Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

Ellen Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

Frank H. Woods, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-F
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of businessman and philanthropist Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Chicago, including family, business, personal and philanthropic-related correspondence and general files, clippings, memorabilia and photographs.

Dates: 1890-2000; Majority of material found within 1935-1980

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barrett-Sandburg
Abstract Correspondence between Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Lincoln, plus a few other letters of Oliver Barrett and his son Roger; numerous brief undated notes from Sandburg to Barrett and work notes on Lincoln's biography by both men; copies of several articles and numerous poems by Sandburg; miscellaneous printed items relating to Sandburg, his work and his public appearances; and...
Dates: approximately 1860-1966

Thomas Conolly papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conolly
Abstract

Material collected by Thomas Conolly, decorative plasterer and handyman for fifty-two years at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, which consists mainly of autographs and autographed historical letters. Also, bookplates, clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, a few items relating to the Chicago Civic Opera Company and the Auditorium Theater, several photographs and pictures, and a group of personal letters to Conolly.

Dates: 1800-1944

Filtered By

  • Subject: Photographs -- 1901-1950 X
  • Subject: Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Manuscripts, American 2
∨ more
Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Authors, European -- 19th century -- Portraits 1
Autograph albums 1
Autographs (manuscripts) 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 1
Bookplates 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes de visite 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Photographs 1
Claims against decedents' estates 1
Coal mines and mining -- Middle West -- Records and correspondence 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1951-2000 1
Cosmetics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance companies -- Photographs 1
Dancers -- Photographs 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Drawings (visual works) -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Family foundations -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Family-owned business enterprises -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Father and child -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- Photographs 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Lincoln (Neb.) -- History 1
Opera companies -- Photographs 1
Philanthropists -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century 1
Photograph albums -- Southwestern States -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 2001-2050 1
Photographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Poems -- 1901-1950 1
Poems -- 1951-2000 1
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Politicians -- Portraits 1
Programs -- 1901-1950 1
Programs -- 1951-2000 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1
Soldiers -- Portraits 1
Stereographs 1
Travel literature -- 1901-1950 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs 1
Upper class families -- Family relationships 1
Wills 1
Women authors, American -- Nebraska -- History -- 20th century 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
∨ more
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950 1
Barrett, Roger 1
Beatty, Harry W. 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Campanini, Cleofonte 1
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Clark, Robert R., 1834-1907 1
Conolly, Laura Houghton 1
Conolly, Thomas, 1856-1945 1
Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dufau, Jenny 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Elston, Daniel, 1790-1855 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Howton, Arthur 1
Johnson, Herbert M. 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kriza, John 1
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lindley, Lucia Woods 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Mack family 1
Mack, Katherine Eleanor Roberts, 1910-1999 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950 1
Marsh family 1
Marsh, Bertha S., 1860-1945 1
Marsh, Marshall S., 1856-1925 1
Mitgang, Herbert 1
New York City Ballet 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Roberts family 1
Roberts, George R., 1885- 1
Roberts, Katherine Marsh, 1885-1932 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Ross, Charles 1
Royal Ballet 1
Sahara Coal Company 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sothern, E. H. (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Vickers, Jon 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation 1
Wood family 1
Woods Charitable Fund 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980 1
Woods, Henry C. 1
Woods, Nelle Cochrane 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
Zoritch, George, 1917-2009 1
+ ∧ less