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Carroll Binder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Binder
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, personal and family materials, and photographs of newspaper editor and foreign correspondent Carroll Binder.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

Elaine Madlener papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Madlener
Abstract

Research material for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Material related to Madlener’s Grant Hospital committee work for two benefit performances by Karajan in 1955 and 1965, and manuscripts by British author Charles Langbridge Morgan.

Dates: 1916-1966; Majority of material found within 1944-1965

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

John Doctoroff papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Doctoroff
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, exhibition programs, and prints relating to Chicago-based portrait artist John Doctoroff.

Dates: 1924-1967

Robert Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1940-1986

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 4
Photographs -- 1901-1950 4
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 3
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 3
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Art -- Exhibitions 1
Art patrons -- United States 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Autographs -- Collections 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Benefit performances -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 2001-2050 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Conductors (Music) -- Biography 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Dallas (Tex.) 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Freedom of the press 1
Golf 1
Greeting cards 1
Hollywood (Fla.) 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Jewish artists -- United States 1
Jewish painters 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews 1
Kalamazoo (Mich.) 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Leisure 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Pictorial works 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Miami (Fla.) 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspapers 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews 1
Off-Broadway theater 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Oldsmobile automobile -- Photographs 1
Package tours 1
Palm Beach (Fla.) 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Personal correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Personal correspondence -- 2001-2050 1
Philanthropists -- United States 1
Photographs -- 2001-2050 1
Playbills -- 1901-1950 1
Playbills -- 1951-2000 1
Playbills -- 2001-2050 1
Portrait drawing, American -- 20th century 1
Portrait painters -- United States 1
Portrait painting, American -- 20th century 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Programs -- 1901-1950 1
Pulitzer Prizes 1
Rapid City (S.D.) 1
Reporters and reporting 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
San Antonio (Tex.) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 2001-2050 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Springfield (Ill.) 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater -- Production and direction 1
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Language
French 1
German 1
 
Names
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Adolphus Hotel (Dallas, Tex.) 1
Albers, Charles H. 1
All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts 1
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Ambassador East Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anshe Emet Synagogue (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baird, Warner G. 1
Baker family 1
Bank, Marji 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Berliner Philharmoniker 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Branstrom, William J. 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Budd, Ralph, 1879-1962 1
Butterworth Center (Moline, Ill.) 1
Capehart, Homer E. (Homer Earl), 1897-1979 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chicago Clearing House Association 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Davis, Mitchell P. 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Dettmer, Roger 1
Dillard University 1
Doctoroff, John, 1893-1970 1
Doctoroff, Rose, 1893-1956 1
Drake Hotel 1
Dutton, Mary L. 1
Edwards Place (Springfield, Ill.) 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 1
Engelhard, Benjamin M., 1868-1948 1
Federal Life Insurance Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Federated Press 1
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garfinkle, Ann 1
Garfinkle, Henry, 1903-1983 1
Gerber, Daniel F., 1898-1974 1
Gerber, Frank D., 1873-1952 1
Gilmore, Eugene Stuart 1
Goldsmith, Dorothy 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Grant Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Grant Hospital (Chicago, Ill.). Women's Auxiliary 1
Hamilton, Isaac Miller 1
Harris, Paul Percy, 1868-1947 1
Hirschberg, Abram, 1876-1950 1
Hollywood Beach Hotel (Hollywood, Fla.) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 1
Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Illinois State Fair 1
International Creative Artists and Craftsmen's Guild 1
Karajan, Herbert von 1
Kazan, Elia 1
Kenosha Historical Art Museum (Kenosha, Wis.) 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Korrick, Blanche Becker, 1897-1987 1
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
League of Chicago Theatres 1
Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993 1
Levy, Ruth 1
Lohr, Lenox R. (Lenox Riley), 1891-1968 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra 1
Lookingglass Theatre Company 1
MacMurray College 1
Madlener, Elaine 1
Mann, Louis L. (Louis Leopold), 1890- 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 1
Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles) 1
Maxwell, Iris 1
Michael Reese Nurses’ Alumnae Association of Chicago 1
Minneapolis tribune 1
Morgan, Charles, 1894-1958 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Municipal Art League of Chicago 1
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Communication 1
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 1
Palm Beach Hotel (Palm Beach, Fla.) 1
Penn, Albert, 1881-1962 1
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