Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884. Papers, 1851-1947, bulk 1861-1884.
4 cubic ft.
Orville E. Babcock was American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. Collection is primarily correspondence relating to Babcock’s military career, service as private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency, role in the Whiskey Ring trials of 1875-1876, and private life. Collection also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, military service records and miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Babcock (formerly Ba)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Badger, Elvira Sheridan. Papers, 1859-ca. 1930, bulk 1859-1878.
1 cubic ft.
Three personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1878. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky regarding the approach of the Civil War, relations with and freeing of the family's slaves, and news of the war are also noted.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Badger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Badolato, Dean. Papers, 1965-1999.
1 cubic ft.
Material related to the career of Dean Badolato, Chicago-born and trained dancer, choreographer, and director. Includes clippings, letters, photographs, programs, videotapes, reviews, and various memorabilia.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Badolato
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Ballard, Eugene F. Papers, 1907-1933.
0.2 cubic ft.
Materials of Eugene F. Ballard of Denver, Colorado, kept for his genealogical work on the Ballard family. Contains a bound record book and a few letters relating to his quest for information.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 159
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Ballenger, Thomas Lee, 1882-1987. Papers, 1730-1968, bulk 1835-1968.
7.5 cubic ft. (15 boxes and 14 rolls).
Writings, and genealogical notes and charts by Thomas Lee Ballenger, teacher, historian, and author, relating to Cherokee and Oklahoma families and the history of the Cherokee Nation, together with Cherokee documents, photographs, and artifacts collected by Ballenger.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Ballenger
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bannon, Laura. Collection of illustrations for children's books, 1939-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago children's book illustrator and author. Original artwork for 7 books published by Houghton Mifflin, Albert Whitman & Company, etc.; included are charcoal sketches, pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, and color illustrations.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Bannon
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barker, James Madison, 1886-1974. Papers, 1920-1970.
49 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, director of Sears Roebuck and chairman of Allstate, and Newberry Trustee, 1948-1965. Barker's papers consist of documents, letters, speeches, and essays regarding the Newberry and his Chicago and overseas business activities; personal diaries; and information about the Barker family, including the family newsletter, "The Lake," which documented daily family activities and observations of Chicago life.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Barker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 54 8-12; 3a 54 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Barkhausen family. Papers, 1854-1889.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of family documents, all in German, relating to the Barkhausen family of Mequon, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Includes correspondence, 1854-1862, a small notebook, ca. 1857-1872, and an account book, 1888-1889.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 74
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Barlow family. Papers, 1816-1851.
17 items (1 portfolio)
A small collection relating to two men, both named William Barlow, possibly father and son. Consists of letters, a poem, a notebook of a sermon and a draft of an address to the American Institute in Washington, D.C. by Rev. William Barlow, correspondence from William Barlow the younger to Matilda Richards Barlow, and an undated, unidentified cabinet photograph of two women.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS 41
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Barnes, Alfred. Papers, 1834-1838.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Seven letters from Alfred Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut, to his sister Julia A. Barnes of Northhampton, Massachusetts and Evansville, Indiana. Letters discuss family news and personal business, mostly about trying to find a livelihood.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 75
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Barnes, Bessie. Papers, 1918-1992.
3 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
Photographs, newspaper reviews and miscellaneous personal items relating to Bessie Barnes, producer of nightclub theatrical reviews in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920's and 1930's.
Subjects: Dance; Theater; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barnes
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barnes, Edward A. Papers, 1865-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Journals from 1865 to 1895 kept by amateur Chicago poet, Edward A. Barnes. Also, a large group of printed poetry and music.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Barnes E
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950. Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers, ca. 1860-1966.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence and notes of Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Abraham Lincoln. Also poems by Sandburg, photographs of Sandburg and Barrett, and a large collection of stereographs (scenes of the American Civil War, world views and many slides of Chicago before and after the fire of 1871), and cabinet and carte de visite portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Barrett-Sandburg (formerlyBar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Midwest MS information file available.
