Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4

Elaine Madlener papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Madlener
Abstract

Research material for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Material related to Madlener’s Grant Hospital committee work for two benefit performances by Karajan in 1955 and 1965, and manuscripts by British author Charles Langbridge Morgan.

Dates: 1916-1966; Majority of material found within 1944-1965

John Doctoroff papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Doctoroff
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, exhibition programs, and prints relating to Chicago-based portrait artist John Doctoroff.

Dates: 1924-1967

Mark J. Satter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Satter
Abstract

Papers of Chicago lawyer and civil rights activist Mark J. Satter, documenting his crusade against wage garnishment, his writings against public aid and for a new Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for the under and unemployed, and his battle against redlining and the predatory real estate practice of contract selling. Includes correspondence, clippings, articles and essays, speeches, research notes, audiovisual materials, photographs, and personal items.

Dates: 1931-1965; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1965

Rand McNally and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract

Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.

Dates: 1856-1996

Filtered By

  • Subject: Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 X
  • Subject: Chicago (Ill.) X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 2
African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art -- Exhibitions 1
Art patrons -- United States 1
∨ more
Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Autographs -- Collections 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Benefit performances -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Industries 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions 1
Children's books -- Publishing 1
Civil rights -- United States 1
Civil rights -- United States -- Cases 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Conductors (Music) -- Biography 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Dallas (Tex.) 1
Discrimination in housing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
Golf 1
Hammond (Ind.) -- Industries 1
Hollywood (Fla.) 1
Housing policy -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Jewish artists -- United States 1
Jewish painters 1
Kalamazoo (Mich.) 1
Landlords -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Leisure 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Pictorial works 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Map publishing -- Canada 1
Map publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Miami (Fla.) 1
Moving images -- 1951-2000 1
Oldsmobile automobile -- Photographs 1
Palm Beach (Fla.) 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Portrait drawing, American -- 20th century 1
Portrait painters -- United States 1
Portrait painting, American -- 20th century 1
Printing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Printing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Printing plants -- Illinois 1
Programs -- 1901-1950 1
Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Publishers and publishing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Publishers' catalogs 1
Rapid City (S.D.) 1
San Antonio (Tex.) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1
Springfield (Ill.) 1
Topeka (Kan.) 1
Vision and visual health care 1
Wage payment systems -- United States 1
Wawasee (Ind.) 1
Winter Park (Fla.) 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
French 1
German 1
 
Names
Adolphus Hotel (Dallas, Tex.) 1
Albers, Charles H. 1
All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts 1
Ambassador East Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Anshe Emet Synagogue (Chicago, Ill.) 1
∨ more
Baird, Warner G. 1
Balk, Alfred, 1930-2010 1
Bank, Marji 1
Berliner Philharmoniker 1
Branstrom, William J. 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Budd, Ralph, 1879-1962 1
Butterworth Center (Moline, Ill.) 1
Capehart, Homer E. (Homer Earl), 1897-1979 1
Chicago Clearing House Association 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Conkey, William B. 1
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
Davis, Mitchell P. 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Dettmer, Roger 1
Dillard University 1
Doctoroff, John, 1893-1970 1
Doctoroff, Rose, 1893-1956 1
Drake Hotel 1
Dutton, Mary L. 1
Edwards Place (Springfield, Ill.) 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 1
Engelhard, Benjamin M., 1868-1948 1
Federal Life Insurance Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976 1
Garfinkle, Ann 1
Garfinkle, Henry, 1903-1983 1
Gerber, Daniel F., 1898-1974 1
Gerber, Frank D., 1873-1952 1
Gilmore, Eugene Stuart 1
Goldsmith, Dorothy 1
Grant Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Grant Hospital (Chicago, Ill.). Women's Auxiliary 1
Hamilton, Isaac Miller 1
Harris, Paul Percy, 1868-1947 1
Hirschberg, Abram, 1876-1950 1
Hollywood Beach Hotel (Hollywood, Fla.) 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 1
Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Illinois State Fair 1
International Creative Artists and Craftsmen's Guild 1
Karajan, Herbert von 1
Kenosha Historical Art Museum (Kenosha, Wis.) 1
Korrick, Blanche Becker, 1897-1987 1
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
Levy, Ruth 1
Lohr, Lenox R. (Lenox Riley), 1891-1968 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra 1
Madlener, Elaine 1
Mann, Louis L. (Louis Leopold), 1890- 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 1
Maxwell, Iris 1
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 1
McNally, Andrew, 1909- 1
Michael Reese Nurses’ Alumnae Association of Chicago 1
Morgan, Charles, 1894-1958 1
Municipal Art League of Chicago 1
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Palm Beach Hotel (Palm Beach, Fla.) 1
Penn, Albert, 1881-1962 1
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 1
Polasek, Albin, 1879-1965 1
Potts, Willis J. (Willis John), 1895-1968 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Rathje, Frank C., Sr. 1
Republican National Committee (U.S.) 1
Rolph-McNally Limited 1
Rooney Plaza Hotel (Miami, Fla.) 1
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932 1
Rotary Club of Chicago 1
Rotary Club of Rapid City 1
Satter, Mark J., 1916-1965 1
Sinaiko, Freda F., 1901-1964 1
Springfield Art Association 1
Standard Club (Springfield, Ill.) 1
Stevens Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Teatro alla Scala 1
Temple Sholom (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Tobin, Ben, 1903-1996 1
Variety Club of Dallas 1
Vermilion County Museum Society 1
W.B. Conkey Company 1
Watson, Dudley Crafts, 1885-1972 1
Wells, Ruth, 1934-2009 1
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 1
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 1
+ ∧ less