Abelson, Hope. Papers, 1952-2006.
32 cubic ft. (32 boxes)
Papers of Hope Abelson, whose half-century career included producing plays on Broadway, supporting and nurturing Chicago theaters both large and small, helping to establish the League of Chicago Theatres, forming a United States support group for Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and funding an artist-in-residence program at Northwestern University. Includes correspondence, production notes, scripts, royalty notices, tribute books, scrapbooks, recorded interviews, photographs, posters, awards, and artifacts. Also includes photographs, brochures, and other souvenirs from Abelson's extensive international travel.
Subjects: Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Abelson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Alexander, Irene. Papers, 1960-1980.
1 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials related to Irene Alexander. Alexander, a Chicago piano teacher, who was the deputy for Chicago cultural affairs under Mayor Richard M. Daley and was associated with Louis Sudler when he ran the television project "Artists' Showcase".
Subjects: Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Alexander
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Allard, Edith, 1927-. Papers, 1955-1991.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago-schooled ballet dancer who studied with Ann Barzel and others, and danced with the Ruth Page Chicago Opera Ballet, the Markova-Dolin Company, Theatre du Chatelet, Royal Swedish Ballet, and other companies. Letters, postcards, telegrams, contracts and schedules, clippings, photographs and programs of dance performances in Israel and Sweden, two art prints and a small collection of medals.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Allard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Ashbaugh, Carolyn. Lucy Parsons research papers, ca. 1970-1976.
3.5 cubic ft.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ashbaugh
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Atwater, Adeline Lobdell. Papers, 1932-1956.
1 cubic foot (2 boxes)
Literary manuscripts, autobiography and diary of Adeline Lobdell Atwater, Chicago writer. In her autobiography, Atwater writes about the Iroquois Theater Fire, birth control, divorce and her children's education in the Montessori Method. She also writes about her ten years in New York working at art galleries.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Atwater (formerly At)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Badger, Elvira Sheridan. Papers, 1859-ca. 1930, bulk 1859-1878.
1 cubic ft.
Three personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1878. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky regarding the approach of the Civil War, relations with and freeing of the family's slaves, and news of the war are also noted.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Badger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bannon, Laura. Collection of illustrations for children's books, 1939-1958.
1.5 cubic ft.
Chicago children's book illustrator and author. Original artwork for 7 books published by Houghton Mifflin, Albert Whitman & Company, etc.; included are charcoal sketches, pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, and color illustrations.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Bannon
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Barnes, Bessie. Papers, 1918-1992.
3 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
Photographs, newspaper reviews and miscellaneous personal items relating to Bessie Barnes, producer of nightclub theatrical reviews in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920's and 1930's.
Subjects: Dance; Theater; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barnes
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barzel, Ann. Papers, 1912-2005.
36 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian (and former dancer) Ann Barzel. Most of her articles and essays deal with dance-related happenings in Chicago, and were written for various Chicago newspapers, Dance Magazine, and other periodicals.
Subjects: Dance; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Barzel
Collection Stack Location: 3a 46 4-6
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
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.
Baum, Edna Lucile. Papers, 1890-1981.
3 cubic ft.
Material relating to Chicago dance teacher and author Edna Lucile Baum, which includes incoming correspondence, writings, photographs, programs, dance notations and other miscellaneous printed items, scrapbooks and notebooks.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Baum
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Baur, Bertha Duppler. Diaries and appointment books, 1898-1939.
1 cubic ft.
Diaries (partly in shorthand) and appointment books of Bertha Duppler Baur, Chicago businesswoman, suffragette, lawyer, and politician. Business school and law school graduate, Bertha Duppler came to Chicago at age 17 as a stenographer and wielded considerable political power as the personal secretary to three postmasters. In 1909 she married millionaire Jacob Baur, founder of the Liquid Carbonic Corporation, and was actively involved in the management of the company after his 1912 death. Active in politics, Baur lobbied for women's suffrage, ran in a close race for Congress in 1926, and for 28 years was a Republican National Committewoman from Illinois.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Baur
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956. Papers, 1910-1967, bulk 1920-1955.
19.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, works in manuscript and print, and other papers of Carroll Binder, who served as labor reporter, war correspondent, foreign correspondent, publisher's assistant, editorial writer, and foreign service editor at the Chicago Daily News, and as editorial editor at the Minneapolis Star and the morning and Sunday Tribune. Also included: material on leftist organizations including the Workers Party of America and I.W.W., family correspondence, chiefly of Binder's wife, Dorothy (Wilton) Binder, and some genealogical information.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Binder (formerly Bi)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 9-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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.
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers, 1869-1981.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of the Zeislers and a few celebrities; and nine artifacts.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Zeisler (formerly Ze)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Borroff, Edith, 1925-. Papers, 1940-1990.
40 cubic ft.
Writings, musical compositions, correspondence, research materials, and lectures of Edith Borroff, musicologist and composer. A teacher at a number of colleges and universities, Borroff researched music education, American music, French chamber music, and contemporary music. The collection also includes artifacts and memorabilia, genealogical information, photographs, and miscellanea.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Borroff
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 6-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966. Papers, 1903-1966.
15 cubic ft.
Personal and literary papers (correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks) of Chicago lawyer, jurist, civic leader and poet Augustine Bowe, documenting his active involvement with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and Loyola University, and the family and philanthropic activities of Bowe and his wife, Julia.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bowe (formerly Bo)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3-4
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards for selected correspondents: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Boyce-Gilbert family. Papers, 1831-1996.
0.3 cubic ft.
Copies of LeRoy Boyce journal, Simeon Leonard Boyce journal, Elisabeth B. Gilbert journal, and "The Gilbert Genealogy" by Leonard B. Gilbert, 1996. Also photographic copy of Helen Boyce's dollhouse book, ca. 1899.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Boyce
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bradley, Katharine Shedd. Papers, 1908-1982.
0.5 cubic ft.
Fifteen line-a-day diaries of a Midwestern woman, 1908-1982.
Subjects: Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bradley (formerly Bra)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Brown, Genevieve. Genevieve and Grace Brown papers, 1918-1930.
1 cubic ft.
Photographs, programs, postcards, letters home, scrapbook, and travel souvenirs from around the world of two sisters who were "all girl" band members during the 1920's. Genevieve and Grace Brown performed with Harry Waiman and His Debutantes and with The Ingenues, "Girl's Orchestra of 20 College Beauties," which became a feature of Ziegfield's Follies in 1927. Also a 1918 World War I diary and letter home of Corporal McA Brown who served with the American Expeditionary Force in the trenches in France.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown G
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bunch, Alma L. Papers, 1860-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bunch
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987. Papers, 1830-1984, bulk 1910-1984.
