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Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. Papers, 1842-1934, bulk 1880-1934.
4 cubic ft.
Railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry trustee from 1892 to 1911. Ayer's papers include correspondence (some pertaining to Newberry collections), writings, documents, tributes, and photographs and reminiscences of his westward and overseas travels. Ayer was a Sergeant in Company E, 1st Regiment of Cavalry, California Volunteers, and a 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, Regiment of New Mexico volunteers. His papers include military enlistment and discharge papers, and reminiscences regarding his march with the California column and service in New Mexico.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog. Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Barker, James Madison, 1886-1974. Papers, 1920-1970.
49 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, director of Sears Roebuck and chairman of Allstate, and Newberry Trustee, 1948-1965. Barker's papers consist of documents, letters, speeches, and essays regarding the Newberry and his Chicago and overseas business activities; personal diaries; and information about the Barker family, including the family newsletter, "The Lake," which documented daily family activities and observations of Chicago life.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Barker (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 54 8-12; 3a 54 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Blatchford, E.W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914. Papers, 1836-1914, bulk 1880-1914.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago lead pipe manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library; Religion
Call Number: Archives 02/15/01 (formerly Bl)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Blatchford family. Papers, 1830-1990.
96 cubic ft.
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss, Lord, Fowler, and Alberts. Among the many gems in this massive and wonderful collection are letters to Mary Williams Blatchford while she attended Yale as a special student (1854-1855), Civil War letters of E. W. Blatchford (Chicago Sanitary Commission) and his uncle Edward Williams (U.S. Christian Commission work at military hospitals), courtship, post-marriage, parent-child, and travel correspondence of succeeding generations, scrapbooks and correspondence re World War I military hospitals in Europe, and correspondence, photographs, reports, and pamphlets regarding the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the Middle East.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Newberry Library; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 8-10; 3a 56 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Brown, Richard H. Papers, 1965-1990.
1 cubic ft.
Head of the Newberry's Research and Education Division, 1973-1994, director of the Committee on the Study of History (Amherst Project), 1964-1973, chairman of the Illinois Humanities Council, and scholar of Jacksonian America. Brown's papers consist of documents, articles, correspondence, speeches and personal notes relating to his involvement in the Illinois Humanities Council, the Amherst Project and various history programs, institutes and workshops.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Newberry Library Archives (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953. Subject files, 1913-1933.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
A medievalist, Pierce Butler served as custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation of the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1920-1931. Files include galleys of Butler's "Checklist of Fifteenth Century Books," limited correspondence with William Kittredge (Lakeside Press) and the Lanston Monotype Machine Co., a book review, and notes regarding bookshelf and type designs.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Archives 08/04/00
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 15
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Carlton, W.N.C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943. Papers, 1901-1920.
3 cubic ft.
Librarian and author, who served as the Newberry Library's third librarian, 1909-1920. The papers of Carlton's administration consist of correspondence, reports, and memoranda relating to reference, book ordering, relations with other libraries and institutions, and routine matters, as well as scrapbooks of correspondence with the Library of Congress and of amusing and interesting letters received by the Newberry.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/03
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922. Papers, 1894-1909.
1 cubic ft.
Poet and essayist, who served as the Newberry Library's second librarian, 1894-1909. Records of Cheney's administration consist mainly of correspondence relating to Newberry acquisitions, but also gift acknowledgements, job applications, reference letters, and a few papers relating to library administration.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: 03/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives
Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project. Records, 1982-1985.
4 cubic ft. (13 boxes).
Reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, and edited typewritten transcripts of oral interviews with twenty-three long-time American Indian residents of Chicago completed as part of a project conducted under the auspices of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and funded by the Illinois Humanities Council, 1982-1984. Also a published index and finding aid to the transcripts, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Native Voices in the City" incorporating excerpts from the interviews, and cassette tapes of three community meetings sponsored by the project.
Access: All tapes of oral history interviews and selected transcripts restricted by interviewees are closed and are not available to researchers. Excerpts from both closed and open interviews contained in the unpublished manuscript "Native Voices in the City" are open for research.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Oral History.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903. Letters, 1895-1902.
.2 cubic ft.
Librarian at Harvard and the Boston Athenaeum, and author of the Expansive Classification system for library collections. Includes correspondence with William Stetson Merrill (Newberry Library Accessions Department) regarding the Cutter classification system for the Newberry's collections.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Case MS Z 68.21
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records, 1958-1985.
