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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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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

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Howe-Barnard family papers

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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

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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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Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 2
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Illinois -- Genealogy 2
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Calligraphy (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Commercial art -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Congregationalists -- United States 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Courtship -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- 1852-1925 1
Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dwellings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Education -- History -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Faith -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Maine 1
Families -- Ohio 1
Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
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Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
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Kindergarten -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Kindergarten -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Kindergarten facilities -- Japan -- History 1
Kindergarten teachers 1
Kindergarten teachers -- Training of 1
Kobe, Japan 1
Landlords -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Love-letters -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- Correspondence 1
Missionaries -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Mortgages -- United States -- History 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Pets -- 1900-1920 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Plats (maps) -- Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1885-1924 1
Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Real estate business -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
School field trips -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century 1
School principals -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Science teachers -- United States 1
Sisters -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
Travelers -- Azores -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel 1
Washington Heights (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Diaries 1
Women -- Domestic life -- United States -- 1880-1900 1
Women school principals 1
Women teachers -- History -- 19th century 1
Women travelers -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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American Medical Association 1
Barnard, Alice Lucretia, 1829-1908 1
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Bethany Union Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1