Calhoun, Lucy Monroe, 1865-1950. Papers, 1909-1922 or 1923.
0.1 cubic ft. (3 folders)
Six letters by Lucy Monroe Calhoun and three by her husband, William J. Calhoun (U.S. Minister to China, 1909-1913), regarding their experiences in China during the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which includes a description of the December, 1922, wedding of Emperor Puyi. Another letter relates Monroe’s visit to Le Mans, France, the American Red Cross embarkation camp at the end of World War I. Also, a newspaper clipping and a photograph of Emperor Puyi as a child.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 126
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Canadian Indians reports, 1960-1980.
1.5 cubic ft.
Collection of reports issued by the Canadian government regarding Canadian Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Canadian Indians
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 7
Finding Aids:
Contents list available with collection. Collection available by appointment only.
Capron, Edwin R. Letters, 1863-1866.
28 items.
Letters, Jan. 30-Oct. 13, 1865, from Capron, a sergeant major in the 1st Regiment of Nebraska Cavalry, to family in Morrisville, Vermont, from Fort Kearny, Cottonwood Springs, and Nebraska City, Neb., containing descriptions of military life at western posts during 1865, and comments on southern chivalry, draft dodgers, the surrender of Lee and assassination of Lincoln, and the mustering out process. Also a daguerreotype portrait of Capron.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Graff 579
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2; VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Carlton, W.N.C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943. Papers, 1901-1920.
3 cubic ft.
Librarian and author, who served as the Newberry Library's third librarian, 1909-1920. The papers of Carlton's administration consist of correspondence, reports, and memoranda relating to reference, book ordering, relations with other libraries and institutions, and routine matters, as well as scrapbooks of correspondence with the Library of Congress and of amusing and interesting letters received by the Newberry.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/03
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951. Papers, 1890-1964, bulk 1900-1950.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, mostly incoming, to American composer John Alden Carpenter, wife Rue W. Carpenter and daughter Genevieve; also material relating to Carpenter’s works; a miscellany of personal records; and a collection of photographs, many of them of well-known musicians.
Subjects: Music; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Carpenter (formerly Car)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Carpenter family. Papers, 1869-1947.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the Carpenter family of Chicago which includes correspondence, documents, a volume of 1890 court cases, extensive genealogical letters and documents, photographs and memorabilia.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Carpenter family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Carrier, Gertrude Lueneburg, 1902-1991. Papers, 1921-1991.
6.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Chicago calligrapher, illuminator and designer who worked for the Scriptorium of Coella Lindsay Ricketts and later for the studio of Milan Bulovic, but was for most of her career a free-lancer. The papers consist largely of sketches and correspondence relating to free-lance work, some personal correspondence, student notes and projects, and a few artifacts.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Carr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Carter, John, 1905-1975. Calligraphic letters, 1946-1971.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters, postcards and related materials collected as examples of the handwriting of calligraphers among author and calligrapher John Carter's friends, including Sydney Cockerell, Alfred Fairbank, E.A. Lowe, Francis Meynell, Paul Standard, Janet Stone, Irene Wellington, Aubrey West. Also included are a few letters by historical figures, i.e. May Morris, A.J.A. Symons, and C.J. Turner.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Cart
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite, 1845-1936. Henry W. Lawton scrapbook, 1899.
1 v.
Scrapbook made up of autograph letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, portraits, etc., all pertaining to Henry W. Lawton, a U.S. Army officer who served in the Civil War, Apache War, Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War.
Available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 2420
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Carter, Thomas Butler, b. 1817. Papers, 1831-1898.
0.1 cubic ft. (4 folders)
Letters dating 1831 to 1898 from Thomas Butler Carter to his cousin Aaron Carter in New Jersey, which give descriptions of Carter’s personal and business life in Chicago, plus a few other letters. Also includes a typescript of Carter’s autobiographical sketch of his life in Chicago (1889), six studio photographic portraits, and several miscellaneous documents.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 127
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Cartwright Family. Papers, 1877-1982.
1.5 cubic ft.
Three generations of an Ohio family that moved to Evanston, Ill., in the early 20th century and whose members were primarily journalists, including Charles Merritt Cartwright (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Inter-Ocean editor), Stanley Levering Cartwright (Chicago Tribune reporter and editor of the National Underwriter), and Ruth Russell, Stanley's wife (feature editor for the Chicago Daily News). Papers include biographical information, correspondence, photographs, clippings of Charles Merritt Cartwright's articles for the Inter-Ocean, and articles written by Ruth and Stanley Levering Cartwright.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cartwright
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962. Papers, 1907-1964.
