Walden, May, 1865-1960. Papers, 1870-1972, bulk 1892-1959.
3 cubic ft.
Papers of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and publications relating to the Socialist movement. Also included are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.
Subjects: Family; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest Ms Walden M (formerly Ker)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Walden, Selma, 1884-1951. Papers, 1890-1979, bulk 1928-1951.
3.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs, and mementos of a Chicago working woman and poet, Selma Walden, who was involved with the Dill Pickle Club and the Seven Arts Club.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Walden
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Waller family. Papers, 1803-1887.
2.5 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky, pertaining mainly to matters of family activity, family devotion to one another, and especially health. Also included are photographs, a family genealogy, biography, and letters from Henry Clay and Mrs. John Quincy Adams (Anna). Related family: Alexander.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Waller
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Walsh, Chad, 1914-. Papers, 1930-1970.
13 cubic ft.
Wisconsin poet, college professor, and ordained Episcopal priest. Author of six books of poetry, and of studies of C.S. Lewis and dystopian fiction. Walsh's papers include poetry manuscripts and other works, a diary kept during his young adulthood, and correspondence.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Walsh
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 9-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Walton, Edward Seymour. Letters, 1900-1919.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters from the Philippines, 1900-01, with the exception of one dated 1911; letters from Trieste, 1918-19; and other miscellaneous material.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS folio E5 W175
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Walton, Emma Lee. Journal, 1922.
0.5 cubic ft.
Travel journal in two volumes kept by Emma Lee Walton of Chicago on a trip to Europe in 1922. Also, her 1922 passport.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 103
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Walton, Seymour. Journals, 1862-1866.
0.5 cubic ft.
Journals commencing in 1862 and continuing through June, 1863, by a sixteen-year-old schoolboy in New Orleans, commenting on daily life under Union occupation. Also newspaper clippings containing special and general orders pasted on endpapers and within text, and accounts and lists of books read. Diaries continue to the end of 1863 in Utica, New York, and contain comments on the draft riots in New York City.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS fE5.W1766
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ward, Estelle Francis. Letters and book manuscript, 1923-1927.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Four-part manuscript entitled "The Fourth Estate and the Young Republic," together with correspondence regarding the publication of the work, with agent Paul Reynolds, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Dixon Ryan Fox of Columbia University.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Modern MS Ward
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939. Papers, 1921-1939.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters, postcards, mementos, and a few printed items, mostly addressed to Chicago book designer William A. Kittredge.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS War
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Warner-Haskins family. Papers, ca. 1860-1945.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Photographs, dance programs, a few pieces of correspondence, and other memorabilia of the Haskins and Warner families of Chicago and Lake Forest. Of particular interest are the instruction manual, notes, and other materials relating to Mrs. Rawleigh Warner's World War II American Red Cross Gray Lady service at Great Lakes in North Chicago, a Century of Progress Exhibitors season pass, and European travel documents. Includes many unidentified family portraits from the 19th and 20th centuries, some from early photography studios such as Brand and F. A. Place in Chicago, Charles Murr in Joliet, and Hough in Downer's Grove. Also snapshots of Miami and Orland, Florida, taken ca. 1918-1919, and photographs of a 1908 outdoor gathering at "Walden" in Lake Forest.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Warner Haskins
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Warner, Philip, 1901-. Papers, 1920-1970.
1 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music and programs of Philip Warner, Chicago composer, pianist, and teacher. Warner was well known for his performances on the radio and also taught piano and music theory at a number of music schools. In addition, he taught music composition at Northwestern University.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Warner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Washington, John Augustine, 1821-1861. Letters, 1859-1860.
1 folder (5 letters)
Photocopies of five letters from Washington to his wife written while visiting Chicago and the Midwest just prior to the Civil War.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 65
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Watkins, Erwin C., 1839-1911. Erwin Watkins-Simeon Whiteley papers, 1863-1920, bulk 1863-1878.
ca. 250 items (3 oversize and 2 regular size boxes).
Erwin Watkins and Simeon Whiteley worked for the Office of Indian Affairs in the 1870's and 1860's, respectively. While the Watkins papers contain mainly official government reports and correspondence, the Whiteley papers consist of mostly personal correspondence accompanied by several photographs, three maps, and two issues of a Wyoming newspaper.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3024 (formerly Ayer MS 964a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2; VAULT 50 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watson, Elmo Scott, 1892-1951. Elmo Scott Watson collection of photographs, 1875-1936.
