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Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Ernest A. Griffin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract

Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.

Dates: 1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

McNally family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McNallyF
Abstract Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials...
Dates: 1788-2002; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1993

Ruth Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

Wacker family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract

Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.

Dates: 1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970

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Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 2
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African American business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Altadena (Calif.) 1
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Art -- Exhibitions 1
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Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Aldis, Arthur T. 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
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Arts Club of Chicago 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Plan Commission 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Emmons, 1827-1905 1
Commercial Club of Chicago 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Graham, Martha 1
Griffin Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Griffin family 1
Griffin, Ernest A., 1912-1995 1
Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hektoen, Eleanor 1
Jarvis, Isabel 1
Julien Levy Gallery 1
Klee, Rogers, Loeb and Wolff (Firm) 1
Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949 1
Kusama, Yayoi 1
Lawrence, Robert H., 1935-1967 1
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 1
Lockett, Robbin 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet (Firm) 1
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 1
Magnusson, M. J. 1
Mamet, David 1
Man Ray, 1890-1976 1
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 1
Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989 1
McNally family 1
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 1
McNally, Andrew, 1909- 1
McNear, Everett, 1904-1984 1
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Moats, Mabel B. 1
Moore, Case, Lyman and Hubbard Insurance 1
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 1
Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895 1
Morley, Malcolm, 1931-2018 1
Nef, John U. (John Ulric), 1899-1988 1
Neff, Wallace, 1895-1982 1
Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988 1
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 1
Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980 1
Palmer, John, 1881-1964 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Plensa, Jaume, 1955- 1
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 1
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 1
Railway Express Agency 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Roullier, Alice, 1883-1963 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
Scheidt, Patricia 1
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