Barrett, Samuel Eddy. Barrett family papers, 1829-1948.
0.1 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of Samuel Eddy Barrett to his wife Alice Barrett, written while traveling in the Far East, 1906-1907. Also one 1829 letter and several 1948 letters regarding Barrett property in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 76
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Barry, D. F. (David Frances), 1854-1934. D. F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa Indians, photographed ca. 1881-ca.1890, printed ca. 1885-1920.
10 photographic prints
Barry took these photographs of Hunkpapa chiefs at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, in 1881, and at Bismarck, Dakota Territory in 1885. Most of the photographs were printed from the negatives and sold from Barry's studio in Superior, Wisconsin. Individuals depicted include Crow King, Gall, Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, Shooting Star, and Standing Holy. A photograph of Barry with Rain in the Face is also included in the collection. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 92
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Barstow, C. H. (Charles H.). Papers, 1870-1891.
0.5 cubic ft.
United States Indian Service employee stationed at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory. Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his sister and brother, miscellaneous correspondence of Rogers Barstow, other family members, and friends, and a Nov. 10, 1887 issue of The Montana Stock Gazette.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3014 (Formerly Ayer MS 55b and 55c).
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Barzel, Ann. Papers, 1912-2005.
33.4 linear feet
Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian (and former dancer) Ann Barzel. Most of her articles and essays deal with dance-related happenings in Chicago, and were written for various Chicago newspapers, Dance Magazine, and other periodicals.
Subjects: Dance; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barzel
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 4-6
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Barzel, Ann. Dance research collection, ca. 1830-[ongoing]
375 cubic ft.
Materials collected by dance critic Ann Barzel, documenting the history of dance in Chicago and worldwide. Research collection includes brochures and other publicity, newsclippings, programs, souvenir books, audiovisual material, posters and prints, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barzel Research
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 2-14; 3a 47 3-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Batchelder, John Davis, 1872-1958. Papers, 1876-1957.
1 cubic ft.
Miscellaneous collection of John Davis Batchelder, turn-of-the-century independently wealthy Midwesterner who lived mostly in Europe, collecting books and objects of interest. Includes a diary, a journal, diplomas, lists of objects, and annotated volumes of Shakespeare, and a photograph album.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Batchelder
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Baum, Edna Lucile. Papers, 1890-1981.
3 cubic ft.
Material relating to Chicago dance teacher and author Edna Lucile Baum, which includes incoming correspondence, writings, photographs, programs, dance notations and other miscellaneous printed items, scrapbooks and notebooks.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Baum
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Baur, Bertha Duppler. Diaries and appointment books, 1898-1939.
1.5 cubic ft.
Diaries (partly in shorthand) and appointment books of Bertha Duppler Baur, Chicago businesswoman, suffragette, lawyer, and politician. Business school and law school graduate, Bertha Duppler came to Chicago at age 17 as a stenographer and wielded considerable political power as the personal secretary to three postmasters. In 1909 she married millionaire Jacob Baur, founder of the Liquid Carbonic Corporation, and was actively involved in the management of the company after his 1912 death. Active in politics, Baur lobbied for women's suffrage, ran in a close race for Congress in 1926, and for 28 years was a Republican National Committewoman from Illinois.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Baur
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Beach, John D., soldier. Letters, 1862-1865.
0.2 linear feet (11 items in 1 box)
Correspondence from Pvt. Beach of the 55th Illinois Infantry, Company G, to his mother describing everyday camp life in Memphis, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty [now Kennesaw], Ga.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10036
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Beberdick, Frank H. (Frank Harry), 1927-. Pullman Collection, 1881-2001.
3 cubic ft.
Miscellaneous materials relating to the historic Pullman company town and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001, collected by Pullman (IL) resident and archivist Frank Beberdick.
Subjects: Railroads
Call Number: Midwest MS Beberdick Pullman
Stack Location: 3a 37 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Beckwith, Mrs. John. Calling Cards, ca. 1890-1910.