15 cubic ft.
Manuscripts of the works and diaries, along with correspondence, photographs, and other memorabilia, of Robert J. Casey, Chicago Daily News reporter and prolific author. Casey served in World War I, was one of the great correspondents of World War II, and wrote a popular front-page feature based on his worldwide travels. His works include travel accounts, historical romances, detective and adventure stories, and poetry.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Casey (formerly C-)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1; 3a 38 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cassidy, Claudia. Papers, ca. 1880-1996, bulk 1930-1985.
16 cubic ft. (42 boxes)
Articles and reviews, correspondence, broadcast scripts, photographs, and clippings of the Chicago Tribune performing arts critic from 1942 to 1965. Cassidy wrote her influential "On the Aisle" column for the Tribune, then wrote freelance criticism and hosted a weekly program of arts criticism for WFMT, helping to shape the course of music, theater, and dance in Chicago.
Subjects: Dance; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cassidy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cather, Willa - SEE Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
Cather, Willa - SEE Weisz, Irene Miner. Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers, 1912-1958.
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902. Papers, 1865-1945.
1 cubic ft.
Midwestern writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Catherwood's papers include mostly out-going correspondence, manuscript and published writings, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs and some miscellaneous material relating her life and career.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Catherwood (formerly Ca)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Caxton Club. Records, 1895-ongoing.
103 cubic ft.
Largely minutes, internal documents, correspondence and printed ephemera of the Caxton Club, a Chicago bibliophile club founded in 1895 with the objective of "literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." The records also include some photographs and audio and video tapes.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Caxton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 53 1-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Chandler, Daniel Lyman, b. 1814. Papers, 1855-1866.
0.1 cubic ft. (2 folders)
Twelve letters of New Englander Daniel Lyman Chandler from Chicago, Illinois, and Ogden, Kansas, to his relatives,1855-1863, which describe life in Chicago and in the Kansas Territory. Also, two other letters from his nephew John and a woman named Elisabeth Hewins.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 128
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Chapin, Nathaniel Gates, 1817-1893. Collection of photographs and portraits of eminent musicians, ca. 1890.
136 photographs
Photographs and portraits of uniform size, that have been inset and mounted on cardboard. A biographical sketch of the subject of the portrait appears in manuscript on the mounting.
Subjects: Music; Photographs
Call Number: Case V 25.185
Collection Stack Location: 3a 6 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Chappell, Warren, 1904-. Book layouts, 1949-1967, bulk 1949.
0.1 cubic ft.
Four layouts for a proposed Christmas book for Alfred E. Hamill, accompanied by a 4 p. ALS from Hamill to Chappell dated 10 April 1949 concerning these layouts and the book of fables for which they were intended, and by a set of notes on the letter and layouts written out by Chappell in April of 1967, signed and dated.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 37
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Charles H. Kerr Company. Records, 1885-1999.
35 cubic ft.
Business records (financial, stock, and customer order files), manuscripts, photographs, author information, and publishing, production, and promotion information for the Charles H. Kerr Company, the oldest labor and socialist publishing house in the United States. The collection also includes some information about The Socialist Party, The Proletarian Party, unions, and radical organizations, primarily in the United States.
Subjects: Business; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Kerr (formerly Kerr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 9-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922. Papers, 1894-1909.
1 cubic ft.
Poet and essayist, who served as the Newberry Library's second librarian, 1894-1909. Records of Cheney's administration consist mainly of correspondence relating to Newberry acquisitions, but also gift acknowledgements, job applications, reference letters, and a few papers relating to library administration.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: 03/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives
Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project. Records, 1982-1985.
4 cubic ft. (13 boxes).
Reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, and edited typewritten transcripts of oral interviews with twenty-three long-time American Indian residents of Chicago completed as part of a project conducted under the auspices of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and funded by the Illinois Humanities Council, 1982-1984. Also a published index and finding aid to the transcripts, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Native Voices in the City" incorporating excerpts from the interviews, and cassette tapes of three community meetings sponsored by the project.
Access: All tapes of oral history interviews and selected transcripts restricted by interviewees are closed and are not available to researchers. Excerpts from both closed and open interviews contained in the unpublished manuscript "Native Voices in the City" are open for research.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Oral History.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Company. Records, 1855-1975.