25 cubic ft. (56 boxes)
Chief literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, writer of a widely-read column, "The Literary Spotlight," and bookstore owner. Butcher's papers include letters and photographs of numerous literary figures including H.L. Mencken, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, James Thurber, and Willa Cather, and a significant amount of correspondence with Arthur Meeker. Also notes for and clippings of her reviews and articles, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Butcher (formerly Bu and Bk)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 5-6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Calhoun, Lucy Monroe, 1865-1950. Papers, 1909-1922 or 1923.
0.1 cubic ft. (3 folders)
Six letters by Lucy Monroe Calhoun and three by her husband, William J. Calhoun (U.S. Minister to China, 1909-1913), regarding their experiences in China during the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which includes a description of the December, 1922, wedding of Emperor Puyi. Another letter relates Monroe’s visit to Le Mans, France, the American Red Cross embarkation camp at the end of World War I. Also, a newspaper clipping and a photograph of Emperor Puyi as a child.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 126
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
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.
Carrier, Gertrude Lueneburg, 1902-1991. Papers, 1921-1991.
6.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Chicago calligrapher, illuminator and designer who worked for the Scriptorium of Coella Lindsay Ricketts and later for the studio of Milan Bulovic, but was for most of her career a free-lancer. The papers consist largely of sketches and correspondence relating to free-lance work, some personal correspondence, student notes and projects, and a few artifacts.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Carr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Cartwright Family. Papers, 1877-1982.
1.5 cubic ft.
Three generations of an Ohio family that moved to Evanston, Ill., in the early 20th century and whose members were primarily journalists, including Charles Merritt Cartwright (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Inter-Ocean editor), Stanley Levering Cartwright (Chicago Tribune reporter and editor of the National Underwriter), and Ruth Russell, Stanley's wife (feature editor for the Chicago Daily News). Papers include biographical information, correspondence, photographs, clippings of Charles Merritt Cartwright's articles for the Inter-Ocean, and articles written by Ruth and Stanley Levering Cartwright.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cartwright
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cassidy, Claudia. Papers, ca. 1880-1996, bulk 1930-1985.
16 cubic ft. (42 boxes)
Articles and reviews, correspondence, broadcast scripts, photographs, and clippings of the Chicago Tribune performing arts critic from 1942 to 1965. Cassidy wrote her influential "On the Aisle" column for the Tribune, then wrote freelance criticism and hosted a weekly program of arts criticism for WFMT, helping to shape the course of music, theater, and dance in Chicago.
Subjects: Dance; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cassidy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cather, Willa - SEE Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
Cather, Willa - SEE Weisz, Irene Miner. Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers, 1912-1958.
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902. Papers, 1865-1945.
1 cubic ft.
Midwestern writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Catherwood's papers include mostly out-going correspondence, manuscript and published writings, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs and some miscellaneous material relating her life and career.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Catherwood (formerly Ca)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1876-1987.
0.7 cubic ft.
Chicago philanthropic and social organization formed in 1876. Members have included Jane Addams, Helen S. Shedd, and Bertha Palmer. Collection includes a guest book and donor's book, both leather bound, gilded and inset with semiprecious stone, and Annals of the Club volume 2.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Woman's
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 31 5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Clark, Margaret E., 1893-1990. Papers, 1933-1990.
.5 cubic ft.
Newberry cataloguer, primarily in music, 1930-1960. Clark's papers consist of notes outlining her daily routine, correspondence with Newberry colleagues, church and music programs, and a brochure of the 1933 Century of Progress.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 12/15/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Contemporary Club. Records, 1950-1990.
9 cubic ft.
Formed to preserve and promote a progressive interest in literature, art and contemporary thought, the Contemporary Club was the result of the merging of two Chicago woman's clubs: The Wednesday Club and the Young Fortnightly. The collection consists of treasurer's reports, meeting minutes and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Contemporary
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2-3
Finding Aids:
Authors of letters and documents, and subjects of photographs: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Cordon Club. Records, 1917-1943.
0.1 cubic ft.
Five printed announcements of club events folder removed from the Fitzsimmons Co. records. Club members included Anna Burmeister, Fanny Butcher, Margery Currey, Rose DuMoulin, Lola Fletcher, Alice Gersenberg, Alice Roullier, Berta Ochsne, and Eunice Tietjens.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 131
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Cox-Allen family. Papers, 1862-1865.
1 cubic ft.
Courtship letters between Gideon Winan Allen, a student at Madison, Wisc., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and Annie Cox of Madison. Allen was a Copperhead Democrat; his letters contain a student's views on the war and politics.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cox-Allen (formerly Cox)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Cummings, Marion, 1876-1926. Papers, 1900-1956.
1.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Marion Cummings, teacher, philosopher and poet, which include both her works and a collection of letters and works of American poet Sara Teasdale.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cummings (formerly Cu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Daland, Emily Eliot. Papers, 1916-1933.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters of Emily Eliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, regarding her daughter Pauline Gerard's small estate, of which Daland was guardian. Topics in the letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also family photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 155
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
D'Amato, Barbara. Papers, 2001-2004.
2.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Chicago suspense novel author and winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Prize and Carl Sandburg Award. Includes working drafts and printed copy of D'Amato's 2004 novel, Death of a Thousand Cuts.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS D'Amato
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection Available by appointment only.
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.
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879. Papers, 1867-1878.
49 items (1 box).
Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3057
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956. Papers, 1810-1988.
39 cubic ft.
Illinois attorney, journalist, literary agent, poet, and patron to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Robert McAlmon. Dawson's papers include his works and correspondence, as well as diaries, correspondence, photographs, memoirs, etc., of George E. Dawson, and other members of the Dawson, Manierre, and Hahn families.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 4-5
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.
Debo, Angie, 1890-1988. Correspondence, 1975-1985.
19 items (1 box).
A noted Oklahoma Indian historian and advocate of Indian rights; this collection contains personal letters with friends Theodore W. and Louann Van Zelst, correspondence (1985) between the Van Zelsts and Gov. Nigh of Oklahoma regarding a Debo tribute, and copies of two printed pieces concerning Debo and the Pima Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Debo
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Djalaal. Papers, 1974-1997.
0.5 cubic ft.
Djalaal, born J.L. Williams in Chicago, earned a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies at Governors State University. Having studied every aspect of dance, including exotic dance with pioneer Chicago teacher Virginia Davran, Djalaal became a specialist in North African and Middle Eastern Dances. She founded a dance company, "Djalaal and the Women of the Veil", and a women's drum circle, "Heartbeat." Collection includes biographical materials, brochures, clippings, photographs, programs, and other publicity, and some writings.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Djalaal
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Donaldson, Virginia. Papers, ca. 1930-1996.
