Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg Papers, ca. 1860-1966, Box 6.
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| Stereograph, Chicago Fire, 1871. Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg Papers, ca. 1860-1966, Box 6. |
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898.
Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States, 1847-1881, bulk ca. 1865-1881.
12 boxes (272 photoprints and 3 prints) + 1 stereoscope box.
Following the Civil War U.S. army officer Christopher C. Augur commanded several military departments in the West. Collection includes mounted albumen prints and stereographs of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken mainly by Alexander Gardner, William H. Jackson, and William S. Soule. Also three large prints of Mexican War military scenes.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer Art Augur
Collection Stack Location: Vault 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950. Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers, ca. 1860-1966.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence and notes of Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Abraham Lincoln. Also poems by Sandburg, photographs of Sandburg and Barrett, and a large collection of stereographs (scenes of the American Civil War, world views and many slides of Chicago before and after the fire of 1871), and cabinet and carte de visite portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Barrett-Sandburg (formerlyBar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Midwest MS information file available.
Barry, D. F. (David Frances), 1854-1934. D. F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa Indians, photographed ca. 1881-ca.1890, printed ca. 1885-1920.
10 photographic prints
Barry took these photographs of Hunkpapa chiefs at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, in 1881, and at Bismarck, Dakota Territory in 1885. Most of the photographs were printed from the negatives and sold from Barry's studio in Superior, Wisconsin. Individuals depicted include Crow King, Gall, Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, Shooting Star, and Standing Holy. A photograph of Barry with Rain in the Face is also included in the collection. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 92
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Barzel, Ann. Dance research collection, ca. 1830-[ongoing]
375 cubic ft.
Materials collected by dance critic Ann Barzel, documenting the history of dance in Chicago and worldwide. Research collection includes brochures and other publicity, newsclippings, programs, souvenir books, audiovisual material, posters and prints, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barzel Research
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 2-14; 3a 47 3-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951. Papers, 1890-1964, bulk 1900-1950.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, mostly incoming, to American composer John Alden Carpenter, wife Rue W. Carpenter and daughter Genevieve; also material relating to Carpenter's works; a miscellany of personal records; and a collection of photographs, many of them of well-known musicians.
Subjects: Music; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Carpenter (formerly Car)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chapin, Nathaniel Gates, 1817-1893. Collection of photographs and portraits of eminent musicians, ca. 1890.
136 photographs
Photographs and portraits of uniform size, that have been inset and mounted on cardboard. A biographical sketch of the subject of the portrait appears in manuscript on the mounting.
Subjects: Music; Photographs
Call Number: Case V 25.185
Collection Stack Location: 3a 6 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Chicago lakefront and river photographs, ca. 1890.
0.2 cubic ft.
58 prints of Chicago lakefront and river scenes, found in a manila envelope marked: "Prints from glass negatives produced by the Corps of Engineers c. 1890; originals now with the Chicago Maritime Society."
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 129
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park Photographs, ca. 1975.
0.1 linear feet
Sixteen professional photographs of the area of Chicago known as the Stockyards Industrial Park which was developed after the closing of the Union Stock Yards in 1971. The Industrial Park is home to various small factories, none of which are involved in meatpacking. Few of the original structures remain, excepting the great limestone arch erected in 1879 to mark the stockyard entrance.
Subjects: Business; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 176
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Civil War photographs, ca. 1861-ca. 1865.
1 folder (10 items)
Ten carte de visite photographs of Union soldiers, camps, and buildings in Southern locations.
Subjects: Civil War; Photographs
Collection Call Number: Midwest MS 67
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Clark, C.R., fl. 1911. C.R. Clark Photograph Book, ca. 1865-1872, 1911.
0.8 linear feet
Volume of individually mounted photographs compiled by C.R. Clark for Byron L. Smith, ca. 1911, showing scenes of Chicago before and after the 1871 fire. Includes a letter relating to Smith’s acquisition of the photograph book, and the original front and back covers.
Subjects: Photographs
Collection Call Number: Midwest MS Clark
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection of blueprint photographs of Indians and scenes in and near Fort Custer, Montana, ca. 1896.
24 mounted photos.
