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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

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Helen Ainslie Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Smith
Abstract

Helen Ainslie Smith was the author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. The papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.

Dates: 1744-1950; Majority of material found within 1880-1890

Henshaw family papers

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Identifier: Modern-MS-Henshaw
Abstract

Materials primarily originating from Edward Henshaw (1844-1925) documenting the Henshaw family descended from Joshua Henshaw, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts about 1653. Includes manuscript and typescript writings, correspondence, genealogy notes, photographs, and the Henshaw coat of arms.

Dates: 1861-1925

Morse-Keith Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract

Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872

Oliver Perry Newberry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newberry
Abstract

Mainly correspondence of Cameron, Missouri resident Oliver Perry Newberry, 1860-1867, primarily relating to his Civil War service in the Union army; and cabinet, carte-de-visite and a few tintype photographs of Newberry family and friends dating primarily from the 1880's.

Dates: 1860-1895

Sluby collection of portrait photographs

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sluby
Abstract

Paul E. Sluby, Sr., a genealogist and historian from Washington D.C., compiled this collection of early photographs of identified individuals. Many of the photographs were acquired at flea markets and antique stores in the northeastern United States. Also included are some letters, funeral notices, and a high school diploma.

Dates: approximately 1850-1953; Majority of material found within 1880-1930

Woods family papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods-2
Abstract Materials gathered and retained by Frank H. Woods Jr. relating to Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada and his Woods descendants. Includes Frank H. Woods’s correspondence and research notes for a biography of Henry Ruiter, notebooks with accounts, poetry and stories of his great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, and an account book of his great-grandfather, Elias Woods, Woods family deeds and receipts from Boone County, Illinois (1840s-1860s), and other miscellaneous early Woods...
Dates: 1842-1980

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Photographs -- 1851-1900 7
Photographs -- 1901-1950 6
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Tintypes (prints) 5
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Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 4
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 2
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 2
Genealogy -- Massachusetts 2
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 2
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Algeria -- Photographs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Boone County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Cartes de visite 1
Central America -- Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Children's drawings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Children's writings, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
Congregationalists 1
Cookbooks -- 1801-1850 1
Cookbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Mississippi -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Missouri -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Tennessee -- 1851-1900 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
Dakota Indians -- Missions -- South Dakota -- History 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Boone County -- 1801-1850 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Boone County -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Dwellings -- Nebraska -- Lincoln -- Photographs 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Massachusetts 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Pictorial works 1
Fathers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
Genealogical correspondence -- Connecticut 1
Genealogical correspondence -- Massachusetts 1
Genealogy -- Connecticut 1
Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Hardware -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Household employees -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Houses -- Illinois -- Oak Park 1
Husband and wife -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Italy -- Photographs 1
Jerusalem -- Description and travel 1
Kennebunkport (Me.) 1
Kindergarten -- United States 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Lead industry and trade 1
Legislators -- United States 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Memorial cards -- 1851-1900 1
Memorial cards -- 1901-1950 1
Missionaries -- Arab countries 1
Missionaries -- South Dakota 1
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Mothers and daughters -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Names
Adams, F. A. 1
American University of Beirut 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Bent family 1
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Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bernard family 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 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
Chapin family 1
Cochran family 1
Colton family 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Cornell family 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Eddy family 1
Eleanor Association 1
Elwell family 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Gales family 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gerard, Paula, 1907-1991 1
Gifford family 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Henshaw family 1
Henshaw, David, 1791-1852 1
Henshaw, Edward, 1844-1925 1
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
Holder family 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Keith family 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
MacLean, Annie Marion 1
MacLean, M. H. (Murdoch Haddon), 1872-1954 1
MacLean, Pearl Emma Harris 1
McLean family 1
Morse family 1
Morse, Charles Ansel, 1835-1894 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Newberry, Cornelia Perry 1
Newberry, Lydia Elizabeth 1
Newberry, O. P. (Oliver Perry), 1831-1874 1
Newberry, Walter Cass, 1835-1912 1
Newberry, Walter Franklin 1
Newbury family 1
Pynchon family 1
Ruiter, Henry, 1742-1819 1
Sheldon family 1
Sluby, Paul E. 1
Small family 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Helen Ainslie 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, Franklin Fayette, 1817-1890 1
Union Central Life Insurance Company 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861) 1
United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 25th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. Missouri State Militia Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) 1
White, Fanny Woods, 1822-1893 1
William, Crown Prince of Germany, 1882-1951 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
Wood family 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980 1
Woods, Frederick Moffatt, 1844-1928 1
Yale University 1
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