George Ade's play, "Captain Fry's Birthday Party,"
August 1904.
Midwest MS Little Room.
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| The Little Room in costume for a production of George Ade's play, "Captain Fry's Birthday Party," August 1904. Midwest MS Little Room. |
American Opera Society of Chicago. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Formed in 1921 by Chicago social leader Edith Rockefeller McCormick and composer Elinor Everest Freer to promote music, the American Opera Society of Chicago commissioned the translation of 23 operas in English. In its later incarnation it became a support group providing scholarships to rising opera stars. The collection includes several boxes and six albums of clippings, performance announcements, photos, member lists, meeting minutes and programs.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS American Opera
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Artists Book Works (Organization). Records.
11 cubic ft.
Records, including information about students and instructors, financial records, exhibits, and examples of work.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Abw
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Arts Club of Chicago. Records, 1892-1995.
92.5 cubic ft.
Incorporated in 1916, the Arts Club was developed with objectives of maintaining a clubhouse in Chicago that provided galleries and exhibition facilities to foster high standards of art and develop the arts community. Records include clippings, correspondence, exhibition flyers, photographs, and other miscellaneous material relating to the Arts Club of Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations; Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Arts Club (formerly Ar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 6-12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Caxton Club. Records, 1895-ongoing.
103 cubic ft.
Largely minutes, internal documents, correspondence and printed ephemera of the Caxton Club, a Chicago bibliophile club founded in 1895 with the objective of "literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." The records also include some photographs and audio and video tapes.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Caxton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 53 1-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra. Records, 1941-1962.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, and programs of this orchestra composed of men (and later women) working in Chicago business firms. The orchestra was active from 1923 into the 1980s. Correspondents include Percy Grainger, Edward L. Ryerson, Frederick Stock, and Rafael Kubelik.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 154
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
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.
Chicago Calligraphy Collective. Records, 1975-[ongoing].
4 cubic ft.
Non-profit public education organization founded in 1976 to promote the study, practice, and appreciation of calligraphy in all of its historical and present-day applications. Collection includes newsletters, posters, exhibit announcements, invitations, workshop materials, and other printed items. Also included is correspondence among early members, as well as between members and calligraphers outside of Chicago.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS CCC
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 7
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Chamber Music Society. Records, 1957-1999.
1 cubic ft.
Bylaws, membership lists, programs, tickets and some financial and fundraising materials of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering chamber music in Chicago. Also Xerox copy of Dan Tucker's original score, "Up in Rootabaga County," commissioned by the Society for the millennium celebration, and also performed Feb. 14, 2007, at the Newberry Library. Also cassette tape copy of the Sept. 28, 1999, performance at Preston Bradley Hall, and a photocopy of the Carl Sandburg poem "More Rootabagas" that formed the lyrics of the piece.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Chamber
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Children's Choir. Records, 1950-1990.
97 cubic ft.
Administrative files, promotional materials, photographs, clippings, audio tapes, information on personnel and singers, etc. Founded in 1956 by the Reverend Christopher Moore, and through 1980 an activity of Hyde Park's First Unitarian Society of Chicago, the CCC grew into an independent music-education program-one of the largest in the country. Moore's personal papers are also included in the collection.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Children's
Collection Stack Location: 3a 32 1-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Community Trust. Excellence in Dance Initiative Records, 1999-2007.
1 cubic ft.
Administrative files, consultant files and a collection of background information and publications relating to the field of dance and specifically to the activities of a short-term initiative developed by the Chicago Community Trust which had the aim of strengthening the field of dance in Chicago.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Dance Initiative
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago City Ballet. Records, 1980-1988.
12 cubic ft.
Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief founded the Chicago City Ballet in 1979; a severe split in the board of directors of the company resulted in its dissolution in 1987. Records include administrative and publicity files for the short-lived company.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CCB
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago City Ballet School. Records, 1985-1992.
3 cubic ft.
The School of Chicago Ballet was founded in 1981 and affiliated with the Chicago City Ballet, outlasting the Ballet Company seven more years until its closing in 1994. Includes publicity material and photographs.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CCB School
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Library Club. Records, 1971-1984, bulk 1892-1913.
0.5 cubic ft.
Abstract: Formed in 1891 by newcomers into the Chicago library field from New York to encourage the acquaintance and cooperation between libraries, library schools and other fields. Founding members included W.F. Poole, Frederick H. Wild, Charles Alexander Nelson, Edith Clark and others. Collection includes one box of assorted correspondence, clippings and other miscellaneous items from 1971-84, and one ledger: Reports of the Treasurer 1892-1913 (catalogued independently as Case Manuscript Z 008.164).
