H.T. FitzSimons Company, Inc. Records, 1920-1950.
9 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music and some miscellanea of this Chicago music publisher, along with the papers of Rossetter G. Cole, a prolific Chicago composer. Cole bequeathed his papers to Harry T. FitzSimons; his manuscript and printed music, writings, clippings, programs, miscellanea, and collections of calling cards, postcards, and autographs make up a large portion of this collection. A small amount of Harry FitzSimons' correspondence is also present. The FitzSimons Co. was purchased in 1983 by the Fred Bock Music Companies.
Subjects: Business; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS FitzSimons
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11-12
Finding Aids:
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hadley, Henry Kimball, 1871-1937. Henry Kimball Hadley-Inez Barbour Programs and Posters, 1919-1938.
0.1 cubic ft.
Programs and posters of performances by conductor Henry Kimball Hadley and his wife, soprano Inez Barbour, dating from Barbour's 1919 Aeolian Hall recital to a memorial concert for Hadley in 1938.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 133
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hager, Mina. Papers, 1892-1977, bulk 1920-1970.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript music, recordings, and memorabilia of this concert singer. Hager, a mezzo-soprano, sang with the Chicago Opera Company and had a fruitful working relationship with the composer John Alden Carpenter; correspondence between the two, and some of Carpenter's songs in manuscript (or photostat), are present in this collection. The works include an incomplete autobiography. Recordings include reel-to-reel tapes and vinyl records.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hager
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hambleton, Chalkley Jay. Hambleton family papers, 1871-1932.
1 folder (4 letters and 1 clipping)
Four letters relating to the Hambleton family, one of which is a long and detailed account of fleeing the Chicago Fire of 1871 written by Emma L. Hambleton. Two letters and a clipping concern the Hambleton ranch in California; and one is by Vera Stock Wolfe, daughter of conductor Frederick Stock, containing amusing anecdotes about her father.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 22
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953. Papers, 1918-1953.
2.5 cubic ft.
Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Mainly personal letters, 1930-1950, to female correspondents including Baroness Alexandra Fredericks, and Sandra, Ludmilla, Sonia, Sophie, and Nadia. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hamill
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953. Letters to Kenneth Meyer Setton, 1944-1946.
0.1 cubic ft.
Five letters from Chicago businessman and book collector. Alfred E. Hamill to Kenneth Setton concerning his studies of Athens in the 12th century, and other matters of mutual interest.
Subjects:
Call Number: Midwest MS 162
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Hamilton, Louis McLane, 1844-1868. Collection, 1867-1869.
9 items (1 folder).
Grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Civil War veteran, and captain in the 7th U.S. Cavalry killed in the 7th's encounter (Battle of Washita) with an encampment of Cheyenne near present-day Cheyenne, Okla. Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867 concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 356
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hammond, Charles Lyman, 1853-. Scrapbook, 1891-1895.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 volume)
Scrapbook containing autograph letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc., relating to the Lincoln monument, collected by C. L. Hammond, the letters being for the most part, written by or to him.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E 5 .L63375
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1980-. Kiowa papers, 1935-1968, bulk 1935-1940.
2.5 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, field notes (including sound recordings), and writings of Jane Richardson Hanks, anthropologist who studied the Kiowa and Blackfoot Indians, and later of the people of Thailand. Collection mainly documents her 1935 graduate student work under Alexander Lesser with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Hanks
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hansen, Harry, 1884-. Papers, 1900-1970.
3 cubic ft.
Mainly incoming correspondence of Harry Hansen, Chicago Daily News reporter, foreign correspondent, and literary editor, 1911-1926, and author of fourteen books. Correspondence is rich with letters from important novelists, poets, journalists, and historians of the time. Photographs and small collections of outgoing correspondence, memorabilia, and Hansen's works also present.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Hansen (formerly Han)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harris, James Duncan, 1836-1862. James D. and Joseph W. Harris papers, 1824-1862.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters written by the brothers to their relatives while serving with the 30th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Letters of James D. Harris from occupied New Orleans (Apr.-Aug. 1862) document daily military life, battlefield horrors, and northern attitudes toward the South and its citizens. Letters from Joseph Whipple Harris describe life aboard ship in Panama and a visit to Hawaii in 1861. Also James D. Harris' pre-war letters containing descriptions of Chicago, materials documenting Joseph Whipple Harris' death, and miscellaneous family correspondence.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harris, Sydney Justin. Papers, 1933-1987, bulk 1975-1985.
