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Chicago (Ill.) Collection
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Chicago Athletic Association Collection

  • US ILfC SC/065
  • Collection
  • 1840s-1995

The Chicago Athletic Association Collection contains a number of governance records, including bound volumes of minutes from Board of Director meetings and annual reports dating back to 1890, committee meeting minutes, as well as bound ledgers wit...

Chicago Athletic Association

Edward H. Bennett Collection

  • US ILfC SC/002
  • Collection
  • 1870-1854

The collection consists of personal and professional papers of the architect Edward H. Bennett. The collection is arranged into two series. Series 1 includes correspondence, drafts, and plans from throughout Bennett's career. The most signifi...

Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954

Joseph Medill Patterson Papers

  • US ILfC SC/001
  • Collection
  • 1901 - 1950

Joseph Medill Patterson's papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, a wide variety of personal and business financial records, cartoons, and other materials. They relate to Patterson's career as co-publisher and publisher of the Chica...

Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946

Ruth Hendrickson Wood Diaries

  • US ILfC SC/059
  • Collection
  • 1958-1971

The Ruth Hendrickson Wood Diaries record her day-to-day life. They contain writing about daily activities, oftentimes noting the weather. The diaries include musings on social engagements and other events. They have also been used to keep track...

Wood, Ruth Hendrickson

Blanche Young Oldham Collection

  • US ILfC SC/033
  • Collection
  • 1914-1969

This collection contains various book and short story manuscripts written by Blanche Young Oldham. There is also a finished copy of her book, "How the Manx Cat Lost its Tail,” as well as a binder with the author’s notes.Additionally, the col...

Oldham, Blanche Young

Spanish-American War Scrapbooks

  • US ILfC SC/072
  • Collection

These three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings containing not only text, but also a number of images. The articles address various aspects of the Spanish-American War, including the origins of the war, battle summaries and war updates, numerou...

Unknown

Caxton Club Collection

  • US ILfC SC/094
  • Collection
  • 1937-2012

This collection contains various Caxton Club materials. These include constitution and by-law records, meeting minutes, directories and other member documents, correspondence, Publication Committee records and program invitations. It also includ...

Miller, Arthur H.

J.S. Hyatt, North Shore Line Diaries

  • US ILfC SC/039
  • Collection
  • 1926-1940

This collection consists of ten diaries belonging to J.S. Hyatt. They provide insight into his day-to-day life and his work as a civil engineer, with the majority of the diaries documenting various appointments and meetings.

Hyatt, J. S.

Harold Tribolet Collection of Caxtoniana

  • US ILfC SC/096
  • Collection
  • 1929-1985

This collection includes meeting and program announcements from Tribolet's time as a member and later secretary of the Caxton Club. There are also two miscellaneous brochures included in the final folder of the collection, one titled "A...

Caxton Club

Susan Dart Collection

  • US ILfC SC/007
  • Collection
  • 1910s-1990s

This collection consists of papers, photographs and items donated by Susan Dart detailing her research and later published book, "Market Square" on the architect Howard Shaw and his work in Lake Forest.For more information or questions, ...

Dart, Susan

Kay McCarter Collection on Cissy Patterson

  • US ILfC SC/060
  • Collection
  • 1927-1949, undated

This collection contains photographs of Cissy Patterson, as well as her dog. Additionally the collection contains correspondence with Kay McCarter. This correspondence includes letters from both Cissy Patterson and her daughter, Felicia Gizycka,...

McCarter, Kay

Susan Dart Newspaper Column Collection

  • US ILfC SC/036
  • Collection
  • 1976 - 1981

The collection consists of drafts and publications of Susan Dart McCutcheon's nationally syndicated natural foods column.

Dart, Susan, 1920-2007

Weber & Weber Collection

  • US ILfC SC/054
  • Collection
  • 1923-1996

A substantial portion of the Weber & Weber Collection contains documents relating to the Ravinia Festival Park as Bertram Weber worked on a number of architectural projects at the park. These documents include correspondence and architectural...

Weber, Bertram A.

George Barr McCutcheon Collection

  • US ILfC SC/068
  • Collection
  • 1904-1929, 1959

This collection consists of one black leather three-ring binder labeled as a price book. It contains mostly business-related handwritten sheets of lists, arranged alphabetically under tabs. The lists record McCutcheon's financial transactio...

McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928

Hoffman Family and Riverside Farm Collection

  • US ILfC SC/071
  • Collection
  • 1870-1936

This collection consists of a photo album containing black and white photographs, mostly of Riverside Farm, some with people. There are also small black and white photographs of unknown people, each contained within an envelope labeled with photo...

Hoffman Family

Robert Seyfarth Family Collection

  • US ILfC SC/073
  • Collection

This collection contains newspaper clippings, including those about Robert Seyfarth's death, his son Robert Jr. and his wife, Mary Hays Seyfarth, as well as the Brewster Shirt Factory.Additionally, the collection contains documents and corres...

Seyfarth, Robert

Lakeside Classics Collection

  • US ILfC SC/085
  • Collection
  • 1989

This collection contains a copy of the text of the book, "Westward Journeys: Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter who traveled the Overland Trail," edited by Martin Ridge. The book was a part of the Lakeside Classic...

Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.)