Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Memorabilia, 1922-1983.
3 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" (1919) and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes a selection of articles by Ruth Page, programs, publicity materials, photographs, films, address card file, and correspondence. Most of these items are duplicates; the originals are at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, New York Public Library.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Memorabilia
Collection Stack Location: 3a 47 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Ruth Page Nutcracker records, 1965-1997.
2.5 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes working files, programs, publicity, and photographs of the productions of the ballet The Nutcracker, which was staged every Christmas season from 1965 to 1997 at the Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago. The production was choreographed and directed by dancer Ruth Page until her death in 1991, when Page's former students Larry Long and Dolores Lipinski took over the production.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Nutcracker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Video archives, 1922-1987.
6 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes VHS copies, made between 1985 and 1989, of original films of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page, from originals held at the Ruth Page Foundation. Also includes many interviews of dancers who knew and worked with Page, including Frederic Franklin, Dolores Lipinski, Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, and Patricia McBride.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Video
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 7
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Paisley, Johnson. Papers, 1862-1865.
0.2 cubic ft.
Corporal, 117th Illinois Infantry. Two diaries, two cased ambrotype portraits, regimental travel record, and a miniature book of poetry belonging to Johnson M. Paisley. Pocket diaries, the first dating Aug. 15, 1862-May 13, 1863 and Jan. 1-7, 1864, and the second dating Jan. 1, 1864-Feb. 8, 1865, contain brief daily entries and accounts, copies of good-bye letters from family, and a letter from Paisley, Feb. 8, 1865, regarding sending the completed diary home and his future. The regimental travel account, 1862-1865, records places traveled to and from, the means of travel, total miles, and remarks (engagements, deaths, etc.). Ambrotypes, ca. 1862, include full-length (with rifle) and sitting portraits of Paisley in uniform.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10017
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.
Palette and Chisel Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1895-1976.
3 cubic ft.
Club founded in Chicago in 1895 with the objectives of fostering growth in the visual arts, providing space for artists to work, and enriching the community through programs of art education. Founding member, Charles J. Mulligan, was an assistant to Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft who rented part of his studio to the fledgling organization. Records include exhibit registers and scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings of the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Palette
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 31 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de,1952-1921. Papers, 1886-1942.
0.2 cubic ft.
Material by and relating to Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, collected by William Kingery in the course of his research. Includes 7 letters from the condesa to Manual Maria Peralta, autobiographical notes, a bibliography, study-related correspondence, and essays concerning Pardo Bazán. Much of the material is in Spanish.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pardo Bazán
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Paretsky, Sara, 1947-. Papers, 1966-1993.
16 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, publicity, and published books of the author of Chicago-based detective novels featuring V. I. Warshawski, a female private investigator.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Paretsky
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 3-4
Finding Aids:
Summary and partial preliminary inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898-. Papers, 1904-1968, bulk 1941-1962.
22 cubic ft.
Historian and fifth librarian of the Newberry Library, 1942-1962. Pargellis' papers consist of correspondence, reports, research notes, articles, speeches and photographs relating to his activities on behalf of the Newberry, other organizations with which he was affiliated, and his personal life and scholarly career.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/05
Collection Stack Location: 4a 7 1-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Parish, Martha Ellen Luey. Parish Family Papers, 1884-1896.
0.4 linear feet
Consists mainly of correspondence from Martha Ellen Luey Parish of Chicago, IL to her father, Lester Lyman Luey, of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Also included are a few letters written by his son-in-law, Charles Pomeroy Parish. The letters concern domestic matters and touch upon such community topics as electrification, the bicycling mania of the late 19th century, fires and fire insurance, and the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition. There are also several letters discussing an alcoholic brother.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Parish
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Parker, Dorothy R. (Dorothy Ragon), 1927-. Dorothy R. Parker - D'Arcy McNickle research papers, 1863-1989, bulk 1904-1989.
1.5 cubic feet (4 boxes).
Correspondence and writings of author and activist D'Arcy McNickle collected by Dorothy R. Parker during research for her book, Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle (1992). Other materials include project summaries, photographs, legal papers, passports, and documentary information.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parker D
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Scrapbooks, 1828-1894, bulk 1870-1894.
2 cubic ft. (12 volumes).
Twelve scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings and illustrations regarding Indian affairs, presumably kept by Ely Samuel Parker, who was U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871. Also contains a few letters and reproductions of photos in the clippings.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parker
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Papers, ca. 1850-1885.
6 items (6 folders).
Speeches, lecture notes, and correspondence, ca. 1850-1885, of Ely Samuel Parker, U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871, regarding Indian customs and traits, the Indian policies of government and religious bodies, and his own background.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 674
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parkhurst Press. Records, 1864-1962, bulk 1890-1949.
1 cubic ft.
Massachusetts job printer during the first half of the 20th century. Collection includes juvenile printing efforts of Tommy Parkhurst, ephemera from the Press, including tickets, labels, blotters, announcements and letterhead. There is also correspondence and records relating to the running of the press.