133 photographic prints.
These photographs, mainly albumen and gelatin photographic prints and a few glass plate negatives, were removed from the western history subject files of the Elmo Scott Watson papers. Significant groups within this collection include 25 Laton A. Huffman portraits of Cheyenne, Crow, and Sioux Indians; 19 D. F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa and Blackfeet Sioux; and 39 publicity photographs of Blackfeet Indians, mainly issued in the 1920s and 1930s by Underwood & Underwood. This collection is part of the Edward E, Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 71-73, Ayer Photographs box 87
Collection Stack Location:
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watson, Elmo Scott, 1892-1951. Papers, 1816-1951, bulk 1920-1951.
16.5 cubic ft. (49 boxes).
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Journalism
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Watson
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 13-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watson, Theodore. Letters, 1861.
0.1 cubic ft.
Company H, 3rd Illinois Volunteers
Watson, a miller from Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois, was mustered into Company H of the 3rd Illinois Volunteers on April 26, 1861. Throughout his three months of service, Watson wrote letters to his brother, John Watson. The letters describe food, shelter, leisure activities, fortifications, company and regimental officers, and church services at Camp Defiance in Cairo, Ill.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10023
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-. Papers, 1944-1989, bulk 1962-1969.
15 cubic ft. (39 boxes).
Fieldwork and correspondence of anthropologist-sociologist Murray L. Wax, primarily between 1962 and 1969. Also copies of published articles and unpublished papers by other anthropologists, newspaper clips, and serials pertaining to Native Americans; field notes of Rosalie Hankey (later Rosalie Wax) from Japanese relocation camp at Tule Lake, 1944-45.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wax
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 9-10; 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Way, W. Irving (Washington Irving), 1853-1931. Claude Stanley Wainwright papers, 1885-1929.
34 items
Correspondence with authors and collectors, clippings, proof sheets, and notes removed from a collection of books belonging to Claude Stanley Wainwright, collector and friend of W. Irving Way, a Chicago author and publisher who was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams. Most of the letters are addressed to Way in Chicago or in Los Angeles.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 53
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Way, W. Irving (Washington Irving), 1853-1931. Papers, 1885-1931 (bulk 1892-1900).
34 items
Correspondence between Way, a Chicago author and publisher who was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams, and various authors, collectors, and publishers. Includes newspaper clippings, sample sheets, and notes, dated between 1885 and 1931.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT Wing MS 141
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wayfarers' Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1938-1970.
6 cubic ft.
Abstract: The Wayfarers met seven times a year for luncheons with guest speakers at the Chicago Club. Chicago artists Lorado Taft and John T. McCutcheon were amongst its members. Collection consists of photos, membership records, scrapbooks, minutes, and financial records.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Wayfarers
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932. Papers, 1911-1932.
7.5 cubic ft.
Illinois novelist best known for his romantic portrayals of captains of industry written together with Samuel Merwin. Webster's papers contain correspondence (including agents' correspondence), publishers' royalty statements, correspondence, bills, and clippings.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Webster (formerly We)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Weidig, Adolf, 1867-1931. Music manuscripts, 1900-1930.
6 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts of Adolf Weidig, German-American composer, conductor, violinist and educator. Weidig was born in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated to Chicago, where he taught at and then directed the American Conservatory. He composed in a variety of forms, including orchestral works and string quartets. Some music not apparently composed by Weidig is also present in the collection.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Weidig
Collection Stack Location: 3 39 13-14
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Main Card Catalog.
Weil, F. Peter, 1913-1997. Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group, ca. 1946-1950.
0.2 cubic ft.
85 photographs of an amateur Detroit modern dance group led by a German dancer named Tosia Mundstock.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Dance MS Weil
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Weinberg, Arthur, 1915-. Arthur and Lila Weinberg - Clarence Darrow research papers, 1950-1988.
16 cubic ft.
