Midwest MS Kerr, Oversize (reproduction)
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| Charles H. Kerr Company Records, 1885-1999 Midwest MS Kerr, Oversize (reproduction) |
Illinois Ballet. Records, 1959-1972.
2.5 cubic ft.
Illinois Ballet was founded in 1959 by two former Sadler's Wells ballet dancers, Richard Ellis and Christine Du Boulay. The company presernted several seasons of performances per year until its demise in 1972. The company remained constant at four soloists and ten corps members, and included two dancer/choreographers, Hy Somers and Dom Orejudos. Archives include correspondence, music, photographs, posters, programs, and videos.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Illinois Ballet
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Illinois Central Railroad Company. Records, 1851-1972, bulk 1851-1906.
1,000 cubic ft.
Archives of this Chicago-based company which built a north-south railroad line in Illinois, then expanded to include the upper Midwest and South. The IC was chartered in 1851 after the Federal Land Grant Act and had its origins in an 1830s Illinois-sponsored program of internal improvements. The records include nearly complete correspondence files for company presidents in the 19th century, including a great deal of material for Stuyvesant Fish; materials documenting day-to-day operations, construction, and right-of-way, including maps and large-scale "track books"; information on operations during the Civil War and on Chicago's growth and lakefront development; and records of a number of subsidiary and incorporated lines.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: IC
Collection Stack Location: 4a 28-32; 4a map case
Finding Aids:
Summary: Online.
Inventory: Online.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Indian Council Fire. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and publications of the Indian Council Fire, a Chicago-based organization supporting educational, legislative, and social services for urban and reservation Indians.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Indian Council
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Indian land deeds, 1639-1787.
19 items (1 oversize box).
Deeds and indentures, 1639-1787, transferring or leasing Indian lands to white inhabitants of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Two deeds are on vellum, there are seals on eleven deeds, and most documents are signed with the marks of the Indian parties involved.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 404 (formerly Ayer MS 405-422)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Indian oral history (See Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project )
Indian photograph collection (See Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection )
Indian relocation (See United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs )
Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) (See Rosemont, Franklin. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera)
Ingmire, Thomas. Notes and studies, ca. 1984-1994.
128 items (20 folders)
Notes, sketches, studies and trial sheets for the 1991 calligraphic manuscript, "Relearning the alphabet by Denise Levertov", now in the Newberry Library (VAULT Wing MS folio ZW983.I53). The earliest studies are for a related uncompleted project started in the mid-1980's on a commission from the San Francisco collector Richard Harrison.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 20
Collection Stack Location: Vault 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Iowa Land Company and Iowa Rail Road Land Company. Records, 1855-1913.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Records relating to 19th century Iowa railroad and land companies, and the town of Clinton, Iowa. Includes maps, reports, and other documents kept by Massachusetts stockholders, of the Iowa Land Company, the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad, the Iowa Railroad Land Company, and associated companies.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: Midwest MS Iowa.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Iris, Scharmel, 1889-1967. Papers, 1911-1964.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of material relating to minor Chicago poet. Iris proved to be a plagiarist and forger who engaged in a life-long campaign not only to have his verse published but also to be regarded as a colleague of more successful writers and poets. Consists of correspondence, poetry, and miscellaneous items such as clippings and photographs.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 137
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Isham family. Papers, 1875-1923.
0.2 cubic ft.
Typescript letters and photographs of the Isham family of Chicago, including Dr. Ralph N. Isham, Katherine Isham (Mrs. Ralph W. Farwell), Harriet Isham (Mrs. George A. Carpenter), George Snow Isham, Nelson R. Isham, and also Charles N. Isham of Little Falls, N.Y. In addition to family portraits, there is a photograph of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Isham was surgeon in charge. Correspondence discusses the practice of medicine, travel in Russia in 1883, and an 1875 boat accident on Lake Michigan.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 102
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. W. H. Jackson Photochrom print collection, 1898-1906.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Noted photographer, mainly of the American West. Color lithographic prints, made using the "Photochrom" process, published by the Detriot Photographic Company from negatives made by W. H. Jackson. Includes 479 prints, mostly 7 x 9 inches, but including 14 panoramic views, mainly of outdoor scenes in California (60), Colorado (63), Utah (19), other western states (38), southern states (52), New York (64), Mid-Atlantic states (35), and Canada, Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico (40). Also a few portraits of American Indians and indoor scenes.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs Jackson
Collection Stack Location: 4 23 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Jacobs, Elmer, 1900-. Papers, ca. 1912-1981.
7.5 cubic ft.