32 cubic ft.
Virginia Donaldson was the press agent for the New York City Ballet from 1966 to 1982 and also worked in publicity for Chicago area arts organizations. Her papers include programs, souvenir books, publicity, and working files of various dance companies and festivals all over the United States.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Donaldson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 7-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dow, Dorothy, 1897-1989. Dorothy Dow - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1920-1950.
112 items.
Chicago poet who in 1920 began a lifelong friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, the Illinois-born poet, novelist, and biographer best known for his Spoon River Anthology. Dow's papers consist almost entirely of Masters' letters to her, 1920-1947, interfiled with typescripts of poems by Masters and newspaper clippings; also a long reminiscence of Masters by Dow, and copies of two portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Drury, John, 1898-. John Drury - Marion Neville papers, 1860-1970.
30 cubic ft.
Personal and business correspondence and writings of John Drury and his wife, Marion Neville. Drury was a feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Daily News from 1926 to 1944, poet, and author of many books about Chicago; Neville was a Chicago Daily News columnist, author of children's books, and artist. Also includes Drury's work files, Neville's art and photographs, and Century of Progress memorabilia. Note: Tapes and transcripts for Drury's interviews are in the Chicago Daily News records.
Subjects: Arts; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Drury (formerly Dr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dufau, Jenny. Papers, 1913-1917.
0.2 cubic ft.
Love letters written during World War I from an Italian in Florence, Italy, to French opera singer Jenny Dufau living in Chicago. Also, brief correspondence concerning Dufau's passport, a note from a New York opera company, and three photographs of musicians.
Subjects: Music, Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dufau
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Durkee, Cara Dana. Papers, 1855-1934, bulk 1913-1934.
0.5 cubic ft.
Newberry Library Public Services Division senior assistant, 1895-1931. Durkee's papers consist of lists, reports and translations created during her employment at the Newberry; sketches, notes, cards, poems and articles by fellow employees and friends (Mary L. Watson and Edith Franklin Wyatt, etc.); and a Durkee family letterpress copybook, 1855-1934.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 11/15/02 (formerly NL Du)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 11 16
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Eaman, Joan. (i.e., Stone, Joan Ehemann, 1934-1991). Memorabilia, 1943-1992.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the life and career of ballet dancer Joan Ehemann Stone
which includes a youthful diary, photographs, clippings and other memorabilia. All items, with the exception of three photographs, are photocopies.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Stone J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Endicott family. Papers, 1868-1994.
7.5 cubic ft.
Letters, photographs, and printed memorabilia of a downstate Illinois family with ties to New Castle and Richmond, Indiana, and Benton, Kansas. Additional family names include Redden, Gould, Smith, Dodge, and Fergus living in Greenville, Stubblefield, Villa Ridge, Pulaski, and Chicago, Illinois. Letter topics include women's employment and education, farming and hired help, poverty and loneliness, and Bryan's campaign.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Endicott
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Ensemble Español. Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater collection, 1974-2003.
1 cubic ft.
Material collected by Libby Komaiko, founder of the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, relating to her and the dance company. Consists mostly of photographs of Komaiko and other dancers, plus a few clippings, flyers, posters, programs, and miscellaneous pieces. Also, two copies of a videotape entitled "The First 20 Years, 1976-1996".
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ensemble Espanol
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Erkert, Jan. Jan Erkert and Dancers records, 1976-2000.
4 cubic ft.
Jan Erkert founded "Jansdances" in 1979 as a vehicle for her own works. The company evolved to Jan Erkert & Dancers and explored collaboration with other types of artists and dance presentations. Records are mostly audiovisual (video) but also includes awards, clippings, newsletters, and photographs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Erkert
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 6
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.
Fairbank, Janet Ayer, 1878-1951. Scrapbooks, 1913-1935.
3 cubic ft. (3 oversize boxes)
Six scrapbooks of Chicago novelist, suffragette, and socialite Janet Ayer Fairbank, containing mainly newspaper clippings regarding three charity balls, 1913-1915, for the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, and reviews, publicity notices, and bookjackets for Fairbanks' novels, 1922-1935. Also a few letters, photographs, and programs.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fairbank
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Fairbank-Graham family. Papers, 1827-1945.
25 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, photographs, journals, genealogical materials, business correspondence and documents centered around Helen Graham Fairbank and Nathan Kellogg Fairbank of Chicago, their parents and children. Letters and documents document the business activities of Chicago industrialist Fairbank and New York and Maryland industrialist John Andrew Graham, travel to Europe and South America, Eastern schooling, Lake Geneva summers, and civic activities including the Chicago Symphony, and Chicago clubs. The Carpenter and Beeckman families are also represented.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fairbank-Graham
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 14; 3a 57 1
Finding Aids:
Partial inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Farnsworth, Edith. Papers, 1900-1977.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and Italian poetry translations of Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago physician and owner of a Plano, Illinois, home designed by Mies van der Rohe. Farnsworth retired to Italy in the late 1960's.
Subjects: Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Farnsworth
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967. Memorabilia, 1902-1962.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, postcards, and clippings documenting the friendship of Farrar with Mrs. Theodore (Pauline) Moritz. Farrar was a soprano for American Metropolitan Opera, famous for her beauty and clear vocal tone; she also starred in three motion pictures. The printed "Photo-Drama Edition" of one of these, Carmen, has been removed from this collection and separately cataloged.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 132
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Fischer, Irwin, 1903-1977. Papers, 1928-1976.
28 cubic ft.
Manuscript music and writings, correspondence, recordings, clippings, programs, and correspondence of this Chicago composer, conductor, and organist. Fischer was organist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other institutions and composed songs, orchestral works, and a variety of other formats. The collection includes a great deal of correspondence with Edith Borroff, and also contains scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, and memorabilia.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fischer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 13-14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Fornell, Grace, 1904-1982. Papers, 1931-1982.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes, 1 volume)
Wisconsin-born editor and writer, mainly of plays, who attended Yaddo twice on scholarships, and the script writers' workshop of the American Theatre Wing. Includes correspondence with writer Mark Schorer, Princeton University Press editor Datus Smith, many playscripts, a study of her Wisconsin Swedish immigrant ancestor, Nils Fornell, and a few photographs.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fornell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Fortnightly of Chicago (Organization). Records, 1869-2006.
17 cubic ft.
Abstract: Club founded in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett and the oldest women's association in the city. Records include historical material, meeting minutes (restricted), scrapbooks, notices, memorials, members' and guests' papers, photographs, yearbooks, and by-laws.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fortnightly (formerly Fo)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 10-11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
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.
French, Alice - SEE Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934. Alice French papers, 1871-1934.
