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: None.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bergstrom, Robert W. Papers, 1924-1999.
8 cubic ft.
Research and legal files pertaining the 1924 Leopold Loeb case, including a complete set of trial transcripts containing Clarence Darrow's plea against capital punishment. The files were compiled by Robert W. Bergstrom, who represented Nathan F. Leopold in the civil suit against Compulsion, a book and movie about the 1924 trial.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Bergstrom
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
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.
Brommel, Bernard J., 1930-. Bernard J. Brommel - Eugene V. Debs Papers, 1886-2003.
4 cubic ft.
Research material and works of Eugene V. Debs biographer Bernard J. Brommel, including notes, photocopies, photographs, pamphlets, newsclippings, and memorabilia. Also primary sources about and by Debs himself, including correspondence, works, and miscellanea.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Brommel-Debs
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990. Papers, 1955-1991, bulk 1964-1972.
5.5 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence of Slim Brundage, founder of the College of Complexes, which operated on and off out of several locations on Chicago's Near North Side during the 1950's-1960's as a forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. Also a variety of documents relating to the College of Complexes itself, such as correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry written by the College's "students."
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Brundage
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Charles H. Kerr Company. Records, 1885-1999.
35 cubic ft.
Business records (financial, stock, and customer order files), manuscripts, photographs, author information, and publishing, production, and promotion information for the Charles H. Kerr Company, the oldest labor and socialist publishing house in the United States. The collection also includes some information about The Socialist Party, The Proletarian Party, unions, and radical organizations, primarily in the United States.
Subjects: Business; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Kerr (formerly Kerr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 9-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
16 cubic ft.
Mainly scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings from national and international newspapers, but also correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating to John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Church (later Christian Catholic Apostolic Church) and his establishment of the Christian utopian city of Zion, on Lake Michigan near the northern border of Illinois.
Subjects: Social Action; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Zion
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990. Papers, 1924-1991.
43 cubic ft.
Works, correspondence, and papers of the American novelist, folklorist, and editor who wrote The Disinherited (1933), a classic of proletarian literature, and edited radical journals: The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil. Also Conroy's personal magazine collection consisting of numerous leftist, labor, and literary magazines, some only in a few issues, dating mainly from the 1930's and 1940's.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Conroy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 7-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Darrow, Jessie Ohl. Darrow family scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1925.
2 cubic ft.
Four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, school papers and a few pieces of memorabilia, including two scrapbooks kept by Clarence Darrow's first wife, Jessie Ohl Darrow, one by her son Paul Darrow, and one by someone unknown, possibly Jessie. The books contain many articles by and about the career of Clarence Darrow; also, some articles referring to Greeley, Colorado, sometime home of Clarence Darrow's son Paul, and a collection of Paul's early school papers.
Subjects: Family; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Darrow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969. Papers, 1908-1969.
11 cubic ft.
Poet, novelist, playwright, newspaperman, and literary editor, who was a central figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and editor of the Friday Literary Review, and who later edited The Masses, The Liberator, and The New Masses after moving to Greenwich Village and Croton on Hudson, New York. Dell's papers include correspondence with a number of important literary figures, manuscript and printed works, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dell (formerly De)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 5 (December 1950), p. 146-157.
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.
Eulenberg, Edward H. Papers, 1920-1985, bulk 1957-1976.
1 cubic ft.
Personal research files and clippings of Edward Eulenberg reporter and editor for the City News Bureau, Chicago Daily News feature writer, and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism Chicago Division educational advisor. Includes Eulenberg's "Classroom Series" for the Daily News on social action, Chicago, and other topics, and material related to Chicago's Chinese community and the Chicago Crusade of Mercy.
Subjects: Journalism; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Eulenberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
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.
Griffith, James Shores. Papers, 1882-1971.
0.2 cubic ft.
Two binders containing records of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators of America, Local No. 147, 1882-1971, including records of wages of Mr. Griffith's grandfather, Griffith's own 1909 apprentice contract, records of union dues payments, notices of periodic wage and by-law changes, union assessments, elections, and other union activities. Also contains a fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversary souvenir booklets, and a pamphlet entitled "Survey of Working Conditions in the Painting Trade in Chicago, 1929-1934," by J.A. Runnberg. Collection also includes a typescript history of the Painters District Council #14 (1950), and Griffith's tickets from the 1933 Century of Progress.
Subjects: Business; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Griffith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Gruenberg, Robert, 1922-1992. Papers, 1947-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Articles, notebooks, and correspondence of Robert Gruenberg, Chicago Daily News political and urban affairs journalist and Washington and foreign correspondent. Includes much significant material on newsworthy events of the 1950s to 1970s such as the Cuban revolution (at which Gruenberg was present), the Civil Rights marches in the South (also present), Vietnam War protests, and Watergate.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Gruenberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 12
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.
Hart, John Edward, 1917-. John Hart - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1985.
0.5 cubic ft.
