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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Frederick John Rank papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rank
Abstract

The Frederick John Rank papers contain his diaries from 1875-1939, which record his daily life and touch upon his work as a packer for Montgomery Ward. A bound volume about Rank's diaries, compiled by Rank's great-granddaughter Janet Rank Spaletto, is also present. Additionally the papers contain family correspondence, some of which relates to Rank's son's attempt for an assistant postmaster general appointment.

Dates: 1872-2013; Majority of material found within 1875-1939

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

Hermann Raster papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raster
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life of German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Hermann Raster, and his work as editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.

Dates: 1849-1940; Majority of material found within 1860-1891

Melville E. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Mitchell Dawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Rowley Family Journals

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-096
Abstract

Two journals by Mrs. Jane Rowley of the Chicago area, including descriptions of family and farming life, and various trips to Chicago and elsewhere.

Dates: 1851-1887

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Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Collective settlements -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
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Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
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Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
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Saint Paul (Minn.) 1
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Names
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American University of Beirut 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Associated Press 1
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Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Damrosch, Leopold, 1832-1885 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Manierre, Edward 1
McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956 1
Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Montgomery Ward Workers of Chicago 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland), 1837-1902 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911 1
Rank, Augusta "Gussie" Minnie 1
Rank, Carl Frederick 1
Rank, Frederick John 1
Rank, Laura Augusta 1
Rapp, Wilhelm, 1828-1907 1
Raster, Hermann, 1827-1891 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Rowley family 1
Rowley, Jane Perry 1
Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Spaletto, Janet Rank 1
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 1
Stone family 1
Stone, Herbert Stuart, 1871-1915 1
Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 1
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