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Carroll Binder papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Binder
Abstract

Correspondence, writing, personal and family materials, and photographs of newspaper editor and foreign correspondent Carroll Binder.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

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

Felix Borowski Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

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

Robert Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1940-1986

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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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
Clippings -- 1901-1950 3
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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 3
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Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 2
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs -- 2001-2050 2
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 2
Audiotapes -- 1901-1950 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 1
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Industries 1
Children's books -- Publishing 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 2001-2050 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Composition (Music) 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance companies -- Photographs 1
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dancers -- Photographs 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Freedom of the press 1
Greeting cards 1
Hammond (Ind.) -- Industries 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Love-letters 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Map publishing -- Canada 1
Map publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Moving images -- 1951-2000 1
Music teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Newspapers 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews 1
Off-Broadway theater 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Opera companies -- Photographs 1
Package tours 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Personal correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Personal correspondence -- 2001-2050 1
Philanthropists -- United States 1
Phonograph records -- 1901-1950 1
Phonograph records -- 1951-2000 1
Photographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Playbills -- 1901-1950 1
Playbills -- 1951-2000 1
Playbills -- 2001-2050 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Printing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Printing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Printing plants -- Illinois 1
Programs -- 1901-1950 1
Programs -- 1951-2000 1
Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Publishers and publishing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Publishers' catalogs 1
Pulitzer Prizes 1
Reporters and reporting 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 2001-2050 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
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French 1
German 1
Polish 1
 
Names
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
American Council for Judaism 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Baker family 1
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Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Conkey, William B. 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Federated Press 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kazan, Elia 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kriza, John 1
League of Chicago Theatres 1
Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Lookingglass Theatre Company 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
MacMurray College 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles) 1
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 1
McNally, Andrew, 1909- 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Minneapolis tribune 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
New York City Ballet 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Communication 1
O'Flaherty, Hal, 1890- 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Phoenix Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.) 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 1
Rolph-McNally Limited 1
Royal Ballet 1
Seymour, Gideon Deming, 1901-1954 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Stowe, Leland, 1899-1994 1
Stratford Festival (Ont.) 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Szell, George, 1897-1970 1
Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1899-1977 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 1
Vickers, Jon 1
W.B. Conkey Company 1
Walters, Basil Leon, 1896-1975 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 1
Winters family 1
Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999 1
Winters, Robert Ulney, Jr., 1908-1978 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
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