbaugh
Abstract
Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Carolyn Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.
Dates:
1970-1976
Cartwright Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cartwright
Abstract
Three generations of an Ohio family that moved to Evanston, Ill., in the early 20th century and whose members were primarily journalists, including Charles Merritt Cartwright (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Inter-Ocean editor), Stanley Levering Cartwright (Chicago Tribune reporter and editor of the National Underwriter), and Ruth Russell, Stanley's wife (feature...
Dates:
1877-1982
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
Christina Olson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Olson
Abstract
Material relating to Chicago dancer Christina Olson, who at the age of twelve performed as a Turkish dancer in the Turkish Theater at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. Includes music school diploma, hand-written documents concerning her employment and performances, her marriage certificate and two photographs. Also, three items relating to the Exposition – a general ticket of admission, her passbook and a program for the Turkish Theater.
Dates:
1891-1918
Claudia Cassidy Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cassidy
Abstract
Articles and reviews, correspondence, broadcast scripts, photographs, and clippings of the Chicago Tribune performing arts critic from 1942 to 1965. Cassidy wrote her influential "On the Aisle" column for the Tribune, then wrote freelance criticism and hosted a weekly program of arts criticism for WFMT, helping to shape the course of music, theater, and dance in Chicago.
Dates:
1880s-1996; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1985
Cole Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cole
Abstract
New England and Chicago Protestant missionary family. Includes letters and family documents from John A. Cole, a civil engineer, active in the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War. After the war he worked with and educated freedmen, women, and children in Washington D.C. through the Lincoln Industrial Mission and the recently established Howard University. He met his wife, Julia A. Cole (née Alvord) through his work with the Lincoln Industrial Mission and Howard University, who worked...
Dates:
1842-1945; Majority of material found within 1854 - 1928
Diana Huebert Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Huebert
Abstract
Material collected by dancer Diana Huebert (Mrs. Abel Faidy), the bulk consisting of programs and photographs of herself and other dancers. Also, some articles she wrote or saved, including an autobiographical sketch, choreographic notes, and miscellaneous material relating to her husband, architect and designer Abel Faidy.
Dates:
1916-1983
Djalaal Papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Djalaal
Abstract
Chicago performer and instructor in dance and exercise. Djalaal has studied Middle Eastern, Indian, North African, modern, flamenco and other exotic dance forms, and for thirty years has been teaching belly dancing at area colleges and cultural organizations. Small collection consists of advertising and publicity items, clippings, photographs, programs, and a few of her writings.
Dates:
1974-2000
Dorothy Dow Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dow
Abstract
Correspondence to Illinois poet and writer Dorothy Dow from poet Edgar Lee Masters, muralist John Warner Norton and other writers and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies. Also, an informal autobiography and parts of an early episodic diary, a few photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks containing clippings, drafts and notes relating to her...
Dates:
1920-1993
Dorothy Storck Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Storck
Abstract
Clippings, biographical material, other unpublished writings and drafts, research files, correspondence, awards, photographs, and some audio cassettes of the journalist Dorothy Storck. Storck had a long tenure as a journalist and worked for Chicago American which became Chicago Today from 1965-1974 and then at the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1989. The majority of clippings in the collection come from these newspapers, but includes some articles that she wrote for other news services starting in...
Dates:
1927-2015; Majority of material found within 1965 - 2008
E. Winston and Ina D. Williams NAACP Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Williams-NAACP
Abstract
Papers of Chicago NAACP and labor union leader E. Winston Williams, who served as president of the Chicago Southside NAACP chapter from 1971-1974. Papers also reflect activities of Ina D. Williams (wife of E. Winston Williams), who played an integral behind-the-scenes role in Williams' administration. Collection includes photographs, clippings, programs, brochures, and correspondence documenting the activities of the NAACP chapter and Williams’s involvement with Chicago labor unions.
Dates:
1940s-1986; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1986
Edith Borroff Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borroff
Abstract
Musicologist, Composer, Author, Professor, Pianist, Vocalist, and Lecturer, Edith Borroff lived from 1925 to 2019, boasting a career that spanned at least 7 books and over 60 compositions.
Dates:
1800-2016; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1999
Edith Farnsworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farnsworth
Abstract
Correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and Italian poetry translations of Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago physician and owner of a Plano, Illinois, home designed by Mies van der Rohe. Farnsworth retired to Italy in the late 1960s.
Dates:
1900-1977
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