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Ephraim C. Dawes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.

Dates: 1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895

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

Howe-Barnard family papers

 Collection
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

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

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Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
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Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
Kindergarten -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
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Kobe, Japan 1
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Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
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Missionaries -- Japan -- Correspondence 1
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Mortgages -- United States -- History 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Physicians -- Ohio 1
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Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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School principals -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science teachers -- United States 1
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Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
Travelers -- Azores -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 1
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
War wounds -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Women teachers -- History -- 19th century 1
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American Medical Association 1
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Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1