A.C. McClurg & Co. Records, 1873-1967, bulk 1910-1950.
12 cubic ft. (25 boxes)
Correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, record books, a scrapbook, and other materials from the A.C. McClurg publishing company, which was established in Chicago in 1872.
Subjects: Business; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Midwest MS McClurg (formerly Mab)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Abelson, Hope. Papers, ca. 1914-2008, bulk 1949-2006.
13 cubic ft.
Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.
Subjects: Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Abelson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Ade, George, 1866-1944. Papers, 1865-1971.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his Fables in Slang.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Ade (formerly Ad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900. Papers, 1865-1897.
9 cubic ft.
Correspondence, short autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect and sometime partner of Louis Sullivan. Also other materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's greatgranddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater.
Subjects: Arts; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Adler
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1
Finding Aids:
Miscellaneous small collections: select items for small portion of collection. Main body of collection available by appointment only.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Alexander, Irene. Papers, 1960-1980.
1 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials related to Irene Alexander. Alexander, a Chicago piano teacher, who was the deputy for Chicago cultural affairs under Mayor Richard M. Daley and was associated with Louis Sudler when he ran the television project "Artists' Showcase".
Subjects: Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Alexander
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Alexson, Fred. Papers, 1960-1980.
5 cubic ft.
Material related to Fred Alexson, a dancer with the Boston Ballet and several other production companies, and a founding member of the Association of Performing Arts. Collection. Includes photographs of Alexson and other dancers, dance posters (including some autographed), a dance class diary, career scrapbooks, and a watercolor sketchpad of dance action studies.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Alexson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981. Papers, 1960-1975.
0.1 cubic ft.
Influential Chicago writer. Includes three typescripts of Algren works (2 signed), and two articles about Algren when he permanently left Chicago in 1975.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 152
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
.Inventory: Online.
Allard, Edith, 1927-. Papers, 1955-1991.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago-schooled ballet dancer who studied with Ann Barzel and others, and danced with the Ruth Page Chicago Opera Ballet, the Markova-Dolin Company, Theatre du Chatelet, Royal Swedish Ballet, and other companies. Letters, postcards, telegrams, contracts and schedules, clippings, photographs and programs of dance performances in Israel and Sweden, two art prints and a small collection of medals.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Allard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Allied Arts Corp. (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1930-1970.
25 cubic ft.
Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Known as Zelzer Management until 1948, Allied Arts Corporation was run by Harry and Sarah Zelzer and was responsible for bringing many important musicians, dancers and other performing artists to Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Dance; Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Allied Arts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 3-6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Allison, Keith. Keith Allison Studio archives, 1916-1968.
14 cubic ft.
A Chicago dancer trained under Edna McRae, Allison took over the McRae studio in 1964. Collection is largely material related to the McRae-Allison studio, including dance notations of McRae's choreography and music reel-to-reel tapes, as well as souvenir programs, sheet music, books, and periodicals.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Allison
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Alter, Evelyn. Carey Rose Winski Memorial Foundation Dance Scholarship Competition Papers, 1981-2002.
1.5 cubic ft.
Completed applications for the Carey Rose Winski Memorial Foundation Dance Scholarship Competitions, 1981-1987 and 1996-2001; also newspaper articles, correspondence, photographs, an audiotape, and some videotapes.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Alter
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
American Circus Collection, 1891-1939.
4.3 cubic ft.
Late 19th and early 20th century circus- and theater-related illustrations, publicity, programs, photographs and memorabilia, collected by Chicago architect Irving Kane Pond (1857-1939).
Subjects: Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS AmCircus
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1; 4 22 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
American Opera Society of Chicago. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Formed in 1921 by Chicago social leader Edith Rockefeller McCormick and composer Elinor Everest Freer to promote music, the American Opera Society of Chicago commissioned the translation of 23 operas in English. In its later incarnation it became a support group providing scholarships to rising opera stars. The collection includes several boxes and six albums of clippings, performance announcements, photos, member lists, meeting minutes and programs.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS American Opera
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Anderson, Donald M. Papers, 1941-1993.
20 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, graphic art (some original), calligraphic broadsides, and teaching materials of Donald Myers Anderson, a leader in the post-World War II revival of calligraphy in the U.S. and a professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1946 to 1982 as well as the author of two influential books on design and calligraphy.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS And
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 2-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Papers, 1872-1992.
61 cubic ft.
Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Anderson (formerly An)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 2-5; 3a 44 11; Vault 49 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Andruss, William B. (William Benajah). Diary and commissions, 1855-1876.
