TABLE OF CONTENTS

Descriptive Summary of the Collection

Administrative Information

Biography of Bess Winakor

Scope and Content of the Collection

Organization

Selected Search Terms

Container List

Series 1: Story Files, 1967-1977

Series 2: Scrapbooks, 1967-1977

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Inventory of the Bess Winakor Papers, 1967-1977 The Newberry Library Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324 USA Phone: 312-255-3506 Fax: 312-255-3646 E-Mail: specialcolls@newberry.org URL: http://www.newberry.org Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Kelly Kress, 2009. ©2009.

Administrative Information

Cite As

Bess Winakor Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

Gift of Polly Pancoe, 2009.

Processed by

Kelly Kress, 2009.

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 Bess Winakor Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Bess Winakor 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 Bess Winakor

Chicago fashion correspondent and reporter.

Bess Winakor was born March 17, 1942, in Champaign, Illinois. She attended Northwestern University and graduated with degrees in Home Economics and Journalism. She began writing for Home Furnishings Daily in 1967, and continued as a fashion correspondent for Women's Wear Daily from 1967-1974, W (a Women's Wear Daily magazine) from 1972-1973, and the Chicago Sun-Times from 1974-1978. Winakor also worked as a publicist for over 25 years as head of Bess Winakor Communications, with clients in the fashion, restaurant, and entertainment industries, as well as the arts and charities. Winakor died November 13, 2007.

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Scope and Content of the Collection

Newspaper articles and story files of Bess Winakor, Chicago correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, 1967-1974, and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1974-1978. Includes background materials, interview notes, and dispatches for stories about Hugh Hefner, Judge Julius Hoffman and Pat Nixon, materials from a 1976 trip to Iran and the 1977 Carter inauguration, as well as scrapbooks containing her articles for Women's Wear Daily, the Chicago Sun-Times, W, and Home Furnishings Daily.

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: Story Files, 1967-1977. Box(es) 1
• Series 2: Scrapbooks, 1967-1977. Box(es) 1-39

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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

• Carter, Jimmy, 1924--Inauguration, 1977
• Chicago sun-times
• Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-
• Hoffman, Julius J. (Julius Jennings), 1895-1983
• Home furnishings daily
• Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993
• W
• Winakor, Bess, 1942-2007
• Women's wear daily

Subjects

• Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Clippings, 1967-1977
• Dispatches
• Inaugurations -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1977
• Iran -- Description and travel
• Iran -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
• Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Fashion
• Scrapbooks
• Women journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

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Container List