Advertising and magazine art (some original), correspondence, speech texts, photos, greeting cards, brochures, booklets, other printed ephemera, and 2 sound discs. Material documents Elmer Jacobs' career as a free-lance illustrator and designer from the 1920's through the 1970's. Although there is relatively little correspondence, there are significant exchanges with Chicago artist Dale Nichols and designer Hal Higdon. The sound discs contain a 1951 radio interview with Jacobs.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Jac
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 6-7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
James T. Farrell Centenary Committee. Postcards, 2004.
1 folder
Postcard responses supporting James T. Farrell's recognitions by the City of Chicago on the centenary of his birth.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 36
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
James T. Farrell Centennial Conference. Records, 2004.
1 folder
Programs and forms for the James T. Farrell Centennial Conference held at the American University of Paris in June of 2004.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 52
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Jennings, Francis. Papers, ca. 1940-2000.
19 cubic ft.
Colonial historian and former director of the Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center, 1976-1981, who after a teaching and union activities in Philadelphia, and investigation by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, returned to graduate school, received in Ph.D. in history in 1965, and began a distinguished academic career. Jenning's first book, The Invasion of America, published in 1975, explored the violence and brutality of European settlement. Jenning's papers include correspondence, writings, subject files, course papers from the 1950's, bibliographies, and much other material.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Jennings
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. Butler, Pierce - Subject files, 1923-1933.
0.5 cubic ft.
A medievalist, Pierce Butler served as custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation of the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1920-1931. Files include galleys of Butler's "Checklist of Fifteenth Century Books," limited correspondence with William Kittredge (Lakeside Press) and the Lanston Monotype Machine Co., a book review, and notes regarding bookshelf and type designs.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Archives 08/04/00
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 15
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Johns, William Douglas, b. 1858. The early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike discovery, 1895-ca. 1940.
51 items including 49 photographs (1 box)
William Douglas Johns, journalist and prospector, wrote a series of articles while living in Circle City, Alaska during the heyday of the Gold Rush. Johns' typescript and accompanying photographs record the early history of Alaska, the development of the gold rush, life in the mining camps and in Dawson City, and Johns' own explorations and hardships traveling in the region.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3123 (formerly Ayer MS 448a and 520a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, Carol. Chicago portrait photographs, ca. 1860-1900.
1 folder
Twenty-five unidentified nineteenth century cabinet photographs of babies, children, adults and weddings taken by Chicago photographers. Also, one CD titled "Carol Johnson."
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 47
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Johnson, Charles B. (Charles Buck). Papers, 1841-1888, bulk 1859-1865.
431 items (1 box).
Military and Indian provision contractor and quartermaster's agent. Correspondence, agreements, orders, accounts, reports, returns, receipts, etc. concerning his work with the Indians of the Wichita Agency and the Seminole and Osage tribes in northern Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 449
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, Richard Colles. Richard Colles Johnson - Colles family papers, 1746-2002, bulk 1956-1998.
6 cubic ft.
Personal papers of Richard Colles Johnson, long-time Newberry Library bibliographer of American literature and history, including his own correspondence and writings, but also an extensive collection that Johnson gathered of the papers of the Colles family of Ireland, which consist of the correspondence, subject files, photographs, art work, and writings of a number of Colles family members, but particularly Christopher Colles, 1739-1816. Christopher Colles was an engineer, inventor, and promoter who came to America in 1765. He was one of the first Americans to design a steam engine and to propose a canal connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Johnson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774. Letters, 1755-1773.
22 items (12 folders).
Miscellaneous collection of twelve letters written by Sir William Johnson, military commander during the French and Indian War and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who played a significant role in the colonial history of New York. Correspondence relates to the French and Indian War, Indian treaties and conferences, the Conestoga Massacre (1763), land patents, and the appointment of Johnson's successor.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 456 (formerly Ayer MS 457 and Ayer MS 458)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Jordan, John W. Letters, 1892-1901.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters from Col. John Ward Jordan, Louisville, Ky., to his nephew Scott of Chicago, mainly concerning Jordan and Ward family history.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 94
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960. Papers, 1800-1963.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson. There is World War I correspondence with Judson's mother, his wife-to-be, the artist Sylvia Shaw, his father, William Voorhees Judson, and son, Clay Judson Jr. Also speeches and articles relating to Judson's law practice and his active involvement with the America First Committee and the Brookfield Zoo; photographs of family and of France and Germany during World War; and materials relating to family genealogy.
Subjects: Family, Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson C
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923. Papers, 1888-1947.