Subjects: Business; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Park
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Parman, Donald Lee, 1932-. Papers, 1909-1990.
35 cubic ft.
Navajo-Hopi land dispute research files of historian Donald Lee Parman, including many paper copies of materials from the National Archives.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parman
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 3-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Parris, A. Papers, 1850-1853.
14 leaves
Papers relating to affairs of the Société typographique de Paris, of which Parris was the first president.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 3
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parsons, G. W. (George W.). G. W. Parsons photographs of Osage Indians, ca. 1880-ca. 1900.
64 photographs on cabinet cards
Parsons took these studio photographs of Osage Indians at his studio, located at the Osage Agency in Indian Territory, the site of Pawhuska in the northwest corner of what is now Oklahoma. The subjects, with the exceptions of Red Eagle, Minnie Deloria, and Bilie Connor, are unidentified. Subjects are posed as individuals and as family groups. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 83-84
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parton, Mary Field. Mary Field Parton - Clarence Darrow papers, 1909-1975.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the friendship between Chicago labor and criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow and social worker and journalist Mary Field Parton, including sixty-one of his letters to her (some with transcriptions), several other letters from Darrow supporters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Also a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, compiled by Parton's daughter, Margaret Parton Hussey.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Parton (formerly Dar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Patterson, Henry, b. 1843. Henry Patterson and James Patterson Papers, 1862-1863.
0.2 linear feet
Correspondence of brothers Henry Patterson and James Patterson, both privates in the 19th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company I, during the Civil War. Also includes muster rolls for Henry and his brother James as well as James’ death certificate.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10025 (formerly Case MS 5071)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852. Papers, 1794-1841, bulk 1814-1841.
ca. 2,900 items (14 volumes)
This extensive collection, compiled by the actor, editor, and diplomat John Howard Payne, contains fourteen volumes of manuscript notes, memoranda, incoming correspondence, and unpublished works. The subject matter includes among others the political and social history of the Cherokee nation, accounts of religious customs, myths, and legends, and government relations and treaties with the United States.
Microfilm copy, CD-Rom copy and transcripts of the Payne Papers available at the Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 689
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1-2; VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Payne, William Morton, 1858-1919. Papers, ca. 1850-1920.
9 cubic ft.
Papers of Chicago literary critic and associate editor of The Dial for twenty-three years, including correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, postcards, mementos, and clippings.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Payne (formerly Pa)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 7 (October 1951), p. 193-212.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Pearce, Christopher Gardner, 1811-1882. Papers, 1839-1851.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Mississippi and Ohio River steamboat owner and captain, and resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. Collection consists mainly of correspondence between Pearce and his wife, Jane Ann Sackett Pearce, which includes news of Pearce's river trips and of home and family. Many letters highlight Mrs. Pearce's fear that her husband would be involved in a fire, wreck, or other riverboat disaster.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearce (formerly Pe)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Pearson, Edward Hagelin. Papers, 1899-1973.
0.5 cubic ft.
Writings and research materials of this music historian. Focused on American opera in the early 1900s, the bulk of the collection concerns the soprano Edith Mason, with some material on composer Hamilton Forrest and soprano Mabel Garrison. Research materials include clippings, photographs and illustrations, correspondence, programs, and other documents.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Performing Arts Chicago. Records, 1960-2000.
99 cubic ft.
First known (in 1959) as the Fine Arts Music Foundation, and later as Chamber Music Chicago, the group changed its name to Performing Arts Chicago to reflect a diversification of programming. Programming, performance, and financial files of the organization.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Performing Arts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 13-14; 3a 49 5-7; 3a elevator bay
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Perkins, Enid Eder, 1896-1973. Papers, 1929-1973.
3 cubic ft.
Original calligraphic works, reproductions, studies and tracings, client records, and correspondence of Perkin's, a free-lance calligrapher and illuminator who worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Most of her professional work consists of testimonials and citations commissioned by J. Walter Thompson, the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, the Pan American Society of the U.S., and New York University.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Perk
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Perry, Henry. Letters, 1849-1850.
13 items (1 folder).
Letters written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Connecticut native and Gold Rush participant Henry Perry regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 709
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Peterson, Alma Schmidt. Papers, 1911-1930, bulk 1913-1915.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of Alma Schmidt Peterson of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European and American spas with her grandmother, at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914, and to her husband after her marriage in 1919. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young woman.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Peterson, William H. (William Hartin). Papers, ca. 1880-1980.
3 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
World War II letters of William Hartin Peterson while a radar man on the U.S.S. Arkansas, 1942-1945, together with other military service documents. Also materials collected by Peterson, an engineer with the Pullman Company, relating to the town of Pullman and the company, and two Chicago world's fairs. In addition, there are photographs and other materials compiled in albums that relate to the Johnson and Peterson families and document life in Pullman and the Swedish-American community in Chicago.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson W
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Peterson, Zika. Papers, 1940-1990.
1.5 cubic ft.