5,000 cubic ft.
Archives mainly documenting the 19th-century operations of the Burlington and its component railroads. Founded in 1855 by Boston capitalist John Murray Forbes, the CB&Q operated mainly in the Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states. The “Burlington System” was also responsible for encouraging emigration and town development, topics well documented in the records. There is also significant 20th-century material, including the correspondence of CB&Q president Ralph Budd and material on tourism and the Zephyr passenger trains.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: CB&Q.
Collection Stack Location: 4a 16-27
Finding Aids:
Summary: Online.
Inventory: Available in the library (Ref HE 2791 .C6425 and Supplements).
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Chicago Businessmen’s Orchestra. Records, 1941-1962.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, and programs of this orchestra composed of men (and later women) working in Chicago business firms. The orchestra was active from 1923 into the 1980s. Correspondents include Percy Grainger, Edward L. Ryerson, Frederick Stock, and Rafael Kubelik.
Subjects: Business; Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 154
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Chicago Calligraphy Collective. Records, 1975-[ongoing].
4 cubic ft.
Non-profit public education organization founded in 1976 to promote the study, practice, and appreciation of calligraphy in all of its historical and present-day applications. Collection includes newsletters, posters, exhibit announcements, invitations, workshop materials, and other printed items. Also included is correspondence among early members, as well as between members and calligraphers outside of Chicago.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS CCC
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 7
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Chamber Music Society. Records, 1957-1999.
1 cubic ft.
Bylaws, membership lists, programs, tickets and some financial and fundraising materials of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering chamber music in Chicago. Also Xerox copy of Dan Tucker's original score, "Up in Rootabaga County," commissioned by the Society for the millennium celebration, and also performed Feb. 14, 2007, at the Newberry Library. Also cassette tape copy of the Sept. 28, 1999, performance at Preston Bradley Hall, and a photocopy of the Carl Sandburg poem "More Rootabagas" that formed the lyrics of the piece.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Chamber
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Children’s Choir. Records, 1950-1990.
97 cubic ft.
Administrative files, promotional materials, photographs, clippings, audio tapes, information on personnel and singers, etc. Founded in 1956 by the Reverend Christopher Moore, and through 1980 an activity of Hyde Park’s First Unitarian Society of Chicago, the CCC grew into an independent music-education program-one of the largest in the country. Moore’s personal papers are also included in the collection.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Children's
Collection Stack Location: 3a 32 1-8
Finding Aids:None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago City Ballet. Records, 1980-1988.
12 cubic ft.
Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief founded the Chicago City Ballet in 1979; a severe split in the board of directors of the company resulted in its dissolution in 1987. Records include administrative and publicity files for the short-lived company.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CCB
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago City Ballet School. Records, 1985-1992.
3 cubic ft.
The School of Chicago Ballet was founded in 1981 and affiliated with the Chicago City Ballet, outlasting the Ballet Company seven more years until its closing in 1994. Includes publicity material and photographs.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CCB School
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Community Trust. Excellence in Dance Initiative Records, 1999-2007.
1 cubic ft.
Administrative files, consultant files and a collection of background information and publications relating to the field of dance and specifically to the activities of a short-term initiative developed by the Chicago Community Trust which had the aim of strengthening the field of dance in Chicago.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Dance Initiative
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Daily News, Inc. Records, 1875-1978.
60 cubic ft.
Correspondence, photographs, staff information, promotional materials, legal papers, interviews, memoranda, stylebooks, artifacts, and many other records of the Chicago Daily News. Chicago's first penny daily and most popular newspaper until 1918, the Daily News was purchased by the Field Corporation in 1959, and continued publication until its absorption by the Sun-Times in 1978. Information on the beginnings of the WFLD television station (owned by the Field Communications Corporation) also included.
Subjects: Business; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Field Enterprises
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 9-14; 3a 42 11-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Indian photos (See D’Arcy McNickle Center)
Chicago lakefront and river photographs, ca. 1890.
0.2 cubic ft.
58 prints of Chicago lakefront and river scenes, found in a manila envelope marked: "Prints from glass negatives produced by the Corps of Engineers c. 1890; originals now with the Chicago Maritime Society."
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 129
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Library Club. Records, 1971-1984, bulk 1892-1913.
0.5 cubic ft.