0.1 cubic feet
Ten calling cards presented to Mrs. John Beckwith by members of prominent Chicagoans including Armour, Field, Grant, Lodge, McClurg, McCormick, Palmer and Scudder families.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 125
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Beers, James W. (James Wellington), 1869-. Papers, 1892-1952.
0.5 cubic ft.
Includes typescripts of articles by Beers, revisions of Beers' manuals, catalogues of shorthand books and magazines, letters and postcards, in shorthand, from Duran Kimball to Beers, and pamphlets in defense of the Beers' system.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Numbers: Multiple call numbers: see online catalog
Collection Stack Location:
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog records: Search under "Author: Beers, James Wellington, 1869-" for full listings.
Beers collection manuscripts: Online Catalog Record.
Duran Kimball correspondence: Online Catalog Record.
Beezley, Charles F. Papers, 1930-1960.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Correspondence between Charles F. Beezley, Jr., and Florencio Molina Campos, and between Beezley and Stanley Pargellis from various places, 1943-1947. Also carbons, clippings, printed matter.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Beezley
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943. Papers, 1886-1951, bulk 1900-1942.
26 cubic ft.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, photos, memorabilia, and articles in manuscript and print of Edward Price Bell, covering the period of Bell's service as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, roving correspondent for the Literary Digest, and contributor to the London Times and other publications. Correspondents include many world leaders and other prominent figures of the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Bell (formerly Be)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10-12
Finding Aids:
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 1 (July 1948), p. 1-11; Newberry Library Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 1 (November 1955), p. 24-27.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bellow, Saul. Newspaper clippings, 1944-1970.
0.5 cubic ft.
Clippings of American and English book reviews of Bellow's works.
Subjects: Literature
Call number: Midwest MS Bellow (formerly Blw)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Bennett, Alexander, 1929-2003. Papers, ca. 1953-1990.
4.5 cubic ft.
Bennett was a dancer with the Royal Ballet and Ballet Rambert, and former director of the Twin Cities Ballet in Illinois as well as other regional ballet companies. His collection includes many audio and videocassettes, a scrapbook of his dancing career, and some memorabilia.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Bennett A
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bennett, James O'Donnell, 1870-1940. Papers, 1896-1936.
0.2 cubic ft.
Letters written to James O'Donnell Bennett while he was a journalist for the Chicago Record-Herald and the Chicago Tribune, primarily in his capacity as literary critic.
Subjects: Journalism; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Bennett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bentley, R. Ford (Robert Ford), 1909-1994. Papers, 1910-1988.
2.5 cubic ft.
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.
Subjects: Business; Family; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Bentley
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Bergstrom, Robert W. Papers, 1924-1999.
8 cubic ft.
Research and legal files pertaining the 1924 Leopold Loeb case, including a complete set of trial transcripts containing Clarence Darrow's plea against capital punishment. The files were compiled by Robert W. Bergstrom, who represented Nathan F. Leopold in the civil suit against Compulsion, a book and movie about the 1924 trial.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Bergstrom
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy. Papers, 1703-2004, bulk 1870-1910.
6 cubic ft. (11 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Papers of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, Chicago diarist, socialite, and philanthropist, consisting of her diary, correspondence, photographs, and other materials. Also correspondence, writings, photographs and genealogical information concerning to the Spencer, Eddy, Caton, Beveridge and other related families, and an album containing correspondence from participants in the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Beveridge
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956. Papers, 1910-1967, bulk 1920-1955.
19.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, works in manuscript and print, and other papers of Carroll Binder, who served as labor reporter, war correspondent, foreign correspondent, publisher's assistant, editorial writer, and foreign service editor at the Chicago Daily News, and as editorial editor at the Minneapolis Star and the morning and Sunday Tribune. Also included: material on leftist organizations including the Workers Party of America and I.W.W., family correspondence, chiefly of Binder's wife, Dorothy (Wilton) Binder, and some genealogical information.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Binder (formerly Bi)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 9-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Blackburn family. Papers, 1803-1907.