17 cubic ft.
Syndicated Chicago Daily News columnist who later appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times editorial pages. Harris wrote the popular daily column, "Strictly Personal," where he used his background in philosophy and research to write about the contemporary world, human behavior, religion, hypocrisy, and artistic endeavor in an intellectual, yet folksy manner. Harris' papers include numerous letters from his readers, lectures, copies of his columns, and research materials on various topics.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harris family. Papers, 1837-1957.
21 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, school papers, genealogical material, and memorabilia centering on Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Major families represented include Harris, Gale, Bent, Wingate, and MacLean. Collection includes the daybooks of New Hampshire physician Jonathon Greeley Gale, whaling ship logs, 19th century letters from the Bent family on the Iowa frontier, the courtship and husband/wife correspondence of Emma Gale Harris and Norman Wait Harris, and Stanley Gale Harris and Muriel Bent Harris, and letters of Dorothy Bent Lane written from various foreign embassies, 1917-1950. There are also student papers and correspondence, diaries, and many photographs of family members, Yosemite in 1900, and Lake Geneva, 1910-1915.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 2-3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953. Papers, 1637-1953, bulk 1840-1950.
11.25 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to five-time Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953) and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harrison (formerly Ha)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog and NUCMC (80-159).
Inventory: Online.
Harrison, Gabriel, 1818-1902. Letters, 1873-1883.
10 items (1 folder).
Brooklyn, N.Y., theatrical manager, actor, painter, and author of an 1875 work about John Howard Payne, who was himself an actor, playwright, defender of the Cherokee Indians, and U.S. consul at Tunis. Collection contains letters regarding Payne to Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3038
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Harrison, Theodore, 1876-1965. Memorabilia, 1912-1949.
0.2 cubic ft.
Theodore Harrison was a concert baritone, as well as a faculty member at the American Conservatory of Music, conductor of the Adult Chorus of the Hull-House Music School, and director of the choir at First Congregational Church of Evanston. The collection contains programs and clippings, publicity, and recordings of the Hull-House Chorus, as well as items about singers Nancy Carr and Barre Hill.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 134
Collection Stack Location: 3A 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Hart, John Edward, 1917-. John Hart - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1985.
0.5 cubic ft.
Albion College English professor, 1954-1982, interested in American writers of the 1920's and 1930's, whose published works included a critical study of Floyd Dell. Mainly letters between Dell and Hart, 1958-1968, and also photographs and other miscellaneous material.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Hart-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hart, Philip, 1914-2000. Papers, 1973-1974.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of letters and other materials about Theodore Thomas, founding music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra collected by Philip Hart, a music historian and former assistant manager of the CSO.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 135
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hatch, Edward, 1832-1889. Letters, 1867-1870.
9 items (6 folders).
Edward Hatch lumberyard operator and soldier, who, after serving with distinction in the Civil War, was commissioned colonel of one of two new colored cavalry regiments, the 9th U.S. Cavalry. Includes nine letters to Thomas D. Smith of Muscatine, Iowa, regarding the activities of his regiment in Texas and the sale of his Muscatine, Iowa, properties. Letters discuss the training of troops, the protection of wagon roads from Indian attacks, skirmishes with Comanche, Kiowa, Mescalero, Apache, and Kickapoo bands, a trip to Chihuahua, Mexico, army reductions, and Hatch's presidency of court martials and military tribunals.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3087 (formerly Ayer MS 365.2)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Haugh, Dolores. Riverview Amusement Park Collection, 1904-1975.
3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Riverview Park archival records, including correspondence, accounts, publicity materials, concession contracts, minutes and reports, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and advertising materials, salvaged by Dolores Haugh from the abandoned park office one week before it burned down. Reports, minutes, correspondence, and other documents date mainly from the early years of the park. Advertising materials, clippings, and photographs are mainly from the last decades of park operation. There is information about rides and concessions, including the famous "Bobs," events like the Riverview Ramble and Mayor William Hale Thompson's 1920s outings for school children, staff members, and the general operation of the park. Also materials gathered by Haugh for her newspaper articles in the Arlington "Day" and her book, Riverview Amusement Park (2004).
Subjects: Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Riverview
Collection Stack Location: 3A 23 1
Finding Aids:
Preliminary Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Haupt, Herman. Papers 1897-1921.
9 items (1 box and 1 envelope).
