DaBoll, Raymond, 1892-1982. Papers, 1920-1982.
35 cubic ft.
Client files and correspondence of DaBoll, a leading American calligrapher of the 20th century.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS DaBoll
Collection Stack Location: 3a 59 4-7
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870. Papers, 1858-1870.
0.1 cubic feet.
Collection contains 46 letters from U.S. naval officer and inventor of ordnance John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to his sister, Martha Matilda ("Patty") Dahlgren, one letter to his son Ulrich (1842-1864), and a letter to "Mary." The collection also includes one letter from Ulrich to his Aunt Patty, and a letter from F. A. W. Davis to Dahlgren, regarding Dahlgren's nephew Bernard. Printed poem and newspaper clippings relating to Ulrich's death in an attempted raid on Richmond, Virginia are included as well.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.D136
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Daland, Emily Eliot. Papers, 1916-1933.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters of Emily Eliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, regarding her daughter Pauline Gerard's small estate, of which Daland was guardian. Topics in the letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also family photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 155
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
D'Amato, Barbara. Papers, 2001-2004.
2.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Chicago suspense novel author and winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Prize and Carl Sandburg Award. Includes working drafts and printed copy of D'Amato's 2004 novel, Death of a Thousand Cuts.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS D'Amato
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection Available by appointment only.
Dana, James J. (James Jackson). Papers, 1841-1890.
20 items (1 oversize box).
Career army and Quartermaster's Dept. officer's military commissions and appointments, transmittal letters, and an 1890 certificate of membership in the Washington, D.C. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 3003 (formerly Ayer MS 22b)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records, 1958-1985.
3 cubic ft. (5 boxes and 1 oversize box).
Photographs from the Seeing Indian in Chicago American Indian photography exhibit, July 22-September 21, 1985, Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, The Newberry Library. Also exhibition labels.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Seeing Indian.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Darrow, Jessie Ohl. Darrow family scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1925.
2 cubic ft.
Four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, school papers and a few pieces of memorabilia, including two scrapbooks kept by Clarence Darrow's first wife, Jessie Ohl Darrow, one by her son Paul Darrow, and one by someone unknown, possibly Jessie. The books contain many articles by and about the career of Clarence Darrow; also, some articles referring to Greeley, Colorado, sometime home of Clarence Darrow's son Paul, and a collection of Paul's early school papers.
Subjects: Family; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Darrow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
David, Stuart, 1941-. Calligraphic papers, 1970-2006.
12 cubic ft.
Calligrapher and original member of the New York Society of Scribes who worked as corporate calligrapher for Citicorp, and who also authored three books on calligraphy. Papers include printed work (menus, book covers, certificates, etc.), printed work by other calligraphers, and files on various styles of writing.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Dav
Collection Stack Location: 3a 54 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Davis, Charles A., fl. 1900. Papers, 1854-1901.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Charles A. Davis left Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 22, 1900, to take a job as a court reporter in Manila after the Americans had taken control of the Philippines. His wife, Bess, joined him in Manila in 1901. This collection consists of letters and photographs that describe Mr. and Mrs. Davis' lives in Manila. It also includes a travel journal in Spanish from 1854, titled "Memorias sobre las Yslas Filipinas," that Mr. and Mrs. Davis acquired.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1980.
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879. Papers, 1867-1878.
49 items (1 box).
Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3057
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), b. 1840. Papers, 1836-1905, bulk 1855-1895.
4 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, mementos and scrapbooks of Union Army officer (1st lieutenant and adjutant, major, 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry) and industrialist Ephraim Cutler Dawes, covering his military service (in Tennessee, Mississippi, and in Sherman's advance against Atlanta, until he was wounded on May 28, 1864. Also documents Dawes' activities in the rail and coal industries. Includes a letter from P. H. Sheridan.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawes (formerly Daw).
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog record for copies of diaries and letters, 1861-1863
Catalog record for Diary, 1862-1865
Inventory: Online.
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956. Papers, 1810-1988.
39 cubic ft.
Illinois attorney, journalist, literary agent, poet, and patron to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Robert McAlmon. Dawson's papers include his works and correspondence, as well as diaries, correspondence, photographs, memoirs, etc., of George E. Dawson, and other members of the Dawson, Manierre, and Hahn families.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 4-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Deal, George, ca. 1825-1964. Papers, 1862-1975, bulk 1862-1864.
0.5 cubic ft.
Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10030
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Deane family. Papers, 1779-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, sermons, deeds, wills, and estate inventories of three generations of the Deane family of Connecticut and Illinois, including many letters from Lucretia Dean Gore, whose husband was a Congregational minister near Peoria, and her daughter, Mary Gore Richardson, who by 1893 was in Chicago. Topics include religion, illness and death, life in LaMoille, Illinois, family news, etc. Also letters of young cousin-friends Lucretia Mason Dean and Lucy Bond, 1802-1809, regarding courtship and other issues.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Deane
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
De Lamarter, Eric, 1880-1953. Papers, 1904-1971.
