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Scharmel Iris Papers

 Collection
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

Solomon Lewis Switzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Switzer
Abstract

Chicago-area poet and children’s book author. Documents concerning A Trolley Ride Through Story Land (1915); manuscripts of poems by Switzer.

Dates: 1911-1929

Tia Chucha Press records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tia Chucha
Abstract

Administrative and literary materials including correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and financial documents pertaining to the establishment and operation of publishing company Tia Chucha Press.

Dates: 1989-1999

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

Woods Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods
Abstract Correspondence, writings, documents, genealogical research notes and photographs relating to the Woods family, descendants of Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada. Collected and preserved by Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Illinois, to be used for a complete (unfinished) family history, most of the material concerns Frank H. Woods's great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, his grandfather Frederick Moffatt Woods, and his father, Frank H. Woods. Included is a large group of Fanny Woods's...
Dates: approximately 1775-1975; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1975

Woods Family Papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-2
Abstract Materials gathered and retained by Frank H. Woods Jr. relating to Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada and his Woods descendants. Includes Frank H. Woods’s correspondence and research notes for a biography of Henry Ruiter, notebooks with accounts, poetry and stories of his great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, and an account book of his great-grandfather, Elias Woods, Woods family deeds and receipts from Boone County, Illinois (1840s-1860s), and other miscellaneous early Woods...
Dates: 1842-1980

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 14
Photographs -- 1901-1950 13
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 11
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Photographs -- 1951-2000 7
Poems -- 1901-1950 7
Poets, American -- 20th century 7
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 6
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Poets, American -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 6
Women poets, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Women novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Correspondence -- United States -- 1901-1950 3
Periodical editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Authors, American -- 20th century 2
Boone County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
Correspondence 2
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Periodical editors -- New York (State) -- New York 2
Photograph albums 2
Photographs 2
Poems -- 1951-2000 2
Poems -- Illinois -- Boone County -- 1851-1900 2
Poetry -- 20th century 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Women poets, American -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Actors -- Portraits 1
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Amateur theater -- Production and direction -- Florida 1
Amateur theater -- Production and direction -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ambrotypes 1
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Americans -- Foreign countries 1
Anthologies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Artist colonies -- New York (State) 1
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Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors, American 1
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
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Authors, European -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
Autobiographies (literary works) -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Balkan Peninsula 1
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- War of 1912-1913 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Biographers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Book design 1
Book editors -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Book editors -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Cartes de visite 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life 1
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Communism and literature -- History -- Sources 1
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Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Critics -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dancers -- Portraits 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Boone County -- 1801-1850 1
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French 1
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Names
Monroe, Harriet 8
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 5
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 5
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 4
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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 4
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 3
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 3
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958 3
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 2
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 2
Anderson, Margaret C. 2
Art Institute of Chicago 2
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 2
Cochran family 2
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 2
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 2
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 2
Eddy family 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Millay, Edna St. Vincent 2
O'Hara, John Myers, 1870-1944 2
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 2
Ruiter, Henry, 1742-1819 2
Santayana, George, 1863-1952 2
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 2
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 2
White, Fanny Woods, 1822-1893 2
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 2
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980 2
Woods, Frederick Moffatt, 1844-1928 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1
American Writers' Congress 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Aragon, 1897-1982 1
Asch, Nathan, 1902-1964 1
Barnett family 1
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950 1
Barrett, Roger 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Basso, Hamilton, 1904-1964 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Best, Marshall, -1982 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977 1
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Boulton, Inez 1
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966 1
Bowe, Julia Lecour, 1900 or 1901-1986 1
Bradley, Van Allen, 1913-1984 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Carpenter, Margaret Haley 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008 1
Chapin family 1
Cheever, John 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Clark, Daniel Newton, -1863 1
Colton family 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
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