Labahn, Marvin F. Papers, ca. 1949-2004.
15 cubic ft.
Dance periodicals, recordings, convention programs, books, and ephemera relating to square dance collected by square dance caller Marvin Labahn.
Subjects: Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Labahn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lang, Joyce. Papers, 1940-2003.
0.5 cubic ft.
Joyce Petrik Lang, Chicago dancer and daughter of a dancer, studied under many famous Chicago dance teachers and was on the faculty of the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, serving as regional director. She opened her first studio in 1956, teaching in Naperville for 22 years and in Brookfield for 17 years. Her collection includes clippings, information about Chicago-area dance companies, correspondence, photographs, and programs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lang
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Langley, Roy, 1909-1983. Papers, 1909-1981, bulk 1951-1961.
0.7 cubic ft.
Calligrapher and artist who studied at the School of the Art Institute, and who worked an art instructor in Iowa before becoming Director of the Sioux City Art Museum. Collection includes notes, course papers, photos, correspondence, and examples of Langley's work, including book jackets, menus, brochures, and certificates.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Lang
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 7
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
La Rayne School of Dancing. Memorabilia, 1930-1947.
1 cubic ft.
Published and mimeographed ballet, tap and novelty dance routines, probably belonging to the LaRayne School of Dancing and/or choreographers and teachers Marion Freeman, Jack Manning and the Del-Wrights. Includes catalogs for the yearly conventions of the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters, 1930-1936, and for summer sessions at the Chicago Teachers College, 1939-1947. Also, the script for a children's musical play.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS LaRayne
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lardner, John, 1912-1960. Papers, ca. 1900-2001, bulk 1930-1960.
9 cubic ft.
An accomplished humorist and sportswriter, son of Ring Lardner, and World War II correspondent. John A. Lardner worked for the New York Herald Tribune, North American Newspaper Alliance, Newsweek, and The New Yorker. Lardner's papers include his writings, correspondence with his wife (Hazel Hairston Lardner) and children, letters from family, friends, colleagues, and admirers; World War II dispatches from North Africa, Italy, and the South Pacific; reporters' notebooks; original drawings by Walt Kelly and Willard Mullin; and photographs.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Lardner J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Papers, 1885-1982.
6.5 cubic ft.
American journalist and humorist author of short stories, plays, and song lyrics, who began his career as a sports reporter and wrote for a number of Chicago newspapers. Lardner's papers include courtship correspondence, letters (1907-1910) from Lardner to his Niles, Mich., friend, Wilma A. Johnson, and letters to the Lardner children and Abbott family members. Also correspondence from magazine editors and friends, copies of published short stories; typescripts of plays, song lyrics, and unpublished musical comedies, photographs, and newsclippings.
Subjects: Literature; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lardner (formerly Lar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Law Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1930-1989.
8 cubic ft.
Minutes, membership applications and other member information, yearbooks, papers delivered, and other records of this Chicago social club. The brainchild of Eugene Prussing, the club was founded in 1883 as an organization for young lawyers. It soon became a prestigious group known for its entertainments and has counted such prominent figures as Adlai Stevenson and Kenesaw Mountain Landis among its members.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Law Club
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925. Papers, 1860-1931, bulk 1885-1925.
60 cubic ft.
Editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News who made his newspapers a vehicle to promote Progressive reform. Lawson's papers include numerous letterpress copybooks of outgoing letters, and there are over 4,000 letters addressed to him, containing a wealth of information on business, union labor, and national and municipal political reform movements, and such organizations as the Fresh Air Fund, Chicago Commission on Race Relations, and Chicago Home Rule League.
Subjects: Business; Journalism; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Lawson (formerly La)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 13-14; 3a 41 12-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lawton, Henry W. (See Carter, Robert Goldthwaite)
Lederer, William L. Papers, 1959-2006.
3.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Chicago playwright and nephew of Studs Cunningham, upon whom James T. Farrell based the main character of his Studs Lonigan trilogy. Included are Lederer's original plays, screenplays, novel, novella, and poetry. Also eight letters from James T. Farrell to Lederer, 1972-1973, and one letters from Marshall Brooks, 2004.
Subjects: Literature; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Lederer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lee, Agnes, 1868-1939. Agnes Lee - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1919-1933.
37 items (1 box)
Published and prize-winning Chicago poet associated with Harriet Monroe and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Mainly letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Lee, discussing Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Clarence Darrow, and Vachel Lindsay, and the possibilities for literature in Chicago. Also two poems.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lee
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lee, John Thomas. Letters, 1888-1916.
0.1 cubic ft.
Four letters to John Thomas Lee from Walter Deane, Mrs. John B. Thacher and John Larkin Winship, 1909-1916. Also, one letter from Charles Deane to Robert C. Winthrop, 1888, and a printed obituary for Walter Deane.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Midwest MS 146
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lee, John Thomas. Papers, 1907-1932, bulk 1907-1912.