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Library Club
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 4; VAULT 36 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Chicago Literary Club. Records, 1874-1960.
36 cubic ft.
Chicago voluntary association founded in 1874 of men and women interested in writing original essays on topics of their own choosing and in listening to other members present their essays. Prominent members include Lorado Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Irving Kane Pond, William Rainey Harper, and Thomas Elliott Donnelly. Primarily weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Literary Club (formerly Ch)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2-4; 3a 35 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog .
Summary and inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Chicago National Association of Dance Masters. Records, 1952-[ongoing]
33 cubic ft.
The Chicago National Association of Dance Masters (CNADM) was founded in 1912 and serves as a resource of continuing education for dance teachers and their students. Records include workshop reports, dance notes, and audiovisual recordings of CNADM workshops.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS CNADM
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Association. Records, 1916-1924.
1 folder
Correspondence and contracts mostly relating to singer Amerlita Galli-Curci and Cleofonte Campanini, General Director of the Chicago Opera Association. Also two leases between the Chicago Civic Opera Co. and the Auditorium Theatre.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 9
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Theater. Records, 1975-1978.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 flat box)
Founded in 1974 as the Chicago Opera Studio, the organization's goal was to provide high quality opera productions in English and designed for contemporary tastes using younger Chicago singers and musicians. Records include budgets, proposals, notes, invitations, brochures, programs, and window posters.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Opera
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble. Records, 1981-1992.
14 cubic ft.
A troupe that showcased the works of Chicago choreographers, the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble was founded in 1981 and headquartered at the Ruth Page Foundation building until its dissolution in 1992. Records include administrative and performance files, and audiovisual materials.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Repertory
Collection Stack Location: 3a 45 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
Children's Reading Roundtable of Chicago. Records, 1947-1995.
3.5 cubic ft.
Not-for-profit organization formed in 1931 by a Chicago group of women who met regularly at the Cordon Club and were interested in writing, editing, publishing and promoting children's books. Collection includes four boxes of photos, bulletins, brochures, flyers and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Children's Reading
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Cliff Dwellers (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1890-ongoing.
19 cubic ft.
Scrapbooks, photographs, member's papers and registers, document this Chicago social club's history. Formally the Attic Club, Hamlin Garland founded the club as a forum and sanctuary for emerging artists, musicians, poets, architects and art enthusiasts. Housed in the penthouse of Orchestra Hall, prominent members included Lorado Taft, John McCutcheon, Horace Oakly, Louis Sullivan, Vachel Lindsay and Charles Hutchinson.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Cliff
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 10-11
Finding Aids:
None: Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Commercial Club of Chicago. Records, 1923-1958.
0.1 cubic ft.
The Commercial Club of Chicago was organized in 1878 for the purpose of advancing the commercial prosperity and growth of Chicago. In 1907 it absorbed the Merchants Club and the Industrial Club. The collection consists of typed memorials of various club members and trustees of Chicago institutions and businesses such as the Newberry Library, Marshall Fields, University of Chicago and Field Museum.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Commercial
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1906-1941, bulk 1915-1935.
2.5 cubic ft.
Chicago social club founded in 1916 (chartered in 1917) by Jack Jones to provide an unconventional meeting-place for the uninhibited and free-thinking. Originally housed in two scrapbooks presumably kept by Jones, the records include a small amount of correspondence, plus poetry, clippings, photographs, publicity items for readings, lectures and plays, artwork and memorabilia.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dill Pickle (formerly Di)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
First Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1833-1999.
90 cubic ft.
Parish records, church bulletins and programs, business records, artifacts (including missionary artifacts), etc., of this church founded at Fort Dearborn in 1833 and now in Woodlawn. The congregation has included many prominent Chicago families such as the Shedds, Buckinghams, and Fields, and became one of the first racially integrated congregations in Chicago, in 1953.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS First Presbyterian
Collection Stack Location: 3a Link; 3a 23 8-11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
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.
French Heritage Relief Committee. Records, 1993-1995.
0.1 cubic ft.
Records of a small organization created in 1993 by Charles Balesi and the French Consul in Chicago to help coordinate efforts to preserve and restore historic French structures damaged by flooding on the Mississippi River. Includes materials relating to the founding and legal organization of the group, and reports, correspondence, memoranda, and other materials relating to specific projects.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS 18
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
Germania Club (Chicago, Ill.). Scrapbook, 1921-1931.
1 cubic ft.