Abstract: Formed in 1891 by newcomers into the Chicago library field from New York to encourage the acquaintance and cooperation between libraries, library schools and other fields. Founding members included W.F. Poole, Frederick H. Wild, Charles Alexander Nelson, Edith Clark and others. Collection includes one box of assorted correspondence, clippings and other miscellaneous items from 1971-84, and one ledger: Reports of the Treasurer 1892-1913 (catalogued independently as Case Manuscript Z 008.164).
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Library Club
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 4; VAULT 36 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Chicago Literary Club. Records, 1874-1960.
36 cubic ft.
Chicago voluntary association founded in 1874 of men and women interested in writing original essays on topics of their own choosing and in listening to other members present their essays. Prominent members include Lorado Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Irving Kane Pond, William Rainey Harper, and Thomas Elliott Donnelly. Primarily weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Literary Club (formerly Ch)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2-4; 3a 35 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog .
Summary and inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Chicago National Association of Dance Masters. Records, 1952-[ongoing]
33 cubic ft.
The Chicago National Association of Dance Masters (CNADM) was founded in 1912 and serves as a resource of continuing education for dance teachers and their students. Records include workshop reports, dance notes, and audiovisual recordings of CNADM workshops.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CNADM
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Association. Records, 1916-1924.
1 folder
Correspondence and contracts mostly relating to singer Amerlita Galli-Curci and Cleofonte Campanini, General Director of the Chicago Opera Association. Also two leases between the Chicago Civic Opera Co. and the Auditorium Theatre.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 9
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Theater. Records, 1975-1978.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 flat box)
Founded in 1974 as the Chicago Opera Studio, the organization's goal was to provide high quality opera productions in English and designed for contemporary tastes using younger Chicago singers and musicians. Records include budgets, proposals, notes, invitations, brochures, programs, and window posters.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Opera
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Reader. Records, ca. 1970-2005.
50 cubic ft.
Accounting records, subscription reports, editorial correspondence, articles in manuscript, and other records of the Chicago Reader. An alternative-press weekly published since 1971 and distributed primarily on Chicago's north side, the Reader focuses on the arts and cultural events, city politics, and literary journalism. Includes extensive photograph collections for music, drama, dance, neighborhood news, columns, and feature articles.
Subjects: Business; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Reader
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 8-12; 3a 55 1-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble. Records, 1981-1992.
14 cubic ft.
A troupe that showcased the works of Chicago choreographers, the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble was founded in 1981 and headquartered at the Ruth Page Foundation building until its dissolution in 1992. Records include administrative and performance files, and audiovisual materials.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Chicago Repertory
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Sun-Times. Records, 1900-1980.
203 cubic ft.
Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, promotional materials, legal papers, stylebooks, copies of notable editions, artifacts, and many other records of this newspaper. The Sun-Times was formed in 1947 from a merger of the Times-the city's first tabloid-and the Sun, launched by Marshall Field III's Field Enterprises in 1941. Much of the collection consists of the papers of Milburn P. Akers, Emmett Dedmon, and other Sun-Times staff. Some records of the Times and the Sun also included.
Subjects: Business; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Field Enterprises
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 9-14; 3a 42 11-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Woman’s Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1876-1987.
0.7 cubic ft.
Chicago philanthropic and social organization formed in 1876. Members have included Jane Addams, Helen S. Shedd, and Bertha Palmer. Collection includes a guest book and donor’s book, both leather bound, gilded and inset with semiprecious stone, and Annals of the Club volume 2.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Woman's
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 31 5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Children’s Reading Roundtable of Chicago. Records, 1947-1995.
3.5 cubic ft.
Not-for-profit organization formed in 1931 by a Chicago group of women who met regularly at the Cordon Club and were interested in writing, editing, publishing and promoting children’s books. Collection includes four boxes of photos, bulletins, brochures, flyers and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Children's Reading
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Chiswick Book Shop (New York, N.Y.). Records, 1952-1958.
1 cubic ft.
Correspondence between Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Book Shop and important calligraphers and members of the book trade, including: Dorothy Abbe, Wilfrid Blunt, Elizabeth Downs, Alfred J. Fairbank, Tom Gourdie, Philip Hofer, Anna Hornbye, E. Harold Hugo, Percy Muir, Stanley Pargellis, Nancy Price, Will Ransom, Rudolph Ruzicka, and James M. Wells.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Chs
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
16 cubic ft.
Mainly scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings from national and international newspapers, but also correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating to John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Church (later Christian Catholic Apostolic Church) and his establishment of the Christian utopian city of Zion, on Lake Michigan near the northern border of Illinois.