Manuscript book drafts, page proofs, and work folders containing reference cards, photocopies, photographs, etc., for each of the Weinbergs' books on Clarence Darrow and his times.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Weinberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Weisz, Irene Miner. Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers, 1912-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters of Willa Cather, the bulk to childhood friend Irene Miner Weisz; also two miscellaneous letters relating to Cather, and a folder of clippings.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cather-Weisz (formerly C)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Welling, Harriet Walker. Welling Family Papers, 1899-1988.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Material of John C. Welling relates to ownership and disposition of a Canadian lumber company and land. Material of John P. Welling relates to World War I military records and European travel. Harriet W. Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; and correspondence and documents regarding her bequests of art and antiques to several museums.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Welling
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Wellington, J. W. Slide collection, ca. 1950-1975.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Copies of color 35 mm. slide sets, slide captions, and commentaries documenting Assiniboine and Gros Ventre ceremonies performed at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana, ca. 1950-1952, prepared by J. W. "Duke" Wellington, who was Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at the reservation, 1947-1954.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wellington.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wells, James M. Papers, 1951-1984.
26 cubic ft.
Newberry Library curator of the John M. Wing Foundation for the History of Printing (1951), and later also custodian of the Rare Book Room (1963), associate director (1964), vice president (1975) and George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts (1981). Wells' papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports and manuscripts relating to his Newberry responsibilities, the Wing Collection and other organizations with which he was affiliated.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Archives 03/21/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 8 1-4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-. Pawnee field notes, 1935.
0.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes).
Field notes (1935) of Franz Boas trained anthropologist and linguist Gene Weltfish, documenting her study of Pawnee lifeways and religion. These volumes of notes focus on the yearly economic lifecycle of the Pawnee as it would have been lived in the late 19th century.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Weltfish
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wentworth, Samuel. Papers, 1738-1742.
17 items (0.1 cubic ft.)
Fifteen letters and two documents concerning the ships and cargos of Samuel Wentworth, a Boston merchant and the brother of New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth. Much of the material, which is all addressed to John Thomlinson, a London merchant who handled Wentworth's affairs in England, concerns the payment of bills and the settlement of debts; the insurance, cargo, and sale of the ship "Snow Tryton"; the loss of the ship "Snow Lucitania" and resulting insurance claims; and the construction of another ship in Portsmouth, N.H. There are also letters of introduction for Samuel Waldo and Oxenbridge Thatcher.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 972
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Westerners. Chicago Corral. Records, 1950-1980.
7 cubic ft.
International organization started in Chicago in 1944 by Leland D. Case, editor of "The Rotarian Magazine," and Elmo Scott Watson, newspaperman and educator, to bring together historians and buffs interested in the American West. Records include correspondence and other materials documenting the activities of the group.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Westerners
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Westervelt, Louise St. John. Collection of theatrical and musical photographs, 1869-1930, bulk 1870-1891.
0.5 cubic ft.
Collection of photographs, mainly cabinet photographs but also a few cartes de visite and gelatin prints, of international musical and theatrical performers of the nineteenth century, all dated before 1900 with the exception of a photograph of the dancer Ruth Page taken in 1930. Also includes photographs of Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Lilli Lehmann, Anton Rubinstein and Theodore Thomas.
Subjects: Music; Photographs; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Westervelt
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wham, Benjamin, 1891-1969. Papers, 1915-1988.
2.5 cubic ft.
Photographs, documents/mementos, scrapbooks, published articles, and Chicago Literary Club papers relating to the life and career of Benjamin Wham, a prominent lawyer and circuit court judge in Chicago. Papers also relate to the life and teaching career of David Wham, son of Benjamin.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Wham
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 8
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Olin D. Wheeler collection of photographs of the Yosemite Valley and the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ca. 1880-ca. 1925.
179 photographic prints
This collection contains 71 views of Yosemite National Park, including tourists traveling in Yosemite Transportation vehicles and private cars. Wheeler also compiled a collection of photographs of the landscapes and Native Americans along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition while researching his two-volume book The Trail of Lewis and Clark. This collection is part of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 68-70, Ayer Photographs box 88
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Papers, 1892-1924.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box).
Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3220 (formerly Ayer 975a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-. Papers, 1934-1985.
19 cubic ft. (45 boxes, 12 shoeboxes, 2 oversize boxes).
Indian Claims Commission documents and research materials of anthropologist Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, 1945-1979.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wheeler-Voegelin
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 6-8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory available in the Library.
White, William Allen, 1868-1944. Letters, 1896-1898.
1 vol.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. Includes letters first to Mr. Way and later to Chauncey Williams, of Chicago publisher Way and Williams, regarding the publication and sale of White's The Real Issue: A Book of Kansas Stories.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Case f E5.W58213
Collection Stack Location: 3a 11 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Whiteman, Ira M., 1871-1944. Photographs and Military Paraphernalia, 1898-1899.
