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Alma Schmidt Petersen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Petersen
Abstract Correspondence of Alma Schmidt Petersen of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European, Canadian and American spas and vacation sites, and at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young...
Dates: 1909-1988; Majority of material found within 1911-1985

Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

David C. Meyer collection of letterheads and stationery

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing-NC1002-L47 D38
Abstract

Collection of letterheads and stationery from David C. Meyer, owner of Meyerbooks and its imprint David Meyer Magic Books. Collection consists of single sheet letterheads, envelopes, stationery packets, and advertising materials originally issued by hotels, businesses, organizations, and performers.

Dates: 1861? to approximately 2013; Majority of material found within 1915 - 2000

Mendicant ephemera collection

 Collection
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

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Manuscripts, American 2
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Accidents 1
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Advertising -- Airlines 1
Advertising -- Hotels 1
Alms boxes 1
Artifacts 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Begging 1
Begging poems 1
Blind 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
Broadside poems 1
Broadsides 1
Casinos -- Marketing 1
Charitable giving 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Color printing (Printing) 1
Comedians 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Deaf 1
Dramatists, American 1
Entertainers 1
Envelopes 1
Europe -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Europe -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Fraternal organizations 1
Greeting cards 1
Homeless persons 1
Homelessness 1
Letterheads 1
Magicians 1
Moving images 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Paper -- Specimens 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
People with disabilities 1
Photographs -- Germany -- 1901-1950 1
Picture postcards 1
Poems 1
Poor 1
Poverty 1
Publishers and publishing 1
Receipts (Financial records) 1
Sanatoriums -- Europe -- 20th century 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
Scrapbooks 1
Screenplays 1
Screenwriters -- United States 1
Sideshows 1
Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries 1
Sound recordings 1
Stationery 1
Tourists -- Canada -- Correspondence 1
Tourists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
United States -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works 1
United States -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources 1
Veterans 1
Women travelers -- Europe -- Correspondence 1
Women travelers -- Pacific and Mountain States -- Correspondence 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath -- Germany -- Berlin 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Palestine 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans 1
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Czech 1
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Names
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Armitage, Walter J. 1
Axelrod, Mark 1
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Bach, Ed. 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Best Western Hotels (Firm) 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 1
Brockton (Mass.). Police Department 1
Campbell, Robert, active 20th century 1
Carlier, Emile 1
Carver, Art 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chambers, John, 1850- 1
Chapellerie du Jockey Club 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Cole, Chick 1
Commonwealth Rescue League (Upton, Mass.) 1
Covert, Geo. L. 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Edwards, V., Cap. 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Filip, František, 1904-1957 1
Fithen, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1882-1940 1
Folk, L. M. 1
Fortnightly of Chicago (Organization) 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Freemasons. Medina Lodge, No. 336 (Medina, N.Y.) 1
Graff, William W. 1
Guild of the Brave Poor Things 1
Harriss, Daniel E. F. P. 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hecht family 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hemmerlé, Emile 1
Hirschberger, Fritz, Lieutenant 1
Holler, Jeanette 1
Holmes, Julian (Lyricist) 1
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Clinton Lodge, No. 98 (Lock Haven, Pa.) 1
InterContinental Hotels Group 1
International Brotherhood of Magicians 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
January, J. W. 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Johnston, Clarence A. 1
Kaak, Willy, 1890- 1
Karchmar, Jacob 1
Kennedy, Willie, 1884- 1
Kogan, Herman 1
Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001 1
Kroch, Adolph, 1882- 1
Krÿnberg, A. 1
Lampérière, G. 1
Lentini, Frank A., 1889-1966 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Ligue des Droits du religieux ancien combattant 1
MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956 1
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953 1
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 1
McKeown, Frank 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Meyer, David, 1943- 1
Minnen, A. v. d. 1
Modern Woodmen of America 1
Mougenel, J. 1
Mount Vernon College 1
Myers, Ray R. (Raymond Robert) 1
National Institute for the Blind (London, England) 1
Newberry Library 1
Paillot, Georges 1
Petersen, Alma Schmidt, 1894-1989 1
Petersen, William F., 1887-1950 1
Pineda, Ricardo 1
Pinto, Geo. E. 1
Pouliquen, Marie 1
Rosin, François 1
Ryan, J. C. 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sanders, Charles E. 1
Schmidt, Emma Seipp 1
Schmidt, Otto L. (Otto Leopold), 1863-1935 1
Scottish Association of Magical Societies 1
Sellers, W. J. 1
Selvaggio, Marc S. 1
Shaw, R. G. 1
Shell, John, 1788- 1
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1
Sine, L. D., 1828 or 1829- 1
Smith, R. 1
Society of American Magicians 1
Society of Osiris, Magicians 1
Souslin, Alonzo, 1860- 1
Stevens, F. B. 1
Takkenberg, C. 1
Tennant, Wm. (William) 1
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