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Clay Judson Papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-JudsonC2
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer and civic leader, Clay Judson, including correspondence, mostly with family members; travel narratives of camping trips taken by Judson and his friends, chiefly in Wisconsin and Minnesota; materials relating to Judson’s experiences with the A.E.F. in World War I; and photographs of Judson and his family members, among which is an album of snapshots made while his father was stationed in Panama during the construction of the Gatun...
Dates:
1839-1960; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1926
Loren M. Knowles family papers
Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract
Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates:
1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961
Morse-Keith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract
Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.
Dates:
1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872