Friday Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1880-ongoing.
18 cubic ft.
Abstract: Minutes, financial records, yearbooks, correspondence, membership information and papers written by members of this women's club devoted to literary and artistic culture. The club has met in Chicago's Gold Coast area for most of its existence.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Friday (formerly Fri)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 9-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Gehr, Mary. Papers, 1828-1995, bulk 1948-1995.
4 cubic ft.
Sketchbooks, artwork and correspondence of Gehr, a Chicago printmaker and book illustrator best known for her illustrations of children's books.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Gehr
Collection Stack Location: 3a 53 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Gerstenberg, Alice. Papers, 1903-1971.
3.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater. She was one of the original members of Maurice Browne's Chicago Little Theatre, founded in 1912.
Subjects: Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gerstenberg (formerly Ge)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918. Papers, 1910-1919.
19 cubic ft.
Works in manuscript and print, programs, clippings, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Chicago playwright, poet, and leader of the "little theater" movement in the early 20th century. The Goodman Theatre was built in his memory, after his early death. The collection also includes material from other members of his family (including journals and photographs).
Subjects: Family; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3-4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Gookin family. Papers, 1864-1922.
3 cubic ft. (6 boxes)
Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Mrs. Gookin was away. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elizabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Subjects: Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gookin family (formerly Go)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-. Elliott Gorn - Mother Jones research papers, ca. 1890-2001.
7 cubic ft. (7 boxes and 1 poster)
Papers collected in the course of research for Elliott Gorn's book Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America (2001) and manuscripts. Includes photocopies of articles, books, dissertations, and other materials. Subjects include biographical information on Mother Jones, the union movement, radicalism, socialism, mining and other trades.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gorn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Grimmer, Margot. Papers, 1956-1984.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Grimmer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Gurko, Miriam. Miriam Gurko - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1968.
2 cubic ft.
Independent researcher and author of biographies and histories, who met and became friends with Floyd Dell while researching for a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Papers are comprised mainly of letters from Dell to Gurko, 1960-1968, concerning Millay. Also Dell's recollections of Millay, and Gurko's research notes and drafts.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gurko-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hadley, Henry Kimball, 1871-1937. Hadley-Barbour family papers, 1919-1938.
0.1 cubic ft.
Programs and press releases related to the careers of Hadley and his wife, Inez Barbour. Hadley was a composer and conductor, leading orchestras in Seattle and New York; he also formed and led the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Manhattan Symphony Orchestra and was a worldwide activist for American music. Barbour was a well-known soprano who often performed Hadley's compositions.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 133
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Hager, Mina. Papers, 1892-1977, bulk 1920-1970.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript music, recordings, and memorabilia of this concert singer. Hager, a mezzo-soprano, sang with the Chicago Opera Company and had a fruitful working relationship with the composer John Alden Carpenter; correspondence between the two, and some of Carpenter's songs in manuscript (or photostat), are present in this collection. The works include an incomplete autobiography. Recordings include reel-to-reel tapes and vinyl records.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hager
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1883-1953. Papers, 1918-1953.
2.5 cubic ft.
Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Mainly personal letters, 1930-1950, to female correspondents including Baroness Alexandra Fredericks, and Sandra, Ludmilla, Sonia, Sophie, and Nadia. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hamill
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3; 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1980-. Kiowa papers, 1935-1968, bulk 1935-1940.
2.5 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, field notes (including sound recordings), and writings of Jane Richardson Hanks, anthropologist who studied the Kiowa and Blackfoot Indians, and later of the people of Thailand. Collection mainly documents her 1935 graduate student work under Alexander Lesser with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Hanks
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harris family. Papers, 1837-1957
21 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, school papers, genealogical material, and memorabilia centering on Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Major families represented include Harris, Gale, Bent, Wingate, and MacLean. Collection includes the daybooks of New Hampshire physician Jonathon Greeley Gale, whaling ship logs, 19th century letters from the Bent family on the Iowa frontier, the courtship and husband/wife correspondence of Emma Gale Harris and Norman Wait Harris, and Stanley Gale Harris and Muriel Bent Harris, and letters of Dorothy Bent Lane written from various foreign embassies, 1917-1950. There are also student papers and correspondence, diaries, and many photographs of family members, Yosemite in 1900, and Lake Geneva, 1910-1915.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 2-3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953. Papers, 1637-1953, bulk 1840-1950.
11.25 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to five-time Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953) and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harrison (formerly Ha)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog and NUCMC (80-159).
Inventory: Online.
Hayden, Hannah. Letters, 1806-1866.
0.1 cubic ft.
Mainly letters written by Hannah Hayden from Hartford and Springfield, N.Y., to her parents and siblings in Windsor, Connecticut, discussing the details of everyday life: birth, death, accidents, sickness, meetings. Hayden and her husband had twelve children between 1803 and 1822, and ran sawmills in both New York towns.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 136
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Papers, 1879-1983.
94 cubic ft.
Chicago Daily Record and Chicago Daily News journalist, and active participant in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. Hecht continued his career in New York and California as a journalist, novelist, and playwright, and was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter and Jewish activist. His papers consist of correspondence, works, subject files, legal and financial materials, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting his life and literary output, as well as the lives and careers of his wife Rose, and his actress daughter Jenny.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hecht (formerly He)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1; 3a 40 1-5; 3a 59 13-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hild, Dorothy. Papers, 1907-1983.
42 cubic ft.
Former choreographer and director of entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Papers include sheet music for dance numbers, correspondence, photographs, clippings, works, and administrative files from her teaching at the Central YMCA College in downtown Chicago.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Hild
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 7-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
0.5 cubic ft.
Indiana collector of books and manuscripts, particularly of explorations of the Middle West and the works of Mary Webb and Willa Cather. Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers, experts, and friends of Willa Cather relating to Hitz's search for information about Willa Cather and for first editions of her work. Also a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence (including twelve original Cather letters) and biographical, bibliographical, and critical notes.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hitz-Cather (formerly C2)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Howell, Elizabeth Bowen. Journals, 1806-1833.
5 volumes
Writing books and manuscript commonplace books written by Elizabeth Howell in Boston, between 1806 and 1833.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing MS ZW 883 .H859
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 3
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.
Huebert, Diana, 1899-1983. Papers, 1916-1983.
2 cubic ft.
Material collected by dancer Diana Huebert (Mrs. Abel Faidy), the bulk consisting of programs and photographs of herself and other dancers. Also includes some articles she wrote or saved, including an autobiographical sketch, choreographic notes, and miscellaneous material relating to her husband, architect and designer Abel Faidy.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Huebert
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hurd, Ann Augusta Jaquins. Hurd-Arno family correspondence, 1834-1921.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of a Wisconsin family mainly written by Mary Olivia Hurd Arno to her mother, Ann Augusta Hurd, 1886-1897, concerning domestic matters, pioneer settlement and land speculation in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakota Territory, and the financial hard times of the 1890's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hurd-Arno (formerly Hur)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Isham family. Papers, 1875-1923.
