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Alma Schmidt Petersen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Petersen
Abstract

Letters of Alma Schmidt Petersen of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European, Canadian and American spas and vacation sites, and at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young woman.

Dates: 1909-1970; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1930
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

Clay Judson Papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC2
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer and civic leader, Clay Judson, including correspondence, mostly with family members; travel narratives of camping trips taken by Judson and his friends, chiefly in Wisconsin and Minnesota; materials relating to Judson’s experiences with the A.E.F. in World War I; and photographs of Judson and his family members, among which is an album of snapshots made while his father was stationed in Panama during the construction of the Gatun...
Dates: 1839-1960; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1926
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

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...
Dates: 1842-1945; Majority of material found within 1854-1928
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

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Children's drawings -- France 1
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Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
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India 1
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Lahore (Pakistan) 1
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World War, 1914-1918 1
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Adgate, Asa 1
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Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
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American National Red Cross 1
American Tract Society 1
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Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
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Brewster family 1
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Cokenhour family 1
Cole family 1
Cole, John A. (John Adams), 1838-1932 1
Cole, Julia Alvord, 1847-1934 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Daniel Johnson, 1877-1970 1
Fleming, Elizabeth Cole 1
Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan) 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Helvig family 1
Hirschberger, Fritz, Lieutenant 1
Howard University 1
Hoyal family 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Hyde family 1
Jackson family 1
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 1
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 1
Kauffman family 1
Klauder family 1
Knowles family 1
Knowles, Beatrice Michell 1
Knowles, Hannibal 1
Knowles, Julia Adgate 1
Knowles, Loren M. 1
Knowles, Sarah E. Clark 1
Lamson family 1
Lincoln Industrial Mission 1
Mead family 1
Michel family 1
Mount Vernon College 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Oliger family 1
Peck family 1
Petersen, Alma Schmidt, 1894-1989 1
Petersen, William F., 1887-1966 1
Schmidt, Emma Seipp 1
Schmidt, Otto L. (Otto Leopold), 1863-1935 1
Shaw family 1
Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 1
Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education 1
United States. Army. 2nd Motor Mechanics Regiment 1
Weygand family 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
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