TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Victor Freemont Lawson
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1878-1926
Series 2: Chicago Daily News, 1877-1925
Series 3: Subject Files, 1888-1925
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Inventory of the Victor Lawson Papers, ca. 1860-1931, bulk 1885-1925
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen and Kelly Kress, 2006. ©2006. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 |
| Title | Victor Lawson Papers |
| Dates | ca.1860-1931 |
| Dates | bulk 1885-1925 |
| Extent | 60 cubic ft. (137 boxes and 1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, reports, legal documents, contracts, and other materials pertaining to Victor Lawson’s life and career as a pioneering newspaperman and owner of the Chicago Daily News in early 1900s Chicago. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Lawson |
| Collection Stack Location | 3A 40 13-14; 3A 41 12-14 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Victor Lawson Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of John S. Knight, 1946, additional gifts from Field Enterprises, 1961 and I. Norman Lawson, 1963.
Processed by
Amy Nyholm, 1947, Alison Hinderliter, Lisa Janssen, Kelly Kress, and Shannon Yule, 2006
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Victor Lawson Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Victor Lawson Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Victor Freemont Lawson
Owner and publisher of the Chicago Daily News.
Victor Freemont Lawson was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1850. His father, Iver Lawson, was a Norwegian immigrant, a laborer who came to prosperity buying and selling real estate in Chicago during the mid 1800s. Little is known about his mother Melinda Nordvig but that she was also of Norwegian descent. His father eventually entered city politics, becoming a member of the city council in 1864. The family was active in Chicago’s first Norwegian Evangelical Church and lived in a large house at 1136 North Clark Street.
While still in grammar school, Victor asked his father’s permission to look for a job. Young Lawson found a position in the circulation department of the Journal, the first of many in his long career in the newspaper business. He attended Chicago High School on West Monroe Street, and later the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts with the intention of attending Harvard, but due to poor health was unable to continue his academic studies and returned to Chicago.
After his Iver Lawson's death in 1872, he took over the administration of his father's estate, which included a Norwegian language newspaper called the Skandinaven. Another tenant in the same building as the Skandinaven was Melville E. Stone, who about to launch an as yet untested one-cent evening newspaper, the Chicago Daily News.
Stone’s Daily News struggled financially and Lawson stepped in with capital. He became publisher of the Daily News in 1876 retaining Stone as editor. Lawson headed the Chicago Daily News for the next twenty-nine years and made many innovations in the newspaper business that continue today including advancements in newspaper promotion, classified advertising, and syndication of news stories, serials, and comics. In addition, the Daily News employed some of the most notable writers and editors of the time, such as Henry Justin Smith, Charles H. Dennis, Ben Hecht, and Eugene Field.
Lawson also created a pioneering foreign news service, first through the Chicago Record and then in 1909 transferring it to the Daily News. The News had offices in London, Paris, Berlin and correspondents in Egypt, South Africa, and Japan. The service employed distinguished journalists such as Edward Price Bell, Paul Mowrer, Raymond Swing, and Junius B. Wood to report on world affairs and was vital in providing information on such major events as the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese war, and World War I during Lawson’s tenure.
Lawson’s life and career encompassed many other facets. He was president of the then newly formed Associated Press, was active politically in endorsing local and national candidates, and was a member of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, taking significant part in writing the critical report, “The Negro in Chicago,” following the race riots of 1919. He was also a generous philanthropist who gave substantially to such organizations as the Fresh Air Fund and the YMCA, and was a prominent member of Chicago’s New England Church.
Lawson married Jessie Strong Bradley, a society girl, on February 8, 1880. She suffered from ill health most of her adult life. They had no children and Jessie passed away on October 2, 1913. Lawson himself died suddenly of a heart attack at his farm in Green Lake, Wisconsin, on August 19, 1925.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, and clippings concerning the day to day running of the Daily News and Victor Lawson's personal fincances and residences in Chicago and Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Correspondents include noted Daily News reporters, managers, and editors such as, Charles H. Dennis, Walter Strong, Hopewell Rogers, Henry Justin Smith, Edward Price Bell, Paul Scott Mowrer, Raymond Swing, and Eugene Field. Daily News papers also include materials from the Daily News foreign service offices, newspaper syndication companies, advertisers, and the public. Also contains correspondence and financial records from other organizations which Lawson was associated with including the Associated Press, the Associated Newspapers, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, and the City News Bureau of Chicago. There is a significant amount of material concerning the maintenance of his farm in Green Lake Wisconsin and his charitable financial giving. A small series of photographs contains photos of Victor Lawson througout his life, but is primarily made up snapshots of his brother Iver Lawson's family in San Diego.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1878-1926. Box(es) 1-90
- Series 2: Chicago Daily News, 1877-1925. Box(es) 91-110
- Series 3: Subject Files, 1888-1925. Box(es) 111-116
- Series 4: Personal Files, 1873-1926. Box(es) 117-135
- Series 5: Photographs, ca. 1860s-1931. Box(es) 136-137
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Associated Press
- Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943
- Chicago Commission on Race Relations
- Chicago Daily News, Inc.