Subjects: Social Action; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Zion
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
City News Bureau of Chicago. Records, 1944-2005, bulk 1990-2000.
50 cubic ft. (100 boxes)
One of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States founded in 1890 as the City Press Association by Victor Lawson, who persuaded local newspaper competitors that cooperative gathering of police, court, City Hall, and other routine news would reduce the cost of reporting staffs and train reporters for newsrooms. The City News Bureau slowly faded as Chicago went down to two newspapers, although it was still widely used by both the Sun-Times and the Tribune. When the Sun-Times pulled out in 1999, it continued to operate under Tribune auspices as the City News Service until Dec., 2005. Records files from four beat locations: Federal Court, Cook County Civil Court, Cook County Criminal Court, and Chicago City Hall. The files of the Federal Court are the oldest, dating from the 1950's, and at other locations they date from the mid-1980's through 2005. They include copies of reporters' filings, research notes, newspaper clippings, court case filings, and government reports on a variety of issues. The reporters' filings contain blow-by-blow details on crimes and political activity.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS City News Bureau
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 9-12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Civil War photographs, ca. 1861-ca. 1865.
1 folder (10 items)
Ten carte de visite photographs of Union soldiers, camps, and buildings in Southern locations.
Subjects: Civil War; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 67
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Clark, C. R. C.R. Clark photograph book, 1871-1911.
0.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Individually mounted photographs of Chicago before and immediately after the Chicago fire of 1871. Also includes correspondence relating to Byron L. Smith’s acquisition of the photographs and the original front and back covers of the photograph book.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Clark
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Clark, Margaret E., 1893-1990. Papers, 1933-1990.
.5 cubic ft.
Newberry cataloguer, primarily in music, 1930-1960. Clark's papers consist of notes outlining her daily routine, correspondence with Newberry colleagues, church and music programs, and a brochure of the 1933 Century of Progress.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 12/15/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Cleland, T.M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964. Letters and sketches, 1924-52.
0.5 cubic ft.
Consists mainly of letters between Cleland and Alfred Hamill, as well as a few sketches (including those for the Newberry Library device).
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Cl
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Cliff Dwellers (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1890-ongoing.
19 cubic ft.
Scrapbooks, photographs, member’s papers and registers, document this Chicago social club’s history. Formally the Attic Club, Hamlin Garland founded the club as a forum and sanctuary for emerging artists, musicians, poets, architects and art enthusiasts. Housed in the penthouse of Orchestra Hall, prominent members included Lorado Taft, John McCutcheon, Horace Oakly, Louis Sullivan, Vachel Lindsay and Charles Hutchinson.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Cliff
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 10-11
Finding Aids:
None: Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Cohen, Herman. Letters and notes, 1954.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence and notes concerning a copy of Isaiah Thomas's A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, 1785. Correspondents include Leslie E. Bliss, John Eliot Alden, R.W.G. Vail, Roland Orvil Baughman, and Philip Hofer.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 21
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Coker, Robert Adams. Letters, 1823-1832.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence of West Newbury, Massachusetts, native and mathematics teacher Robert Adams Coker, who graduated from Harvard in 1831, and died of tuberculosis in 1833. Letters from friends and family begin when Coker was around sixteen, and include Harvard friend George C. Coombs, and Coker's employer John Lee Watson, at the Highland School near West Point. There are also letters from Coker to his family describing his teaching situation and his declining health. Also photocopies of letters from the Harvard College Archives.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 130
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Colby, Carlos W. Papers, 1821-1937, bulk 1861-1865.
1 cubic foot.
Second Corporal, 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G.
Consists of 129 letters home, 1862-1865, from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, describing all aspects of daily camp life, covering such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation, and weaponry. The letters also reveal social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, and patriotic sentiments and contain observations on military leaders (Ulysses S. Grant). Colby includes graphic descriptions of particular battles and skirmishes (Vicksburg, Fort Blakely, and Jackson). There are also 12 Civil War letters of future brother-in-law James Rowe, 1862-1865, who served as an infantryman and hospital steward, reminiscences by Colby, and tintypes of Colby as a soldier.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10014
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Collection of blueprint photographs of Indians and scenes in and near Fort Custer, Montana, ca. 1896.
24 mounted photos.
One photo is of a ms. descriptive list of some of the scenes presented; another is dated May 14, 1896; the final photo is of a ms. inscription: Finis. Fort Custer, Montana. W.C.S. E.E.P.S.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Graff 962
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Collins, Edward Joseph, 1889-1951. Papers, 1899-1951.
