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Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Ashton Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stevens
Abstract

The papers of San Francisco and Chicago journalist and drama critic Ashton Stevens contain correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues from the entertainment world; works including newspaper clippings, playscripts, articles, and interviews; personal materials including biographical information, memorabilia, and materials pertaining to the banjo; photographs of actors, actresses, family, friends and colleagues; artworks and audio recordings; and a small number of artifacts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1952; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1940

Augustine J. Bowe papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bowe
Abstract

Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.

Dates: approximately 1890-1966; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

Burt family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Burt
Abstract

Letters, photographs, diaries, writings, and scrapbooks centering around Edith Fleming Burt, building engineer Henry Jackson Burt, and their daughter, singer Helen Burt Potteiger.

Dates: 1890-1951

Dorothy Hild papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

Dorothy James Roberts Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Roberts
Abstract

Correspondence, journals, unpublished manuscripts, and publicity of Arthurian novelist Dorothy James Roberts. Papers also include speeches, unpublished poetry, reviews of published works, and photographs of Roberts and her home.

Dates: 1932-1990

Edith Borroff papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borroff
Abstract

Musicologist, Composer, Author, Professor, Pianist, Vocalist, and Lecturer, Edith Borroff lived from 1925 to 2019, boasting a career that spanned at least 7 books and over 60 compositions.

Dates: 1800-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1999

Ernest A. Griffin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract

Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.

Dates: 1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

Fortnightly of Chicago records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fortnightly
Abstract

Chicago Woman’s Society founded in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. Records document the founding, operations, and activities of The Fortnightly of Chicago and its members. Includes historical materials, meeting minutes (restricted), scrapbooks, notices, member biographical information, members' and guests' papers, photographs, yearbooks, and other administrative and activity records.

Dates: 1869-2018

James T. Farrell-Cleo Paturis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Paturis
Abstract Stories, articles, manuscript and photocopy drafts and notes by Farrell; a small collection of Farrell correspondence; miscellaneous material including reviews and appreciations of Farrell’s work; photographs of Farrell, Paturis, friends and occasions; and many audiocassettes of Farrell lectures, speeches and interviews. Paturis material includes several drafts of her unpublished memoir of her life with Farrell, a synopsis of his work, correspondence dating mainly after Farrell’s death in...
Dates: 1909-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Mina Hager Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hager
Abstract

Material relating to the career of mezzo-soprano Mina Hager (Mrs. Fred Heidenson), including incoming correspondence from John Alden Carpenter and others, programs, clippings and other memorabilia. Also, practice and demo tapes, sound recordings (78 rpm and 45 rpm, LP) and a collection of manuscript and published sheet music, mostly by John Alden Carpenter.

Dates: 1892-1977; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1970

Rudolph Ganz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract

Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.

Dates: 1864-2013

Ruth Page papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

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French 2
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Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Africana Dancers 1
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Aldis, Arthur T. 1
American Theatre Wing 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Bahá'i Temple (Wilmette, Ill.) 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Barrymore, Ethel 1
Beadle, Muriel, 1916-1994 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bergersen, Baldwin, 1914-2000 1
Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 1
Borroff, Marie 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Boulton, Inez 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966 1
Bowe, Julia Lecour, 1900 or 1901-1986 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Burt family 1
Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 1
Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873- 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Cave, Eldon 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Clarkson, Bob 1
Coblentz, Edmond D. 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970 1
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 1
Doggett, Kate Newell, 1828-1884 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957 1
Draper, Louis H., 1935-2002 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Fairbank, Janet, 1903-1948 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Fertik, Irene 1
Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997 1
Fischer, Irwin, 1903-1977 1
Fischer, Marion H. 1
Fortnightly of Chicago (Organization) 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Gabriel, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf), 1890-1952 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Gallinot, Ruth, Dr. 1
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Gest, Morris, 1881-1942 1
Graham, Martha 1
Green, Abel, 1900-1973 1
Griffin Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Griffin family 1
Griffin, Ernest A., 1912-1995 1
Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 1
Hager, Mina 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hearst Corporation 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 1
Hektoen, Eleanor 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989 1
Jarvis, Isabel 1
Johnston, Alva 1
Julien Levy Gallery 1
Karch, Hank 1
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