- City News Bureau of Chicago
- Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943
- Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
- Fresh Air Fund
- Hansen, Harry, 1884
- Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925
- Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-
- New England Church (Chicago, Ill.)
- Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948
- Rogers, Hopewell L. (Hopewell Lindenberger), b. 1876
- Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936
- Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929
- Young Men’s Christian associations --Illinois --Chicago.
Subjects
- Advertising -- Medicine
- Advertising, Classified
- Advertising, Newspaper
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1878-1926
- Foreign correspondents
- Foreign news
- Green Lake County (Wis.)
- Journalism--Illinois--Chicago -- History
- Letterpress copybooks--Illinois--Chicago -- 1878-1926
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois--Chicago
- News agencies
- Newspaper carriers--Illinois--Chicago
- Newspaper editors--Illinois--Chicago
- Newspaper industry
- Newspaper employees--Labor unions
- Newspaper layout and typography -- History
- Newspaper presses
- Newspaper publishing -- Economic aspects
- Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Newspapers -- Illinois -- Chicago --History
- Philanthropists -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Photographs -- 1860-1930
- Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History
- Race relations
- Reporters and reporting
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- Spanish-American War, 1898
- Syndicates (Journalism)--United States
- World War, 1914-1918
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Container List
Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1878-1926 |
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| Bound letterpress books and some loose correspondence from Victor Lawson to Chicago Daily News employees, business associates, friends, and colleagues. | |||||||||||
| Letterpress books are arranged alphabetically by type of correspondence and then chronologically. Some letterpress books are bound by stenographer's name causing some chronological overlap. A small amount of loose correspondence follows the letterpress books which is arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Advertising Agents, Sep. 1881-Dec.1884 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Advertising Agents, Dec. 1884-Mar. 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Advertisers, Feb. 1882-Mar. 1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Associated Press (includes some meeting minutes), Feb. 1882-Feb. 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Associated Press, Jan. 1893-1894 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Associated Press, Sep. 1894-1895 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Associated Press, Aug. 1895-Mar. 1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Associated Press, Mar. 1897-Dec. 1899 | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | Associated Press, Dec. 1899-Oct. 1901 | |||||||||
| 5 | 10 | Associated Press, Sep. 1900-Apr. 1901 | |||||||||
| 5 | 11 | City Press Association, Aug. 1890-Dec. 1894 | |||||||||
| 5 | 12 | Dewey (Harriet), Jan. 1880-May1892 | |||||||||
| 6 | 13 | Miscellaneous, Mar. 1880-Mar. 1885 | |||||||||
| 6 | 14 | Miscellaneous, May 1882-Sep.1883 | |||||||||
| 6 | 15 | Miscellaneous, Aug. 1993-Nov. 1884 | |||||||||
| 7 | 16 | Publishers, Dec. 1878-Feb. 1882 | |||||||||
| 7 | 17 | Publishers, Oct. 1883-Oct. 1884 | |||||||||
| 8 | 18 | Personal, Jan. 1878-Mar. 1880 | |||||||||
| 8 | 19 | Personal, Mar. 1880-Apr. 1890 | |||||||||
| 8 | 20 | Personal, Apr. 1890-May 1893 | |||||||||
| 8 | 21 | Personal, May 1893-Apr. 1896 | |||||||||
| 9 | 22 | Personal, Apr. 1896-Jul. 1898 | |||||||||
| 9 | 23 | Personal, Jul. 1898-Feb. 1900 | |||||||||
| 9 | 24 | Personal, Feb. 1900-Jul. 1901 | |||||||||
| 9 | 25 | Personal, Jul. 1901-Jul. 1903 | |||||||||
| 10 | 26 | Personal, Jul. 1903-Apr. 1905 | |||||||||
| 10 | 27 | Personal, Apr. 1905-Nov. 1906 | |||||||||
| 11 | 28 | Personal, Nov. 1906-Nov. 1907 | |||||||||
| 11 | 29 | Personal, Mar. 1907-Jul. 1908 | |||||||||
| 12 | 30 | Personal, Jul. 1908-Jun. 1909 | |||||||||
| 12 | 31 | Personal, Jun. 1909-Mar. 1910 | |||||||||
| 13 | 32 | Personal, Mar. 1910-Nov. 1910 | |||||||||
| 13 | 33 | Personal, Nov. 1910-Aug. 1911 | |||||||||
| 14 | 34 | Personal, Nov. 1911-Jul. 1912 | |||||||||
| 14 | 35 | Personal, May 1913-Mar. 1914 | |||||||||
| 15 | 36 | Personal, Mar. 1914-Mar. 1915 | |||||||||