1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings, programs, and performance tapes of this Chicago musician. De Lamarter was associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock; a music critic for a number of Chicago newspapers; organist and choirmaster of 4th Presbyterian Church and other churches; and a respected composer of symphonic, chamber, vocal, and service music.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS De Lamarter (formerly Dl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog, NUCMC 80-158.
Dedmon, Emmett. Research note cards, ca. 1953.
2 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Note cards used in researching the book Fabulous Chicago, written by Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times editor, and author Emmett Dedmon. Cards contain quotes, citations, and bibliographies.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Dedmon
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Debo, Angie, 1890-1988. Correspondence, 1975-1985.
19 items (1 box).
A noted Oklahoma Indian historian and advocate of Indian rights; this collection contains personal letters with friends Theodore W. and Louann Van Zelst, correspondence (1985) between the Van Zelsts and Gov. Nigh of Oklahoma regarding a Debo tribute, and copies of two printed pieces concerning Debo and the Pima Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Debo
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969. Papers, 1908-1969.
11 cubic ft.
Poet, novelist, playwright, newspaperman, and literary editor, who was a central figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and editor of the Friday Literary Review, and who later edited The Masses, The Liberator, and The New Masses after moving to Greenwich Village and Croton on Hudson, New York. Dell's papers include correspondence with a number of important literary figures, manuscript and printed works, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dell (formerly De)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 5 (December 1950), p. 146-157.
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943. Papers, 1868-1942, bulk 1885-1929.
5 cubic ft. (14 boxes)
Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to Charles H. Dennis, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Dennis (formerly Den)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947. Papers, 1907-1931.
4 cubic ft.
Designer and calligrapher who was founding head of the Department of Printing Arts of the School of the Art Institute, and who was also Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1931-1947. Collection focuses on Detterer's career before he came to the Newberry Library, and includes notes, memorabilia, correspondence, drawings, sketches, and a few finished art works, including some by his Art Institute students.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Dett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947. Administrative subject files, 1921-1947 (bulk 1931-1947).
10 cubic ft.
Correspondence and subject files covering all aspects of Detterer's professional work at the Newberry Library. Subject files relate specifically to both the administration of the Wing Collection and printing in general. There are also printing samples and correspondence from such organizations as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Calligraphy Study Group, and the Caxton, First Edition, and Grolier Clubs and there is correspondence with Ray DaBoll, Eric Gill, Frederic Goudy, Alfred Hamill, and others. In addition, there are project files (correspondence, drawings, proofs, revisions, artifacts) relating to Detterer's design of the Newberry Library Bindery Typeface.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Case Archives 08/04/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 15
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens), 1800-1866. Correspondence, 1799-1892.
164 items
Daniel S. Dickinson, lawyer, politician, and orator, served in the New York Senate (1837-1840), as Lieutenant Governor of New York (1842), and in the U. S. Senate (1844-1851). This collection contains 164 letters and documents related mostly to Dickinson's political activities. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Dorothea Dix, James Buchanan, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Horace Greeley, and Fernando Wood. Collection also features some letters written to Lydia Knapp Dickinson, Dickinson's wife, after his death. A few documents relating to John Tracy and James Clapp (1785-1854), father of Julia Clapp Newberry, are also included.
Subjects: Civil War; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Dickinson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Diggins, Dean. Papers, 1956-1995.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material regarding Diggins's career as a tap dancer and teacher, including class notes while studying with Paul Draper, plus clippings, photographs, programs, publicity items and scrapbooks relating to his ten years as a part of the Mattison Trio. Also, his choreographic notes for tap routines composed for classical music and audio and video tapes of some of those dances.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Diggins
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1906-1941, bulk 1915-1935.
2.5 cubic ft.
Chicago social club founded in 1916 (chartered in 1917) by Jack Jones to provide an unconventional meeting-place for the uninhibited and free-thinking. Originally housed in two scrapbooks presumably kept by Jones, the records include a small amount of correspondence, plus poetry, clippings, photographs, publicity items for readings, lectures and plays, artwork and memorabilia.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dill Pickle (formerly Di)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dilworth, Hiram Powers, 1878-1974. Papers, 1904-1959.
1 cubic ft.
Poet and pianist, who graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music, attended Antioch College in Ohio, and began working at the Art Institute in 1904 as a guard, retiring in 1959. Dilworth's papers include poetry manuscripts, most written on versos of Art Institute Weekly Bulletins, and a few copyright certificates for his publications.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Dilworth
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dinsmoor, Silas. Papers, 1794-1796.
11 items (3 folders, 1 oversize folder).
Correspondence, certificates, and report, 1794-1796, of Silas Dinsmoor, mainly concerning his duties as resident agent to the Cherokee.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 241
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Djalaal. Papers, 1974-1997.
0.5 cubic ft.
Djalaal, born J.L. Williams in Chicago, earned a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies at Governors State University. Having studied every aspect of dance, including exotic dance with pioneer Chicago teacher Virginia Davran, Djalaal became a specialist in North African and Middle Eastern Dances. She founded a dance company, "Djalaal and the Women of the Veil", and a women's drum circle, "Heartbeat." Collection includes biographical materials, brochures, clippings, photographs, programs, and other publicity, and some writings.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Djalaal
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Doane, Julia W. Memorabilia, 1876-1911.