38 items (1 box)
Correspondence, 1907-1912, with lists, notes, etc., mainly addressed to John Thomas Lee, Wisconsin historian and Jonathan Carver concerning Carver's Travels through the interior parts of North America.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3036 (formerly Ayer MS 143.2)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
LeMoyne, John V., 1828-1918. Papers, 1851-1875, bulk 1852-1889.
ca. 175 items (2 boxes)
Mainly incoming letters to Chicago lawyer and Congressman, John V. LeMoyne, from his Washington, Pennsyvania family, including his abolitionist father. Many of the letters caution against real estate speculation and reveal strong religious beliefts.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS LeMoyne
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Leonard, Charles S., b. 1835. Papers, 1862-1897.
.25 cubic ft. (1 box)
Civil War military service documents of Charles S. Leonard, together with correspondence and forms relating to Leonard's efforts to correct his service record and obtain military pension and bounty payments. Also genealogical notes, possibly relating to Leonard's attempt to qualify for the Society of Mayflower Descendants, a deed for the sale of 160 acres in Norton County, Kan. and a few newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10012
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Lévy, Heniot. Papers, 1879-1946.
0.1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts and some additional material for this Chicago pianist, composer, and educator. Lévy taught at the American Conservatory in Chicago and composed vocal music, orchestral works, and works for piano, organ, and string quartet. The collection also includes two photographs and an opera synopsis by Hazel Johnson.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Lévy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Levy, Ruth, d. 1991? Dance photographs, 1970-1974.
5 cubic ft.
Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Ballet Company, received a masters degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her negatives, proof sheets, and glossy prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs were exhibited at the Chicago Public Library in 1974.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Levy R
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lewandowski Dance School. Records, 1940-1990.
18 cubic ft.
Archives of the family dance studio, found by Evelyn Zwiefka and carried on by her niece, Diane Lewandowski, along with memorabilia concerning dance activities in Chicago, including programs within the Chicago Park District, and dance activities at several Chicago public high schools. A feature of the collection is its emphasis on ethnic, particularly Polish, music and dance.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lewandowski
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949. Papers, 1886-1985, bulk 1905-1949.
6.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, work manuscripts, and family memorabilia of Lloyd Lewis, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, 1930-1945. After 1945 Lewis focused on writing historical biography and defining and creating the Newberry Library's Midwest Manuscript Collection. Correspondents include Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Sinclair Lewis, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others. Material documenting Quaker life in 19th-century Indiana is also present.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis (formerly Le)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11-12; 3a 30 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Article: The Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 4 (July 1950), p. 111-113 and p. 114-120.
Inventory: Online.
Lewis, Louise. Lewis Family Papers, 1775-1977, bulk 1850-1950.
19 cubic ft.
Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS LewisF
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 13
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Lewis, Lucia. Artifacts and memorabilia, 1955-1962.
0.5 cubic ft.
Artifacts belonging to Lucia Lewis, Chicago Daily News travel editor. Consists mainly of awards given to Lewis, with membership cards and some memorabilia.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis Lucia
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Clipping collection, 1929-1967, bulk 1919-1953.
2 cubic ft.
American author of Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth. Clipping file beginning with the publication of Dodsworth (1929) and with the exception of a few clippings, ending two years after Lewis' death. Contains no obituaries.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis S (formerly LeC)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Liberman, M. M. (Myron Mandell). Papers, 1953-1974.
0.1 cubic ft.
Grinnell College Katherine Anne Porter scholar. Liberman's papers consist of correspondence from Malcolm Cowley and Katherine Anne Porter re access to a Porter letter to Cowley, together with letters between Liberman, Porter, and Porter's attorneys regarding Porter's brief designation of Liberman as her literary executor.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Modern MS 138
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1898-1931.
1.5 cubic ft.
Early 20th century Chicago social organization of artists, writers, musicians, and architects that met weekly at the Fine Arts Club and included such individuals as George Ade, Henry Blake Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Anna Morgan, John T. McCutcheon, and Alice Gerstenberg. Includes documents concerning the organization and operation of the club, membership lists, and correspondence.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Little Room (formerly Li)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Luick, Lars. Lars Luick performing arts photographs.
1 cubic ft.
Luick, a Chicago photographer, has been published in Ballet News and Dance Magazine. This collection of his work includes photographs of Balanchine's funeral, the Boitsov Classical Ballet Company, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Luick
Collection Stack Location: 3a 50 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Lundgren, Harriet, 1905-1996. Papers, 1917-1991, bulk 1920-1938.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Lundgren danced as a prima ballerina for the Chicago Civic Ballet in the 1920s and 1930s, and was a featured dancer at the Century of Progress Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934. Her four career scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, and other ephemera related to her dancing career. The collection also includes autographed photographs of dancers, opera singers, and other celebrities collected by Lundgren. Photograph subjects include Adolph Bolm, Walter Camryn, Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, Anna Ludmila, Ruth Page, Rosa Raisa, and others.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lundgren
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11; Artifact Cage
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lutz, Adeline Louise. Lutz-Chamberlin family papers, 1844-1992.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families,including George E. Chamberlin's letters written while he was a student at Dartmouth and officer in the Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Lutz-Chamberlin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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