| 15 | 37 | Personal, Mar.-Nov. 1915 | |||||||||
| 16 | 38 | Personal, Nov. 1915-Oct. 1916 | |||||||||
| 16 | 39 | Personal, Oct. 1916-Sep. 1917 | |||||||||
| 17 | 40 | Personal, Sep. 1917-Jun. 1918 | |||||||||
| 18 | 41 | Personal, Jun. 1918-Jun. 1919 | |||||||||
| 18 | 42 | Personal, Jun. 1919-Aug. 1920 | |||||||||
| 19 | 43 | Personal, Aug. 1920-Oct. 1921 | |||||||||
| 19 | 44 | Personal, Oct.-Nov. 1921 | |||||||||
| 20 | 45 | Personal, Nov. 1921-Feb. 1923 | |||||||||
| 21 | 46 | Personal, Feb, 1923-Jul. 1924 | |||||||||
| 21 | 47 | Personal (last letters are from Hopewell Rogers and others regarding Lawson's estate), Jul. 1924-Jan. 1926 | |||||||||
| 22 | 48 | General Business, Nov. 1877-Jul. 1878 | |||||||||
| 22 | 49 | General Business, Apr. 1881-1884 | |||||||||
| 22 | 50 | General Business, Feb.-Dec. 1882 | |||||||||
| 23 | 51 | General Business, Jan. 1883-Oct. 1884 | |||||||||
| 23 | 52 | General Business, Jul.-Oct. 1884 | |||||||||
| 24 | 53 | General Business, Oct.-Dec. 1884 | |||||||||
| 24 | 54 | General Business, Jan.-Mar. 1885 | |||||||||
| 25 | 55 | General Business, Nov. 1884-Feb. 1886 | |||||||||
| 25 | 56 | General Business, Jun.-Sep. 1885 | |||||||||
| 26 | 57 | General Business, Sep.-Nov. 1885 | |||||||||
| 26 | 58 | General Business, Mar. 1886-Jan. 1888 | |||||||||
| 27 | 59 | General Business, Jun. 1888-Mar. 1889 | |||||||||
| 27 | 60 | General Business, Mar.-Aug. 1889 | |||||||||
| 28 | 61 | General Business, Dec. 1888-Mar. 1889 | |||||||||
| 28 | 62 | General Business, Mar.-Aug. 1889 | |||||||||
| 29 | 63 | General Business, Aug.-Dec. 1889 | |||||||||
| 29 | 64 | General Business, Dec. 1889-May 1890 | |||||||||
| 30 | 65 | General Business, Aug. 1889-Jan. 1890 | |||||||||
| 30 | 66 | General Business, Jan.-Aug. 1890 | |||||||||
| 31 | 67 | General Business, May-Oct. 1890 | |||||||||
| 31 | 68 | General Business, Nov. 1890-Mar. 1891 | |||||||||
| 32 | 69 | General Business, Mar.-Jun 1891 | |||||||||
| 32 | 70 | General Business, Jun.-Aug. 1891 | |||||||||
| 33 | 71 | General Business, Aug. 1890-Jan. 1891 | |||||||||
| 33 | 72 | General Business, Jan.-Jul. 1891 | |||||||||
| 34 | 73 | General Business, Aug.-Sep. 1891 | |||||||||
| 34 | 74 | General Business, Sep.-Nov. 1891 | |||||||||
| 35 | 75 | General Business, Jul. 1891-Jan. 1892 | |||||||||
| 35 | 76 | General Business, Jan.-Dec. 1892 | |||||||||
| 36 | 77 | General Business, Nov. 1891-Feb. 1892 | |||||||||
| 36 | 78 | General Business, Feb.-Apr. 1892 | |||||||||
| 37 | 79 | General Business, Apr.-Jul. 1892 | |||||||||
| 37 | 80 | General Business, Jul.-Sep. 1892 | |||||||||
| 38 | 81 | General Business, Sep.-Oct. 1892 | |||||||||
| 38 | 82 | General Business, Oct. 1892-Jan. 1893 | |||||||||
| 39 | 83 | General Business, Dec. 1892-Sep. 1893 | |||||||||
| 39 | 84 | General Business, Sep. 1893-Sep. 1894 | |||||||||
| 40 | 85 | General Business, Jan.-Mar. 1893 | |||||||||
| 40 | 86 | General Business, Mar.-May 1893 | |||||||||
| 41 | 87 | General Business, May-Jul. 1893 | |||||||||
| 41 | 88 | General Business, Jul.-Oct. 1893 | |||||||||
| 42 | 89 | General Business, Oct.-Dec. 1893 | |||||||||
| 42 | 90 | General Business, Jan.-Apr. 1894 | |||||||||
| 43 | 91 | General Business, Apr.-Jul. 1894 | |||||||||
| 43 | 92 | General Business, Jul.-Sep. 1894 | |||||||||
| 44 | 93 | General Business, Sep. 1894-Jul. 1895 | |||||||||
| 44 | 94 | General Business, Sep.-Dec. 1895 | |||||||||
| 45 | 95 | General Business, Dec. 1894-Feb. 1895 | |||||||||
| 45 | 96 | General Business, Feb.-Apr. 1895 | |||||||||
| 46 | 97 | General Business, Apr.-Jun. 1895 | |||||||||
| 46 | 98 | General Business, Jun.-Aug. 1895 | |||||||||
| 47 | 99 | General Business, Jul. 1895-Feb. 1896 | |||||||||
| 47 | 100 | General Business, Aug.-Dec. 1895 | |||||||||
| 48 | 101 | General Business, Oct.-Dec. 1895 | |||||||||
| 48 | 102 | General Business, Dec. 1895-Feb. 1896 | |||||||||
| 49 | 103 | General Business, Feb.-Jun. 1896 | |||||||||
| 49 | 104 | General Business, Feb.-Mar. 1896 | |||||||||
| 50 | 105 | General Business, Mar.-Jun. 1896 | |||||||||
| 50 | 106 | General Business, Jun.-Aug. 1896 | |||||||||
| 51 | 107 | General Business, Jun.-Nov. 1896 | |||||||||
| 51 | 108 | General Business, Aug.-Oct. 1896 | |||||||||
| 52 | 109 | General Business, Oct.-Dec. 1896 | |||||||||
| 52 | 110 | General Business, Nov. 1896-Mar. 1897 | |||||||||
| 53 | 111 | General Business, Dec. 1896-Feb. 1897 | |||||||||
| 53 | 112 | General Business, Feb.-Apr. 1897 | |||||||||
| 54 | 113 | General Business, Mar. 1897-Jan. 1898 | |||||||||
| 54 | 114 | General Business, Apr.-Jun. 1897 | |||||||||