Abstract: A large scrapbook containing material on the activities of this music-appreciation club for German-Americans. Chartered in 1869 with possible origins in the organization of a choir to sing at President Lincoln's lying-in-state in Chicago, the Germania Club became a meeting place for Chicago's German elite. The name was changed to the Lincoln Club during World War I and changed back in 1921.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Case +V 208 .326
Collection Stack Location: 3a 15 11: ITEM TOO FRAGILE TO PAGE, USE FILM
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Germanistic Society of Chicago. Records, 1907-15.
15 items (0.1 cubic ft.)
Abstract: Membership lists, lecture announcements, and annual meeting minutes kept by Louis Guenzel, recording secretary of the Society and an architect. The lists provide an inventory of upper-class citizens of German extraction in pre-World War I Chicago, and also reflect the gradual withdrawal of support for German-centered activities during the war.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS 157
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hubbard Street Dance Company. Records, 1970-ongoing.
54 cubic ft.
Hubbard Street Dance Company (renamed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 1993) was founded by dancer and choreographer Lou Conte in 1977 and has become one of the most successful and most internationally known dance companies to hail from Chicago. Records include administrative files, publicity materials, and audiovisual records of performances of the company.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Hubbard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 48 14; 3a 49 1-3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Illinois Ballet. Records, 1959-1972.
2.5 cubic ft.
Illinois Ballet was founded in 1959 by two former Sadler's Wells ballet dancers, Richard Ellis and Christine Du Boulay. The company presernted several seasons of performances per year until its demise in 1972. The company remained constant at four soloists and ten corps members, and included two dancer/choreographers, Hy Somers and Dom Orejudos. Archives include correspondence, music, photographs, posters, programs, and videos.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS Illinois Ballet
Collection Stack Location: 3a 49 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Indian Council Fire. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and publications of the Indian Council Fire, a Chicago-based organization supporting educational, legislative, and social services for urban and reservation Indians.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Indian Council
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Industrial Workers of the World: SEE Rosemont, Franklin. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera, 1905-2005, bulk 1905-1935.
Law Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1930-1989.
8 cubic ft.
Minutes, membership applications and other member information, yearbooks, papers delivered, and other records of this Chicago social club. The brainchild of Eugene Prussing, the club was founded in 1883 as an organization for young lawyers. It soon became a prestigious group known for its entertainments and has counted such prominent figures as Adlai Stevenson and Kenesaw Mountain Landis among its members.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Law Club
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1898-1931.
1.5 cubic ft.
Early 20th century Chicago social organization of artists, writers, musicians, and architects that met weekly at the Fine Arts Club and included such individuals as George Ade, Henry Blake Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Anna Morgan, John T. McCutcheon, and Alice Gerstenberg. Includes documents concerning the organization and operation of the club, membership lists, and correspondence.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Little Room (formerly Li)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
MoMing Dance and Arts Center. Records, 1970-1991.
98 cubic ft.
MoMing, a neighborhood center for dance training and avant-garde performance, was formed in 1974 by Jackie Radis, Jim Self, Susan Kimmelman, Eric Trules, Kasia Mintch, Tem Horowitz, and Sally Banes. It officially dissolved in 1991, and all of the company's records were donated to the Newberry Library at that time.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance
Call Number: Dance MS MoMing
Collection Stack Location: 3a 54 1-7
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.
Palette and Chisel Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1895-1976.
3 cubic ft.
Club founded in Chicago in 1895 with the objectives of fostering growth in the visual arts, providing space for artists to work, and enriching the community through programs of art education. Founding member, Charles J. Mulligan, was an assistant to Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft who rented part of his studio to the fledgling organization. Records include exhibit registers and scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings of the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Palette
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 31 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Performing Arts Chicago. Records, 1960-2000.
99 cubic ft.
First known (in 1959) as the Fine Arts Music Foundation, and later as Chamber Music Chicago, the group changed its name to Performing Arts Chicago to reflect a diversification of programming. Programming, performance, and financial files of the organization.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Performing Arts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 13-14; 3a 49 5-7; 3a elevator bay
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
Ravinia Festival Association. Records, 1903-1993.
11 cubic ft.
Correspondence, photographs, reports, and publicity relating to the Ravinia Festival, a summer music festival held at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois, since 1904 (non-continuous). The collection consists mainly of public relations materials, including scrapbooks, news clippings, historical summaries and recollections, publications files, and photographs. There is also season planning documentation for scattered years: contracts, correspondence, and reports relating to planning the repertoire and the hiring of guest artists for a particular season. The remainder of the collection includes a few founding documents and scattered files about Ravinia Park and the building and renovation of its facilities; some development and fundraising campaigns records; and some correspondence by and relating to Ravinia staff and trustees.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ravinia
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Rosemont, Franklin. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera, 1905-2005, bulk 1905-1935.