Author and son of inventor and civil engineer Herman Haupt. Papers include the manuscript copy of "North American Indians. Ethnology of the Dakota,-Sioux,-and Ojibway,-Chippeway-Indians ... Phoenix Edition. 1897," a typewritten excerpt from it, and correspondence regarding it. The manuscript (344 leaves) deals mainly with the Dakota Sioux and the Ojibwa of Wisconsin and Minnesota and is illustrated with 277 pen and ink drawings and one map.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 366. (Map cataloged separately)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Havighurst, Robert James, 1900-. Papers, 1940-1980.
22 cubic ft.
University of Chicago professor and education scholar who directed the National Study of American Indian Education, a comprehensive, national fact-finding study on the education of American Indians, from 1968-1971. Collection contains reports and research materials (student surveys, interview transcriptions, etc.) pertaining to this study.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Havighurst
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 5-6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Letters, 1797-1812.
0.1 cubic ft.
Collection of 8 letters by Benjamin Hawkins, Creek Indian agent, concerning southern Indian affairs between 1797 and 1812. Correspondents include Col. David Henley, Georgia governor James Jackson, and prominent Mobile resident Harry Toumlin.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 368
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hayden, Hannah. Letters, 1806-1866, bulk 1806-1823.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence written in the early nineteenth century by Hannah Hayden from Hartwick and Springfield, Otsego County, New York, to her parents and sisters in Windsor, Connecticut, plus a few other family letters. Seventy-six items, the bulk of which are written by Hannah, detail her everyday life with her husband, and the births, lives and deaths of some of their twelve children.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 136
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Hayes, James, 1907-1994. Papers, 1905-1994, bulk 1921-1994.
29 cubic ft.
Contains correspondence between Chicago calligrapher Hayes and lettering artists around the world, files on clients, and files arranged by subject. Subject files include bookplate files comprised of Hayes' own work and the work of others; files of calligraphy clubs to which Hayes belonged; files relating to Hayes' major publication, The Roman Letter, an R.R. Donnelley exhibit catalog; and files of works by other calligraphers and artists (originals removed and cataloged separately).
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Hayes
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 1-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Haynes, John, 1838-1863. Copybooks and notes, 1849-1855.
0.2 cubic ft.
School writing books, handwriting exercises and notes by John Haynes, a student from Townsend, Mass. who served as Corporal in the Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 53rd, Company D, in the Dept. of the Gulf, 19th Army Corps.
Subjects: Civil War; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT box Wing MS 81
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Head, Cloyd S. Papers, 1895-1968.
4 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd S. Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.
Subjects: Literature; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Head
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 16
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Heath, Charles Andrews. Papers, 1880-1949.
0.2 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes typed excerpts from the diaries, 1880-1949, of Charles Andrews Heath, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Congress of Religions, the Galveston flood, and several wars. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, and a photograph of Heath.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Heath
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Heaton, Harold R. Political cartoons, 1909-ca. 1913.
2 cubic ft. (3 flat boxes)
Sixty-one original political and editorial cartoons by Harold R. Heaton for the Chicago newspaper Inter-Ocean, drawn between 1909 and circa 1913. Most of the drawings are commentaries on corrupt Chicago politics of the period.
Subjects: Arts, Journalism; Politics and Government; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Heaton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Papers, 1879-1983.
94 cubic ft.
Chicago Daily Record and Chicago Daily News journalist, and active participant in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. Hecht continued his career in New York and California as a journalist, novelist, and playwright, and was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter and Jewish activist. His papers consist of correspondence, works, subject files, legal and financial materials, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting his life and literary output, as well as the lives and careers of his wife Rose, and his actress daughter Jenny.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hecht (formerly He)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1; 3a 40 1-5; 3a 59 13-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Letters, 1790-1822.
7 items (7 folders).
Outgoing letters of John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckwelder, missionary of the Moravian Church to the Indians of Ohio and Pennsylvania during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 378
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Heflin, Wilson. Papers, 1830-1990.
11 cubic ft.
Professor of American literature at the U.S. Naval Academy and Melville scholar. Heflin's papers contain notes and correspondence relating to Heflin's lifelong work on a book concerning Melville's sea years, together with an almost complete manuscript of the book, which Heflin did not live to publish.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Heflin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Horne, William D., 1892-1986. William Horne - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1913-1985.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Spiegel, Clara Gatzert, 1904-1997. Family Papers, 1939-1988.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Spiegel, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1898-1975. Frederick W. Spiegel - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1918-1973.