4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscript works, documents, drafts, reprints, maps, charts, and photographs relating to William Voorhees Judson, military officer, army engineer, political writer and speaker, and military attaché in Russia in 1917. Collection contains material concerning the Russian Revolution, most of which has been published in Russia in War and Revolution: General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918, edited by Neil V. Salzman, Kent State University Press, 1998.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson (formerly Ju)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, No. 3 (1945), p. 8-12.
Just, Robert H. Music Manuscripts, ca. 1900-1943.
1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts of Robert H. Just, German-American composer, violinist, and educator. Weidig was born in Berlin in 1875 and emigrated with his family to Chicago in 1885, where he studied violin at the Chicago Musical College. He taught at the Quincy (Ill.) Music Conservatory, The Chicago Conservatory, and the Metropolitan Conservatory in Chicago, as well as in Memphis Tennessee, and Wichita Kansas. Among his solo instrument, chamber, symphonic, and vocal works is a series of "Nine Songs of Sappho," set to the poetry of John Myers O'Hara.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Just
Collection Stack Location: 3 39 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Justus, Ruth. Papers, 1958-1970.
0.3 cubic ft.
Calligrapher who taught at the Minneapolis School of Art. Collection includes news clippings, classroom materials, and incoming correspondence with other calligraphers.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Just
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 7
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Karrow, Robert W. Research papers, 1980-1990.
2 cubic ft. (5 boxes).
Research papers of Robert William Karrow, Jr. Newberry Library curator and author of Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps (1993) and numerous articles and book reviews. Primarily photocopies of printed and archival material relating to the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1869-1884), its director, George M. Wheeler, other staff of the survey, and to the use of the electric telegraph for longitude determination in the 19th century. Also seminar papers and notes, 1986-1988.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Karrow
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kehl School of Dance. Records, ca. 1940-ca. 1990.
72 cubic ft.
This Madison, Wisconsin dance school was founded by dancer Frederick W. Kehl in 1880. Kehl's Dancing Academy introduced thousands to the art of dance throughout Wisconsin, and the school is currently in its 4th generation of dancers and dance teachers from the Kehl family. Records include costume looseleaf notebooks, dance routines, music and programs, photographs, and audio material.
Subjects: Business; Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kehl
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 5-9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kelly, James (choreographer). James Kelly Choreography Project memorabilia, 1993-1997.
0.5 cubic ft.
Native San Diegan dancer James Kelly worked in Chicago from 1990 to 1997 as founder and artistic director of the James Kelly Choreography Project, establishing a company whose style was a blend of jazz, ballet and contemporary dance. Small collection of printed memorabilia includes newsletters, posters, programs, and a press kit. Also, four videocassettes of local performances.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Kelly
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905. Milo Kendall Papers, 1798-1925, bulk 1845-1906.
19 cubic ft.
Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kendall, Nathan R. Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers, 1842-ca. 1940 (bulk 1842-1911).
4 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern overland travel to California begun in 1849.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall-Reed (formerly Ayer MS 470a and Ayer MS 3114).
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kerr Company Records (see Charles H. Kerr Company. Records, 1885-1999.)
Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937. Letters, 1898-1937.
1108 items
Letters of Harry Kessler, designer, publisher and patron of fine press printing who founded the Cranach Presse at Weimar in 1913. Consists mainly of incoming correspondence, largely in English, with a small number of drafts or carbon copies of outgoing letters. Included are letters from Sidney Cockerell, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, Georges Lemmen, Emery Walker and others.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Kess
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Kilbourn, Ruth. Memorabilia, ca. 1947-1949.
0.5 cubic ft.
Kilbourn was a member of the Chicago Opera Ballet, studying under Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, Adolph Bolm, Michel Fokine, and others, and taught dance in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Collection includes photographs, programs and class announcements, a pair of pointe shoes, and memorabilia.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kilbourn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kimball, Solon Toothaker, 1909-1982. Papers, 1902-1981.
10 cubic ft. (29 boxes).
Research notes, writings, correspondence and photographs of anthropologist and educator Solon Toothaker Kimball, primarily relating to his work in Ireland (1930's) and among the Navajo (1936-1942). Also includes numerous source materials, particularly extensive newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Kimball
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Kincaid, Dean. Papers, 1982-ca. 2000.
1 folder.
Copies of correspondence and documents relating to Dean Kincaid's dismissal from teaching at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago in 1983. Also includes a history of the Conservatory.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 105
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894. Papers, 1842-1939.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, lawyer, and writer associated with Hamlin Garland, who was part of the movement to develop realism in American fiction. Kirkland's papers consist mainly of his letters to his family, together with manuscripts of some of his works, and photographs. Also later family correspondence, and articles about Kirkland.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Kirkland (formerly Ki)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kitchell, Iva, 1908-1983. Papers, 1926-1984, bulk 1926-1958.