3 cubic ft. (5 boxes and 1 oversize box).
Photographs from the Seeing Indian in Chicago American Indian photography exhibit, July 22-September 21, 1985, Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, The Newberry Library. Also exhibition labels.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Seeing Indian.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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.
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964. Papers, 1921-1964, bulk 1930-1960.
6 cubic ft.
Chicago steel company executive, philanthropist, Western Americana collector, and Newberry Library president of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1964, who near the end of his term donated his Western Americana collection to the library. Graff's papers include correspondence and financial records relating to his purchases of and research on Western Americana, and also published reports of historical societies, clippings, typescripts, membership cards and photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/03
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Greenlee, William Brooks. Papers, 1872-1953, bulk 1890-1953.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago manufacturer, collector of early Portuguese books, Luzo-Brazilian scholar and Newberry Library Trustee, 1931-1950, who presented his collection of Portuguese and Brazilian materials to the library in 1937. Greenlee's papers consist of correspondence, documents, diaries, scrapbooks, research matter and photographs, and focus on his Portuguese collecting activities and scholarly work.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/04
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-. Papers, 1989-1995.
6 cubic ft.
Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, 1983-1994, and Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, 1994-. Hoxie's papers consist of correspondence, board of trustee files, and administrative files relating to his work with the National Museum of the American Indian, and a museum manuscript, All Roads are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Access: Permission of Dr. Hoxie required to view papers.
Call Number: Archives 07/15/02 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 14 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Jennings, Francis. Papers, ca. 1940-2000.
19 cubic ft.
Colonial historian and former director of the Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center, 1976-1981, who after a teaching and union activities in Philadelphia, and investigation by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, returned to graduate school, received in Ph.D. in history in 1965, and began a distinguished academic career. Jenning's first book, The Invasion of America, published in 1975, explored the violence and brutality of European settlement. Jenning's papers include correspondence, writings, subject files, course papers from the 1950's, bibliographies, and much other material.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: None
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. Butler, Pierce - Subject files, 1923-1933: SEE Butler, Pierce
Johnson, Richard Colles. Richard Colles Johnson - Colles family papers, 1685-1998, bulk 1754-1998.
6.5 cubic ft. (13 boxes)
Personal papers of Richard Colles Johnson, long-time Newberry Library bibliographer of American literature and history, including his own correspondence and writings, but also an extensive collection that Johnson gathered of the papers of the Colles family of Ireland, which consist of the correspondence, subject files, photographs, art work, and writings of a number of Colles family members, but particularly Christopher Colles, 1739-1816. Christopher Colles was an engineer, inventor, and promoter who came to America in 1765. He was one of the first Americans to design a steam engine and to propose a canal connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Johnson R
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Preliminary Inventory: With collection.
Karrow, Robert W. Research papers, 1980-1990.
2 cubic ft. (5 boxes).
Research papers of Robert William Karrow, Jr. Newberry Library curator and author of Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps (1993) and numerous articles and book reviews. Primarily photocopies of printed and archival material relating to the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1869-1884), its director, George M. Wheeler, other staff of the survey, and to the use of the electric telegraph for longitude determination in the 19th century. Also seminar papers and notes, 1986-1988.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Karrow
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 5
Finding Aids:
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: Miscellaneous Small Collections.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977. Papers, 1913-1986, bulk 1924-1977.
14 cubic ft. (34 boxes, 1 oversize box).
Literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and other materials of D'Arcy McNickle, American Indian author, government employee, community organizer, anthropologist, and historian. Records cover McNickle's work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, American Indian Development, Inc., the University of Saskatchewan, and the Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Literature; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS McNickle
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1-2
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Merrill, William Stetson, 1866-. Papers, 1888-1959, bulk 1888-1918.
1.5 cubic ft.
Newberry Library superintendent of the Accessions Department and head of accessions, classification, binding and library statistics (1889); head of public services (1919); supervisor of technical processes (1930); and ALA periodical cards editor (1913-1931). Merrill's papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes and reminiscences regarding Newberry affairs, his personal life, Chicago library activities, ALA periodicals cards, and William Frederick Poole.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 12/15/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Newberry, Julia Butler - SEE Slingluff, Jesse, collector. Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.
Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868. Estate records, 1852-1908, bulk 1868-1908.
47 cubic ft.
