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Barkhausen family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-074
Abstract

Small collection of family documents, all in German, relating to the Barkhausen family of Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Includes correspondence, 1854-1862, a small notebook, ca. 1857-1872, and an account book, 1888-1889.

Dates: 1854-1889

Charles Saeltzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Saeltzer
Abstract Correspondence, certificates, vouchers, orders, muster rolls, and a diary belonging to Charles Saeltzer of Mansfield, Ohio, dated between 1846 and 1865, and documenting his training and certification as a teacher, both in Germany and Ohio, and his service as a member of the 10th Ohio Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. Most of Saeltzer's early papers are his teacher certifications from the German government, dated between 1846 and 1853; similar certifications from the state of Ohio are...
Dates: 1846-1865; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1865

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

Frederick A. Stock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stock
Abstract

Incoming correspondence to Frederick A. Stock, second conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also photographs of Stock rehearsing at Interlochen Music Camp, early 1940s.

Dates: 1904-1940s

Höfeln Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Höfeln
Abstract

Chiefly letters from Germany to Charlotte Fischer, both before and after her emigration to Illinois in 1851 and her marriage to Andreas von Höfeln in 1852. Also includes correspondence with their son, Alexander Andrew Heflin, who worked for railroads in Kansas, and between Heflin and his wife, teacher Jessie Beathard Heflin.

Dates: 1831-1897

Hoffmann family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hoffmann
Abstract

Correspondence and documents relating to the immigrant Hoffmann family, especially John A. Hoffmann of Illinois and Franz Joseph Hoffmann in Dubuque, Iowa. By 1901, the family had established a feed and fuel company in Wilmette, Illinois.

Dates: approximately 1789-1901

Theodore Thomas Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thomas
Abstract

Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases.

Dates: 1852-1926

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Manuscripts, American 5
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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 4
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Families -- Illinois 2
Germans -- Illinois 2
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Musicians -- Correspondence 2
Actors -- Portraits 1
Authors -- Portraits 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Composers -- Correspondence 1
Composers -- History -- Sources 1
Composers -- Portraits 1
Conductors (Music) -- Correspondence 1
Conductors (Music) -- History -- Sources 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Daybooks -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Europe 1
Dry-goods -- Illinois 1
Families -- Wisconsin 1
Farmers -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
German Americans -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Correspondence 1
German Americans -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Diaries 1
Germans -- Wisconsin 1
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
Immigrants -- Wisconsin 1
Kansas -- Description and travel 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Love-letters 1
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Manuscripts, German -- Wisconsin 1
Mequon (Wis.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Musicians -- History -- Sources 1
Muster rolls -- 1801-1850 1
Muster rolls -- 1851-1900 1
Orders -- 1801-1850 1
Orders -- 1851-1900 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Pianists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Singers -- History -- Sources 1
Singers -- Portraits 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Diaries 1
Symphony orchestras -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Symphony orchestras -- History -- Sources 1
Teachers -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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Vouchers (sales records) -- 1801-1850 1
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Washington (Ill.) 1
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Language
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2
Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929 2
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 2
Arliss, George, 1868-1946 1
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
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Backhaus, Wilhelm, 1884-1969 1
Barkhausen, August, 1818-1899 1
Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931 1
Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950 1
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Grove, George, 1820-1900 1
Heflin family 1
Heflin, Alexander Andrew 1
Heflin, Jessie Beathard 1
Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 1
Hoffmann, Franz Joseph 1
Hoffmann, John Augustus 1
Höfeln, Andreas von 1
Höfeln, Charlotte Fischer von 1
Interlochen Arts Academy (Interlochen, Mich.) 1
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 1
Landowska, Wanda 1
Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929 1
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 1
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 1
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 1
Morris, William, 1834-1896 1
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 1
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906 1
Powell, Maud, 1867-1920 1
Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936 1
Saeltzer, Charles, 1829- 1
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 1
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 1
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 1
Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 1
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 1
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 1
Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865) 1
Voliker, Louis 1
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 1
Zeisler, Sigmund, 1860-1931 1
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