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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

Henry J. Aten Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aten
Abstract

Letters from Nicholas Harris to Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, clippings, notes pertaining to the Aten family genealogy, and a photocopy of the family history initiated by Aten and continued by other relatives.

Dates: 1896-approximately 1920

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates: 1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

R. Ford Bentley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Bentley
Abstract

Personal, family, and professional papers including photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. Also includes promotional materials and correspondence pertaining to many of the printing related companies that Ford worked for.

Dates: approximately 1830-1990; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
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

Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans...
Dates: 1909-1991

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Correspondence -- 1801-1850 3
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Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 2
Families -- Illinois 2
Genealogical correspondence 2
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Manuscripts, American 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Advertising -- Printing machinery and supplies 1
Advertising executives -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Evanston 1
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Authors, American -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
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Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
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Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
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Families -- Kansas 1
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Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Fathers and sons -- Correspondence 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- New Jersey 1
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Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Graphic arts equipment industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Hack writers 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Kansas -- Genealogy 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legislators -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Licking County (Ohio) -- Genealogy 1
Licking County (Ohio) -- History 1
Literary agents -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
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Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 2001-2050 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Printing machinery and supplies -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Printing machinery and supplies -- Marketing 1
Printing machinery industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Publishers and publishing -- Correspondence 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
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Names
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 2
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
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American Committee for Devastated France 1
American Medical Association 1
American Mothers 1
American Tract Society 1
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Asheville School (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Aten family 1
Aten, Henry J., 1841-1913 1
Authors' League of America 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Bentley, Arthur, 1876-1946 1
Bentley, R. Ford (Robert Ford), 1909-1994 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Brewster family 1
Brown University Dramatic Society 1
Brown, Theodora Winterbotham 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Christian family 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Cokenhour family 1
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Downs family 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Dyas family 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Ford family 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Graphic Engineering Services, Inc. 1
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
Hard, William, 1878-1962 1
Harris, Nicholas 1
Helvig family 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Hoyal family 1
Hyde family 1
Indiana University 1
International Medical Congress 1
Jackson family 1
Jewett, Rutger B. 1
Kauffman family 1
Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945 1
Klauder family 1
Knowles family 1
Knowles, Beatrice Michell 1
Knowles, Hannibal 1
Knowles, Julia Adgate 1
Knowles, Loren M. 1
Knowles, Sarah E. Clark 1
Ladd, Southworth & Bentley 1
Lamson family 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Leonard family 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 1
Meredyth, Bess 1
Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936 1
Michel family 1
Miehle Printing Press & Mfg. Co. 1
Miehle-Goss-Dexter, Inc. 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
North Shore Country Day School (Winnetka, Ill.) 1
Oliger family 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944 1
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 1
Rockwell International 1
Rodger, John, 1735-1812 1
Rodgers, Andrew, 1789-1849 1
Rodgers, C. M. (Calvin Melancthon) 1
Rodgers, Eliza Paine 1
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