Treasurer's records of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, and yearbooks, correspondence, yearbooks and other materials of the Fortnightly Club of Chicago, and other miscellaneous Chicago club material.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson Z
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Petrakis, Harry Mark. Papers, ca. 1963-2003.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscript drafts, manuscripts ,and awards of Chicago novelist Harry Mark Petrakis. Also letters and memorabilia from Mrs. Stella Petrakis.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Petrakis
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895. Letters, 1881-1894.
56 items (1 box).
Ethnologist, linguist, and bibliographer James Constantine Pilling's incoming correspondence, 1881-1894, with U.S. and Canadian missionaries, church officials, ethnologists, historians, and others regarding Indian languages, publications in Indian languages, and missionaries to the Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 727
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Polish Women's Alliance. Records, 1898-ca. 1979.
80 cubic ft.
Records of a national fraternal organization headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois, for Polish-American women that provided insurance and other financial services for its members. Includes constitutions and bylaws, insurance applications, indexes and rosters, loan records and other materials providing individual genealogical information for Polish-American women.
Subjects: Business; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS PWAA
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 12-14; 4a back right
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Pond family. Papers, 1850-1897.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of nineteenth century genealogical notes and records relating to the Pond family, probably gathered by Elihu Pond of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Includes information on the following families of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and Vermont: Allen, Ashley, Barlet [Bartlit, Bartlett], Bayles, Foote, Leavenworth, Meigs, and Miller.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 144
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894. Papers, 1858-1894, bulk 1887-1894.
13 cubic ft.
Historian and compiler of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, a founder of the American Library Association, and first librarian of the Newberry Library, 1887-1894. Poole's papers include his incoming and outgoing correspondence while librarian at the Newberry (much with prominent librarians and historians), and also reports, memoranda, booklists and invoices relating to Poole's Index and to Newberry acquisitions, Trustees, personnel, building design and reference questions.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/01 (formerly Po)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 11-12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Photocopies of item-level catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Poole, William Frederick - SEE ALSO Roden, Carl B. (Carl Bismarck), 1871-1956. Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers, 1852-1956.
Poole, William Frederick - SEE ALSO Williamson, William Landram, 1920-. W.L. Williamson - William F. Poole research papers, 1865-1959.
Porter, Katherine Ann - SEE Liberman, M. M. (Myron M.). Papers, 1953-1974.
Preston, Keith, 1884-1927. Papers, 1915-1945.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Correspondence, academic articles, a poem, and obituaries of Keith Preston, Chicago Daily News columnist and book page editor, Northwestern University Latin professor, and poet.
Subjects: Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Preston
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Prussing, Eugene E. (Eugene Ernst). Papers, 1856-1936.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago and Hollywood lawyer, and the son of Ernst Prussing, a Chicago pioneer real estate agent. Includes material relating to the younger Prussing's two books on George Washington, and a manuscript autobiography which covers his early years in Chicago and contains considerable information about his father. The elder Prussing was a follower of Carl Schurz and a member of the Free Soil Party. He was involved with the underground railroad and the Sanitary Fair movement, helped to organize Das Deutsche Haus and the Germania Mannerchor, and was a member of the Chicago Board of Education. Also family photographs and clippings.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Prussing (formerly Pr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
Pryor, Ruth, 1906-2001. Memorabilia, 1923-1964.
0.5 cubic ft.
Scrapbook of Ballet dancer Ruth Pryor, born in Chicago in 1906, who began her career in vaudeville as half of the team of “Gardel and Pryor”. By 1929 she had become the premier danseuse of the Chicago Civic Opera, and appeared as the first American ballerina to be the Swan Queen in a special production of Swan Lake. The scrapbook includes many newspaper clippings, and a few articles and programs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Pryor
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Pullman Company. Records, 1867-1981.
2,500 cubic ft.
Records of this railroad sleeping-car operator and manufacturer. The Pullman Company (originally Pullman's Palace Car Company) revolutionized rail travel, dramatically increased employment opportunities for African Americans who served as porters on its cars, and had a significant impact on the American labor movement. Records for the entire firm are included until the mid-1920s division into operating and manufacturing companies; after that date, records mainly chronicle the activities of the operating company. Included are voluminous individual employee records and labor relations documents; the records of individual Pullman cars (e.g., drawings, specifications, photographs); scrapbooks documenting nineteenth-century operations, including the Town of Pullman and the Strike of 1894; records of subsidiary and absorbed companies; administrative, legal, financial, and securities records; and much more.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: Pullman
Collection Stack Location: 4a 33-44
Finding Aids:
Catalog records to the series level: Online Catalog.
Summary: Online.
Inventory: Online.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Pynchon, Edwin. Pynchon family papers, 1856-1888.
1 folder
Family miscellany relating to Lucius K. Pynchon and Dr. Edwin Pynchon of Chicago. Includes medical diplomas, 1883 passport, property inventories from Buffalo and New Orleans, two letters, and three carte de visite photographs of family members.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 88
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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