Barlow family. Papers, 1816-1851.
17 items (1 portfolio)
A small collection relating to two men, both named William Barlow, possibly father and son. Consists of letters, a poem, a notebook of a sermon and a draft of an address to the American Institute in Washington, D.C. by Rev. William Barlow, correspondence from William Barlow the younger to Matilda Richards Barlow, and an undated, unidentified cabinet photograph of two women.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS 41
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy. Papers, 1703-2004, bulk 1870-1910.
6 cubic ft. (11 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Papers of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, Chicago diarist, socialite, and philanthropist, consisting of her diary, correspondence, photographs, and other materials. Also correspondence, writings, photographs and genealogical information concerning to the Spencer, Eddy, Caton, Beveridge and other related families, and an album containing correspondence from participants in the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Beveridge
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Blatchford, E.W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914. Papers, 1836-1914, bulk 1880-1914.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago lead pipe manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library; Religion
Call Number: Archives 02/15/01 (formerly Bl)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Blatchford family. Papers, 1830-1990.
96 cubic ft.
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss, Lord, Fowler, and Alberts. Among the many gems in this massive and wonderful collection are letters to Mary Williams Blatchford while she attended Yale as a special student (1854-1855), Civil War letters of E. W. Blatchford (Chicago Sanitary Commission) and his uncle Edward Williams (U.S. Christian Commission work at military hospitals), courtship, post-marriage, parent-child, and travel correspondence of succeeding generations, scrapbooks and correspondence re World War I military hospitals in Europe, and correspondence, photographs, reports, and pamphlets regarding the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the Middle East.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Newberry Library; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 8-10; 3a 56 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Blatchford family. Papers - Additions, 1835-1948.
0.5 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Small collection of papers mainly of Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford and Edward Williams Blatchford, pertaining primarily to the opening and administration of the John Crerar Library (1897-1910) and the history and operation (1916-1918) of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Also pre-Civil War materials of John Blatchford and Eliphalet Wickes, and few later items from Paul Blatchford.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
16 cubic ft.
Mainly scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings from national and international newspapers, but also correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating to John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Church (later Christian Catholic Apostolic Church) and his establishment of the Christian utopian city of Zion, on Lake Michigan near the northern border of Illinois.
Subjects: Social Action; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Zion
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Deane family. Papers, 1779-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, sermons, deeds, wills, and estate inventories of three generations of the Deane family of Connecticut and Illinois, including many letters from Lucretia Dean Gore, whose husband was a Congregational minister near Peoria, and her daughter, Mary Gore Richardson, who by 1893 was in Chicago. Topics include religion, illness and death, life in LaMoille, Illinois, family news, etc. Also letters of young cousin-friends Lucretia Mason Dean and Lucy Bond, 1802-1809, regarding courtship and other issues.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Deane
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Everett family. Papers, 1820-1930, bulk 1850-1890.
9 cubic ft.
The majority of this collection is family correspondence dated between 1850 and 1890. The collection covers several important movements in nineteenth century America, including the revivals of the second Great Awakening, abolition, temperance, women's rights, rights of African-Americans, and moral reform. Printing, education, immigration, and religion are all discussed within the papers. Papers include materials of Robert Everett, the pastor of a Utica, N.Y., Welch Congregationalist church and publisher of a Welsh religious reform magazine that was pro-abolition. Also included are letters and materials of Mary Howell, a graduate of New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, who was involved in the suffrage movement, and Cynthia Everett, a member of the American Missionary Association who taught freedmen in Norfolk, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina following the Civil War. Includes a letter describing the Chicago Fire of 1871.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Everett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
First Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1833-1999.
90 cubic ft.
Parish records, church bulletins and programs, business records, artifacts (including missionary artifacts), etc., of this church founded at Fort Dearborn in 1833 and now in Woodlawn. The congregation has included many prominent Chicago families such as the Shedds, Buckinghams, and Fields, and became one of the first racially integrated congregations in Chicago, in 1953.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS First Presbyterian
Collection Stack Location: 3a Link; 3a 23 8-11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Goodwin, Paul. Goodwin family papers, 1802-1913.