0.2 cubic ft.
Typescript letters and photographs of the Isham family of Chicago, including Dr. Ralph N. Isham, Katherine Isham (Mrs. Ralph W. Farwell), Harriet Isham (Mrs. George A. Carpenter), George Snow Isham, Nelson R. Isham, and also Charles N. Isham of Little Falls, N.Y. In addition to family portraits, there is a photograph of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Isham was surgeon in charge. Correspondence discusses the practice of medicine, travel in Russia in 1883, and an 1875 boat accident on Lake Michigan.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 102
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960. Papers, 1800-1963.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson. There is World War I correspondence with Judson's mother, his wife-to-be, the artist Sylvia Shaw, his father, William Voorhees Judson, and son, Clay Judson Jr. Also speeches and articles relating to Judson's law practice and his active involvement with the America First Committee and the Brookfield Zoo; photographs of family and of France and Germany during World War; and materials relating to family genealogy.
Subjects: Family, Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson C
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Justus, Ruth. Papers, 1958-1970.
0.3 cubic ft.
Calligrapher who taught at the Minneapolis School of Art. Collection includes news clippings, classroom materials, and incoming correspondence with other calligraphers.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Just
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 7
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Kehl School of Dance. Records, ca. 1940-ca. 1990.
72 cubic ft.
This Madison, Wisconsin dance school was founded by dancer Frederick W. Kehl in 1880. Kehl's Dancing Academy introduced thousands to the art of dance throughout Wisconsin, and the school is currently in its 4th generation of dancers and dance teachers from the Kehl family. Records include costume looseleaf notebooks, dance routines, music and programs, photographs, and audio material.
Subjects: Business; Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kehl
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 5-9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kendall, Nathan R. Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers, 1842-ca. 1940 (bulk 1842-1911).
4 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern overland travel to California begun in 1849.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall-Reed (formerly Ayer MS 470a and Ayer MS 3114).
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kilbourn, Ruth. Memorabilia, ca. 1947-1949.
0.5 cubic ft.
Kilbourn was a member of the Chicago Opera Ballet, studying under Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, Adolph Bolm, Michel Fokine, and others, and taught dance in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Collection includes photographs, programs and class announcements, a pair of pointe shoes, and memorabilia.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kilbourn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kitchell, Iva, 1908-1983. Papers, 1926-1984, bulk 1926-1958.
2 cubic ft.
Iva Kitchell (married name Webster) was born around 1908 and joined a touring vaudeville group at the age of 13. Later she joined the Chicago Opera Ballet, continuing to dance until the age of 50, after which she taught in her Long Island, NY studio. Kitchell's scrapbooks document her dancing career, especially of her European tours and concerts.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Kitchell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Koesun, Ruth. Papers, 1934-1977.
6 cubic ft.
Ruth Ann Koesun was born in Chicago and studied dance with Chicago teachers Edna Lucile Baum and Bentley Stone and Walter Camryn. She joined American Ballet Theatre in 1946, and retired as principal dancer in 1986. Papers include programs, publicity, and films highlighting Koesun's dance career.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Koesun
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Krassner School of Theatre Arts. Records, 1906-1997.
3 cubic ft.
Materials relating to the Krassner family and the Krassner School of Theater Arts, founded in Chicago in 1924, and continuing in Illinois and Hollywood, California, until 1978. Consists of clippings, publicity, programs, scripts, a few letters, and many photographs. Includes a short history of the family and schools by Paul J. Hartman, son of Blossom Krassner, one of the most active of the Krassner sisters.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Krassner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lang, Joyce. Papers, 1940-2003.
0.5 cubic ft.
Joyce Petrik Lang, Chicago dancer and daughter of a dancer, studied under many famous Chicago dance teachers and was on the faculty of the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, serving as regional director. She opened her first studio in 1956, teaching in Naperville for 22 years and in Brookfield for 17 years. Her collection includes clippings, information about Chicago-area dance companies, correspondence, photographs, and programs.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lang
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
La Rayne School of Dancing. Memorabilia, 1930-1947.
1 cubic ft.
Published and mimeographed ballet, tap and novelty dance routines, probably belonging to the LaRayne School of Dancing and/or choreographers and teachers Marion Freeman, Jack Manning and the Del-Wrights. Includes catalogs for the yearly conventions of the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters, 1930-1936, and for summer sessions at the Chicago Teachers College, 1939-1947. Also, the script for a children's musical play.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS LaRayne
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Papers, 1885-1982.
6.5 cubic ft.
American journalist and humorist author of short stories, plays, and song lyrics, who began his career as a sports reporter and wrote for a number of Chicago newspapers. Lardner's papers include courtship correspondence, letters (1907-1910) from Lardner to his Niles, Mich., friend, Wilma A. Johnson, and letters to the Lardner children and Abbott family members. Also correspondence from magazine editors and friends, copies of published short stories; typescripts of plays, song lyrics, and unpublished musical comedies, photographs, and newsclippings.
Subjects: Literature; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lardner (formerly Lar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lee, Agnes, 1868-1939. Agnes Lee - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1919-1933.
37 items (1 box)
Published and prize-winning Chicago poet associated with Harriet Monroe and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Mainly letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Lee, discussing Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Clarence Darrow, and Vachel Lindsay, and the possibilities for literature in Chicago. Also two poems.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lee
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Lewandowski Dance School. Records, 1940-1990.
18 cubic ft.
Archives of the family dance studio, found by Evelyn Zwiefka and carried on by her niece, Diane Lewandowski, along with memorabilia concerning dance activities in Chicago, including programs within the Chicago Park District, and dance activities at several Chicago public high schools. A feature of the collection is its emphasis on ethnic, particularly Polish, music and dance.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Lewandowski
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lewis, Louise E. (Louise Evangeline), 1895-1986. Papers, 1809-1974.
8 cubic ft.
Chicago teacher, 1913-1915, statistician, 1918-1922, advertising writer and executive, 1923-1947, who received her Ph.B. from the University of Chicago and was the sister of Chicago historian and journalist Lloyd Lewis. Lewis' papers include family documents, extensive correspondence and research notes regarding Lewis family history, and her financial records.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis Louise
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
MacDonald, Hazel. Papers, 1928-1967.
1.5 cubic ft.
