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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

Harris-MacLean family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Howe-Barnard family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Howe-Barnard
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, personal and professional materials, and photographs of the Howe and Barnard families, early Chicago settlers. Included are the materials of Annie L. Howe, a missionary, teacher, and founder of Glory Kindergarten and Training School in Japan, her brother, Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who originated the practice of field trips in science classes, and Alice Lucretia Barnard, one of the first woman principals in the Chicago schools. Also contains Civil War letters...
Dates: 1826-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

Rodgers Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 4
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 4
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 3
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Illinois -- Genealogy 2
Manuscripts, American 2
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists -- United States 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- 1852-1925 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dwellings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Education -- History -- 19th century 1
Faith -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Maine 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Ohio 1
Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Kindergarten -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Kindergarten -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten teachers 1
Kindergarten teachers -- Training of 1
Kobe, Japan 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Landlords -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- Correspondence 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Mortgages -- United States -- History 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Plats (maps) -- Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1885-1924 1
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Names
American Medical Association 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
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Bernard family 1
Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Bowdoin College 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Dabney, Samuel W. 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
DeWitt family 1
Eleanor Association 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Froebel Society 1
Furber family 1
Gales family 1
Glory Kindergarten and Training School 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
Howe family 1
Howe, Annie Lyon, 1852-1943 1
Howe, Charles Oliver, 1822- 1
Howe, Edward Gardiner, 1849-1931 1
International Medical Congress 1
Kindergarten Union of Japan 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
MacLean, Annie Marion 1
MacLean, M. H. (Murdoch Haddon), 1872-1954 1
MacLean, Pearl Emma Harris 1
Mason, R. B. (Roswell B.), 1805-1892 1
McLean family 1
Metcalf family 1
Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, 1829-1875 1
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Putnam family 1
Putnam, John Milton, 1794-1871 1
Rich family 1
Rodger, John, 1735-1812 1
Rodgers, Andrew, 1789-1849 1
Rodgers, C. M. (Calvin Melancthon) 1
Rodgers, Eliza Paine 1
Rodgers, Isabel Ireland, 1830-1912 1
Rodgers, Mary Davidson, 1790-1879 1
Rogers family 1
Union Central Life Insurance Company 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1866). Company K 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
Yale University 1
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