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Orlando Cabanban photographs

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Cabanban
Abstract Negatives (35 mm and 120 film format), contact sheets, prints, and transparencies created by Chicago photographer Orlando Cabanban primarily of events related to the American Indian Center of Chicago during the late 1960s. Social activities documented include powwows, day camps, the AIC canoe club and basketball team, and the American Indian Festival held at the Field Museum. Also includes images of AIC meetings, demonstrations, individual and family portraits, miscellaneous photographs and...
Dates: approximately 1920s-1991; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1986

Pullman Company Records - Audiovisual Materials

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Identifier: Case-Pullman-13
Abstract Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, films, filmstrips, and sound recordings, documenting Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company cars and car furnishings, officials and employees, properties, advertising, and employee recruitment and training. Forms part of the Pullman Company Records.
Dates: 1872-1976

R. Ford Bentley Papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Bentley
Abstract Personal, family, and professional papers including photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. Also includes promotional materials and correspondence pertaining to many of the printing related companies that Ford worked for.
Dates: approximately 1830-1990; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Ralph Korngold papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Korngold
Abstract Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.
Dates: 1867-1994; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1964

Raven Theatre Records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raven
Abstract Records related to Chicago’s Raven Theatre’s administration, development, history, and productions. Materials include box office reports, building plans, and correspondence, as well as budgets, flyers, photographs, reviews, press releases, programs, annotated scripts, and set designs for Raven Theatre’s main stage and “shorties”/one act productions.
Dates: approximately 1940-2015; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2013

Robert Marsh Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.
Dates: 1940-1986

Rudolph Ganz Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.
Dates: 1864-2013

Rudy Horn papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Horn
Abstract Correspondence, clippings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago entertainer known as the "Comedy King of Vaudeville." His father was Henry Horn, who operated and booked nightclubs in the early 1900s and was the onetime owner of Chicago's Green Mill Tavern. Born in 1909, Horn performed as a dancer, comedian, and emcee throughout the US and Europe.
Dates: 1920-1995

Scharmel Iris Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-137
Abstract Small collection of material relating to minor Chicago poet. Iris proved to be a plagiarist and forger who engaged in a life-long campaign not only to have his verse published but also to be regarded as a colleague of more successful writers and poets. Consists of correspondence, poetry, and miscellaneous items such as clippings and photographs.
Dates: 1911-1964

Steele-Winters Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.
Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

Walter Ansel Strong Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Strong
Abstract Correspondence, personal documents, photographs, and family materials related to Walter Ansel Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News from 1925-1931.
Dates: 1847-2008; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1931

Welling Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Welling
Abstract Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Harriet Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; John P. Welling material includes military records from his service in World War I.
Dates: 1899-1988

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 Frederking dance photographs

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Frederking
Abstract Black and white photographs of Chicago area dance companies and dancers taken by professional photographer William Frederking. Also included are publicity materials related to the dance companies and dancers Frederking photographed as well as personal materials such as correspondence.
Dates: 1985-2016; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000

William H. Peterson Papers

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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

Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans families....
Dates: 1909-1991

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Page, Ruth 4
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 3
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Pullman Company 3
Sandburg, Carl 3
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American Indian Center of Chicago 2
Anderson, Margaret C. 2
Art Institute of Chicago 2
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 2
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 2
Cabanban, Orlando 2
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 2
Cassidy, Claudia 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 2
Dillon, George 2
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Howard, Alan 2
Hull House Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Humphrey, Doris 2
Kriza, John 2
Lewis, Lloyd 2
Lewis, Sinclair 2
Lyric Opera of Chicago 2
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott 2
New York City Ballet 2
Newberry Library 2
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 2
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2
Tietjens, Eunice 2
Wesaw family 2
Williams, Tennessee 2
Wright, Frank Lloyd 2
Abelson, Hope 1
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 1
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 1
Adler and Sullivan 1
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900 1
Adler, Liebmann, 1812-1892 1
Akers, Milburn P. 1
Albee, Edward, 1928-2016 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allard, Edith, 1927-2012 1
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allison, Keith (dance teacher) 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Field Service 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Railway Union 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American Relief Administration 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
American Theatre Wing War Service, Inc 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Asheville School (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Associated Press 1
Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1
Badolato, Bill 1
Badolato, Dean 1
Baker family 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Balanchine, George 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Ballets russes 1
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 1
Baril, Elmer J. 1
Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Barnes, Bessie 1
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Bates family 1
Battise family 1
Battise, Dan 1
Baum, Edna Lucile 1
Bearskin family 1
Bearskin, Ben 1
Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976 1
Beberdick, Frank H. (Frank Harry), 1927- 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Beech, Keyes 1
Beloit College 1
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