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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

Carter H. Harrison IV papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harrison
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953), and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.

Dates: 1637-1953; Majority of material found within 1840-1950

Edward Eagle Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown
Abstract

Materials pertaining to the family of Chicago banker Edward Eagle Brown, primarily of Brown's father Edward Osgood Brown, great grandfather William Brown, and descendants in the Ipswich and Salem Massachusetts areas.

Dates: 1749-1955; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1900

Ephraim C. Dawes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.

Dates: 1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

Goodwin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodwin
Abstract

Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).

Dates: 1802-1913

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Melville E. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Paul Romaine papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.

Dates: 1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937-1983

Platt R. Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spencer
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business. In his later years, Spencer became involved in the...
Dates: 1827-1951; Majority of material found within 1850-1900

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Cairo (Egypt) - Description and travel 1
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Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
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Fascists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
Foreign correspondents 1
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Freedom of the press 1
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Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
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Iroquois Indians 1
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Middle East -- Description and travel 1
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Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 2
American Council for Judaism 1
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American Red Cross 1
Amherst College 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Associated Press 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Berger, Elmer, 1908-1996 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988 1
Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1
Bleamer family 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Brown, Edward Osgood, 1847-1923 1
Brown, William, -1833 1
Brush, Albert 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Carlisle, Harry 1
Chicago (Ill.). Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art 1
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
College of Complexes (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cowles, John, 1898-1983 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 1
Dawes family 1
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), 1840-1895 1
Dawes, Rufus R., 1838-1899 1
De Granamour, A., 1915-1987 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Democratic Party (Cook County, Ill.) 1
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 1
Downs family 1
Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872 1
Dunne, Edward F. (Edward Fitzsimons), 1853-1937 1
Edgewater Beach Tennis Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Federated Press 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
First Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gibson, Paul, 1907- 1
Goodwin family 1
Goodwin, Edward Payson, 1832-1901 1
Goodwin, Paul 1
Goodwin, Solomon, 1797-1857 1
Harrison family 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Harrison, Edith Ogden 1
Harrison, William Preston, 1870-1940 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 1
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 1
Hull, Cordell 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Ilma, Viola 1
Indiana University 1
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, James, 1863-1939 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lott, George 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Marietta College 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
Minneapolis tribune 1
Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company 1
Morris, William, 1834-1896 1
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 1
Mussey, Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, Persis Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Delevan), 1833-1892 1
Muzzy family 1
Nash, Jay Robert 1
New Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
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