Hild, Dorothy. Papers, 1907-1983.
42 cubic ft.
Former choreographer and director of entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Papers include sheet music for dance numbers, correspondence, photographs, clippings, works, and administrative files from her teaching at the Central YMCA College in downtown Chicago.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Hild
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 7-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hillers, John K., 1845-1925. John K. Hillers photographs of the Zuni, Hopi, and Rio Grande River pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, ca. 1879-1882.
72 photographic prints
From 1879 to 1882, Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevens under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology. This collection consists of Hillers' photographic record of the pueblos, archeological ruins, and people of Arizona and New Mexico. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer photographs box 94-96
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
0.5 cubic ft.
Indiana collector of books and manuscripts, particularly of explorations of the Middle West and the works of Mary Webb and Willa Cather. Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers, experts, and friends of Willa Cather relating to Hitz's search for information about Willa Cather and for first editions of her work. Also a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence (including twelve original Cather letters) and biographical, bibliographical, and critical notes.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hitz-Cather (formerly C2)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
HMS Media, Inc. Records, 2005.
0.5 cubic feet
4 DVDs of the 13-episode television program called The Chicago Dance Project, showcasing the work of 28 local dance companies and 4 local choreographers. Collections also includes a few newsletters from HMS Media company.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS HMS
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hoaré, Henry Royal. Papers, 1882-1959.
0.1 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, a photograph, and miscellaneous documents of this Chicago violinist, composer, and educator. Hoaré published numerous violin method books in addition to violin sonatas and concertos, and was the head of the violin division at the Chicago Fine Arts Conservatory of Music.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Hoaré
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Höfeln family. Papers, 1831-1897.
1 cubic ft.
Chiefly letters from Germany to Charlotte Fischer, both before and after her marriage to Andreas von Höfeln, with whom she emigrated to Tazewell County, Illinois around 1850. Their son, Alexander Andrew Heflin worked for railroads in Kansas.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Höfeln (formerly Ho)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Hoffmann, John Augustus. Hoffmann family papers, 1789-1901.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence and documents relating to the immigrant Hoffmann family, especially John A. Hoffmann of Illinois and Franz Joseph Hoffmann in Dubuque, Iowa. By 1901, the family had established a feed and fuel company in Wilmette, Illinois. All material is in German.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Hoffman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904. Drawings, 1901-1902.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
16 items Humorous pen-and-ink drawings of various types of people done in the style of linoleum prints for New York publisher R.H. Russell, by illustrator and printer Frank Holme, and a printed list of the officers and stockholders of the Bandar Log Press, established by Holme.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Midwest MS Holme
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Holton, Hugh. Papers, ca. 1994-2003.
7 cubic ft.
Chicago policeman and police fiction author. Holton's papers consist of his published and unpublished works, book production and promotional materials (including posters), awards and certificates, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and a full working police uniform.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Holton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Horne, William D., 1892-1986. William Horne - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1913-1985.
2 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman and Princeton graduate who served with Ernest Hemingway in the American Red Cross volunteer ambulance service in Schio, Italy, during World War I, shared an apartment with him in 1920 in Chicago, and remained lifelong friend. Mainly correspondence relating to Ernest Hemingway, together with several essays by Horne about Hemingway and the ambulance service, a scrapbook with photographs of the ambulance service in Italy, and other miscellaneous material. Also letters from Hemingway to Horne.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Horne-Hemingway
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
How, Fisher. Papers, 1836-1842.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Correspondence and documents relating to the creation and ownership of a land company in Steuben County, Indiana of which Fisher How (sometimes spelled Howe) of New York City was a shareholder and director.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: Midwest MS 83
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Howard, Alan, 1930-. Papers, 1924-2002, bulk 1980-2002.
1.5 cubic ft.
Performer and teacher Alan Howard was born in Chicago, studied at the Merriel Abbott School and with Edna McRae, then joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1949. He later danced with the New York City Ballet, Radio City Music Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera Company. His papers comprise ballet memorabilia from his career; the bulk of the collection concerns ballet performance and ballet-related events in New York City, 1988-2003.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Howard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Howe-Barnard family. Papers, 1812-1980, bulk 1848-1950.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, writings, diaries, etc., covering over 150 years of family life in New England, Illinois, and Indiana. The bulk of the material centers around Alice Lucretia Barnard (1829-1908), one of the first woman principals in Chicago schools, Edward Gardiner Howe (1849-1931), a pioneer in incorporating field trips into scientific education classes, and Annie Lyon Howe (1852-1943), a missionary and educator in Japan for over forty years and founder of Christian kindergartens there. Also the Civil War letters of six family members.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Howe-Barnard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 10-11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - May-November 2009.
