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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 484 Collections and/or Records:

Pullman Company records - Record Group 08: Passenger Traffic Department

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-08
Abstract

Materials related to the Passenger Traffic Department of the Pullman Company, including administrative files of the General Passenger Agent and the Passenger Traffic Manager, state regulatory commission records, and published rate books. Forms part of the Pullman Company Records.

Dates: 1871-1970

Pullman Company records - Record Group 09: Public Relations Department

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-09
Abstract

Records of the Public Relations Department, including administrative files of departmental executives, advertising brochures and art work, and historical reference files. Forms part of the Pullman Company Records.

Dates: 1860-1968

Pullman Company records - Record Group 10: Subsidiary and Acquired Companies

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-10
Abstract

Records of competitor sleeping car companies acquired by Pullman, of subsidiary car firms established by Pullman to operate regionally, and of subsidiary and acquired car and equipment manufacturing companies. Forms part of the Pullman Company Records.

Dates: 1865-1940; Majority of material found within 1865-1921

Pullman Company records - Record Group 11: Pullman Incorporated

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-11
Abstract

Parent company of the Pullman Company and the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation. The operating arm of the firm, the Pullman Company, remained a corporate subsidiary of Pullman Inc. until 1947, following an anti - trust suit provoked ruling which required the holding company to divest itself of either its operating or manufacturing interests. Includes administrative files, annual reports, and cancelled stock certificates.

Dates: 1927-1949

Pullman Company records - Record Group 12: Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-12
Abstract

Scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine clippings assembled by various Pullman’s Palace car company and Pullman Company departments, dating primarily from two years prior to the company’s incorporation in 1867 through the 1927 creation of Pullman Inc. There are also several 1940’s Public Relations Dept. volumes. Forms part of the Pullman Company records.

Dates: 1865-1947

Pullman Company records - Record Group 13: Audiovisual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-13
Abstract

Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, films, filmstrips, and sound recordings, documenting Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company cars and car furnishings, officials and employees, properties, advertising, and employee recruitment and training. Forms part of the Pullman Company records.

Dates: 1872-1976

Pullman Company records - Record Group 14: Artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-14
Abstract

Non-record items and objects produced by the Pullman's Palace Car Company and the Pullman Company as part of their business operations. Forms part of the Pullman Company records.

Dates: 1859-1969

Pullman Company records - Record Group 15: George Mortimer Pullman estate papers

 Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-15
Abstract

Estate papers of Pullman’s Palace Car Company founder and president George M. Pullman. Includes Pullman estate executors’ correspondence, financial, and probate records, dating primarily from 1897 to 1902, together with attendance books of the Pullman Free School of Manual Training, 1924-1932.

Dates: 1877-1932

R. Ford Bentley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Bentley
Abstract

Personal, family, and professional papers including photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. Also includes promotional materials and correspondence pertaining to many of the printing related companies that Ford worked for.

Dates: approximately 1830-1990; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Ralph Korngold papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Korngold
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.

Dates: 1867-1994; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1964

Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Graham
Abstract Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. The collection is composed of a State Department-created scrapbook with an assortment of photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps and relevant...
Dates: 1940-1946

Raven Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raven
Abstract

Records related to Chicago’s Raven Theatre’s administration, development, history, and productions. Materials include box office reports, building plans, and correspondence, as well as budgets, flyers, photographs, reviews, press releases, programs, annotated scripts, and set designs for Raven Theatre’s main stage and “shorties”/one act productions.

Dates: approximately 1940-2015; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2013

Raymond Franklin DaBoll Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-DaBoll
Abstract

Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Chicago calligrapher and designer Raymond F. DaBoll; includes ephemera from other artists.

Dates: 1905-1982; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1982

Renie B. Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-AdamsR
Abstract

Books, artwork, and poster showcasing the art of fiber and computer artist Renie Breskin Adams. Also includes an exhibition catalog and a collection focus catalog. Adams taught art at Northern Illinois University (where her husband David L. Wagner was also a professor) starting in 1977. Her art is on display at the Racine Art Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Dates: 2001-2004

Reynolds-McBride family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Reynolds-McBride
Abstract

Correspondence of the Reynolds family who emigrated from Ireland to Manchester, England in 1849, and their descendants who settled in the Chicago area. Collection contains significant material of one of these descendants, Anita McBride, who was an aspiring writer. Her materials include drafts of short stories, papers pertaining to an unpublished "as-told-to" memoir of retired police detective Ed Carmody called "Chicago Cop," and diaries spanning 1972 to 1999.

Dates: 1866-2000

Richard and Louise Hurckes Stereograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hurckes
Abstract

Collection of 33 stereograph images issued by various publishers, including images of animals, American scenes, staged domestic views and images of Hell. Includes wooden stereoscope.

Dates: approximately 1845-approximately 1895

Richard Covello papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Covello
Abstract

Dance and opera programs and souvenir books collected by arts critic Richard Covello. Also includes clippings and reviews by Covello.

Dates: 1916-2020

Richard Schaller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Schaller
Abstract Government reports, photographs, protest newspapers, speech transcripts, posters, and newspaper clippings assembled by Richard Schaller, Head of the Sabotage, Espionage, and Countersubversion Department of the Naval Investigative Service Office in Chicago, related to his surveillance of individuals and organizations demonstrating at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Schaller’s transcribed organizer speeches were used as evidence in the Chicago Seven trial, where he also...
Dates: 1967-1973

Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Signer
Abstract

Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for an unfinished biography on Ben Hecht during the 1980s. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer.

Dates: 1970s-2006; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1996

Robert Bruce Morrison papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-MorrisonR
Abstract

Collection of publishing executive Robert Bruce Morrison, spouse of photographer Helen Balfour Morrison. Includes business correspondence, examples of advertising and marketing materials from several businesses, personal correspondence, and photographs by Helen Balfour Morrison.

Dates: 1845-1966; Majority of material found within 1927-1966

Robert Gruenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gruenberg
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, and personal materials of Chicago journalist Robert Gruenberg.

Dates: 1947-1990

Robert Hunter Middleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Middleton
Abstract

Diaries, notes, original manuscripts of writings, design art, correspondence, financial records, printed ephemera, and type specimens from the collection of Robert Hunter Middleton, type designer and fine printer.

Dates: 1921-1985

Robert J. Casey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and personal materials of writer Robert J. Casey, who served in World War I and covered World War II for the Chicago Daily News. Casey was also a humor columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer who traveled all over the world and wrote of his adventures in newspapers and in books.

Dates: 1894-1964

Robert Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Marsh
Abstract

Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence, record reviews, photographs, memorabilia, audio recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1940-1986

Robert Moir Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Moir
Abstract

Professional correspondence, papers, and documents of Oquawka, Illinois, businessman Robert Moir, owner of Robert Moir & Co., a firm with wide-ranging investments in land, livestock, lumber, railroads, and other industries. Also a few letters from family and friends.

Dates: 1850-1909; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1898