| 55 | 115 | General Business, Jun.-Aug. 1897 | |||||||||
| 55 | 116 | General Business, Aug.-Dec. 1897 | |||||||||
| 56 | 117 | General Business, Oct.-Nov. 1897 | |||||||||
| 56 | 118 | General Business, Nov. 1897-Jan. 1898 | |||||||||
| 57 | 119 | General Business, Jan.-Dec. 1898 | |||||||||
| 57 | 120 | General Business, Dec. 1898-May 1899 | |||||||||
| 58 | 121 | General Business, May-Dec. 1899 | |||||||||
| 58 | 122 | General Business, Dec. 1899-Mar. 1900 | |||||||||
| 59 | 123 | General Business, Apr.-Sep. 1900 | |||||||||
| 59 | 124 | General Business, Apr.-Dec. 1901 | |||||||||
| 60 | 125 | General Business, Dec. 1901-Jan. 1903 | |||||||||
| 60 | 126 | General Business, Jan. 1903-Jan. 1904 | |||||||||
| 61 | 127 | General Business, Jan.-Jul. 1904 | |||||||||
| 61 | 128 | General Business, Sep. 1904-Jul. 1905 | |||||||||
| 61 | 129 | General Business, Jun. 1905-Mar. 1906 | |||||||||
| 62 | 130 | General Business, Apr. 1906-May 1907 | |||||||||
| 62 | 131 | General Business, Jun. 1907-May 1908 | |||||||||
| 63 | 132 | General Business, May 1908-Mar. 1910 | |||||||||
| 63 | 133 | General Business, Mar. 1910-May 1911 | |||||||||
| 64 | 134 | General Business, May 1911-Feb. 1912 | |||||||||
| 64 | 135 | General Business, Feb.-Dec. 1912 | |||||||||
| 65 | 136 | General Business, Oct. 1912-May 1913 | |||||||||
| 65 | 137 | General Business, May 1913-Nov. 1914 | |||||||||
| 66 | 138 | General Business, Nov. 1914-Sep. 1915 | |||||||||
| 67 | 139 | General Business, Sep. 1915-Jan. 1916 | |||||||||
| 68 | 140 | General Business, Jan.-Jun. 1916 | |||||||||
| 68 | 141 | General Business, Aug.-Nov. 1916 | |||||||||
| 69 | 142 | General Business, Nov. 1916-Aug. 1917 | |||||||||
| 70 | 143 | General Business, Aug.-Oct. 1917 | |||||||||
| 71 | 144 | General Business, Oct. 1917-Jul. 1918 | |||||||||
| 72 | 145 | General Business, Jul.-Nov. 1918 | |||||||||
| 73 | 146 | General Business, Nov. 1918-Feb. 1919 | |||||||||
| 74 | 147 | General Business, Feb.-Sep. 1919 | |||||||||
| 75 | 148 | General Business, Sep.-Nov. 1919 | |||||||||
| 76 | 149 | General Business, Nov. 1919 | |||||||||
| 77 | 150 | General Business, Dec. 1919-Aug. 1920 | |||||||||
| 77 | 151 | General Business, Aug.-Oct. 1920 | |||||||||
| 78 | 152 | General Business, Oct. 1920-Jun. 1921 | |||||||||
| 79 | 153 | General Business, Jun.-Oct. 1921 | |||||||||
| 80 | 154 | General Business, Oct. 1921-Apr. 1922 | |||||||||
| 81 | 155 | General Business, Apr.-Oct. 1922 | |||||||||
| 82 | 156 | General Business, Sep.-Nov. 1922 | |||||||||
| 83 | 157 | General Business, Nov. 1922-May 1923 | |||||||||
| 84 | 158 | General Business, May-Sep. 1923 | |||||||||
| 85 | 159 | General Business, Sep.-Nov. 1923 | |||||||||
| 86 | 160 | General Business, Nov. 1923-Aug. 1924 | |||||||||
| 87 | 161 | General Business, Aug.-Nov. 1924 | |||||||||
| 88 | 162 | General Business, Nov. 1924-Jan. 1926 | |||||||||
| 89 | 163 | Advertising, 1899-1924 | |||||||||
| 89 | 164 | Associated Press related, 1909-1919 | |||||||||
| 89 | 165 | Chicago Herald, 1915, 1918 | |||||||||
| 89 | 166 | Dennis, Charles H., 1917-1923 | |||||||||
| 89 | 167 | Faye, Charles, 1893-1898 | |||||||||
| 89 | 168 | Faye, Charles, 1898-1899 | |||||||||
| 89 | 169 | Foreign News Service related, 1916-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 89 | 170 | Fresh Air Fund related, 1917 | |||||||||
| 89 | 171 | General Business (sent from Lone Tree Farm), 1918 | |||||||||
| 89 | 172 | Hansen, Harry, 1919-1924 | |||||||||
| 89 | 173 | Lawson, Victor - notes, 1893-1925, n.d. | |||||||||
| 89 | 174 | Miscellaneous External, 1717-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 90 | 175 | Miscellaneous Internal, 1908-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 90 | 175a-d | Notebooks containing carbons of handwritten letters, 1921-1923 | |||||||||
| 90 | 176 | Paper shortage related, 1917-1924 | |||||||||
| 90 | 177 | Rogers, Hopewell, 1912-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 90 | 178 | Stone, Irving, 1896-1922 | |||||||||
| 90 | 179 | Story campaign, 1919-1923 | |||||||||
| 90 | 180 | Strong, Walter, 1917-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 90 | 181 | Syndication related, 1917-1924, n.d. | |||||||||
Series 2: Chicago Daily News, 1877-1925 |
