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Bess Winakor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winakor
Abstract Newspaper articles and story files of Bess Winakor, Chicago correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, 1967-1974, and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1974-1978. Includes background materials, interview notes, and dispatches for stories about Hugh Hefner, Judge Julius Hoffman and Pat Nixon, materials from trips to Iran in 1976, and Washington D.C. in 1977 for the Carter inauguration, as well as scrapbooks containing her articles...
Dates: 1967-1977

Carroll Binder papers

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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

Cartwright Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cartwright
Abstract Three generations of an Ohio family that moved to Evanston, Ill., in the early 20th century and whose members were primarily journalists, including Charles Merritt Cartwright (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Inter-Ocean editor), Stanley Levering Cartwright (Chicago Tribune reporter and editor of the National Underwriter), and Ruth Russell, Stanley's wife (feature...
Dates: 1877-1982

Fanny Butcher papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

George Ade papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

Harry Hansen papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Howard Vincent O'Brien papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brien
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, publicity materials, and personal papers of newspaper columnist and novelist Howard Vincent O'Brien.

Dates: 1894-1948

Jack Mabley papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mabley
Abstract Correspondence with colleagues, congratulatory letters, inter-office memos; works including newspaper clippings, subject files dealing with important stories including the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Richard Cain case, racketeering, police corruption, and vice in Chicago, miscellaneous articles and columns; biographical clippings, publicity, and interviews, and photographs of Mabley himself and with public figures such as Hugh Hefner and Richard Nixon. Mabley was a reporter and columnist...
Dates: 1937-2003

Melville E. Stone papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Mike Royko papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

Ring Lardner papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lardner
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of journalist and humorist author Ring Lardner. Also estate papers, including royalty records through 2003, biographical materials, publicity and reviews, adaptations of writings, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1805-2003; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1987

Robert Marsh Papers

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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

Sherwood Ross papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ross
Abstract

Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.

Dates: 1956-2014

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Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 2
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Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Associated Press 1
Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928 1
Bell Syndicate, Inc. 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
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Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
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Brice, Fanny 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cain, Richard, -1973 1
Capone, Al, 1899-1947 1
Cartwright family 1
Cartwright, C. M. (Charles Merritt), 1869-1951 1
Cartwright, Ruth Russell 1
Cartwright, Seth Levering 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Chicago Urban League 1
Chicago record 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), 1884-1972 1
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942 1
Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Creel, George, 1876-1953 1
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Ebert, Roger 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Federated Press 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fernald, Charles Edward, 1902- 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
George Ade Memorial Association 1
Gilman, Evelyn 1
Gunther, John, 1901-1970 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-2017 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hoffman, Julius J. (Julius Jennings), 1895-1983 1
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Indiana Society of Chicago 1
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Kurfess, William F. 1
Lardner family 1
Lardner, Ellis Abbott, 1887-1960 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Mabley, Jack 1
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