0.3 cubic ft.
An autograph album from 1876 and a scrapbook from 1911 compiled by Julia Doane, a Chicagoan with connections to the theatrical and musical communities. Both items feature actors and other theatrical figures of the late 19th century.
Subjects: Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Doane
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. Papers, 1875-1905.
ca. 233 items.
Army officer and author. Manuscripts, diaries, letters, printed broadsides and pamphlets, and 94 photographs contain a vivid picture Army life during the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 1110
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Donaldson, Virginia. Papers, ca. 1930-1996.
32 cubic ft.
Virginia Donaldson was the press agent for the New York City Ballet from 1966 to 1982 and also worked in publicity for Chicago area arts organizations. Her papers include programs, souvenir books, publicity, and working files of various dance companies and festivals all over the United States.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Donaldson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 7-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868. Papers, 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857.
52 items (1 box).
Wealthy Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, fur trader and regional investor. Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business. Additional items include a ms. Dakota-English vocabulary, a volume of accounts with named Indians, the printed act of incorporation of the American Fur Company (1808, with certification by N.Y. governor Marcy, 1839), and a packing list of Joshua Palen's fur trade goods (1822).
Subjects: Business; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 18
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dow, Dorothy, 1897-1989. Dorothy Dow - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1920-1950.
112 items.
Chicago poet who in 1920 began a lifelong friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, the Illinois-born poet, novelist, and biographer best known for his Spoon River Anthology. Dow's papers consist almost entirely of Masters' letters to her, 1920-1947, interfiled with typescripts of poems by Masters and newspaper clippings; also a long reminiscence of Masters by Dow, and copies of two portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dox, Hamilton Bogart, b. 1829. Papers, 1864-1905.
0.1 cubic ft.
Officer, 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment.
Records of the regiment and of Dox's Civil War service, including muster rolls, vouchers, special orders, discharge papers, and letters, 1864-1865.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10004
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Drury, John, 1898-. John Drury - Marion Neville papers, 1860-1970.
30 cubic ft.
Personal and business correspondence and writings of John Drury and his wife, Marion Neville. Drury was a feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Daily News from 1926 to 1944, poet, and author of many books about Chicago; Neville was a Chicago Daily News columnist, author of children's books, and artist. Also includes Drury's work files, Neville's art and photographs, and Century of Progress memorabilia. Note: Tapes and transcripts for Drury's interviews are in the Chicago Daily News records.
Subjects: Arts; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Drury (formerly Dr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dufau, Jenny. Papers, 1913-1917.
0.2 cubic ft.
Love letters written during World War I from an Italian in Florence, Italy, to French opera singer Jenny Dufau living in Chicago. Also, brief correspondence concerning Dufau's passport, a note from a New York opera company, and three photographs of musicians.
Subjects: Music, Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dufau
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dukes family. Papers, 1772-1900.
1 cubic ft. (6 volumes)
Correspondence of three generations of the Dukes family, of Shropshire, England, including Thomas Farmer Dukes, an attorney at Shrewsbury, William Henry Dukes, a chemist at Worcester, Thomas Farmer Dukes' son, Thomas William Dukes, and his children: Thomas, Henry, Robert, Edward, and Eliza. Correspondence is pasted in three volumes of the 1805, 1818, and 1821 censuses of the county of Shropshire. Also an album of carte de visite photographs of European royalty, political dignitaries, writers, and others; an indexed book of food and wine recipes, medical remedies, and instructions for making inks, varnished, cements, etc.; and a commonplace book.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Modern MS Dukes
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dunlop, Richard. Papers, 1950-1970.
6 cubic ft.
Research materials (photographs copied from originals in other institutions, notes, letters, printed pamphlets) and manuscripts from Dunlop's books on the American West, mainly Wheels West. Also materials from Chicago Corral of Westerners, of which Dunlop was a long-time member. Dunlop, a native Chicagoan and history graduate of Northwestern University, also wrote the Rand McNally Backpacking and Outdoor Guide, Doctors of the American Frontier, and Great Trails of the West.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Dunlop
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Durkee, Cara Dana. Papers, 1855-1934, bulk 1913-1934.
0.5 cubic ft.
Newberry Library Public Services Division senior assistant, 1895-1931. Durkee's papers consist of lists, reports and translations created during her employment at the Newberry; sketches, notes, cards, poems and articles by fellow employees and friends (Mary L. Watson and Edith Franklin Wyatt, etc.); and a Durkee family letterpress copybook, 1855-1934.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 11/15/02 (formerly NL Du)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 11 16
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Dwiggins, W.A. (William Addison), 1880-1956. Papers, 1906-1915.
0.1 cubic ft.
Autograph correspondence and sketches in pencil and in pen-and-ink, most done at Dwiggins studio in Hingham Center, Massachusetts between 1906 and 1915 for Chicago clients.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT folio Wing MS 12
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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