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Trumbull Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.
Dates: 1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950

Wallace Rice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.
Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

Will Ransom papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rans
Abstract Printer, commercial artist, bibliographer and author of works on American printing history and private presses who did freelance work in lettering, design and typography before becoming art editor at the University of Oklahoma Press. Largely the correspondence between Ransom and members of the Anglo-American fine press movement between 1920 and 1950, together with printed ephemera from these presses, and detailed notes about their history and publications. There are also files on Ransom's own...
Dates: 1883-1954

William H. Peterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the Swedish-American...
Dates: 1891-2012

William Morton Payne Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Payne
Abstract Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, and other personal materials pertaining to William Morton Payne's life as a literary critic, periodical editor, translator, and educator.
Dates: approximately 1850-1920

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Photographs -- 1851-1900 29
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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 23
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Clippings -- 1901-1950 7
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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 3
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 3
Diaries -- 1901-1950 3
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Authors, American 2
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 2
Clippings -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 2
Foreign correspondents 2
Foreign news 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 2
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 2
Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Poems -- 1901-1950 2
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 2
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 2
Sisters -- Correspondence 2
Spanish-American War, 1898 2
Syndicates (Journalism) -- United States 2
Women journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements 2
20th century music -- History 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Actors -- Correspondence 1
Actors -- Portraits 1
Actors -- United States -- 20th century 1
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
Alcoholics 1
Amateur arts 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anthologies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography 1
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Architecture -- Middle West 1
Architecture, Domestic 1
Artists -- Correspondence 1
Artists -- Portraits 1
Audiotapes 1
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
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Authors, European -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
Banjo -- History 1
Banjoists 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Barrington (Ill.) 1
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Biographers 1
Book editors -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Book reviewing 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Bookstores 1
Bridgeport (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Brothers -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Building, Iron and steel -- Tables 1
Buildings -- Salvaging -- Middle West 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Canada -- Description and travel 1
Carpentersville (Ill.) 1
Cartes de visite 1
Cartoons (humorous images) -- 1901-1950 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chesterton (Ind.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
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Language
French 2
German 1
Swedish 1
 
Names
Wright, Frank Lloyd 4
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 3
Monroe, Harriet 3
Ade, George, 1866-1944 2
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) 2
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Browne, Waldo R. (Waldo Ralph) 2
Carman, Bliss 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 2
Field, Eugene 2
Fuller, Henry Blake 2
Garland, Hamlin 2
Howells, William Dean 2
Judson, Clay 2
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees) 2
Lewis, Lloyd 2
Lewis, Sinclair 2
Lincoln, Abraham 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) 2
Rice, Wallace 2
Sandburg, Carl 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) 2
Wilder, Thornton 2
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
Allen, Annie Cox 1
Allen, Gideon W. 1
Allen, Ruth F., 1879-1963 1
America First Committee 1
American Field Service 1
American Medical Association 1
American Mothers 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American Tract Society 1
Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Associated Press 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger) 1
Barrett, Roger 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Barrymore, John 1
Bell, Edward Price 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne 1
Bernhardt, Sarah 1
Bernie, Ben 1
Bispham, David 1
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 1
Bogan, Louise 1
Brewster family 1
Briggs, Clare A. 1
Brothers of the Book 1
Browne's Bookstore 1
Browne, Herbert S. 1
Bryan, William Lowe 1
Burroughs, John 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming 1
Burt, Henry Jackson 1
Butcher, Fanny 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham 1
Carpenter, John Alden 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham 1
Carson Pirie Scott 1
Cather, Willa 1
Chap-book 1
Chaplin, Charlie 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) 1
Chicago Daily Socialist 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Chicago Stock Exchange Building (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Christian family 1
Clark, Herma Naomi 1
Clay, Henry 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Cokenhour family 1
Comfort, Will Levington 1
Conrad, Joseph 1
Cowley, Malcolm 1
Crane, William H. 1
Cuala Press 1
Darrow, Clarence 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
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