0.5 cubic ft. (30 items)
Sixteen photographs and military paraphernalia of Ira M. Whiteman relating to the Spanish American War. Includes commercial photographs by "Waterman of Chicago", of Cuba in 1899, and Camp Cuba Libre in Jacksonville, Fla., and other photographs of Havana Harbor, of Whiteman and other soldiers, and of "Muster-Out Day." Military paraphernalia includes badges, epaulets, medals, and a reputed piece of the U.S.S. Maine.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Whiteman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Whittelsey, Chauncey, 1746-1812. Papers, 1707-1852, bulk 1731-1811.
412 items (2 boxes)
Papers of Chauncey Whittelsey (1746-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, relating to his clothing business, civic duties and activities as Army supplier during the Revolution and into the 1790's. Includes numerous land deeds to his father-in-law, Seth Wetmore.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Whittelsey (formerly Wh)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wilding-White, Raymond, 1922-. Papers, 1940-1990.
25 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, recordings, clippings, programs, and other papers of this composer and teacher. Wilding-White taught at several institutions in New England and the Midwest before coming to DePaul University in 1967. He was a prolific composer, especially of dramatic works (ballet, opera, etc.) and experimental music, and also published articles on music theory. Some correspondence, family papers, notebooks and written works are also present; recordings are mostly reel-to-reel tapes with some CDs.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Wilding-White
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 10-11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Wiles, Robert Leslie, Journal, 1862-1865.
1 item.
Corporal, Company D, 11th Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Creek Indian who prior to the war attended the Tullahassee Manual Labor School in the Creek Nation (Indian Territory). During 1862 Wiles was accused of "being a Southern sympathizer" and was held in "military confinement" at Alton, Illinois. Released on "parole of honor during the war in the limits of the Missouri lines," Wiles then apparently joined the 11th Missouri Cavalry. His journal contains diary entries, Oct. 7, 1863-Apr. 17, 1865, copies of letters received in 1862 from missionaries W.S. Robertson and his wife A.E.W. Robertson, lists of letters received and written, 1862-1864, and poems. Diary entries are both daily and summarized accounts of Wiles' service with Company D, briefly in Missouri, but mainly at various Arkansas locations including Batesville, Jacksonport, De Vals Bluff, Fort Smith, Fort Gibson, at the Neosho River, and Little Rock. Wiles notes his company's movements (including escorting Confederate Maj. Gen. Herron to Fort Smith), picket and scout duty, and other military routine. He describes shortages of provisions for soldiers and their mounts, particularly at Fort Smith and Fort Gibson. He mentions Negroes following the marching troops, harrassment by bushwhackers, encounters with Confederate forces (including those commanded by Gen. Shelby), and President Lincoln's death.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10022
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. Letters, 1792-1818.
19 items (19 folders).
Correspondence and a few orders relating to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790's written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 982
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Willard, L. S. Letters, 1862-1865.
19 items.
Major and aide-de-camp to General McPherson of the 11th Illinois Cavalry. Includes Willard's letters to his parents and brother in Brimfield, Peoria Co., Illinois, Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Letters from March 1862, are addressed from the Camp Benton Barracks in St. Louis.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS 10031
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williams, Eleazar, 1789?-1858. Papers, 1758-1858.
33 items (2 boxes).
Letters, documents, sermons, writings, including Indian language mss, of missionary Eleazar Williams, descendant of Indian captive Eunice Williams, pertaining to Oneida and Menominee affairs, and the Williams family.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 999
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williams, Loren L., 1828-1881. Journals, 1851-1880.
0.5 cubic ft. (5 volumes in 2 boxes)
Journals covering the author's activities as an officer with the Oregon Volunteers during the Civil War, active in the West, and subsequent role as a pioneer in the development of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Details of wars with the Western Indians are also included. Inserted and laid in are numerous ms. documents, autograph letters, illustrations, ms. maps (drawn by the author), newspaper clippings, photographs, etc.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 4683
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Williams, Stephen, 1693-1782. Papers, 1716-1753.
6 items (1 box)
Correspondence, 1716-1753, between Longmeadow, Mass., clergyman Stephen Williams and his father, Rev. John Williams; his brothers, Rev. Eleazer Williams of Mansfield, Conn., and Rev. Warsham Williams of Waltham, Mass; his son, Nathan Williams, then a student at Yale College; and Rev. William Williams of Hatfield, Mass. Subjects include the estate of a relative, family illnesses, college living expenses, resistance of worldly temptations, trips to New York City and Boston, a land controversy with neighbors, etc.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3208
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williamson, Charles, 1757-1808. Papers, 1775-1946.