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| Correspondence, clippings, reports, and other documents concerning the day to day functioning of the newspaper, as well as the Daily News foreign news service, labor issues, and fiancial matters. Folders with major correspondents such as Edward Price Bell, Walter Strong and Charles Dennis may contain a variety of materials, notes, reports and clippings, while many advertising and syndication companies' folders contain promotional materials. It would appear that virtually all correspondence in this series passed over Lawson's desk, whether written directly to him or to to others pertaining to specific issues. Letters, clippings and proofs are often marked with notes written by Lawson and replies from his staff including Charles Dennis, Walter Strong, Hopewell Rogers and his longtime secretary Wilhelmina Werner. Of potential interest are materials pertaining to labor disputes with news carriers and composing room employees as well as Lawson's concern with truth in advertising in regard to medical products. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by name or topic with some legal sized reports and documents at the end of series. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 91 | 182 | Adair, Andrew to Lawson and Strong, 1917-1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 183 | Adrian Daily Telegram (1 letter), 1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 184 | Advertising - classified advertising survey, completed survey forms, correspondence, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 185 | Advertising - medical products - correspondence, notes, reports regarding truth in medical product ads, 1881-1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 186 | Advertising - correspondence between H. Rogers, Lyons and Bougher regarding use of blanks for counter ads, 1917 | |||||||||
| 91 | 187 | Advertising - correspondence regarding regulations on unskilled labor want ads, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 188 | Advertising - correspondence between H. Rogers, Shryock, Strong, notes by Lawson reports regarding display ads, 1922 | |||||||||
| 91 | 189 | Advertising - correspondence between Lawson, Bougher, Woodward regarding use of outline type, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 190 | Advertising - correspondence regarding "In Memorium" notices, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 191 | Advertising - correspondence, notes by Lawson regarding United States Service Bureau requests on language, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 192 | Advertising - promotional and ad copy, 1917-1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 193 | Advertising - miscellaneous reports, notes (see also Reports and Documents - Advertising at end of this series), 1916-1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 194 | Affleck, B. F. - 1 letter with notes by Lawson and Dennis, 1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 195 | Allen, Harlan and Elizabeth - correspondence and column "Your Job and Other Fellows," 1923 | |||||||||
| 91 | 196 | American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 197 | American Consular Service, 1919-1920 | |||||||||
| 91 | 198 | American Expeditionary Forces - letter to Harry Hansen with note by Dennis, 1919 | |||||||||
| 91 | 199 | American Newspaper Publishers Association (including H. N. Carey, Chicago Local), correspondence and contracts regarding labor, news carriers, and the typographical union, 1912-1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 200 | American Protective Tariff League (Wilber F. Wakeman), 1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 201 | American Red Cross to Leroy Vernon (also letter from Vernon to Lawson), 1917 | |||||||||
| 91 | 202 | Arizona Republican (Dwight B. Heard), 1924 | |||||||||
| 91 | 203 | Armour Fertilizer Works - 1 letter, 1923 | |||||||||
| 91 | 204 | Art Department - correspondence regarding salaries at other newspapers and report on findings, 1922 | |||||||||
| 91 | 205 | Arthur Young & Company - report, "Appraisal of Comparative Values of Chicago Newspapers," 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 206 | Atlas Club - 1 letter, 1918 | |||||||||
| 91 | 207 | Award of Distinguished Service (for advertising), mock-up of booklet, n.d. | |||||||||
| 92 | 208 | Babcock, William H. to Walter Strong, 1923 | |||||||||
| 92 | 209 | Babson, Roger - correspondence, clippings, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 92 | 210 | Baker, George H., 1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 92 | 211 | Baker Packing Co., 1917-1918 | |||||||||
| 92 | 212 | Bancroft, Edgar A. (Scott, Bancroft, Martin & Stephens Law Offices), 1921 | |||||||||
| 92 | 213 | Barbours Advertising Rate Sheets - correspondence from Woodrow, Rogers, notes by Lawson, 1919 | |||||||||
| 92 | 214 | Barnum, Richard L. to E. G. Nichols, financial editor, 1919 | |||||||||
