Gallentine, C. W. (Charles W.), d. 1864. Letters, 1861-1863.
0.2 linear feet
Letters home, 1862-1863, by Charles W. Gallentine of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, from Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., Jacinto and Corinth, Miss., Memphis and LaGrange, Tenn., and Lawrence Co., Ala., regarding camp life, skirmishes, men killed and wounded, Southern guerillas, northern Copperheads and the draft, Southern plantations and slave attitudes, Union and Confederate prisoners, etc.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10008 (formerly Case MS 5070)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Galphin, George, d. 1780. Letters, 1778-1780.
7 items (3 folders).
Outgoing correspondence from South Carolina of the Indian trader and Revolutionary patriot while serving as commissioner of Indian affairs. The purpose was to inform Benjamin Lincoln, commander of the Southern Department, of the current situation with the Creek Indians and his efforts to maintain their friendship.
Subject: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 313
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972. Papers, 1877-1977.
25 cubic ft.
Works, incoming and family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and miscellanea of this pianist, composer, conductor, and educator. Ganz was conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the 1920s and continued to conduct various orchestras while directing the Chicago Musical College from 1929 to 1954. He was also a prolific composer of piano pieces, songs, and other works. His correspondence includes letters from many prominent musical figures.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ganz (formerly Ga)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2; 3a 39 7-8
Finding Aids:
Summary and Inventory (partial): Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Geer, Nathan Cahoon. Letters, 1846-1954.
0.5 cubic ft.
Collection of letters to and from Chicago printer Geer, relating to printing in Chicago and Waukegan, Illinois. Also included is a printed scale of prices for book and job printing.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Case Wing MS +Z311 .G27
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Gehr, Mary. Papers, 1828-1995, bulk 1948-1995.
4 cubic ft.
Sketchbooks, artwork and correspondence of Gehr, a Chicago printmaker and book illustrator best known for her illustrations of children's books.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Gehr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 53 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Germania Club (Chicago, Ill.). Scrapbook, 1921-1931.
1 cubic ft.
Abstract: A large scrapbook containing material on the activities of this music-appreciation club for German-Americans. Chartered in 1869 with possible origins in the organization of a choir to sing at President Lincoln's lying-in-state in Chicago, the Germania Club became a meeting place for Chicago's German elite. The name was changed to the Lincoln Club during World War I and changed back in 1921.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Case +V 208 .326
Collection Stack Location: 3a 15 11: ITEM TOO FRAGILE TO PAGE, USE FILM
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Germanistic Society of Chicago. Records, 1907-15.
15 items (0.1 cubic ft.)
Membership lists, lecture announcements, and annual meeting minutes kept by Louis Guenzel, recording secretary of the Society and an architect. The lists provide an inventory of upper-class citizens of German extraction in pre-World War I Chicago, and also reflect the gradual withdrawal of support for German-centered activities during the war.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS 157
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Gerstenberg, Alice. Papers, 1903-1971.
3.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater. She was one of the original members of Maurice Browne's Chicago Little Theatre, founded in 1912.
Subjects: Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gerstenberg (formerly Ge)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Gill, Eric. Letters, 1935-1938.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters and cards written by engraver and typographer Gill from 1935-1938 to printer Guido Morris.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Cr (filed in back of Edward Gordon Craig letters in the same box)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Giordano, Gus. Papers, 1966-1996.
2 cubic ft.
Jazz dancer, choreographer, teacher, and founder of Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago (est. 1962). Materials include some memorabilia and video footage of Giordano and his Jazz Dance ensemble.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Giordano
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 7
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903. Papers, 1852-1908.
40 cubic ft.
Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, and many others.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call number: Midwest MS Gleason (formerly Gl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 4-6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Articles: Peters, Aileen: Analysis of the Frederic Grant Gleason Collection... fV 29 .3372 and 4A 4009 (2 copies).
Goetz, John B., 1920-2006. Papers, 1961-1992.
0.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence and job files of Chicago book and magazine designer John B. Goetz. The largest part of the collection concerns his work on the award-winning translation of the Iliad by Richard Lattimore, illustrated by Leonard Baskin. There are also files on some of his freelance design projects.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Goetz
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 06
Finding aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007. Papers, 1933-2007.
2.5 cubic ft.
Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of correspondence, memorabilia and signed theatrical programs, some Goldsmith drawings and writing, two scarves and a pair of ballet slippers.
Subjects: Dance; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Goldsmith
Stack Location: 3a 39 4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918. Papers, 1910-1919.
19 cubic ft.
Works in manuscript and print, programs, clippings, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Chicago playwright, poet, and leader of the "little theater" movement in the early 20th century. The Goodman Theatre was built in his memory, after his early death. The collection also includes material from other members of his family (including journals and photographs).
Subjects: Family; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3-4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Goodwin, Paul. Goodwin family papers, 1802-1913.
0.5 cubic feet (1 box)
Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodwin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Goodwin, Solomon, 1755-1833. Papers, 1776-ca. 1820.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Three volume manuscript autobiography, together with a Revolutionary War soldier's journal, 1776-1777, and a manuscript concerning the "ancestors, connections, and descendents of Solomon Goodwin.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5 G 634
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Catalog records, Online Catalog: - Autobiography and Genealogy.
Gookin, Frederick William, 1854-1936. Design papers, 1893-1912.
1.5 cubic ft.