0.1 cubic ft. (8 items)
Amboy, Lee County, Ill., merchant and operator of a daguerreotype studio. Diary, Mar. 10, 1855 - Apr. 3, 1856, documents Andruss' daily activities, travel, photography business, and emigration via Bellevue, Mich., with his family to Amboy. Also seven commissions and appointments to public office in Lee County, 1860-1877.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3002
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Antelope, Faustinus W. Letters and petition, 1918.
5 items.
Petition and correspondence between Faustinus W. Antelope, an Arapahoe Indian of Arapahoe, Wyo. (Wind River Reservation), the Field Museum of Natural History, and Edward E. Ayer regarding the opposition of E.A. Hutchinson to a performance of the Sun Dance.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 24
Collection Stack Location: Vault 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Apthorp, Charles. Correspondence, 1738-1751, bulk 1738-1739.
21 letters (0.2 cubic ft.)
Letters to London merchant John Thomlinson, mainly related to the financial arrangements, sale, and shipment of merchandise to Boston. Apthorp was born in England in 1698 and educated at Eton College. He was later appointed by the English government as paymaster and commissary of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. Apthorp also became one of the most distinguished merchants in Boston during the 1730's until his death in 1758.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 27
Collection Stack Location: Vault 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ayer Manuscripts information file available.
**Additional Apthorp-related MS: Ayer MS 28, 698, 898.**
Artists Book Works (Organization). Records.
11 cubic ft.
Records, including information about students and instructors, financial records, exhibits, and examples of work.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Abw
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Arts Club of Chicago. Records, 1892-1995.
92.5 cubic ft.
Incorporated in 1916, the Arts Club was developed with objectives of maintaining a clubhouse in Chicago that provided galleries and exhibition facilities to foster high standards of art and develop the arts community. Records include clippings, correspondence, exhibition flyers, photographs, and other miscellaneous material relating to the Arts Club of Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations; Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Arts Club (formerly Ar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 6-12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Ashbaugh, Carolyn. Lucy Parsons research papers, ca. 1970-1976.
3.5 cubic ft.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ashbaugh
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Aten, Henry J. Papers, 1896-1910.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material collected by Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, for a history of the Aten family, consisting of family letters, clippings, documents and copies of wills.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Aten
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Atwater, Adeline Lobdell. Papers, 1932-1956.
1 cubic foot (2 boxes)
Literary manuscripts, autobiography and diary of Adeline Lobdell Atwater, Chicago writer. In her autobiography, Atwater writes about the Iroquois Theater Fire, birth control, divorce and her children's education in the Montessori Method. She also writes about her ten years in New York working at art galleries.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Atwater (formerly At)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Programs, 1888-1938.
8.6 linear feet
Programs and other materials for events taking place in the early years at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Envisioned as a world-class theater and opera house by Chicago impresario Ferdinand Peck, the Adler and Sullivan-designed Auditorium opened in1889 on the corner of Congress and Michigan Avenue
Subjects: Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Auditorium (formerly Case +V 18896 .053); also Microfilm 122
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Papers, 1780-1911, bulk 1846-1885.
279 items (6 boxes).
United States army officer, 1843-1885. Correspondence, telegrams, printed and ms. reports and orders, maps, letterbooks, and notebook, mainly documenting Augur's post Civil War military commands, but also highlighting his service in the Pacific Northwest and Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3008 (formally Ayer MS 42a)
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States, 1847-1881, bulk ca. 1865-1881.
12 boxes (272 photoprints and 3 prints) + 1 stereoscope box.
Following the Civil War U.S. army officer Christopher C. Augur commanded several military departments in the West. Collection includes mounted albumen prints and stereographs of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken mainly by Alexander Gardner, William H. Jackson, and William S. Soule. Also three large prints of Mexican War military scenes.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer Art Augur
Collection Stack Location: Vault 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. Papers, 1842-1934, bulk 1880-1934.
4 cubic ft.
Railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry trustee from 1892 to 1911. Ayer's papers include correspondence (some pertaining to Newberry collections), writings, documents, tributes, and photographs and reminiscences of his westward and overseas travels. Ayer was a Sergeant in Company E, 1st Regiment of Cavalry, California Volunteers, and a 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, Regiment of New Mexico volunteers. His papers include military enlistment and discharge papers, and reminiscences regarding his march with the California column and service in New Mexico.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog. Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners files, 1912-1922.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, bulletins, 1912-1922, relating to Edward E. Ayer's work on the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners. Ayer was a railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry Trustee. Dating primarily from Ayer's period of active service, 1912-1917, there is both incoming and outgoing correspondence with commission members and officials.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 911
Collection Stack Location: Vault 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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