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Blatchford family papers

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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

Head family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-HeadFH
Abstract

Family papers from multiple generations of the Head family. Includes letters from the 1860s-1870s from the Utah Territory from Franklin Harvey Head, later a trustee of Newberry Library. Also includes Francis M. Knight letters from WWI. Thomas C. Fischer letters from WWII. and materials about the Perkins and Durkee families.

Dates: 1860-1957

Horace Sweeney Oakley papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Oakley
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of lawyer and civic leader Horace S. Oakley. Also photographs, memorabilia, writings, and materials relating to his work with The Orchestral Association in Chicago, the American Red Cross Commission to Macedonia, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Dates: 1881-1929

James M. Barker papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barker
Abstract Correspondence, business records, speeches, personal materials, photographs, and family newsletters of business executive James M. Barker. During his career, Barker was, among other things, banker, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and president of Allstate Insurance Company whose financial expertise made him a valued advisor in government financial matters and corporate environments. He participated in post World War II era economic missions to Iran and Turkey, and was a close...
Dates: 1825-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1970

Lambert Tree papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Newberry Library Archives

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Identifier: NL-Archives
Abstract

The Newberry Library's institutional records, records of the Walter L. Newberry estate, personal papers of staff members and trustees, photographs, and publications that document the establishment and operation of the library, its growth and transformation over time, and its active participation in the cultural and intellectual life of Chicago and the nation. Also information on the Newberry family and property development in Chicago.

Dates: 1885-ongoing

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Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
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Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
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Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century 1
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American National Red Cross 2
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 2
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
American University of Beirut 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Barker family 1
Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 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
Carlton, W. N. C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943 1
Cassimatis, George N. 1
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922 1
Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education 1
Chicago Bar Association 1
Chicago Chamber Music Society 1
Chicago Federation of Musicians 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Civic Music Association of Chicago 1
Civic Orchestra of Chicago 1
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Cullen, Charles T., 1940- 1
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Everett D. Graff Collection (Newberry Library) 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Greenlee, William Brooks 1
Hamill, Charles H. (Charles Humphrey), 1868-1941 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Hawley, Mary Oakley 1
Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Merrill, Elizabeth Musgrave Croswell 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 1
Newberry, Julia Rosa, 1853-1876 1
Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868 1
Newcomen Society of the United States 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Oakley, Horace Sweeney, 1861-1929 1
Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961 1
Orchestral Association (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Overseas Consultants, Inc. 1
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 1
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 1
Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894 1
Revere, C T. (Clinton T.), 1874- 1
Ruggles, Rudy Lamont 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 1
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931 1
Towner, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1921-1992 1
Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955) 1
Utley, George Burwell, 1876-1946 1
Wayfarers' Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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