Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5
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
Dankmar Adler Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adler
Abstract
Correspondence, autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect, acoustician, and partner of Louis Sullivan in the Adler and Sullivan architectural firm. Also other family and research materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater, Stock Exchange Building, Garrick Theater Building, and the...
Dates:
1857-1984
F.W. Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.
Dates:
1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903 - 1916
Newberry Library Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-NL
Abstract
Collection of postcards with images of the Newberry Library, most mailed with messages to addressees, dating mainly from 1898-1915. Several copies of a later postcard with postmarks dating from 1939 to 1945, shows the Newberry Library, the John Crerar Library, the Harper Memorial Library, and the Chicago Public Library.
Dates:
1898-1945; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1915
Percy H. Sloan Collection of Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sloan
Abstract
Collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Chicago and environs, which includes aerial views of the city and some suburbs (1925-1930), and a large collection of church, civic, commercial and domestic architecture. Also, views of Chicago monuments and statuary and a group of Sloan’s checklists of his work. Most images are annotated with addresses and but not dates.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1942
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 4
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 3
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 3
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
- Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
- Accounts payable -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Accounts receivable -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography 1
- Building trades -- United States 1
- Building, Iron and steel -- Tables 1
- Buildings -- Salvaging -- Middle West 1
- Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Business records -- 1851-1900 1
- Business records -- 1901-1950 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil engineers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Construction industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
- Estates (Law) -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Middle West 1
- Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century 1
- Libraries -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Pictorial works 1
- Lost architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Construction 1
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel 1
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
- Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Postcards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Postcards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Singers -- Illinois 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Steel, Structural 1
- Travel diaries 1
- Trusts and trustees -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Yellowstone National Park -- Description and travel 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Adler and Sullivan 1
- Adler, Dankmar 1
- Adler, Liebmann (1812-1892) 1
- Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
- Burt family 1
- Burt, Edith Fleming 1
- Burt, Henry Jackson 1
- Chicago Aerial Survey 1
- Chicago Stock Exchange Building (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Clark Construction Company 1
- Clark family 1
- Clark, F. W. (Frederick William) 1
- Clark, Jonathan, 1902- 1
- Kohn, A. (Abraham) 1
- Newberry Library 1
- Potteiger, Helen Burt 1
- Saltzstein, Joan W. 1
- Schlesinger & Mayer Store 1
- Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn) 1
- Soldier Field (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Sullivan, Louis H. 1
- Tassin, Pepe 1
- Tribune Tower (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1
- Weil, Sara Adler 1
- Wilder, Thornton 1
- Wright, Frank Lloyd 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more