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Alexander Bennett papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-BennettA
Abstract
Bennett was a dancer with the Royal Ballet and Ballet Rambert, and former director of the Twin Cities Ballet in Illinois as well as other regional ballet companies. His collection includes many audio and videocassettes, a scrapbook of his dancing career, and some memorabilia.
Dates:
1953-1990
Alexander Yule Travel Diary
Item
Identifier: Midwest-MS-193
Abstract
Diary of the Saint Louis pig iron businessman Alexander Yule, who traveled with his wife, Ruth, by train through Canada to St. John; by ship to Liverpool, and then around England; across the channel to Paris, and then to Scotland and Ireland before returning on the "Caronia" to New York. Entries, dated 28 April-29 June 1907, contain details about towns and tourist destinations, meetings with cousins and parents in England and Scotland, and some business appointments. One photograph of an...
Dates:
1907
Alfred Balk papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Balk
Abstract
Papers of Iowa-born and Northwestern-educated journalist Alfred Balk, documenting his career, first as a Chicago newswriter for WBBM, reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and freelance contributor to major national magazines, and later as an editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, World Press Review, Saturday Review, and IEEE Spectrum, and faculty member at Columbia and Syracuse. Includes correspondence, working files for his freelance articles, his books and other writings, together with files...
Dates:
1941-2010; Majority of material found within 1953-1993
Alfred Barnes papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-075
Abstract
Seven letters from Alfred Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut to his sister Julia Barnes of Northampton, Massachusetts and Evansville, Indiana. Letters discuss family news and personal business.
Dates:
1834-1838
Alfred E. Hamill Letters to Kenneth Meyer Setton
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-162
Abstract
Five letters to Kenneth Setton concerning his studies of Athens in the 12th century, and other matters of mutual interest.
Dates:
1944-1946
Alfred E. Hamill papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract
Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates:
1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953
Alfred F. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Young
Abstract
Research working files, correspondence, and writings of Alfred F. Young, prominent historian of the ordinary people of the American Revolution and mentor to a whole generation of younger scholars. Young taught for over 25 years at Northern Illinois University and after his retirement was a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library.
Dates:
1930-2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Alfred J. Cox family papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-65
Abstract
Letters, calligraphic favors, legal documents and photographs from the papers of Alfred J. Cox, Chicago book binder and collector. Correspondents include: William Cox and William Cox, Jr. (grandfather and father of A.J. Cox); James Cox (uncle of William Jr.); Jonathan Evans (adoptive father of A.J. Cox); Jane E. French (later Mrs. Alfred J. Cox); Louisa Field (cousin); W.I. Wilson and H.V. Whalen (Chicago businessmen). Photos are of A.J. Cox and his library.
Dates:
1797-1909
Alfred J. Fairbank letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT Wing-MS-ZW-945 .F157
Abstract
Letters written by Fairbank, an English calligrapher and founding member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, to Kathleen King, later Kathleen King Whyte. The letters are written in a calligraphic hand.
Dates:
1937-1977
Alice Bartlett Stevens papers
Collection
Identifier: Modern-MS-45
Abstract
Correspondence and writings of Alice Bartlett Stevens. The papers includes a 1940 letter addressed to Stevens from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. Additional correspondence includes letters written between Alice Bartlett Stevens and Marken and Bielfelf Printers. Included with these letters are several photographs pertaining to Barbara Fritchie, a Unionist during the Civil War. The papers also include an essay written by Alice Bartlett Stevens entitled...
Dates:
1912-1940
Alice French papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thanet
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, clippings and other miscellaneous material relating to Alice French, author of short stories, novels and essays, who wrote under the pseudonym Octave Thanet.
Dates:
1871-1934
Alice Gerstenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract
Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.
Dates:
1903-1971
Alice Judson Ryerson Hayes papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-HayesA
Abstract
Daily journals, travel journals, sketchbooks, writings, and other papers of Chicago writer Alice Judson Ryerson Hayes, who founded and ran Ragdale, a retreat for writers, musicians, and artists, at her family's Lake Forest estate designed by her grandfather, Howard Van Doren Shaw. Dating from 1934-2001, Hayes' journals contain extensive reflections on motherhood, marriage, writing, and a host of other topics, as well as her own creative work. They document an independent woman entering...
Dates:
1934-2006
Alice Pacholik - Heulwen Thomas Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Pacholik
Abstract
Letters of Welsh pen-pal and friend, Heulwen Morgan Thomas, to Alice Kipnowski Pacholik, of Chicago, which began in 1938 when Heulwen was 15 and continued until 2011, a year prior to Heulwen's death.
Dates:
1938-2011
Alison True - Chicago Reader records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-True
Abstract
Administrative files of Chicago Reader editor Alison True, including production notes, letters, photographs, style manuals, surveys, and a collection of monographs by Reader contributors (both on staff and freelance). Also includes a box of materials relating to the proposed redesign of the paper in 2003-2004, and one oversize folder of original artwork submitted to the paper.
Dates:
1979-2007
Allan H. Stevenson papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Ste
Abstract
Research notes, original manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished works, professional correspondence, and photographs of watermarks used for research by paper historian Allan H. Stevenson.
Dates:
1944-1970; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1970
Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allen
Abstract
Courtship letters of lawyer and Wisconsin statesman Gideon W. Allen and his future wife Annie Cox during the years of 1863-1865 in which they discuss current their political and religious beliefs, Allen's travels throughout Wisconsin while looking for work, and Cox's life as a woman in Madison, Wisconsin. Also an unfinished biography of renowned botanist Ruth F. Allen by Mabel Nebel, incoming correspondence of Ruth F. Allen, and other family correspondence, photographs, and personal materials...
Dates:
1862-1964
Allen Ruff Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ruff
Abstract
Publications and working papers of Ruff, mostly in preparation for his book "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). The bulk of the material is photocopied documents used in research.
Dates:
1855-1997
Allied Arts records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract
Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues in...
Dates:
1913-1997
Alma Boge papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-BogeA
Abstract
Appointment calendars, daily journals, photo albums and supplemental material preserved by Alma Boge, from her high school age onward, documenting her life as a wife, mother of five children, and working woman actively involved in her communities of Spokane WA, Park Ridge, IL, Gig Harbor, WA, Scottsdale, AZ, and Barrington, IL.
Dates:
1944-2015
Alma Bunch Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bunch
Abstract
Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950s.
Dates:
1890-1985
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
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Sioux Indian interview cassettes
Collection — Box: AV USB 1, item: Josephy_USB_1
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Josephy
Abstract
Recorded interviews made by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., historian of American Indian affairs, and also war correspondent, screenwriter, and government consultant. Includes 40 cassette tapes of interviews conducted during 1982 and 1983 with reservation Sioux Indians in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, and with urban and off-reservation Sioux in such places as Oakland, Los Angeles, Rapid City, Pierre, and Tucson. Interviews were undertaken for a National Geographic Magazine...
Dates:
1982-1983
American advertising cards
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 3-018
Abstract
American advertising cards issued by product manufacturers and retail stores. Geographic areas covered include Cleveland, Ohio, Painesville, Ohio, Algoma, Wisconsin, and South Bend, Indiana.
Dates:
1880s-1905
American Circus Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-AmCircus
Abstract
Late 19th and early 20th century circus and theater related illustrations, publicity, programs, photographs and memorabilia.
Dates:
1891-1939
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