Chicago-based journalist and foreign correspondent in Europe during World War II, MacDonald had a brief career as a Hollywood screenwriter but later moved back to her native Chicago to work for the Chicago American.. She was married to fellow foreign correspondent Robert J. Casey from 1946 until Casey's death in 1962. This collection consists of a small amount of correspondence, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, foreign dispatches, and other works.
Subjects: Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS MacDonald
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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.
Madlener, Elaine. Papers, 1944-1965.
1.5 cubic ft.
Research materials for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Madlener (nee Wetmore), wife of Otto Madlener, was instrumental in bringing von Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic to Chicago for concerts benefiting Grant Hospital in 1955 and 1965. She was also an enthusiastic collector of autographs and books and manuscripts of the British novelist Charles Morgan. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, autographs, and manuscript and printed works (both of Madlener and of Charles Morgan). Correspondents include von Karajan, Roger Dettmer, Andre Mittoni, Adlai Stevenson, and many authors and notable personalities.
Subjects: Literature; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Madlener (formerly Mad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
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.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Papers, 1903-1942.
3.5 cubic ft.
British short story writer and critic. Mansfield's papers include manuscripts of her works and her letters, the bulk to Dorothy Brett and Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Mansfield (formerly Man)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Papers - Additions, 1910-1938.
0.5 cubic ft.
British short story writer and critic. Additions to Mansfield's papers consist mainly of correspondence, 1921-1934, concerning the handling of her literary estate; also two manuscript works, the poem, To Stanislaw Wyspianski, and a collection of poems, The Earth Child.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Mansfield 2
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
McIlvaine, Caroline Margaret. Papers, 1927-1933.
0.1 cubic ft.
Chicago historian who was librarian of the Chicago Historical Society and an early member of the Newberry Library staff. Included are letters, clippings, writings, and notes relating mainly to Chicago history topics and a study of old Chicago streets and landmarks. There is correspondence with Walter A. Strong and Col. Robert McCormick of the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Tribune regarding historical features in the papers.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 139
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
McLean, Edgar Teamster, d. 1920. Papers, 1859-1868.
0.5 cubic ft.
122nd Illinois Infantry; 2nd and 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Alabama Colored Infantry (later 110th US Colored Infantry). Correspondence, writings, and official military documents of Civil War 1st Lieutenant Edgar McLean, 1859-1868. Includes incoming family correspondence of McLean with his mother, Sarah F. McLean, and other relatives and friends who lived in Jersey and Macoupin counties in Illinois. Also correspondence from McLean's cousin, James S. Jennings, who served with the 137th Indiana Infantry in Tennessee.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10024
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.
McRae, Edna L. Edna McRae School of Dance records, 1915-1980.
24 cubic ft.
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adoph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Her papers include correspondence, clippings, biographical information, programs, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS McRae
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 8-9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Meine, Franklin Julius, 1896-1968. Papers, 1797-1965.
2 cubic ft.
Chicago writer, editor, and book collector whose collections were donated to the University of Illinois campuses in Urbana and Chicago. Meine's papers relate to his preparation for a 50th anniversary talk to the Society of Midland Authors, and include materials by and about Edith Wyatt, John Stahl, and Mary Dickerson Donahey. Also a few 18th and 19th century letters collected by Meine.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Meine (formerly Me)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Papers, 1832-1903.
18 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and DuQuoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putman Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, ICRR business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and records of a private business partnership - the DuQuoin Coal Company. Families represented include Metcalf, Putnam, and Rich.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Metcalf
Collection Stack Location: 3a 32 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Mihopoulos, Effie. Papers, ca. 1975-ongoing.
20 cubic ft.
Chicago-based poet, critic, and cultural commentator. Along with publishing her own literary journal, Salome, Mihopoulos has conducted oral histories with prominent dancers and performers. Her papers consist of her own writings in addition to musical, theatrical, and dance programs, publicity, and photographs.
Subjects: Dance; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Mihopoulos
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Morse-Keith family. Papers, 1804-1933.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860's, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. In 1864 Morse married the sister of Chicago alderman Morgan L. Keith. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Morse-Keith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Newberry, Julia Butler - SEE Slingluff, Jesse, collector. Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.
Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868. Letters, 1833-1838.
19 items
Eighteen letters from businessman Walter L. Newberry to Lucius Lyon, the
Michigan Territory's Delegate to Congress (and later, Michigan's Senator), regarding local and national politics, property values in Chicago and Detroit, the prospects of Michigan statehood, and other issues. Collection also includes a $20 check on the Bank of Michigan, Detroit, dated Oct. 15, 1827, from Lyon to Newberry.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.N422
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Niffenegger, Audrey. Papers, 1990-
1 cubic ft.
Chicago book artist and novelist. Typescript drafts of The Time Traveller’s Wife and other works; related sketches, drawings, correspondence, and ephemera; press clips and other biographical information.
Subjects: Literature; Printing History and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Niffenegger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Nuzum, Ruth. Ruth Nuzum - Malcolm Cowley Research Collection, ca. 1930s-1990s.
9 cubic ft.
Ruth Nuzum was a book collector from Boulder, Colorado. She began corresponding with Malcolm Cowley in 1979, and through the mail became friends with him and his wife Muriel. Collection is primarily photocopies of articles, letters, reviews, and other material by or related to Malcolm Cowley.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Nuzum
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 9
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004. Papers, 1934-1996.
0.2 cubic ft.
Material relating to the career of modern dancer May O'Donnell, consisting of advertising and announcements, articles, reviews, programs and photographs. Also a few miscellaneous items, some of which relate to O'Donnell's husband, musician Ray Green.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS O'Donnell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
O'Hara, John Myers, 1870-1944. Papers, 1908-1943.
1 cubic ft.
Chicago lawyer and stockbroker, and notably a writer of poetry, prose, and literary translations. O'Hara's papers consist of incoming correspondence, 1910-1942, mainly from poet Sara Teasdale, 1908-1914 (263 letters), and manuscript copies of his own works, 1935-1943.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS O'Hara (formerly Oh)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Olson, Christina, b. 1881. Papers, 1891-1918.
1 cubic ft.
Material relating to Chicago dancer Christina Olson, who at the age of twelve performed as a Turkish dancer in the Turkish Theater at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Includes music school diploma, hand-written documents concerning her employment and performances, her marriage certificate and a two photographs. Also, three items relating to the Exposition - a general ticket of admission, her passbook and a program for the Turkish Theater.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Olson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Ott, Bertha. Papers, 1915-1930.
1 cubic ft.
Business papers (including box office records), photographs, correspondence, programs and other materials of this Chicago concert impresario. Ott was secretary to the impresario F. Wight Neumann for 20 years; she continued his work after his death in 1924, managing concerts at the Auditorium, Playhouse, and a variety of other venues. Correspondence primarily regards Neumann's death and Ott's assumption of the job. Season announcements and some sheet music are also present.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ott
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Memorabilia, 1922-1983.
