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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 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

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

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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 -- 1851-1900 3
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 2
Families -- Illinois 2
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 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
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Hack writers 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Literary agents -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mothers and sons -- Correspondence 1
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 -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 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
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
Screenwriters -- United States 1
Serialized fiction -- United States 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Society of Friends 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
Travelers -- Europe -- Diaries 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Upper class families -- United States 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Warren County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whitman Massacre, 1847 1
Women in the book industries and trade 1
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Names
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 2
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
American Committee for Devastated France 1
American Medical Association 1
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Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Authors' League of America 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 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
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 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
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 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
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
Hard, William, 1878-1962 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Indiana University 1
International Medical Congress 1
Jewett, Rutger B. 1
Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945 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
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
North Shore Country Day School (Winnetka, Ill.) 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944 1
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 1
Rodger, John, 1735-1812 1
Rodgers, Andrew, 1789-1849 1
Rodgers, C. M. (Calvin Melancthon) 1
Rodgers, Eliza Paine 1
Rodgers, Isabel Ireland, 1830-1912 1
Rodgers, Mary Davidson, 1790-1879 1
Rogers family 1
Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960 1
Shaw family 1
Shaw, Alfred Phillips 1
Shaw, Joseph Winterbotham, 1935- 1
Shaw, Rue Winterbotham 1
Steel Wings Company 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Taliaferro, Mabel, 1889-1979 1
Thomas family 1
Webster Electric Company 1
Webster family 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1906- 1
Webster, Mary Ward Orth 1
Webster, Stokely 1
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 1
Winterbotham family 1
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