| 92 | 215 | Belgo Export & Co. Limited - correspondence and contract, 1917, 1921 | |||||||||
| 92 | 216 | Bell, Edward Price, 1914-1921 | |||||||||
| 92 | 217 | Bell, Edward Price, Feb.-Aug. 1922 | |||||||||
| 92 | 218 | Bell, Edward Price, Sep.-Dec., 1992 | |||||||||
| 92 | 219 | Bell, Edward Price, Jan.-Jun. 1923 | |||||||||
| 92 | 220 | Bell, Edward Price, Jul.-Dec. 1923 | |||||||||
| 92 | 221 | Bell, Edward Price, Jan.-Jun. 1924 | |||||||||
| 93 | 222 | Bell, Edward Price, Jul.-Dec. 1924 | |||||||||
| 93 | 223 | Bell, Edward Price, 1925 | |||||||||
| 93 | 224 | Bell, Edward Price - London office lease, 1913 | |||||||||
| 93 | 225 | Bell Syndicate, 1917-1918 | |||||||||
| 93 | 226 | Bell Syndicate, 1919 | |||||||||
| 93 | 227 | Bell Syndicate, 1920 | |||||||||
| 93 | 228 | Bell Syndicate, 1921 | |||||||||
| 93 | 229 | Bell Syndicate, Jan.-Jun. 1922 | |||||||||
| 93 | 230 | Bell Syndicate, Aug.-Dec. 1922 | |||||||||
| 94 | 231 | Bell Syndicate, Jan.-Mar. 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 232 | Bell Syndicate, May-Dec. 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 233 | Bell Syndicate (includes some promotional materials), Jan.-Mar. 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 234 | Bell Syndicate, Apr.-Dec., 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 235 | Bell Syndicate (includes some promotional materials), 1925 | |||||||||
| 94 | 236 | Bentley, Dr. Charles E., 1917 | |||||||||
| 94 | 237 | Better Government Association of Chicago & Cook County, 1924-1925 | |||||||||
| 94 | 238 | Bickel, Karl A. (United Press Association), 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 239 | Blad, Valdemar - 1 letter, 1920 | |||||||||
| 94 | 240 | Board of Local Improvements - assessment contract, 1909 | |||||||||
| 94 | 241 | Booth, George G. (Detroit News), 1918 | |||||||||
| 94 | 242 | Boston Globe, 1917-1918 | |||||||||
| 94 | 243 | Boston Herald, 1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 244 | Boston Traveler (Howard Breck), 1917-1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 245 | Bougher, L. J. (also to Woodward, see also Strong and Advertising folders), 1917-1922 | |||||||||
| 94 | 246 | Bowne, Louis, n.d. | |||||||||
| 94 | 247 | Boyer & Moody Financial Brokers, 1918 | |||||||||
| 94 | 248 | Brested, Charles, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 249 | Bridgeman, H. L. (Brooklyn Standard Union), 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 250 | Bridgewater, I. P., 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 251 | Briggs, George C., 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 252 | Brooksl, Leonard R., 1914-1920 | |||||||||
| 94 | 253 | Brown, Constantine, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 254 | Brown, Cyril, 1921 | |||||||||
| 94 | 255 | Brown, Edgar G., 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 256 | Brown, Edward S., 1917, 1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 257 | Buck, Clarence F., 1918 | |||||||||
| 94 | 258 | Buffalo Better Business Commission, 1924 | |||||||||
| 94 | 259 | Buffalo Commercial, 1918 | |||||||||
| 94 | 260 | Buffalo Evening News, 1901-1925 | |||||||||
| 94 | 261 | Builders Association of Chicago, 1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 261a | Burgess, Thorton W. - correspondence, notes regarding running Burgess "Bedtime Stories" in Chicago Daily News, 1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 262 | Burnham, Daniel H. to Walter Strong , 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 263 | Burquist, William H., 1925 | |||||||||
| 94 | 264 | Burroughs, J. Isadore - 1 letter regarding death of Wilhelmina Werner, 1923 | |||||||||
| 94 | 265 | Business Department (James Baley), 1919 | |||||||||
| 94 | 266 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1919 | |||||||||
| 95 | 267 | Calendars - 2 memorandum calendars containing appointments and notes written by Lawson, 1988-1889 | |||||||||
| 95 | 268 | Call, Edward P. (Daily Club, New York Times), 1908-1911 | |||||||||
| 95 | 269 | Carson Pirie Scott & Co., 1917 | |||||||||
| 95 | 270 | Carter, James S., 1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 271 | Chalmers, William J., 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 272 | Chappell, F. A., 1918-1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 273 | Chmarzynski, J., 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 274 | Chicago American (and Chicago Evening American), 1917, 1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 275 | Chicago Airport to Walter Strong, 1922 | |||||||||
| 95 | 276 | Chicago Association of Commerce, 1919 | |||||||||