0.1 cubic ft. (2 folders)
Papers of A. B. Blackburn, A. W. Blackburn, W. H. Blackburn of North Carolina, and other family members. Consists of correspondence, journal account book, financial documents, deeds, wills, Civil War documents, and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 71
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Blake, Tiffany. Newspaper clippings, 1901-1919.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Photocopies of articles written for the Chicago Tribune by Blake, a noted editorial writer for the paper.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS 150
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Online Catalog.
Blatchford, E.W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914. Papers, 1836-1914, bulk 1880-1914.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago lead pipe manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library; Religion
Call Number: Archives 02/15/01 (formerly Bl)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Blatchford family. Papers, 1830-1990.
96 cubic ft.
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, Lord, Fowler, and Alberts. Among the many gems in this massive and wonderful collection are letters to Mary Williams Blatchford while she attended Yale as a special student (1854-1855), Civil War letters of E. W. Blatchford (Chicago Sanitary Commission) and his uncle Edward Williams (U.S. Christian Commission work at military hospitals), courtship, post-marriage, parent-child, and travel correspondence of succeeding generations, scrapbooks and correspondence re World War I military hospitals in Europe, and correspondence, photographs, reports, and pamphlets regarding the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the Middle East.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Newberry Library; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 8-10; 3a 56 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Blatchford family. Papers - Additions, 1835-1948.
0.5 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Small collection of papers mainly of Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford and Edward Williams Blatchford, pertaining primarily to the opening and administration of the John Crerar Library (1897-1910) and the history and operation (1916-1918) of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Also pre-Civil War materials of John Blatchford and Eliphalet Wickes, and few later items from Paul Blatchford.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers, 1869-1981.
3 cubic ft.
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 the Zeislers and a few celebrities; and nine artifacts.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Zeisler (formerly Ze)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Blount, William, 1749-1800. Papers, 1794-1796.
0.2 cubic ft.
Sixteen letters, orders, and receipts (10 items) of William Blount, pertaining to his administration of Indian and military affairs in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, 1794-1796. Correspondents include David Henley (agent of the War Dept.), John Pitchlynn (U.S. interpreter to the Choctaw), and militia and U.S. army officers.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 74
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Blue Sky Press. Records, 1900-1917.
0.5 cubic ft.
Business records of the press, which was in operation (mainly in Chicago) during the first decade of the 20th century. Also correspondence dealing with the dispersal of the press.
Subjects: Business; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Case Wing oversize Z 311 .B623
Collection Stack Location: 4 8 15
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Bohan, Thomas F. Documents regarding the reprint publication of the General directory and business advertiser of the city of Chicago for the year 1844, 1930-1933.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of documents of Thomas F. Bohan, national advertising manager for the Chicago Daily News. Includes correspondence, contracts, financial statements, and a copyright registration certificate. Also a contract, never completed, with Roussey Publications of Chicago, Ill. to reprint the directory; and purchase orders with Adolph Kroch and the Economy Book Store for copies of the reprint.
Subjects: Business; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 30
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Bollaert, William, 1807-1876. Papers, 1837-1849.
5 cubic ft.
English writer, geographer, chemist, and ethnologist. Papers include eight separate items (Ayer MS 83a-83h) most of which relate to his years in Texas. The collection includes journals, notes, clippings, and maps.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 83
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1; VAULT 27 3; VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956. Papers, 1841-1995, bulk 1896-1956.
7 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings scrapbooks, sound recordings, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter, and John Philip Sousa. There is also a substantial body of love letters written between Felix and his 2nd wife, Elsa (Kanne) Borowski.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Borowski
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Borroff, Edith, 1925-. Papers, 1940-1990.
40 cubic ft.
Writings, musical compositions, correspondence, research materials, and lectures of Edith Borroff, musicologist and composer. A teacher at a number of colleges and universities, Borroff researched music education, American music, French chamber music, and contemporary music. The collection also includes artifacts and memorabilia, genealogical information, photographs, and miscellanea.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Borroff
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 6-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966. Papers, ca. 1890-1966, bulk 1940-1966.
18 cubic ft.
Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bowe (formerly Bo)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3-4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Bowen Bros. Records: SEE Enos Brown & Co., Records, 1867-1894, bulk 1867-1876
Boyce-Gilbert family. Papers, 1831-1996.
0.3 cubic ft.
Copies of LeRoy Boyce journal, Simeon Leonard Boyce journal, Elisabeth B. Gilbert journal, and "The Gilbert Genealogy" by Leonard B. Gilbert, 1996. Also photographic copy of Helen Boyce's dollhouse book, ca. 1899.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Boyce
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Boyd, Robert Knowles, 1845-1932. Letters, 1925-1927.
0.1 cubic ft.
Eau Claire, Wis., land agent. Five letters, Oct. 28, 1925 - Feb. 13, 1927, from Boyd to his cousin Edith M. Smith discussing the reception of his pamphlets about the Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's and 1870's.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3025 (formally Ayer MS 101a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Bradley, Katharine Shedd. Papers, 1908-1982.
0.5 cubic ft.
Fifteen line-a-day diaries of a Midwestern woman, 1908-1982.
Subjects: Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bradley (formerly Bra)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Brickman, Morrie, 1917-1994. Cartoons, 1966-1985.
2 cubic ft.
American comic artist, who created the newspaper comic strip "Small Society," distributed by the King Features Syndicate, 1966-1999. The strip represented the views and reactions of ordinary people to politicians, and current political and cultural affairs. Brickman drew the cartoon without any assistance until 1986. Included are 60 original daily cartoon drawings, and 40 original Sunday strip drawings, and proofs of daily cartoons, 1966-1985, and Sunday cartoons, 1967-1983.
Subjects: Arts; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Brickman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Briggs family. Papers, 1837-1910.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Letters between Briggs family members of Ohio and Indiana.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 72
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Brommel, Bernard J., 1930-. Bernard J. Brommel - Eugene V. Debs Papers, 1886-2003.
4 cubic ft.
Research material and works of Eugene V. Debs biographer Bernard J. Brommel, including notes, photocopies, photographs, pamphlets, newsclippings, and memorabilia. Also primary sources about and by Debs himself, including correspondence, works, and miscellanea.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Brommel-Debs
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Brown & Co. Records: SEE Enos Brown & Co., Records, 1867-1894, bulk 1867-1876
Brown family. Papers, 1918-1972, bulk 1923-1932.
2.5 cubic ft.
Photographs, programs, postcards, letters home, scrapbook, and travel souvenirs from around the world of two sisters who were "all girl" band members during the 1920's. Genevieve and Grace Brown performed with Harry Waiman and His Debutantes and with The Ingenues, "Girl's Orchestra of 20 College Beauties," which became a feature of Ziegfield's Follies in 1927. Also a 1918 World War I diary and letter home of Corporal McA Brown who served with the American Expeditionary Force in the trenches in France.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown Family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 2
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Brown, D. Tilden (David Tilden), 1822-1889. Papers, 1841-1897.
0.5 cubic ft.
Manuscript journal of physician David Tilden Brown, April 1, 1841-Nov. 22, 1847, with partial transcription, kept while Brown was in medical school in New York City. Also, a few pen sketches, three architect's drawings of Sheppard Asylum in Baltimore, MD, a Sheppard Asylum Fifth Annual Report, 1897, two clippings, and a photo of Dr. Brown ca. 1865-1870.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown D
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Brown, D. Tilden (David Tilden), 1822-1889. Papers, 1848-1866 (bulk 1849).
59 items.
Letters, receipts, contracts, maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compan~i´a de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General Jose´ Trinidad Mun~oz for exclusive rights to steamship travel up the San Juan River and across Lake Nicaragua.
Subjects: Business, Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 1819
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959. Family papers, 1749-1955, bulk 1810-1900.
9 cubic ft.