One photo is of a ms. descriptive list of some of the scenes presented; another is dated May 14, 1896; the final photo is of a ms. inscription: Finis. Fort Custer, Montana. W.C.S. E.E.P.S.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Graff 962
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records, 1958-1985.
3 cubic ft. (5 boxes and 1 oversize box).
Photographs from the Seeing Indian in Chicago American Indian photography exhibit, July 22-September 21, 1985, Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, The Newberry Library. Also exhibition labels.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Seeing Indian.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Davis, Charles A., fl. 1900. Papers, 1854-1901.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Charles A. Davis left Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 22, 1900, to take a job as a court reporter in Manila after the Americans had taken control of the Philippines. His wife, Bess, joined him in Manila in 1901. This collection consists of letters and photographs that describe Mr. and Mrs. Davis' lives in Manila. It also includes a travel journal in Spanish from 1854, titled "Memorias sobre las Yslas Filipinas," that Mr. and Mrs. Davis acquired.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1980.
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Easterly, Thomas Martin, 1809-1882. Daguerreotypes, ca. 1846-1849.
14 daguerreotypes
These images of Sauk, Fox, and Iowa Indians, as well as one Caucasian man, are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs 3648-3662
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 7
Finding Aids:
Special Collections Information File available.
Edward E. Ayer photograph collection, 1845-1910.
32 cubic ft.
Collection of approximately 6,000 American Indian portraits and western views. Includes photographs by D. F. Barry, Thomas Easterly, Andrew Jackson Faulk, Emma B. Freeman, John K. Hillers, Grace Carpenter Hudson, G. W. Parsons, Elmo Scott Watson, and Olin D. Wheeler, among others.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 1-4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog cards: Some named collections within the collection.
Ayer Indian Photographs index cards: arranged by subject, photographer, and original photographic process.
Faulk, Andrew Jackson, 1814-1898. Andrew Jackson Faulk collection of photographs of the Dakota Territory, and of the Yankton, Santee, Brule, and Two Kettle Sioux, ca. 1858-1893.
56 photographic prints
A collection of photographs acquired by Faulk, mostly consisting of large-format albumen prints, but also a few stereographs and carte de visites. Dakota Territory scenes include views of Yankton, its buildings, and its citizens; photographs of Fort Dakota and Fort Randall by B. H. Gurnsey; the Congregational Church and parsonage at Faulkton; the Big Sioux River and Sioux Falls; and Indian camps. The collection also includes 32 oval portraits of Yankton, Brule, Two Kettle, and Santee Sioux chiefs, interpreters, and others, taken during treaty negotiations at the Addis Gallery in Washington, D.C. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 105
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Fay, W. D. Photographs, 1871.
Five small unmounted albumen prints taken in the aftermath of the Chicago Fire of 1871 by W.D. Fay of Joliet. Depicted are the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Wabash and Congress, Trinity Church near Wabash, the Church of the Holy Name, Mr. McCagg's greenhouse, and the courthouse. At least the first two images were marketed by Fay as part of a stereograph set showing the devastation in Chicago.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 59
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Freeman, Emma B., 1880-1928. Emma B. Freeman photographs of Yurok and Hupa Indians, ca. 1914-1918.
91 photographic prints mounted on cardboard
Freedman, an artist and photographer from Eureka, California, took these photographs of Yurok and Hupa Indians in studio and outdoor settings in Eureka and Humboldt County. These stylized photographs are not accurate representations of Indian dress or ways. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Ayer photographs box 99-101
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hillers, John K., 1845-1925. John K. Hillers photographs of the Zuni, Hopi, and Rio Grande River pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, ca. 1879-1882.
72 photographic prints
From 1879 to 1882, Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevens under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology. This collection consists of Hillers' photographic record of the pueblos, archeological ruins, and people of Arizona and New Mexico. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer photographs box 94-96
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hudson, Grace Carpenter, 1865-1937. Photographic copies of Grace Carpenter Hudson's paintings of Pomo Indians, ca. 1920-ca. 1937.
176 photographic prints on 89 cardboard mounts
Carpenter, a California artist specializing in paintings of Pomo Indian children, studied at the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco under Virgil Williams. These photographs depict portrait and scene paintings of Pomo Indians, primarily of children but also of adults. The children are often depicted with dogs or other animals. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photography Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 102-104
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Huebner, Joseph. Dance photographs, ca. 1970-ca. 1989.