0.5 cubic feet (1 box)
Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodwin
Collection Stack Location 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harris, Sidney Justin. Papers, 1933-1987, bulk 1975-1985.
17 cubic ft.
Syndicated Chicago Daily News columnist who later appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times editorial pages. Harris wrote the popular daily column, "Strictly Personal," where he used his background in philosophy and research to write about the contemporary world, human behavior, religion, hypocrisy, and artistic endeavor in an intellectual, yet folksy manner. Harris' papers include numerous letters from his readers, lectures, copies of his columns, and research materials on various topics.
Subjects: Journalism; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 2
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Heath, Charles Andrews. Papers, 1880-1949.
0.2 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes typed excerpts from the diaries, 1880-1949, of Charles Andrews Heath, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Congress of Religions, the Galveston flood, and several wars. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, and a photograph of Heath.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Heath
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Letters, 1790-1822.
7 items (7 folders).
Outgoing letters of John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckwelder, missionary of the Moravian Church to the Indians of Ohio and Pennsylvania during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 378
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Howe-Barnard family. Papers, 1812-1980, bulk 1848-1950.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, writings, diaries, etc., covering over 150 years of family life in New England, Illinois, and Indiana. The bulk of the material centers around Alice Lucretia Barnard (1829-1908), one of the first woman principals in Chicago schools, Edward Gardiner Howe (1849-1931), a pioneer in incorporating field trips into scientific education classes, and Annie Lyon Howe (1852-1943), a missionary and educator in Japan for over forty years and founder of Christian kindergartens there. Also the Civil War letters of six family members.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Howe-Barnard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 10-11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
LeMoyne, John V., 1828-1918. Papers, 1851-1875, bulk 1852-1889.
ca. 175 items (2 boxes)
Mainly incoming letters to Chicago lawyer and Congressman, John V. LeMoyne, from his Washington, Pennsyvania family, including his abolitionist father. Many of the letters caution against real estate speculation and reveal strong religious beliefts.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS LeMoyne
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949. Papers, 1863-1954.
20 cubic ft.
Correspondence, work manuscripts, and family memorabilia of Lloyd Lewis, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, 1930-1945. After 1945 Lewis focused on writing historical biography and defining and creating the Newberry Library's Midwest Manuscript Collection. Correspondents include Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Sinclair Lewis, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others. Material documenting Quaker life in 19th-century Indiana is also present.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis (formerly Le)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11-12; 3a 30 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Article: The Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 4 (July 1950), p. 111-113 and p. 114-120.
Inventory: Online.
MacLean family. Papers, 1898-1954.
4 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Extensive correspondence between Pearl Emma Harris MacClean, M. Haddon MacLean, a Harris Bank executive, their children, and members of their extended family, which details the life and travels of a wealthy Chicago family mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. Also includes courtship letters and honeymoon papers, a cashbook and notebook kept by Pearl Harris as a child, photographs, M. Haddon MacLean's correspondence regarding personal financial affairs, the Harris Bank, and religion (with Rev. Ernest F. Tittle of Evanston), and some Harris family documents.
Subjects: Business; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS MacLean
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938. Papers, 1820-1975, bulk 1866-1940.
34 cubic ft.
Ordained minister, who founded and ran the Chicago Commons social settlement and founded the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (incorporated into the University of Chicago in 1920), who was a professor of social economics at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. Taylor's papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, works, diaries and other material relating to his activities, and include much information relating to Chicago civic organizations and social reformers in the areas of housing, child welfare, labor and education, as well as numerous printed pamphlets and other documents produced by them.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Journalism; Religion; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Taylor (formerly Ta)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 3-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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; Religion
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Weltfish
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
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, 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.
Zion City (Il.) - SEE Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
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