5 cubic ft.
Clippings, programs, artifacts, sheet music, photographs, and recordings of this Chicago composer, pianist, and music teacher. Collins, a pupil of Rudolph Ganz, was assistant conductor of the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, on the faculty at Chicago Musical College and later the American Conservatory of Music, and a prize-winning composer of symphonic works, piano concerti, chamber music, and songs. Recordings of his works and his performances are present in various formats.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Collins
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 3; 3a 24 14; 3a 35 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Commercial Club of Chicago. Records, 1923-1958.
0.1 cubic ft.
The Commercial Club of Chicago was organized in 1878 for the purpose of advancing the commercial prosperity and growth of Chicago. In 1907 it absorbed the Merchants Club and the Industrial Club. The collection consists of typed memorials of various club members and trustees of Chicago institutions and businesses such as the Newberry Library, Marshall Fields, University of Chicago and Field Museum.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Commercial
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Conolly, Thomas. Papers, 1890-1920.
3 cubic ft.
Autographs, bookplates, clippings, letters, photographs, and correspondence of Thomas Conolly, employee of the Auditorium Theater for 52 years and celebrated collector. Conolly moved to Chicago from his native England in 1889. The collection includes autographs of many famous theatrical and political figures (especially British), and correspondence from Ellen Terry and Julia Marlowe, among others. Plays, librettos, pamphlets and photographs collected by Conolly are cataloged separately.
Subjects: Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Connolly
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, no. 4 (July 1946), p. 3-10.
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990. Papers, 1924-1991.
43 cubic ft.
Works, correspondence, and papers of the American novelist, folklorist, and editor who wrote The Disinherited (1933), a classic of proletarian literature, and edited radical journals: The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil. Also Conroy's personal magazine collection consisting of numerous leftist, labor, and literary magazines, some only in a few issues, dating mainly from the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Conroy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 7-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Contemporary Club. Records, 1950-1990.
9 cubic ft.
Formed to preserve and promote a progressive interest in literature, art and contemporary thought, the Contemporary Club was the result of the merging of two Chicago woman’s clubs: The Wednesday Club and the Young Fortnightly. The collection consists of treasurer’s reports, meeting minutes and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Contemporary
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2-3
Finding Aids:
Authors of letters and documents, and subjects of photographs: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940. Papers, 1913-1940.
5.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Oswald Cooper, Chicago lettering artist, advertising designer and type designer best known for his Cooper Black and Cooper Bold typefaces. Includes art work for type designs; art boards, proofs and finished advertising pieces; and limited correspondence. There is also a file on patent cases of 1926-1928, and Cooper's testimony before Congress on the originality of typefaces.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Coo
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Cordon Club. Records, 1917-1943.
0.1 cubic ft.
Five printed announcements of club events folder removed from the Fitzsimmons Co. records. Club members included Anna Burmeister, Fanny Butcher, Margery Currey, Rose DuMoulin, Lola Fletcher, Alice Gersenberg, Alice Roullier, Berta Ochsne, and Eunice Tietjens.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Miscellaneous Small Collections
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. Papers, ca. 1850-2004, bulk 1898-1985.
82 cubic ft.
Author, poet, translator, literary critic and historian who was editor of the Greenwich Village avant-garde magazine, Broom, and literary editor of the New Republic, and who wrote Exile's Return, chronicling literary life between the two World Wars. Cowley's papers include correspondence with and materials about 20th century literary figures and reflect Cowley's long involvement with Yaddo and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also numerous project files including Cowley's writings and related correspondence and research materials; photographs; and family correspondence.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Cowley (formerly Co)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 5-9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 - SEE ALSO Nuzum, Ruth. Ruth Nuzum - Malcolm Cowley Research Collection, ca. 1930s-1990s.
Cox, Alfred J. (Alfred John), 1835-1909. Family papers, 1797-1909.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters, calligraphic favors, legal documents and photographs from the papers of Alfred J. Cox, Chicago book binder and collector. Correspondents include: William Cox and William Cox, Jr. (grandfather and father of A.J. Cox); James Cox (uncle of William Jr.); Jonathan Evans (adoptive father of A.J. Cox); Jane E. French (later Mrs. Alfred J. Cox); Louisa Field (cousin); W.I. Wilson and H.V. Whalen (Chicago businessmen). Photos are of A. J. Cox and his library.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 65
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Cox-Allen family. Papers, 1862-1865.