Albion College English professor, 1954-1982, interested in American writers of the 1920's and 1930's, whose published works included a critical study of Floyd Dell. Mainly letters between Dell and Hart, 1958-1968, and also photographs and other miscellaneous material.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Hart-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Heaton, Harold R. Political cartoons, 1909-ca. 1913.
2 cubic ft. (3 flat boxes)
Sixty-one original political and editorial cartoons by Harold R. Heaton for the Chicago newspaper Inter-Ocean, drawn between 1909 and circa 1913. Most of the drawings are commentaries on corrupt Chicago politics of the period.
Subjects: Arts, Journalism; Politics and Government; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Heaton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Industrial Workers of the World: SEE Rosemont, Franklin. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera, 1905-2005, bulk 1905-1935.
Kornweibel, Theodore. Research papers, 1910-1960.
30 cubic ft.
Research materials assembled by Theodore Kornweibel, a professor of African American studies at San Diego State University, used in the writing of monographs about federal surveillance of and campaigns against African Americans, 1917-1925, and federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I. The collection consists of copies of FBI and other federal agency records, including case files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, detailed notecards, printed federal documents, and Kornweibel's correspondence with federal agencies.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Kornweibel
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 9-10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925. Papers, 1860-1931, bulk 1885-1925.
60 cubic ft.
Editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News who made his newspapers a vehicle to promote Progressive reform. Lawson's papers include numerous letterpress copybooks of outgoing letters, and there are over 4,000 letters addressed to him, containing a wealth of information on business, union labor, and national and municipal political reform movements, and such organizations as the Fresh Air Fund, Chicago Commission on Race Relations, and Chicago Home Rule League.
Subjects: Business; Journalism; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Lawson (formerly La)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 13-14; 3a 41 12-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
McCormick, Chauncey, 1884-1954. Papers, 1888-1954.
6 cubic ft. (10 boxes)
Letters, souvenirs, photographs, clippings, and a few cartoons of Chicagoan Chauncey McCormick, president of the Art Institute, founder and chairman of the art exhibit at the Century of Progress, philanthropist active in child welfare groups and organizations for the blind, and Republican Party activist during the 1930's to 1950's. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, and political activities, and there are extensive files relating to McCormick's World War I service with the American Expeditionary Force in France and his direction of Polish food relief under Herbert Hoover.
Subjects: Arts; Politics and Government; Social Action
Call Number: Mc
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 10
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Memorial Ministry for Indigent Persons. Records, 1984-1997.
1 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and programs of an organization started in 1984 by W. Earl Lewis, a Roman Catholic layperson, to establish an annual interfaith memorial service for those who died poor and alone. Records document Lewis' struggle for support prior to the first service in 1986, and contain information about 1995 heat-related deaths, pauper burials at Homewood Memorial Gardens, and mass burials at the former site of the Dunning State Mental Hospital and poor farm.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Memorial Ministry
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Nauvoo (Ill.). Icarian community documents, 1851-1869.
0.5 cubic ft.
Copies of letters and documents, largely in French, centering around Emile Baxter and his wife, Annette Powell Baxter, including twelve letters from Etienne Cabet, founder of the Icarian settlement in Nauvoo.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Na
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Norris, Hoke. Papers, 1934-1977, bulk 1956-1977.
9 cubic ft.
Journalist for the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News, and author of novels and short stories, who focused on the Civil Rights Movement, adoption records, feminism, and the protests and marches in Chicago and the South during the 1960's. Norris' papers consist of his works and newspaper columns, correspondence, two scrapbooks, and a few other personal papers.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Norris (formerly No)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Overton, George W. Papers, ca. 1950-2004.
2 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Chicago lawyer, and political and social activist who helped start the American Foundation for Political Education in the late 1940's, WTTW in the late 1950's, and the Openlands Project in 1963. During the 1960's Overton also represented residents threatened by the proposed development of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Papers include correspondence (some with Adlai Stevenson), photographs, awards, and materials relating to Openlands, the American Foundation for Political Education, and his legal practice.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: None.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
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.
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.
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.
Walden, May, 1865-1960. Papers, 1870-1972, bulk 1892-1959.
3 cubic ft.
Papers of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and publications relating to the Socialist movement. Also included are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.
Subjects: Family; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest Ms Walden M (formerly Ker)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Walden, Selma, 1884-1951. Papers, 1890-1979, bulk 1928-1951.
3.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs, and mementos of a Chicago working woman and poet, Selma Walden, who was involved with the Dill Pickle Club and the Seven Arts Club.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Walden
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Weinberg, Arthur, 1915-. Arthur and Lila Weinberg - Clarence Darrow research papers, 1950-1988.
16 cubic ft.
Manuscript book drafts, page proofs, and work folders containing reference cards, photocopies, photographs, etc., for each of the Weinbergs' books on Clarence Darrow and his times.
Subjects: Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Weinberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958. Papers, 1894-1968, bulk 1894-1955.
1.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Wyatt (formerly Wy)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Zion City (Il.) - SEE Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Zion City (Ill.) records, 1890-1974, bulk 1899-1907.
Checklist for Modern Manuscript Collections, 1700-present - Publications about Newberry Collections