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George Ade papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Ring Lardner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lardner
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of journalist and humorist author Ring Lardner. Also estate papers, including royalty records through 2003, biographical materials, publicity and reviews, adaptations of writings, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1805-2003; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1987

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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Abbott family 1
Ade family 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
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Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928 1
Bell Syndicate, Inc. 1
Brice, Fanny 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago record 1
Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), 1884-1972 1
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942 1
Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 1
Creel, George, 1876-1953 1
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Fernald, Charles Edward, 1902- 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
George Ade Memorial Association 1
Gilman, Evelyn 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1
Indiana Society of Chicago 1
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 1
Kurfess, William F. 1
Lardner family 1
Lardner, Ellis Abbott, 1887-1960 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Mark Twain Society of Chicago 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meine, Franklin J., 1896-1968 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Ostrander, Wilma Johnson 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969 1
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Purdue University 1
Rathbun, James D. 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Ring, Blanche, 1871-1961 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sigma Chi Fraternity 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1
Union League Club of Chicago 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Webster, Harold Tucker, 1885-1952 1
Wheeler, John N. (John Neville), 1886-1973 1
Whitechapel Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Williams, Bert, 1874-1922 1
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