3 cubic ft.
Joseph Huebner was the University of Notre Dame Library's Fine Arts Bibiliographer for 30 years, retiring in 1998. He donated souvenir books, programs, and dance ephemera which were interfiled into the Barzel Dance Research collection, and also donated framed dance photographs showing many ballet stars, including George Ballanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Natalia Makarova, and Ivan Nagy.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Dance MS Huebner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931. Photographs, 1883-1907.
16 items
Photographic portraits of Indians and photographs of scenes in the West by Huffman, a professor of journalism (University of Illinois, Northwestern University, University of Denver) and western frontier historian.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Vault oversize Graff 2000
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 49 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. W. H. Jackson Photochrom print collection, 1898-1906.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Noted photographer, mainly of the American West. Color lithographic prints, made using the "Photochrom" process, published by the Detriot Photographic Company from negatives made by W. H. Jackson. Includes 479 prints, mostly 7 x 9 inches, but including 14 panoramic views, mainly of outdoor scenes in California (60), Colorado (63), Utah (19), other western states (38), southern states (52), New York (64), Mid-Atlantic states (35), and Canada, Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico (40). Also a few portraits of American Indians and indoor scenes.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs Jackson
Collection Stack Location: 4 23 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Johns, William Douglas, b. 1858. The early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike discovery, 1895-ca. 1940.
51 items including 49 photographs (1 box)
William Douglas Johns, journalist and prospector, wrote a series of articles while living in Circle City, Alaska during the heyday of the Gold Rush. Johns' typescript and accompanying photographs record the early history of Alaska, the development of the gold rush, life in the mining camps and in Dawson City, and Johns' own explorations and hardships traveling in the region.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3123 (formerly Ayer MS 448a and 520a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, Carol. Chicago portrait photographs, ca. 1860-1900.
1 folder
Twenty-five unidentified nineteenth century cabinet photographs of babies, children, adults and weddings taken by Chicago photographers. Also, one CD titled "Carol Johnson."
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS 47
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Levy, Ruth, d. 1991? Dance photographs, 1970-1974.
5 cubic ft.
Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Ballet Company, received a masters degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her negatives, proof sheets, and glossy prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs were exhibited at the Chicago Public Library in 1974.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Levy R
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Luick, Lars. Lars Luick performing arts photographs.
1 cubic ft.
Luick, a Chicago photographer, has been published in Ballet News and Dance Magazine. This collection of his work includes photographs of Balanchine's funeral, the Boitsov Classical Ballet Company, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Luick
Collection Stack Location: 3a 50 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Lundgren, Harriet, 1905-1996. Papers, 1917-1991, bulk 1920-1938.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Lundgren danced as a prima ballerina for the Chicago Civic Ballet in the 1920s and 1930s, and was a featured dancer at the Century of Progress Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934. Her four career scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, and other ephemera related to her dancing career. The collection also includes autographed photographs of dancers, opera singers, and other celebrities collected by Lundgren. Photograph subjects include Adolph Bolm, Walter Camryn, Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, Anna Ludmila, Ruth Page, Rosa Raisa, and others.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lundgren
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11; Artifact Cage
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Malkind, Sheila. Photographs, 1982-2001.
4.5 cubic ft.
Malkind, a Chicago photojournalist, was the director of the Ruth Page Foundation from 1981 to 1992. In this capacity, she came to know many members of the Chicago dance community, including individuals such as Ann Barzel, Katherine Dunham, Larry Long, and Maria Tallchief. Her photographs are primarily candid shots of dancers and dance companies in Chicago: notable subjects include the individuals mentioned above, as well as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dame Margot Fonteyn, and Rudolph Nureyev. Additional photographs document Ruth Page Foundation activities and a variety of formal, informal, and street gatherings, as well as photographs of Lincoln Park in every season. The collection also includes published feature articles that Malkind wrote for the Lerner newspapers, the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Malkind
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904. Album of photographs of a trip to New Mexico, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon, ca. 1897.