7 cubic ft.
Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World (i.e. The Wobblies), a historic union and labor organization based in Chicago.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Social Action
Call Number: Case folio HD 8055 .I4 R67
Collection Stack Location: 3a 19 9-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Shaw Society (Chicago, Ill.). Records, ca. 1950-1970.
0.3 cubic ft.
Abstract: Press clippings, publications, correspondence and miscellaneous materials of the Shaw Society, dedicated to the appreciation of the works of George Bernard Shaw. Much of the material documents the Shaw Festival held in Chicago in 1956 and Society activities in the late-1950s.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Shaw Society
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Society of the Fifth Line. Records, 1962-1978.
0.2 cubic ft.
Proceedings, minutes, menus, etc. of a Chicago group devoted to off-color limericks and like endeavors.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Fifth Line
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Society of Typographical Arts (Chicago). Workshop records, 1980-1995.
1 cubic ft.
Files pertaining to the Society of Typographical Arts workshop, organized in 1952 (and located at the Newberry Library until 1981) to give its member the opportunity to learn to use, design and experiment with type and block prints for letterpress printing. Included are files about the workshop as well as samples of material produced by members.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS STA
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sons of the Revolution. Illinois Society. Records, ca. 1920-2000.
4 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Administrative records of the Sons of the Revolution, Illinois Society. Also includes publications from the Illinois Society as well as the national Sons of the Revolution organization.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Sons
Collection Stack Location: 3a 55 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Students for a Democratic Society and 1968 Democratic Convention. Publications collection, 1967-1988.
0.5 cubic ft.
Publications centered on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, including thirty issues of New Left Notes, single issues of the Rat Subterranean News and the New University Conference Newsletter, wall posters issued by the SDS and Ramparts Magazine, as well as ephemeral pamphlets on Vietnam, Huey Newton, elections, and the Chicago convention. Also one issue of Chicago's American regarding Mayor Daley's report on the Convention violence, and 20th anniversary publications, 1988.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS SDS
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938. Papers, 1820-1975, bulk 1866-1940.
34 cubic ft.
Ordained minister, who founded and ran the Chicago Commons social settlement and founded the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (incorporated into the University of Chicago in 1920), who was a professor of social economics at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. Taylor's papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, works, diaries and other material relating to his activities, and include much information relating to Chicago civic organizations and social reformers in the areas of housing, child welfare, labor and education, as well as numerous printed pamphlets and other documents produced by them.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Journalism; Religion; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Taylor (formerly Ta)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 3-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Ullmann, Margaret. Writings, 1894-1956.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Typewritten essays presented at meetings of the Winnetka Fortnightly, 1930's-1950's, an essay presented to the Mary Noble Club in Kenwood, ca. 1905, plus a scrapbook of childhood poetry and a literary newspaper dating from 1894, some collected early poetry (collected in 1914), volumes of verse written during the 1920's, copies of her poetry published in the Chicago Daily News and the Ladies' Home Journal.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ullmann
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Wayfarers' Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1938-1970.
6 cubic ft.
Abstract: The Wayfarers met seven times a year for luncheons with guest speakers at the Chicago Club. Chicago artists Lorado Taft and John T. McCutcheon were amongst its members. Collection consists of photos, membership records, scrapbooks, minutes, and financial records.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations
Call Number: Midwest MS Wayfarers
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Westerners. Chicago Corral. Records, 1950-1980.
7 cubic ft.
International organization started in Chicago in 1944 by Leland D. Case, editor of "The Rotarian Magazine," and Elmo Scott Watson, newspaperman and educator, to bring together historians and buffs interested in the American West. Records include correspondence and other materials documenting the activities of the group.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Westerners
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Winnetka Fortnightly. Records, 1920-ongoing.
5 cubic ft.
Primarily essays written and delivered by members, with schedules, membership lists, and procedures, of this women's literary club.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Winnetka
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Woodworth, Laurence Conger, 1874-1924. Brothers of the Book Society records, 1896-1922.
3 cubic ft.
Records of the Brothers of the Book Society founded by Woodworth in 1898 with the purpose of publishing noteworthy books. Collection includes incoming and outgoing letters, works, photographs and mementoes, and publications by and about the "Brothers of the Book."
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Wo
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
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Yates, Dora Esther, b. 1879. Correspondence, 1856-1951, bulk 1936-1946.
.5 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of University of Liverpool librarian and secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora E. Yates, to Alfred E. Hamill of Lake Forest, Illinois, 1936-1946. Also a few snapshots of Yates and Gypsy caravans, and other miscellany.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Yates (formerly Ya)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
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