Howell, Elizabeth Bowen. Journals, 1806-1833.
5 volumes
Writing books and manuscript commonplace books written by Elizabeth Howell in Boston, between 1806 and 1833.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing MS ZW 883 .H859
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Howes, Wright. Papers, 1920-1964.
1.5 cubic ft.
20th century Chicago bookseller and bibliographer. Collection consists of correspondence, sales catalogues, and notes, primarily concerning his bibliography of US-iana.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Howe
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-. Papers, 1989-1995.
6 cubic ft.
Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, 1983-1994, and Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, 1994-. Hoxie's papers consist of correspondence, board of trustee files, and administrative files relating to his work with the National Museum of the American Indian, and a museum manuscript, All Roads are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Access: Permission of Dr. Hoxie required to view papers.
Call Number: Archives 07/15/02 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 14 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hubbard Street Dance Company. Records, 1970-ongoing.
54 cubic ft.
Hubbard Street Dance Company (renamed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 1993) was founded by dancer and choreographer Lou Conte in 1977 and has become one of the most successful and most internationally known dance companies to hail from Chicago. Records include administrative files, publicity materials, and audiovisual records of performances of the company.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Hubbard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 14; 3a 49 1-3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hudson, Grace Carpenter, 1865-1937. Photographic copies of Grace Carpenter Hudson's paintings of Pomo Indians, ca. 1920-ca. 1937.
176 photographic prints on 89 cardboard mounts
Carpenter, a California artist specializing in paintings of Pomo Indian children, studied at the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco under Virgil Williams. These photographs depict portrait and scene paintings of Pomo Indians, primarily of children but also of adults. The children are often depicted with dogs or other animals. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photography Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 102-104
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Huebert, Diana, 1899-1983. Papers, 1916-1983.
2 cubic ft.
Material collected by dancer Diana Huebert (Mrs. Abel Faidy), the bulk consisting of programs and photographs of herself and other dancers. Also includes some articles she wrote or saved, including an autobiographical sketch, choreographic notes, and miscellaneous material relating to her husband, architect and designer Abel Faidy.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Huebert
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Huebner, Joseph. Dance photographs, ca. 1970-ca. 1989.
3 cubic ft.
Joseph Huebner was the University of Notre Dame Library's Fine Arts Bibiliographer for 30 years, retiring in 1998. He donated souvenir books, programs, and dance ephemera which were interfiled into the Barzel Dance Research collection, and also donated framed dance photographs showing many ballet stars, including George Ballanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Natalia Makarova, and Ivan Nagy.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Dance MS Huebner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931. Photographs, 1883-1907.
16 items
Photographic portraits of Indians and photographs of scenes in the West by Huffman, a professor of journalism (University of Illinois, Northwestern University, University of Denver) and western frontier historian.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Vault oversize Graff 2000
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 49 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Humphries, Edward C. Papers, 1861-1862.
0.5 cubic ft.
Lieutenant, 2nd Florida Regiment (C.S.A.). Correspondence and telegrams regarding Humphries' July 2, 1862, death in the Seven Days battle near Richmond, Va. Also a letter of Humphries to his wife in Alabama, Dec. 2, 1861, and a family Bible with entries for Humphries and his immediate family.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Modern MS Humphries
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hurd, Ann Augusta Jaquins. Hurd-Arno family correspondence, 1834-1921.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of a Wisconsin family mainly written by Mary Olivia Hurd Arno to her mother, Ann Augusta Hurd, 1886-1897, concerning domestic matters, pioneer settlement and land speculation in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakota Territory, and the financial hard times of the 1890's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hurd-Arno (formerly Hur)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, 1854-1924. Papers, 1854-1924.
3 cubic ft.
Chicago merchant and banker, art collector, founder and president, 1882-1924, of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (later Art Institute), and University of Chicago trustee. Papers include correspondence with many prominent Chicagoans, clippings, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Hutchinson (formerly Hu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6-7
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Checklist for Modern Manuscript Collections, 1700-present - Publications about Newberry Collections