3 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" (1919) and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes a selection of articles by Ruth Page, programs, publicity materials, photographs, films, address card file, and correspondence. Most of these items are duplicates; the originals are at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, New York Public Library.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Memorabilia
Collection Stack Location: 3a 47 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Ruth Page Nutcracker records, 1965-1997.
2.5 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes working files, programs, publicity, and photographs of the productions of the ballet The Nutcracker, which was staged every Christmas season from 1965 to 1997 at the Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago. The production was choreographed and directed by dancer Ruth Page until her death in 1991, when Page's former students Larry Long and Dolores Lipinski took over the production.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Nutcracker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991. Video archives, 1922-1987.
6 cubic ft.
Ruth Page's career in dance spans almost the entire 20th century, beginning with her 1919 role in Adolph Bolm's "Birthday of the Infanta" and culminating in her foundation of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance until her death in 1991. Includes VHS copies, made between 1985 and 1989, of original films of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page, from originals held at the Ruth Page Foundation. Also includes many interviews of dancers who knew and worked with Page, including Frederic Franklin, Dolores Lipinski, Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, and Patricia McBride.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Ruth Page Video
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 7
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de,1952-1921. Papers, 1886-1942.
0.2 cubic ft.
Material by and relating to Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, collected by William Kingery in the course of his research. Includes 7 letters from the condesa to Manual Maria Peralta, autobiographical notes, a bibliography, study-related correspondence, and essays concerning Pardo Bazán. Much of the material is in Spanish.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pardo Bazán
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Paretsky, Sara, 1947-. Papers, 1966-1993.
16 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, publicity, and published books of the author of Chicago-based detective novels featuring V. I. Warshawski, a female private investigator.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Paretsky
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 3-4
Finding Aids:
Summary and partial preliminary inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Parish family. Letters, 1884-1896.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters written mainly by Martha Ellen Luey Parish, the wife of Chicago cabinet hardware manufacturer Charles Pomeroy Parish, to her father in Greenfield, Mass. The letters concern domestic matters and touch upon such community topics as electrification, the bicycling mania, fires and fire insurance, and the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition. There are also several letters discussing an alcoholic brother.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Parish
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Parton, Mary Field. Mary Field Parton - Clarence Darrow papers, 1909-1975.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the friendship between Chicago labor and criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow and social worker and journalist Mary Field Parton, including sixty-one of his letters to her (some with transcriptions), several other letters from Darrow supporters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Also a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, compiled by Parton's daughter, Margaret Parton Hussey.
Subjects: Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Parton (formerly Dar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Pearce, Christopher Gardner, 1811-1882. Papers, 1839-1851.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Mississippi and Ohio River steamboat owner and captain, and resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. Collection consists mainly of correspondence between Pearce and his wife, Jane Ann Sackett Pearce, which includes news of Pearce's river trips and of home and family. Many letters highlight Mrs. Pearce's fear that her husband would be involved in a fire, wreck, or other riverboat disaster.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearce (formerly Pe)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Pearson, Edward Hagelin. Papers, 1899-1973.
0.5 cubic ft.
Writings and research materials of this music historian. Focused on American opera in the early 1900s, the bulk of the collection concerns the soprano Edith Mason, with some material on composer Hamilton Forrest and soprano Mabel Garrison. Research materials include clippings, photographs and illustrations, correspondence, programs, and other documents.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Perkins, Enid Eder, 1896-1973. Papers, 1929-1973.
3 cubic ft.
Original calligraphic works, reproductions, studies and tracings, client records, and correspondence of Perkin's, a free-lance calligrapher and illuminator who worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Most of her professional work consists of testimonials and citations commissioned by J. Walter Thompson, the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, the Pan American Society of the U.S., and New York University.
Subjects: Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Perk
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Peterson, Alma Schmidt. Papers, 1911-1930, bulk 1913-1915.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of Alma Schmidt Peterson of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European and American spas with her grandmother, at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914, and to her husband after her marriage in 1919. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young woman.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Peterson, Zika. Papers, 1940-1990.
1.5 cubic ft.
Treasurer's records of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, and yearbooks, correspondence, yearbooks and other materials of the Fortnightly Club of Chicago, and other miscellaneous Chicago club material.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson Z
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Polish Women's Alliance. Records, 1898-ca. 1979.
80 cubic ft.
Records of a national fraternal organization headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois, for Polish-American women that provided insurance and other financial services for its members. Includes constitutions and bylaws, insurance applications, indexes and rosters, loan records and other materials providing individual genealogical information for Polish-American women.
Subjects: Business; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS PWAA
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 12-14; 4a back right
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rea, Robert Laughlin, (1827-1899). Papers, 1857-1860.
0.1 cubic ft.
Surgeon and teacher associated with Chicago Medical College, College of Physicians, and Rush Medical College (where he held the chair of anatomy for sixteen years). Collection contains correspondence, documents, and court proceedings relating to the emancipation of two female slaves, "Emaline" and "Syrena Oldham."
Subjects: Civil War; Women
Call Number: Vault Case MS H 5836.6438
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Renison, Paula Gerard. Dance sketches, 1938-1939.
0.1 cubic ft.
Sketch pages of dancers, probably made during rehearsals and performances at the Auditorium Theater, 1938-1939. Renison taught at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Renison P
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rich, Charles W., 1808-. Letters, 1853-1854.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters between Charles W. Rich, in DuQuoin, Illinois, and his wife Albina, in Milo, Maine. Letters from Charles detail his work on the Illinois Central Railroad.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Rich (formerly Rij)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Roberts, Dorothy James, 1903-1990. Papers, 1925-1990.
6 cubic ft.
Novelist best known for her retelling of ancient Arthurian, Irish and Icelandic myths in historical romances. Roberts' papers include manuscripts of her works, published novels, notes, correspondence, reviews, etc.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Roberts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886. Diaries, 1830-1886.
7 items (7 volumes)
Descriptions of farm life in Tazewell County, Illinois, including discussions of routine farm activities, farming expenses and property valuations, illnesses and medicinal cures, family births and deaths, local events, and weather conditions. Also trip accounts by Roberts and his wives, descriptions of the technical aspects of making lithographic plates and miscellaneous sketches of Robert's home and towns he visited in Illinois.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3157
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Robuck, Lola Carter. Papers, ca. 1930-1970.
1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia of a Chicago pianist and poet. Robuck was active in many arts clubs in Chicago and, later, in Los Angeles, including the Chicago Musical Arts Club (which she founded), the Chicago Women's Club, the Poets Forum, the Women's Club of Hollywood, and others. Programs, documents, and correspondence regarding these organizations are included in the collection. Also included are memorabilia and sheet music of Chicago composers B. Bristow Owsley and Rudolph Ganz, and material on singer Belle Forbes Cutter.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Robuck
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rodgers, Donna. Rodgers square dance research collection, ca. 1943-1993.