Estate records of Walter Loomis Newberry, Chicago real estate investor, banker and commission merchant, who provided for the creation of the Newberry Library in his will, include correspondence, litigation records, property distribution schedules, financial records and other documents concerning daily management of the estate for the Newberry family. Also documentation re: leasing, subdividing, improving and selling properties in Chicago.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 02/09
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 5-8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Newberry Library. Bonaparte Collection letters and documents, 1895-1896.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Photocopies of letters and documents (from originals in the Newberry Library Archives) regarding the acquisition of the linguistic library of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. Correspondents include F. H. Head, John Vance Cheney, John P. Wilson, and E. W. Blatchford.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Miscellaneous Items Oversize, Box 1
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Newberry Library. Records, 1885-ongoing.
960 cubic ft
Includes the Newberry Library's institutional records, records of the Walter L. Newberry estate, personal papers of staff members and trustees, photographs, and publications that document the establishment and operation of the library, its growth and transformation over time, and its active participation in the cultural and intellectual life of Chicago and the nation. Also information on the Newberry family and property development in Chicago.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6-15
Finding Aids:
Catalog records to the series level: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Newberry Library. Office of the Collection Development Librarian. Hall, Frederick A.H. - Bibliographer's subject files, 1949-1983, bulk 1962-1972.
1 cubic ft.
Librarian and specialist in Latin American and Iberian history and literature, who served in a variety Newberry Library positions from 1955 to 1972. Files concern the management of the Greenlee Collection, collection development, the Graff Collection searching and sale projects, and Hall's studies at the University of Texas.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 08/03/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Newberry Library. Office of the Collection Development Librarian. Richard Colles Johnson correspondence and bibliographer's subject files, 1963-1973.
2 cubic ft.
Newberry library reference librarian and bibliographer of American history and literature, 1963-1999, who also worked part-time on the Writings of Herman Melville project. Johnson's records consist of memoranda and correspondence (with collectors, booksellers, and presses) pertaining to acquisitions, monthly reports, and special projects files.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 08/03/02 (Bibliographer's Subject Files)
Archives 08/03/40 (Correspondence File)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Oakley, Horace Sweeney. Papers, 1880-1929.
6 cubic ft.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, works, photographs, diaries, clippings, and other mementos of this Chicago lawyer and philanthropist. Oakley was Deputy Commissioner of the American Red Cross mission to Greece in 1918-19 and was also involved in the creation of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He was also a trustee of the Orchestral Association of Chicago, the Civic Music Association, and the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Walter Damrosch, Robert Lovett, Potter Palmer, Lessing Rosenthal, Ralph F. Seymour, Frederick Stock, Walter Strong, and Mrs. Theodore Thomas, plus a file on the Wayfarers vocal group.
Subjects: Music; Newberry Library
Call Number: Oak
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC 67-1963.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898-. Papers, 1904-1968, bulk 1941-1962.
22 cubic ft.
Historian and fifth librarian of the Newberry Library, 1942-1962. Pargellis' papers consist of correspondence, reports, research notes, articles, speeches and photographs relating to his activities on behalf of the Newberry, other organizations with which he was affiliated, and his personal life and scholarly career.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/05
Collection Stack Location: 4a 7 1-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894. Papers, 1858-1894, bulk 1887-1894.
13 cubic ft.
Historian and compiler of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, a founder of the American Library Association, and first librarian of the Newberry Library, 1887-1894. Poole's papers include his incoming and outgoing correspondence while librarian at the Newberry (much with prominent librarians and historians), and also reports, memoranda, booklists and invoices relating to Poole's Index and to Newberry acquisitions, Trustees, personnel, building design and reference questions.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/01 (formerly Po)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 11-12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Photocopies of item-level catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Poole, William Frederick - SEE ALSO Roden, Carl B. (Carl Bismarck), 1871-1956. Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers, 1852-1956.
Poole, William Frederick - SEE ALSO Williamson, William Landram, 1920-. W.L. Williamson - William F. Poole research papers, 1865-1959.
Roden, Carl B. (Carl Bismarck), 1871-1956. Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers, 1852-1956.
1.2 cubic ft.
Chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library, who conducted research for a biography of William F Poole. Roden's papers include correspondence, writings and research materials pertaining to Poole's biography, as well as publications and transcribed records from library institutions with which Poole was affiliated.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Roden
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Rudolph, Alexander J. (Alexander Joseph), d. 1917. Papers, 1903-1917.