Materials pertaining to the family of Chicago banker Edward Eagle Brown, primarily of Brown's father Edward Osgood Brown, great grandfather William Brown, and descendents in the Ipswich and Salem Massachusetts areas. The bulk of the materials pertain to William Brown's shipping career, including invoices, receipts, bills of lading, and ships' manifests. Other materials include correspondence between members of the Brown and Baker families and other family members.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown (formerly Bp)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level Catalog record: NUCMC (1966).
Inventory: Online.
Brown, Howard Mayer. Papers, 1940-1990.
100 cubic ft.
Research materials, writings, notebooks, correspondence, performance music and realia of Howard Mayer Brown, musicologist and editor. A University of Chicago professor and editor of editions and series of Renaissance music, Brown was also a great collector of libretti, musical instruments, and books on music, many of which are also available at the Newberry.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown H
Collection Stack Location: 1a Link; 3a Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Brown, Richard H. Papers, 1965-1990.
1 cubic ft.
Head of the Newberry's Research and Education Division, 1973-1994, director of the Committee on the Study of History (Amherst Project), 1964-1973, chairman of the Illinois Humanities Council, and scholar of Jacksonian America. Brown's papers consist of documents, articles, correspondence, speeches and personal notes relating to his involvement in the Illinois Humanities Council, the Amherst Project and various history programs, institutes and workshops.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 07/15/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913. Papers, ca. 1860-1949, bulk 1873-1915.
4.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Browne (formerly Br)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990. Papers, 1955-1991, bulk 1964-1972.
5.5 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence of Slim Brundage, founder of the College of Complexes, which operated on and off out of several locations on Chicago's Near North Side during the 1950's-1960's as a forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. Also a variety of documents relating to the College of Complexes itself, such as correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry written by the College's "students."
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Brundage
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bulkley, Caroline Kemper. Papers, 1870-1938.
1 folder.
A few pieces of manuscript music by Caroline Bulkley of Shreveport, La., plus a miscellaneous collection of poems presumed to be used as lyrics for future compositions.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 107
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938. Papers, 1908-1912.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters, postcards, papers by Henry Lewis Bullen, librarian of the American Type Founders Company, New Jersey. Letters concern the origin of the American point system invented by Nelson Crocker Hawks, Hawks' career as an early California type founder, and such other early California printing industry figures as W.F. Shattuck, Andrew Foreman, William Faulkner, and others. The majority of the letters are from Hawks to Bullen; other correspondents include P.W. Shattuck, A.H. McQuilken, Alpha Child, Mrs. R.H. Faulkner, F.H. Mark and George L. Alexander.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT folio Wing MS 49
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938. Printing history collection, 1933-1936.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence and ephemera from the files of Henry Lewis Bullen, including a description in Spanish of the career of Mexico City printer José de Jáuregui; 2 photographs of R.W. Wilson; two ms. poems on bookbinding.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT folio Wing MS 50
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Bunch, Alma L. Papers, 1860-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bunch
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer), 1858-1949. Papers, 1897-1949.
2 cubic ft.
About 350 letters written mainly from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas by Elbridge Ayer Burbank to his uncle Edward E. Ayer, together with two scrapbooks containing incoming correspondence and miscellaneous clippings. Burbank, a painter and illustrator who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, was commissioned by Edward Ayer in 1897 to produce a series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.
Subjects: Arts; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer MS 120
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987. Papers, 1830-1984, bulk 1910-1984.
25 cubic ft. (56 boxes)
Chief literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, writer of a widely-read column, "The Literary Spotlight," and bookstore owner. Butcher's papers include letters and photographs of numerous literary figures including H.L. Mencken, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, James Thurber, and Willa Cather, and a significant amount of correspondence with Arthur Meeker. Also notes for and clippings of her reviews and articles, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Butcher (formerly Bu and Bk)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 5-6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953. Subject files, 1913-1933.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Subject files of the Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundations of the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1920-1933, including galleys of Butler's "Checklist of Fifteenth Century Books, correspondence with William Kittredge, and notes regarding bookshelf and typeface designs.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Archives 08/04/00
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 15
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Checklist for Modern Manuscript Collections, 1700-present - Publications about Newberry Collections