1 cubic ft.
Courtship letters between Gideon Winan Allen, a student at Madison, Wisc., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and Annie Cox of Madison. Allen was a Copperhead Democrat; his letters contain a student’s views on the war and politics.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cox-Allen (formerly Cox)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966. Letters, 1936-1945.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters from English actor, theatre director-designer and theorist Craig to printer Guido Morris, written from 1936-1945. They are accompanied by numerous enclosures, drawings, drafts, etc.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Theater
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Cr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Cram, Ralph W., 1869-1952. Papers, 1906-1952.
1.5 cubic ft. (1 box and 1 oversize box)
Correspondence, mostly incoming, of Ralph W. Cram, editor and publisher of the Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Leader; also, a complete run of his 78 columns for that paper, 1937-1939, and his photograph.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Cram (formerly Cr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Croghan, George, d. 1782. Letters, 1763-1770.
5 items (3 folders).
George Croghan, Indian trader, agent, and land speculator. A small collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Penn. relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 195
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Correspondence, 1822-1836, bulk 1822.
6 items (0.1 cubic ft.)
Correspondence of this fur trader, a manager for John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company (and later owner of a part of the business). The subject matter includes purchasing of skins, reception of trade goods in Philadelphia, and operations of the firm’s Western Department in St. Louis. Correspondents include Samuel Abbott, Robert Stuart, James Kennerly, and Augustin Grignon.
Subjects: Business; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 201
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ayer Manuscripts information file available.
**Additional Crook MS: VAULT box Ayer MS 1, 3, 472, 596, 3133; VAULT Ayer MS 18.**
Cross, Louis J. Diaries, 1932-1973.
3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Diaries of Louis J. Cross, lifelong resident of Chicago and the near west suburbs. Cross was a devout Catholic, devoted father, a bond salesman who became a partner first at Paul H. Davis & Co. and later at Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill Noyes. Diary entries record all his daily activities, and there are a number of clippings slipped or pasted in. Included are a number of adverse comments about FDR and Truman, and also monthly personal sales figures, stock market averages, and investment trends.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Cross
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Cuming, Alexander, Sir, 1690?-1755. Papers, 1734-1767.
7 items (1 box and 1 oversize folder).
Commonplace books, memorials, note, and military appointment of Sir Alexander Cuming, 1734-1767, second baronet of Culter, eccentric Scottish promoter and visionary, Royal Society member, and self-proclaimed king of the Cherokees.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 204.
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Cummings, Marion, 1876-1926. Papers, 1900-1956.
1.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Marion Cummings, teacher, philosopher and poet, which include both her works and a collection of letters and works of American poet Sara Teasdale.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cummings (formerly Cu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cuoq, J. A. (Jean Andre). Letters, 1879-1894.
5 items (1 folder).
Cuoq was a priest, missionary, linguist, and philologist, also known as Nuj-Kwenatc-anibic (Algonquian) and Orakwanen-takon (Iroquois). The collection contains letters to James Constantine Pilling, an American ethnologist and bibliographer particularly interested in Indian languages.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 206
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Curtis, Edward W. Letters, 1855-1865, bulk 1863.
0.2 cubic ft.
Letters to Curtis' cousin and aunt written while serving as a private with the 88th Infantry in Nashville, Murfreesboro, and Salem in Tennessee, and Bridgeport in Alabama. The letters discuss the Battle of Murfreesboro and describe a plantation, life as a soldier and camp conditions, and the occupied South. Also a few newspaper clippings discussing the battles near Nashville, hospitals in the area, and the meaning of letters to soldiers.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10016
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903. Letters, 1895-1902.
.2 cubic ft.
Librarian at Harvard and the Boston Athenaeum, and author of the Expansive Classification system for library collections. Includes correspondence with William Stetson Merrill (Newberry Library Accessions Department) regarding the Cutter classification system for the Newberry's collections.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Case MS Z 68.21
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Cutter, Irving Samuel, 1875-1945. Papers, 1884-1934.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Physician, author and dean of the medical schools at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern. Collection contains correspondence, together with articles and biographical notes assembled for an article about army surgeon Henry Rinalda Porter, a survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn; and photographs of the battlefield, of participants in the conflict, and of military posts; also a letter by George Crook, Feb. 24, 1888, and four pencil sketches of western scenes by Charles M. Russell.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3221
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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