60 cubic ft.
Square dance historian and collector Donna Rodgers is the daughter and the wife of professional square dance callers, and a lifelong enthusiast. Formerly a part of the Crossing Trails Square Dance Heritage Society, an organization created by Donna and Duane Rodgers, the collection includes correspondence, organizational documents, books, magazines, photographs, recordings, videotapes, art work, and artifacts.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Rodgers
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rodgers family. Papers, 1773-1925.
4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, journals, post office, church, tax, and financial records, and other papers of a family of pioneers of the Midwest and West, especially Oregon and Washington. Includes letters and writings of Andrew Rodgers, considered by the family to be one of the most important men. Letters are mostly from unknown people to unknown people, of interest because of their descriptions of conditions and early hardships. Of special significance is an Overland Journey journal (1840?).
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Rodgers family (formerly Rk)
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC 67-1964.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Roe, Ethel M. Scrapbook, 1885-1889.
0.2 cubic ft.
Scrapbook begun by Ethel M. Roe while a young music student at Mt. Carroll Seminary. Roe graduated in 1888, and moved on to Miss Gordon's School, possibly in Philadelphia. Includes mementoes of her education, together with concert and theater programs mainly from New York City, but also from Boston and Philadelphia. Also includes quite a few programs and clippings relating to William H. Sherwood, founder of the Sherwood Conservatory in Chicago.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 143
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Rowley family. Journals, 1851-1887.
0.1 cubic ft.
Collection of journals regarding the Rowley family's farming life on the outskirts of Chicago. Entries kept by Mrs. Rowley and detail personal events, agricultural conditions, weather, and social events in the city of Chicago and environs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 96
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rubovits, Norma, 1919-. Papers, 1966-1998.
16 cubic ft.
Chicago paper marblerer who first began marbling in the mid-1960s while studying bookbinding with Chicago binder Elizabeth Kner. Rubovits was interested primarily in marbling as an art form, showcased her work in numerous exhibits. The papers consist of announcement, press releases, clippings, prospectuses, and articles relating to exhibits of her work; correspondence; materials of the history and techniques of marbling. There are also 1,600 specimen sheets of marbled paper made by Rubovits or other artists.
Subjects: Arts; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Rubo
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 11-12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Ruttle, Mabel Louise, 1896-. Ruth F. Allen research papers, 1911-
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Material collected by Mabel Ruttle Nebel to write a book about her former teacher, plant pathologist Ruth F. Allen of Sturgeon, Wisconsin, who was associated with the University of Michigan and the University of California Berkeley. Includes Allen and Ruttle letters, Allen genealogy, miscellaneous documents and many photographs. Also, typescripts of the book about Allen.
Subjects: Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ruttle
Collection Stack Location:
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sackett, Mary. Papers, 1841-1945, bulk 1841-1849.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 portfolio)
A journal kept by Mary Sackett when she and her family emigrated from New York state to Laona, Winnebago County, Illinois, 1841-1842, three numbers of a manuscript pioneer newspaper with original work done by members of an Illinois reading circle in 1849, a recipe for taffy, some penmanship exercises and two colored drawings. Also, photocopies of genealogical material relating to the Sackett family collected in 1945.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 38
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sagan, Bruce. Judith and Bruce Sagan papers, 1965-1986.
1 cubic ft.
Material relating to the business career of Judith Sagan who founded the Harper Theater Dance Festival with her husband Bruce Sagan in 1965. This organization became the Harper Dance Foundation in 1970. A large portion of the collection concerns the Illinois Arts Council which supported the Sagans' festival activities and on whose board both later served. Includes articles, clippings, correspondence, contracts, grant applications, programs, notes and other miscellaneous items concerning both the Harper Festivals and its participants, and the Illinois Arts Council.
Subjects: Dance; Women
Call Number: Dance MS Sagan
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Salabiye, Velma. Papers, 1980-1995.
12 cubic ft.
Navajo librarian involved in promoting American Indian librarianship and evaluating major American Indian collections. Papers include research material for American Indian Bibliography that Salabiye worked on with John Aubrey of the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Salabiye
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Shaw, Rue Winterbotham, 1906-1979. Papers, ca. 1930-1970.
1.0 cubic ft.
Letters and notebooks to/from Rue Winterbotham Shaw, past president of the Arts Club of Chicago, reflecting her mid-20th century life in Chicago and involvement in the arts. Also includes three notebooks of genealogical material on the Winterbotham, Baldwin, and Rosecrans families. Also includes letters from Anthony Burgess and Jean Dubuffet, and postcards from Alexander Calder.
Subjects: Arts; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Shaw
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Slingluff, Jesse, collector. Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.
0.2 cubic ft.
Miscellaneous material relating to Julia Butler Newberry and her family. Contains original letters of Julia B. Newberry and her immediate family, 1830-1880, and photocopies of correspondence of the Butler, Clapp and Devereux families. Also, financial correspondence, a diary of Mary B. Devereux (photocopy), a small unknown diary, genealogical research on the Butler, Devereux, Kernan families, a few receipts and a photocopy of an 1877 probate record for the estate of Walter L. Newberry.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Smith, Helen Ainslie. Papers, 1875-1895.
1 cubic ft.
Author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. Smith's papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Smith-Dewey family. Papers, 1870-1990.
79 cubic ft.
Genealogies, publications, photographs, armories, letters, and documents pertaining to the family histories and forebears of Edward Byron Smith, former chairman of the Northern Trust Corporation of Chicago, and of his wife, Louise Dewey Smith. Papers also include documents pertaining to Northern Trust's founding by Smith's grandfather, Byron Laflin Smith, and the family's ongoing relationship to the corporation. There is also considerable correspondence and other material of the author Frederika Shumway Smith, and Admiral Dewey.
Subjects: Business; Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith-Dewey
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 13-16; 3a 30 13-16
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Spencer, Platt R. (Platt Rogers), 1800-1864. Papers, 1822-1915.
28 cubic ft.
Penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship, a highly successful endeavor in part because it was taught by his entire family. In his later years, Spencer became active in the abolitionist movement. Papers describe family life and conditions during the Civil War. Also included are the letters of son Lyman T. Spencer, a quartermaster's sergeant in the 2nd Ohio Artillery Regiment, stationed in Munfordville, Kentucky, and Cleveland, Tennessee. Collection includes: letters, reports, reprints, writing samples, clippings, drawings, copybooks, artifacts and photos.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Sp
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