2 cubic ft.
Iva Kitchell (married name Webster) was born around 1908 and joined a touring vaudeville group at the age of 13. Later she joined the Chicago Opera Ballet, continuing to dance until the age of 50, after which she taught in her Long Island, NY studio. Kitchell's scrapbooks document her dancing career, especially of her European tours and concerts.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kitchell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kittredge, William A. (William Albion), 1891-1945. Papers, 1922-1945.
33 cubic ft. (24 boxes)
Chicago designer and author on design, Director of Design and Typography for the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Chicago from 1922-1945. Largely a collection of printed ephemera selected to exemplify the best design of the twentieth century, this collection also includes a few original designs by Kittredge, some correspondence with other designers (most notably Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward A. Wilson, D.B. Updike, and Edward Penfield), and extensive samples of Kittredge's printed products. In this last category there are a few items that pre-date 1922; the remainder is material assembled by Kittredge while in Chicago, 1922-1945.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Kit
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Koesun, Ruth. Papers, 1934-1977.
6 cubic ft.
Ruth Ann Koesun was born in Chicago and studied dance with Chicago teachers Edna Lucile Baum and Bentley Stone and Walter Camryn. She joined American Ballet Theatre in 1946, and retired as principal dancer in 1986. Papers include programs, publicity, and films highlighting Koesun's dance career.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Koesun
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kogan, Herman. Papers, ca. 1869-1985, bulk 1970-1985.
15 cubic ft.
Work files, memoranda, research material, correspondence, manuscripts and other papers of this long-time Chicago newspaperman. Kogan served in many capacities at various times for the Daily News, Sun-Times, and Tribune newspapers of Chicago, including copy boy, reporter, feature writer, critic, magazine editor, corporate historian, and rewrite man. He also wrote or co-wrote (mainly with Lloyd Wendt) a dozen histories, many on Chicago subjects. (Additional Kogan papers are in the Chicago Daily News Records.)
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Kogan
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Korngold, Ralph, 1882-1964. Papers, 1867-1994, bulk 1909-1964.
4 cubic ft.
Polish-born emigrant from Holland, Chicago Daily Socialist editor, businessman, and writer of fiction and historical biography. Korngold's papers consist of works, correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials. Collection also includes correspondence and other materials from Korngold's wife Piri, who wrote an unpublished biography of Korngold.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Korngold
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kornweibel, Theodore. Research papers, 1910-1960.
30 cubic ft.
Research materials assembled by Theodore Kornweibel, a professor of African American studies at San Diego State University, used in the writing of monographs about federal surveillance of and campaigns against African Americans, 1917-1925, and federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I. The collection consists of copies of FBI and other federal agency records, including case files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, detailed notecards, printed federal documents, and Kornweibel's correspondence with federal agencies.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Kornweibel
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 9-10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Kramer, Dale. Papers, ca. 1930-1966.
13 cubic ft.
Journalist, biographer, and literary historian. Kramer's papers include correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and five Chicago notebooks containing a record of his research and some correspondence of literary figures for his book Chicago Renaissance (1966), about the Chicago Literary Renaissance of the early 20th century.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Kramer D (formerly Kr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 11-12
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards for selected correspondents: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Kramer, Sidney. Papers, 1934-1946.
11 boxes
Letters, research material and works by book dealer and publisher Kramer, perhaps best known for his monumental work, A History of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co. with a bibliography of their publications, 1893-1905.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Kram
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 12
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Krassner School of Theatre Arts. Records, 1910-1990.
3 cubic ft.
Materials relating to the Krassner family and the Krassner School of Theater Arts, founded in Chicago in 1924, and continuing in Illinois and Hollywood, California, until 1978. Consists of clippings, publicity, programs, scripts, a few letters, and many photographs. Includes a short history of the family and schools by Paul J. Hartman, son of Blossom Krassner, one of the most active of the Krassner sisters.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Krassner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kredel, Fritz, 1900-. Letters, 1948-1960.
255 items
Consists mostly of letters written by wood engraver Kredel to Joseph Graves from 1948-1960.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Kr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Kruse, Charles T. Letters, 1862-1865.
123 items.
Transcripts of letters, 1862-1865, from Kruse, a sergeant in Company G of the 50th Ohio Infantry, to his parents, brother, and sister, revealing the daily hardships of military life, Union troop movements in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, and Kruse's impressions of various battles, including the attack on Atlanta.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10003
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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