| 95 | 277 | Chicago Board of Supervising Engineers - reports and memoranda regarding the "Unified Operation of Surface and Elevated Lines," 1914 | |||||||||
| 95 | 278 | Chicago Committee for Armenian & Syrian Relief , 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 279 | Chicago Community Trust - correspondence and report, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 280 | Chicago Home Rule League, 1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 281 | Chicago Jewelers' Association, 1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 282 | Chicago Law & Order League, 1919 | |||||||||
| 95 | 283 | Chicago Oil Burner Association, 1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 284 | Chicago Plan Commission, 1922 | |||||||||
| 95 | 285 | Chicago Post Office, 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 286-289 | Chicago Tribune - correspondence, clippings, promotional items, reports, 1916-1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 290 | Circulation promotional pamphlet, 1883 | |||||||||
| 95 | 291 | Citizens' Association of Chicago, 1917 | |||||||||
| 95 | 292 | Citizens' Committee on South Water Street Assessment - correspondence, reports, memos, 1922-1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 293 | "City Employee Who Knows But Fears to Talk," letter regarding city corruption, 1923 | |||||||||
| 95 | 294 | City of Chicago Council Chamber, 1917, 1921 | |||||||||
| 95 | 295 | Civic Federation of Chicago, includes paper by Douglas Sutherland, 1921 | |||||||||
| 95 | 296 | Collier's, 1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 297 | Columbia Phonograph Company, 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 298 | Committee for the Application of Forestry Society of American Foresters , 1920 | |||||||||
| 95 | 299 | Consolidated Press Association, 1921-1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 300 | Consolidated Water Power & Paper Company - contract, 1922 | |||||||||
| 95 | 301 | Constitutional Convention - State of Illinois, 1920 | |||||||||
| 95 | 302 | Cooke, Edmund Vance, 1917, 1922 | |||||||||
| 95 | 303 | Cooke, George A., 1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 304 | Cools, G. Victor - letter and unsolicited manuscript, 1925 | |||||||||
| 95 | 305 | Cowles, W. H., 1917 | |||||||||
| 95 | 306 | Coxe, H. Cleveland, 1917 | |||||||||
| 95 | 307 | Cox Multi-Mailer System, 1918 | |||||||||
| 95 | 308 | Craig, John - memo to Mr. Beitler, 1924 | |||||||||
| 95 | 309 | Crane Packing Company, 1920 | |||||||||
| 95 | 310 | Curtis, A. W. - 1 telegram and note from C. Dennis on Japanese forces, n.d. | |||||||||
| 96 | 311 | Daily Jewish Courier, 1917 | |||||||||
| 96 | 312 | Daily Oklahoman, 1918 | |||||||||
| 96 | 313 | D'Arcy Advertising Company - estimate for poster, 1922 | |||||||||
| 96 | 314 | Davis Dry Goods Company - correspondence, clipping, notes, 1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 315 | Day, Stephen A., 1919 | |||||||||
| 96 | 316 | Decker, A. R. - correspondence regarding Chicago Daily News Rome office, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 317 | Dennis, Charles H., 1908-1918 | |||||||||
| 96 | 318 | Dennis, Charles H., 1919 | |||||||||
| 96 | 319 | Dennis, Charles H., 1920-1921 | |||||||||
| 96 | 320 | Dennis, Charles H., Jan.-Jun. 1922 | |||||||||
| 96 | 321 | Dennis, Charles H., Jul.-Aug. 1922 | |||||||||
| 96 | 322 | Dennis, Charles H., Sep. 1922 | |||||||||
| 96 | 323 | Dennis, Charles H., Oct.-Dec. 1922 | |||||||||
| 96 | 324 | Dennis, Charles H., Jan.-Jul. 1923 | |||||||||
| 96 | 325 | Dennis, Charles H., Aug.-Sep. 1923 | |||||||||
| 96 | 326 | Dennis, Charles H., Nov.-Dec. 1923 | |||||||||
| 96 | 327 | Dennis, Charles H., Jan.-Jun. 1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 328 | Dennis, Charles H., Jul.-Sep. 1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 329 | Dennis, Charles H., Oct.-Dec. 1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 330 | Dennis, Charles H., 1925 | |||||||||
| 96 | 331 | Dennis, Charles H., n.d. | |||||||||
| 96 | 332 | Des Moines Capital, 1918 | |||||||||
| 96 | 333 | Detroit News to W. Strong, 1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 334 | Dewey, Harriet, 1918 | |||||||||
| 96 | 335 | Dibbles & Manierre Real Estate - correspondence and map of downtown, 1910-1915 | |||||||||
| 96 | 336 | Digby, Bassett, 1918-1919 | |||||||||
| 96 | 337-338 | Doubleday, Page & Co. - correspondence, promotional items, 1902-1924 | |||||||||
| 96 | 339 | Dunbaugh, Harry J., 1917 | |||||||||
| 97 | 340 | Earl, Edwin T., 1918 | |||||||||