53 photographic prints (1 album)
This album, manufactured as "The Apex Album" by the Heinn Specialty Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, contains photographs of a trip through New Mexico, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon, probably around 1897. Participants in the trip included Andrew McNally, his grandson, Andrew McNally II, and possibly the photographers C. A. Higgins and W. H. Jackson, whose signed photographs of the McNallys are contained in the album.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Case F 788 .M36 1897
Collection Stack Location: Vault 37 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Olshansky, Eugene. Photographs, 1935-1986, bulk 1935-1941.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Photographs of productions staged by the Original Ballets Russes (aka the Ballet Russes du Col. W. de Basil) and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo between 1935 and 1941, taken by Chicago businessman and balletomane Eugene Olshansky. Also, two operatic portraits, a few personal photographs, and several pieces of ephemera.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Dance MS Olshansky
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Railroad photograph collection, ca. 1868-1914.
0.1 cubic ft.
Two groups of railroad photographs, including 15 reproductions related to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, ca. 1868-1869, and 34 snapshots and postal cards of railroad men, engines, cars, stations and wrecks apparently taken in Wisconsin, ca. 1913-1914.
Subjects: Business; Photographs; Railroads
Call Number: Midwest MS 145
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Renslow, Chuck. Dance photographs, ca. 1960-ca. 1980.
3 cubic ft.
Photographic prints and electronic files (CD and DVD) of the Illinois Ballet Company and dancer/artist Dom Orejudos by professional photographer Chuck Renslow.
Subjects: Dance; Photographs
Call Number: Dance MS Renslow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), b. 1867. Photographs, ca. 1890-1942.
1 cubic ft.
Two boxes of photographs of the Chicagoland area, taken between 1890 and 1930. Subjects include aerial views of Chicago and nearby suburbs, church architecture, commercial architecture, domestic architecture, and public buildings, such as schools, libraries, and post offices. Photos of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, H.H. Richardson, and Louis Sullivan are included in the collection, as are photographs of some structures built for the World's Columbian Exposition. Most photographs are annotated with the name and address of the structure or, in the case of the aerial views, with the date and the subject of the photograph.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Sloan
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Sluby, Paul E., Sr. Sluby collection of portrait photographs, ca. 1880-1920.
0.5 cubic ft.
Paul E. Sluby, Sr., a genealogist and historian from Washington D.C., compiled this collection of early photographs of identified individuals. Many of the photographs were acquired at flea markets and antique stores in the northeastern United States.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Sluby (formerly Sl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Templeton, George M., d. 1870. Papers, 1852-1958.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Diaries and photographs covering the period of the army officer's duties at Fort C. F. Smith, from the establishment of the fort to its abandonment.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Graff folio 4099
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian relocation records, 1936-1975, bulk 1956-1958.
1 cubic ft. (3 boxes).
Photographs, promotional brochures, statistics, clippings, etc., dating mainly from 1956 to 1958, from album / notebooks compiled by Bureau of Indian Affairs agencies and relocation program field offices at reservations and schools (Cheyenne River, Fort Peck, Great Lakes, Intermountain School, Menominee, New Mexico Pueblos, Pierre, Sisseton including Flandreau, Turtle Mountain, Winnebago), and in cities (Chicago, St. Louis).
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS BIA Relocation
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Valentine, May L. Opera photograph collection, ca. 1910-1972.
1 cubic ft. (1 box and 1 oversize folder)
Photographs collected by May Valentine, Chicago Lyric Opera librarian and chorus conductor. The photographs include portraits of many opera singers, composers, and other figures, and shots of operatic performance. Many are inscribed to Ms. Valentine.
Subjects: Music; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Valentine
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
COLLECTION CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR PROCESSING - November 2009-April 2010.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant), 1866-1924. Collection of Philippine Photographs.
Over 8,000 photographs, with 5-volume index.
Early 20th Century ethnographic photographs collected by Dean C. Worcester, a professor, zoologist and authority on Philippine History. The photographs represent thirty-six linguistic groups of the people of the Philippines. In this collection there are also photographs from negatives owned by Dr. A.B. Meyer, friend of Jose Rizal.
Subjects: Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Philippine Photographs; Ayer 290 .A983 1905 (Index)
Collection Stack Location: 3 19 2-5
Finding Aids:
Index to the photographs: Online Catalog.