Primarily drawings, sketches and finished art work created by Gookin, a banker, author, calligrapher, artist and authority on Japanese art. Gookin was also an early member of the Chicago Literary Club, and the collection contains art work created for the club's papers and yearbooks.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Mod MS Gookin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 6
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Gookin family. Papers, 1864-1922.
3 cubic ft. (6 boxes)
Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Mrs. Gookin was away. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elizabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Subjects: Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gookin family (formerly Go)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Gordon, Edward. Papers, 1957-1997.
1 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, and programs of this Chicago pianist and music administrator. Gordon was a child prodigy-performing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age eight-and renowned concert pianist before directing the Grant Park summer concerts and the Ravinia Festival (from 1968-1990). See the Ravinia Festival collection for additional material related to Gordon.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Gordon
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-. Elliott Gorn - Mother Jones research papers, ca. 1890-2001.
7 cubic ft. (7 boxes and 1 poster)
Papers collected in the course of research for Elliott Gorn's book Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America (2001) and manuscripts. Includes photocopies of articles, books, dissertations, and other materials. Subjects include biographical information on Mother Jones, the union movement, radicalism, socialism, mining and other trades.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gorn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964. Papers, 1921-1964, bulk 1930-1960.
6 cubic ft.
Chicago steel company executive, philanthropist, Western Americana collector, and Newberry Library president of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1964, who near the end of his term donated his Western Americana collection to the library. Graff's papers include correspondence and financial records relating to his purchases of and research on Western Americana, and also published reports of historical societies, clippings, typescripts, membership cards and photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/03
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Graves, James Taylor. Papers, 1850-1891, bulk 1862-1867.
0.25 cubic ft.
Mainly Civil War (1862-1863) and European trip (1867) letters of James Taylor Graves addressed to his family. Graves' Civil War letters, written from Camp Miller at Greenfield, Mass., en route to Louisiana via New York City, and from various places in Louisiana, discuss camp life, ship transport, the treatment of Negroes, Southern guerrillas, skirmishes with Confederate forces, the siege of Port Hudson, and other topics. Written during a summer tour of London, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, Graves' 1867 letters provide a detailed description of his travels to his family at home.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10010 (previously Miscellaneous Small Collections)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Gray, John S. (John Stephens), 1910- . Research papers, 1942-1991.
9 cubic ft. (27 boxes).
Research notes, writings, and correspondence of this Northwestern University physiologist and historian of the American West. Mainly Gray's exhaustive research notes and bibliographies on subjects related to U.S. Indian relations, particularly relating to post Civil War military operations in the West, the fur trade, the Pony Express and other stage lines, and western scouts (including Indian scouts).
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Gray.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Greenlee, William Brooks. Papers, 1872-1953, bulk 1890-1953.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago manufacturer, collector of early Portuguese books, Luzo-Brazilian scholar and Newberry Library Trustee, 1931-1950, who presented his collection of Portuguese and Brazilian materials to the library in 1937. Greenlee's papers consist of correspondence, documents, diaries, scrapbooks, research matter and photographs, and focus on his Portuguese collecting activities and scholarly work.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/04
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911. Papers, 1865-1890.
6.5 cubic ft. (13 boxes).
Benjamin Henry Grierson served as military officer during the Civil War and was later appointed Colonel of the Tenth Regiment U.S. Cavalry in 1866. He commanded the Negro Tenth Cavalry for twenty-four years. His service included several western posts. Covering a quarter of a century of military service, the Grierson Papers include correspondence, reports, orders and telegrams relating to his military career and family life as well as a few miscellaneous maps and photographs.
Microfilm copy available at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3039 (formally Ayer MS 343a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Griffith, James Shores. Papers, 1882-1971.
0.2 cubic ft.
Two binders containing records of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators of America, Local No. 147, 1882-1971, including records of wages of Mr. Griffith's grandfather, Griffith's own 1909 apprentice contract, records of union dues payments, notices of periodic wage and by-law changes, union assessments, elections, and other union activities. Also contains a fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversary souvenir booklets, and a pamphlet entitled "Survey of Working Conditions in the Painting Trade in Chicago, 1929-1934," by J.A. Runnberg. Collection also includes a typescript history of the Painters District Council #14 (1950), and Griffith's tickets from the 1933 Century of Progress.
Subjects: Business; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Griffith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Grimm, C. Hugo (Carl Hugo), 1890-1978. Papers, 1890-1951.
2 cubic ft.
Organist, composer, and teacher of composition at the Cincinnati Conservatory. Grimm wrote symphonies, songs, organ pieces, and many other works. The collection consists mainly of typewritten and manuscript treatises on topics in musical composition.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Grimm
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Grimmer, Margot. Papers, 1956-1984.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Grimmer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Gruenberg, Robert, 1922-1992. Papers, 1947-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Articles, notebooks, and correspondence of Robert Gruenberg, Chicago Daily News political and urban affairs journalist and Washington and foreign correspondent. Includes much significant material on newsworthy events of the 1950s to 1970s such as the Cuban revolution (at which Gruenberg was present), the Civil Rights marches in the South (also present), Vietnam War protests, and Watergate.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Gruenberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Gurko, Miriam. Miriam Gurko - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1968.
2 cubic ft.
Independent researcher and author of biographies and histories, who met and became friends with Floyd Dell while researching for a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Papers are comprised mainly of letters from Dell to Gurko, 1960-1968, concerning Millay. Also Dell's recollections of Millay, and Gurko's research notes and drafts.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gurko-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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