0.5 cubic ft.
Assistant librarian of the Newberry from 1894-1911 and creator of the Rudolph Continuous Indexer (found in the Reference and Bibliographical Center of the Newberry). Rudolph's papers include correspondence with the Board of Trustees regarding claims against the library (1913) and correspondence and clippings concerning the Venezuela Controversy and Panama Canal (1903-1917).
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 09/15/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 11 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Ruggles, Rudy Lamont. Papers, 1949-1985.
3 cubic ft.
Chicago attorney, Newberry trustee, and American history and literature collector who donated his collection to the Newberry in 1985. Ruggles' papers consist of miscellaneous materials related to the Newberry and the Board of Trustees, and catalogue sheets for the Ruggles Collection.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/05 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 16
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Shorey, Paul, 1857-1934. Letters, 1914-1915.
0.1 cubic ft.
Seventeen letters between Paul Shorey, professor of Greek at the University of Chicago, and various members of the German academic world. Letters are accompanied by explanatory notes written by Fritz Caspari, a German scholar and Newberry staff member.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Miscellaneous Small Collections
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Authors of letters and documents, and subjects of photographs: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
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.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. Papers, ca. 1970-2001.
14 cubic ft.
Senior research fellow at the Newberry Library, who directed the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, was acting director of the Newberry's D'Arcy McNickle Center, and served as an expert witness and historical consultant for a number of Indian tribes.
Papers include personal and professional correspondence, research notes, research notebooks, card files, Potawatomi (1997) and Caddo court case materials, and research files and data for maps in Settling of North America (1995).
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Tanner
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Taylor, Harriet, d. 1931. Papers, 1867-1935.
1.5 cubic ft.
Newberry Library Genealogy Department supervisor, 1900-1931, and heraldry specialist. Taylor's papers consist of diaries, correspondence, biographical notes, financial records, photographs, estate papers and obituaries relating to her personal life and her work at the Newberry, and include her "Finance Book" of investments and her "Bulletin Book" of administrative memoranda.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Women
Call Number: Archives 11/15/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 11 16
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Towner, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1921-1992. Papers, 1948-1989, bulk 1962-1986.
46 cubic ft.
American colonial historian and sixth librarian of the Newberry Library, 1962-1986, who during his tenure expanded research and education programs, enlarged the library's physical space, and inaugurated development activities. Towner's papers include correspondence, reports, research notes, articles, speeches and publications relating to Newberry personnel, collections, conferences, departments, events, gifts, property and trustees, as well as to his pre-Newberry and non-Newberry activities.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/06
Collection Stack Location: 4a 7 3-7; 4a 7 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Utley, George Burwell, 1876-1946. Papers, 1879-1946, bulk 1920-1946.
14.5 cubic ft.
Fourth librarian of the Newberry Library, 1920-1942. Utley's papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, journals, research notes and photographs relating to Newberry gifts, personnel, acquisitions, exhibitions, publications and trustees, as well as to Utley's personal life and his connections with the American Library Association and other library organizations.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 03/04
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 13-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Wells, James M. Papers, 1951-1984.
26 cubic ft.
Newberry Library curator of the John M. Wing Foundation for the History of Printing (1951), and later also custodian of the Rare Book Room (1963), associate director (1964), vice president (1975) and George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts (1981). Wells' papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports and manuscripts relating to his Newberry responsibilities, the Wing Collection and other organizations with which he was affiliated.
Subjects: Newberry Library; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Archives 03/21/01
Collection Stack Location: 4a 8 1-4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Williamson, William Landram, 1920-. W.L. Williamson - William F. Poole research papers, 1865-1959.
2.5 cubic ft.
Librarian and biographer of William F. Poole, first librarian of the Newberry Library. Williamson's papers consist of correspondence, writings, research notes, clippings and photographs for the biography, including information on Poole's family, the Newberry Library, and other institutions with which Poole was affiliated.
Subjects: Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Williamson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wilson, Bernard E. Papers, 1915-1993.
1 cubic ft.
Newberry Library reference librarian and later cataloguer of special materials (rare books, music), 1959-1986. Wilson's papers include personal records (diplomas, photographs, civil service papers) and correspondence re his Newberry appointment and with friends and family, European trip diaries, estate files, and records of the Hattie Strong Foundation.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 12/15/05 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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