7 cubic ft. (12 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 1 v.)
British officer, land promoter, secret agent, and advisor to the British government. Correspondence, journals, etc. relating to Williamson's early activities, 1775-1791, his colonizing efforts in New York State, 1791-1803, and his later relations with statesmen. Early papers (mainly family correspondence) discuss Williamson's army service, capture and imprisonment, farm management, and Constantinople mission. Correspondence, 1791-1803, with family, Robert Morris, Sir William Pulteney, Robert Troup, Patrick Colquhoun, John Johnstone, and colonists, and others documents Williamson's opening of the Genesee lands to settlers and promotion of internal improvements there.
Subjects: Business; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1006
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Williamson, William Landram, 1920-. W.L. Williamson - William F. Poole research papers, 1865-1959.
2.5 cubic ft.
Librarian and biographer of William F. Poole, first librarian of the Newberry Library. Williamson's papers consist of correspondence, writings, research notes, clippings and photographs for the biography, including information on Poole's family, the Newberry Library, and other institutions with which Poole was affiliated.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Williamson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Willy family. Papers, 1871-1945.
0.5 cubic ft.
Family genealogy, approximately seventy studio photographs pertaining to the family of John Willy (1859-1944), editor and publisher of the Hotel Monthly, editor of the National Hotel Reporter, and founder of John Willy, Inc., a prominent Chicago-based hotel forms publisher. Included are issues of the Hotel Monthly and supply catalogs published by John Willy, Inc. A mid-nineteenth century diary of Willy's forebear, Thomas Willy of Ilminster, Somerset, England, is included.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Willy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Wilson, Bernard E. Papers, 1915-1993.
1 cubic ft.
Newberry Library reference librarian and later cataloguer of special materials (rare books, music), 1959-1986. Wilson's papers include personal records (diplomas, photographs, civil service papers) and correspondence re his Newberry appointment and with friends and family, European trip diaries, estate files, and records of the Hattie Strong Foundation.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 12/15/05 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Wilson, John, d. 1862. Letters, 1859-1865.
40 items (3 folders)
Letters (1859-1865) from Virginia City, Nevada written by or regarding John Wilson to his wife in Vermont. Wilson sailed for the West in 1859, ended up as a bartender in Virginia City, and was murdered by his employer in 1862. Many of his letters give a vivid and detailed firsthand account of the notorious town. Letters after Wilson's murder deal with his friend's to recover some of Wilson's assets on his widow's behalf. There are also several newspaper clippings of the murder case and trial, two Wells Fargo checks sent to his wife, and a guardianship document for his child.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3207
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wingreen, Amy Eleanor, 1870-1919. Papers, 1898-ca. 1900.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Material relating to Amy E. Wingreen's service as a nurse in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Consists of correspondence fromWingreen to her mother, sister, and nephew, memorabilia, photographs, a scrapbook of clippings and official letters and two manuscript narratives recounting her experiences.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Wingreen (formerly Wi)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Winnetka Fortnightly. Records, 1920-ongoing.
5 cubic ft.
Primarily essays written and delivered by members, with schedules, membership lists, and procedures, of this women's literary club.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Winnetka
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999. Steele-Winters family papers, 1860-1999.
13 cubic ft. (33 boxes and 2 oversize boxes)
Helen Steele Winters was a descendant of early pioneer families of Dover, Princeton and Illiopolis, Bureau County, Ill. Collection includes her lifelong correspondence, and that of and with her mother, Georgia Baker Steele, and husband, Robert Winters II, as well as numerous other family members. There are also estate papers, school papers, family records, farm related accounts and diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and photographs. The collection depicts a farmer's life in Bureau County from its pioneer days through modern times. Some of the other highlights in this collection are: the card collection, particularly the Valentines, World War II correspondence between Helen and Robert Winters II, details of European trips in 1910, 1963 and 1984, financial records of the farm business, and personal memoirs of William N. Findley, a contemporary of Helen Steele Winters.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Steele-Winters
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 16
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Witkowsky family. Letters, 1840-1942.
