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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

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

James and Josie Tomes travel collection

 Collection
Identifier: Maps-Tomes
Abstract

Collection of maps and travel ephemera related to the travels of James and Josie Tomes. Material covers Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, with most material on Europe and North America. Also includes material related to James Tomes’ genealogy research, much of which required travel in the United States and Europe.

Dates: 1928-2008; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

John T. McCutcheon papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCutcheon
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, works, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about John T. McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist and newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune.

Dates: 1834-1996; Majority of material found within 1889-1950

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

Mendicant ephemera collection

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Identifier: Case-folio-HV4493 .N49
Abstract

Collection of printed poems, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera with appeals to the public by people who are blind, deaf, or with other physical disabilities, offered in exchange for a small donation. Geographic coverage is focused primarily on the United States but also includes Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain.

Dates: approximately 1850-approximately 2020

Never The Same ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-NTS
Abstract

Ephemera collected by Never The Same, a project begun by Northwestern University Professor Rebecca Zorach and Daniel Tucker, founder of AREAChicago. Never The Same collects items documenting socially and politically engaged art in Chicago since the 1960s. Collection consists of brochures, fliers, postcards, pamphlets, posters, artwork, books, journals, CDs, DVDs, and 3-dimensional artifacts emanating from a wide variety of sources, both individual and organizational.

Dates: 1968-2014

Paper specimen collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-TS1220-N49
Abstract

A collection of paper specimen sheets, catalogs, binding materials, and other advertising materials issued primarily by paper companies. Geographic coverage includes primarily the United States and continental Europe.

Dates: approximately 1900-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Postcards 5
Advertisements 2
Brochures 2
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
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Greeting cards 2
Lake Forest (Ill.) -- History 2
Photographs 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Picture postcards 2
Posters 2
Printed ephemera 2
United States 2
Upper class -- United States -- Social life and customs 2
Accidents 1
Advertising 1
All-Girl Bands 1
Alms boxes 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Art -- Political aspects 1
Art and society -- United States 1
Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Artists and community -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Begging 1
Begging poems 1
Blind 1
Blotting papers (Paper) 1
Book cloth (textile material) 1
Bookbinding 1
Bookbinding -- Materials 1
Booklets 1
Books 1
Broadside poems 1
Broadsides 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Canada -- Guidebooks 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Charitable giving 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Christian Science 1
Clippings 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coated papers (Paper) 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
College students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Compact discs 1
Concert programs 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship 1
Cover papers (Paper) 1
Cruise ships -- Guidebooks 1
Currency papers (Paper) 1
DVDs 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Deaf 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Vermont -- 1851-1900 1
Direct mail 1
Domestic relations -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dry-goods -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
East Asia -- Guidebooks 1
Editorial cartoons 1
Embossed papers (Paper) 1
Envelopes 1
Europe 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Europe -- Guidebooks 1
Europe -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Vermont -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Fanzines 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Foil papers (Paper) 1
France 1
Germany 1
Glass negatives 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
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Language
German 3
French 2
Spanish; Castilian 2
Czech 1
Danish 1
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Names
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 2
McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw 2
AREA Chicago 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
American University of Beirut 1
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Andrews, Nelson, Whitehead (Firm) 1
Armitage, Walter J. 1
Atkinson, Martha Wells, approximately 1868-1935 1
Axelrod, Mark 1
Bach, Ed. 1
Bates family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 1
Brockton (Mass.). Police Department 1
Brown family (Kentucky) 1
Brown, Genevieve, 1903-1971 1
Brown, Grace, 1901-1990 1
Brown, McAuliffe, 1889-1963 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Campbell, Robert, active 20th century 1
Carlier, Emile 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Carver, Art 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chambers, John, 1850- 1
Champion International Corporation 1
Chapellerie du Jockey Club 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Zoological Society (Ill.) 1
Cleveland, Chester W. 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cole, Chick 1
Commonwealth Rescue League (Upton, Mass.) 1
Cosmopolitan Magazine 1
Covert, Geo. L. 1
Crane (Firm) 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 1
Doran, George H. (George Henry), 1869-1956 1
Eastern Corporation (Bangor, Me.) 1
Edwards, V., Cap. 1
Feel Tank Chicago 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964 1
Filip, František, 1904-1957 1
Fithen, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1882-1940 1
Folk, L. M. 1
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Fox River Paper Co. 1
Freemasons. Medina Lodge, No. 336 (Medina, N.Y.) 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gilbert Paper (Firm) 1
Graff, William W. 1
Guild of the Brave Poor Things 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harden, Edward Walker, 1868- 1
Harriss, Daniel E. F. P. 1
Harry Waiman and His Debutantes 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978 1
Hemmerlé, Emile 1
Henning, Arthur Sears, 1876- 1
Holler, Jeanette 1
Holmes, Julian (Lyricist) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Illinois College 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Clinton Lodge, No. 98 (Lock Haven, Pa.) 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Ingénues (Musical group) 1
January, J. W. 1
Johnston, Clarence A. 1
Kaak, Willy, 1890- 1
Karchmar, Jacob 1
Kennedy, Willie, 1884- 1
King, Frances Theodora 1
Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 1
Krÿnberg, A. 1
Lampérière, G. 1
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lentini, Frank A., 1889-1966 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Ligue des Droits du religieux ancien combattant 1
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