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Caleb Thomas Curtis Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-199
Abstract

Nine letters written by Caleb Thomas Curtis of Boston, Massachusetts during his travels by steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Dates: 1836-1838

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

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Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 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 trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists -- United States 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 -- 1801-1850 1
Dwellings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Education -- History -- 19th century 1
Faith -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Illinois -- Description and travel 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 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
Louisville (Ky.) -- Description and travel 1
Love-letters 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Medicine -- 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
New Orleans (La.) -- Description and travel 1
Paducah (Ky.) -- Description and travel 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- 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
Real estate business -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
River steamers -- Mississippi River 1
River steamers -- Ohio River 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
School field trips -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century 1
School principals -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science teachers -- United States 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
Travel -- United States 1
Travelers -- Azores -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Upper class families -- Family relationships 1
Voyages and travels 1
Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Whaling -- New England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Women college teachers 1
Women school principals 1
Women teachers -- History -- 19th century 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
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American Medical Association 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1