0.2 cubic ft. (2 folders)
Valentines addressed variously to Esther, James, and Pauline Witkowsky of Chicago. There is an 1858 letter from Esther regarding the Lincoln/Douglas debates and a 1942 tribute of Vassar classmates of class of 1886. Also material relating to World War I military service of Alan Whitney, who was a relation and executor of estate of James Witkowsky in 1950.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 98
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card (valentines only): Manuscript Card Catalog.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980. Papers, 1890-2000, bulk 1935-1980.
7 cubic ft. (18 boxes)
Material relating to the life and career of businessman and philanthropist Frank H. Woods, Jr., of Chicago, including family, business, personal and philanthropic-related correspondence and general files, clippings, memorabilia and photographs.
Subjects: Arts; Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Woods F.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-. Woods family papers, ca. 1775-1975, bulk 1820-1975.
5 cubic ft. (7 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 1 record carton)
Correspondence, writings, documents, genealogical research notes and photographs relating to the Woods family, descendants of Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada. Collected and preserved by Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Illinois, to be used for a complete (unfinished) family history, most of the material concerns Frank H. Woods's great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, his grandfather Frederick Moffatt Woods, and his father, Frank H. Woods. Includes Civil War letters.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Woods
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980. Woods family papers - Additions, 1842-1980.
3 cubic ft. (2 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 shoebox and 1 oversize folder)
Materials gathered and retained by Frank H. Woods Jr. relating to Henry Ruiter of Canada and his Woods descendents, the later generations in Illinois and Nebraska. Papers reflect the lives and activities of six generations of the Woods family, and although many family members are represented, Fanny Woods, Elias Woods, Frederick Moffatt Woods, and Frank H. Woods Sr. predominate. Includes genealogical research notes, writings, documents, photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Woods 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Woodward, David A. (David Alfred), 1942-. Watermark research papers, 1975-2001.
1 cubic ft.
Collection of research on watermarks, compiled by David Woodward, first Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Woodward
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Woodworth, Laurence Conger, 1874-1924. Brothers of the Book Society records, 1896-1922.
3 cubic ft.
Records of the Brothers of the Book Society founded by Woodworth in 1898 with the purpose of publishing noteworthy books. Collection includes incoming and outgoing letters, works, photographs and mementoes, and publications by and about the "Brothers of the Book."
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Wo
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Woolson family. Papers, 1780-1930.
1.5 cubic ft.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago. Also included are Civil War "Army Stories" written by Alvin M. Woolson, a history of Elijah Woolson, and a family "Narrative of Automobile Tour Through Florida," dated 1910.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Woolson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 11
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Wright, Paul Randall, 1876-1965. Papers, 1899-1965.
2.5 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Wright
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958. Papers, 1894-1968, bulk 1894-1955.
1.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Wyatt (formerly Wy)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Yates, Dora Esther, b. 1879. Correspondence, 1856-1951, bulk 1936-1946.
.5 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of University of Liverpool librarian and secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora E. Yates, to Alfred E. Hamill of Lake Forest, Illinois, 1936-1946. Also a few snapshots of Yates and Gypsy caravans, and other miscellany.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Yates (formerly Ya)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964. Papers, 1901-1964.
60 cubic ft.
American literary critic and scholar, who served as associate editor and editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and taught American literature for two years in Brazil, and after 1946 at the University of Chicago. Zabel's papers include extensive correspondence with 20th century literary figures including Louise Bogan, Cleanth Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, Leon Edel, E. M. Forster, Robert Lovett, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, etc. Also literary manuscripts.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Zabel (formerly Za)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 4-7
Finding Aids:
List of outgoing correspondents: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Ziehn, Bernhard, 1845-1912. Papers, ca. 1880-1950.
1.5 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia of this Chicago music theorist, teacher, and critic. The German-born Ziehn taught such notables as Grace Chadbourne and John Alden Carpenter and also wrote textbooks on harmony and composition; he was known for his original and unorthodox musical views. Music includes Ziehn's own works in addition to works of other composers, often with Ziehn's manuscript notes. Correspondence includes letters regarding Ziehn from Julius Gold to Mrs. Albert Heller, a former pupil of Ziehn, and other secondary correspondence regarding Ziehn, in addition to his own correspondence.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ziehn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card (partial): Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary (partial): Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Zimmerman, Naoma, 1914-. Papers, 1944-1960.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago social worker and author of children's books. Collection includes original typescripts with sketches, color photocopies of books, news clippings, and photocopies of notebooks and writings.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Zimm
Collection Stack Location: 3a 53 7
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Zion City (Il.) - SEE Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
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