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Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown Family
Abstract Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, numerous group and portrait photographs, a scrapbook, travel and souvenir items and snapshots, relating to sisters Grace and Genevieve Brown, musicians who were members of three American all-girl bands between 1923 and 1932. A large part of the collection consists of photographs of the bands and the performers: Harry Waiman and the Debutantes, the Parisian Red Heads and the Ingenues, as well as numerous small travel photographs Also a small...
Dates: 1918-1972; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1932

Frances Wells Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ShawF
Abstract

Papers of Frances Wells Shaw of Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois, wife of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Bulk consists of material related to the frequent domestic and international travels of Frances Shaw during the first half of the 20th century. Includes her diaries, travel materials and memorabilia, and photographs. Also includes correspondence to and from Frances Shaw and her daughters, plus the diaries of her brother-in-law, Charles T. Atkinson.

Dates: 1866-1976; Majority of material found within 1925-1937

Louis S. Bauer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract

Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.

Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
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All-Girl Bands 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Camp Grant (Ill.) 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families of military personnel -- Illinois 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Japan -- Guidebooks 1
Jazz -- 1921-1930 1
Jazz -- 1931-1940 1
Journals (accounts) -- 1901-1950 1
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographic postcards 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Picture postcards 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Tiskilwa (Ill.) -- History 1
Travel diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Travel guidebooks -- 1901-1950 1
Travel literature -- 1901-1950 1
Travel literature -- Europe 1
United States -- Guidebooks 1
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 1
Valentines 1
Vaudeville 1
Viewbooks 1
Winnebago County (Ill.) -- History 1
Women -- Education -- History 1
Women college students -- Illinois 1
Women jazz musicians -- United States 1
Women musicians -- United States 1
Women teachers 1
Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American 1
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Names
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Baker family 1
Bauer family 1
Bauer, Louis S., 1894-1975 1