| 97 | 341 | Eddy, Sherwood - manuscript "The Fate of Poland," n.d. | |||||||||
| 97 | 342 | Edison Company - correspondence and contract, 1907 | |||||||||
| 97 | 343 | Editor & Publisher (see also oversize for copy of magazine with cover story on Lawson), 1916-1920 | |||||||||
| 97 | 344 | Edward J. Hargrave Secret Service - invoice, 1922 | |||||||||
| 97 | 345 | Egger, E. R. - dispatches from Japan, 1923 | |||||||||
| 97 | 346 | Emporia Gazette, 1924 | |||||||||
| 97 | 347 | E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918, 1923 | |||||||||
| 97 | 348 | Erikson, Jens, 1922-1923 | |||||||||
| 97 | 349-354 | Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia) - correspondence (much from William McLean), clippings, sales stats, 1916-1925 | |||||||||
| 97 | 355 | Evening Journal, 1918-1919 | |||||||||
| 97 | 356-361 | Evening Star (Washington D.C.), 1899-1925 | |||||||||
| 97 | 362 | Evening Sun, 1924-1925, n.d. | |||||||||
| 97 | 363 | Every Evening, 1918 | |||||||||
| 97 | 364 | Ewing, Robert (Daily States), 1918 | |||||||||
| 98 | 365 | The Fair - correspondence regarding radio sponsorship, 1922 | |||||||||
| 98 | 366 | Farson, Negley, 1925 | |||||||||
| 98 | 367 | Fay, Charles Norman, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 98 | 368-370 | Faye, Charles M. - correspondence, clippings, receipts, notes, 1897-1908 | |||||||||
| 98 | 371 | Fergus, Robert C., 1918 | |||||||||
| 98 | 372 | Field, Eugene - correspondence, poems, hand-drawn portrait, and memorial, 1886-1895, 1925 | |||||||||
| 98 | 373 | Walter Fisher (also Fisher, Boyden, Kales & Bell) - correspondence, clippings, contracts, clippings, pamphlet, 1911-1925 | |||||||||
| 98 | 374 | Florence Rose Fashions (Florence B. Rose), 1916 | |||||||||
| 98 | 375 | Ford, Francis M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 98 | 376 | Foreign Language Information Service, 1925 | |||||||||
| 98 | 377 | Foreign Press Services, 1919 | |||||||||
| 98 | 378 | Foreman, Colonel Milton J., 1913 | |||||||||
| 98 | 379 | Foreign News Service - reports, 1917, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 98 | 380 | Fort Work Star-Telegram, 1918 | |||||||||
| 98 | 381 | The Forum, 1924 | |||||||||
| 98 | 382 | Fourth Estate, 1917 | |||||||||
| 98 | 383 | Frank Seaman Incorporated, 1918 | |||||||||
| 98 | 384-386 | Fresh Air Fund - correspondence, clippings, reports, 1888-1923 | |||||||||
| 98 | 387-391 | The Fun Shop (syndicated news feature) - correspondence, reports, clippings, bulletins, 1924-1925 | |||||||||
| 99 | 392 | Garfield Fireproof Storage Co., 1924 | |||||||||
| 99 | 393 | Georgian American, 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 394 | George Matthew Adams Service, 1920 | |||||||||
| 99 | 395 | G. H. Mead Co., 1917 | |||||||||
| 99 | 396 | Giles, William R. (foreign dispatch on Japanese control of press), 1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 397 | Glickley, Albert, 1925 | |||||||||
| 99 | 398 | The Globe (Boston), 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 399 | The Globe (New York), 1917-1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 400 | Goodwin Morrow Goodwin, 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 401 | Gordon-Van Tine Co., 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 402 | Green, Mary Pomeroy, 1921 | |||||||||
| 99 | 403 | Guerin, Judge Henry (Superior Court of Cook County), 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 404 | Halsey, E. W., 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 405 | Handy, W. M. (Department of the Interior), 1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 406 | Hansen, Harry, 1918-1922 | |||||||||
| 99 | 407 | Hapgood, Norman, 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 408 | Hard, William, 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 409 | Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., 1922 | |||||||||
| 99 | 410 | Hayner, Fred A. - 1 letter, 1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 411 | Hays, Will H. (Republican National Committee), 1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 412 | Hearst, W. R. (also Hearst Newspapers), 1917-1924 | |||||||||
| 99 | 413 | Hebb, Richard D., 1918 | |||||||||
| 99 | 414 | Hecht, Ben - correspondence regarding Hecht's dismissal from Chicago Daily News, 1922 | |||||||||
| 99 | 415 | Heymann, Walt. C., 1924 | |||||||||
| 99 | 416 | H. F. Henricks Agency, 1924-1925 | |||||||||
| 99 | 417 | Holerth Cartoon Service, 1919 | |||||||||
| 99 | 418 | Holly, F. M. - correspondence regarding syndication of Edgar Wallace's Green Archer stories, 1924 | |||||||||