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James Joyce Collections

 Collection
Identifier: MS8
Abstract Myron Nutting (1890 - c1970), an American artist, and his wife Helen lived in Paris in the 1920s and became friends with the James Joyce family and others in their circle such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Sylvia Beach. Myron Nutting created the portraits of James, Nora and Lucia Joyce which hang in Special Collections, as well as crayon sketches of the entire family which are also held here. Helen Nutting wrote poetry and kept journals which contain reminiscences of various friends,...
Dates: undated

Julia Stephen (1846-1895) Collection

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Identifier: MS177
Abstract

Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs. Duckworth) (1846-1895) was an artist’s model, society beauty, and philanthropist; former wife of Herbert Duckworth, and later wife of Sir Leslie Stephen; mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. This collection consists primarily of autograph letters from Stephen to her daughter, Stella Duckworth, with a number of related familiy correspondence.

Dates: 1890-1897; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2015

Paula Kamen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS125
Abstract

Paula Kamen interviewed men and women associated with the clandestine JANE abortion service in Chicago between 1969 and 1972 in order to obtain background material for a play, “JANE: Abortion and the Underground.”

Dates: 1969-1972

Sherwin Warren King Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS82
Abstract

Collection consists of the papers of Sherwin Warren King from his service as a sergeant in Company K, 42nd Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the American Civil War, as well as some papers from King's family and relatives. Collection dates from 1861 to 1942.

Dates: 1861-1942

Jenny Knauss Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS93
Abstract Jenny Knauss, a member of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, worked primarily on women’s education, health issues and day care. She also served as the director of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health for two decades, from 1983-2002. The Knauss Collection consists of her personal topical files related to the Chicago Women's Liberation Union and feminist health issues, primarily in Chicago, between 1971 and 1978. Knauss wrote a history on the Chicago Women's Health Movement and...
Dates: 1971-1978

Jenny Knauss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS162
Abstract Jenny Knauss, a member of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, worked primarily on women’s education, health issues and day care. She also served as the director of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health for two decades, from 1983-2002. The Jenny Knauss Papers consist of personal material and files and fill 13 boxes, arranged in 4 series: Correspondence; Personal Planners; Miscellaneous Materials; and Photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of personal correspondence, mostly...
Dates: 1950-2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/12/2009

Tribune Company. Walter C. Kurz speeches

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Identifier: X-20
Abstract

Speeches delivered by Walter C. Kurz, general manager of the Chicago Tribune

Dates: 1955 - 1970

Avrom M. Landy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS106
Abstract Avrom M. Landy (1904-1992) broke off his doctoral studies to accept a position at the Daily Worker. He later became educational director of the Communist Party of America, a position he held until 1945. He was co-publisher of International Publishers from 1945 until about 1947, when he left the Communist Party.  In the late 1940s, Landy completed a manuscript for a book titled, The United States and the Paris Commune of 1871....
Dates: 1938-1954

Albert D. Lasker (1880-1952) Collection, 1884-2010

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Identifier: MS172
Abstract

The Albert D. Lasker Collection contains the primary and secondary materials used by Arthur W. Schultz and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank while writing The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century. Materials in the collection include interviews, correspondence, client files, and advertisements.

Dates: 1884-2010

D. H. Lawrence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS11-MS88
Abstract D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, painter, translator, and literary critic is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial authors. The D.H. Lawrence Collection consists of correspondence, typescripts, proofs, photographs and two original drawings from publisher William H. Heineman's files for The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, edited by Aldous Huxley (London: William Heineman, 1932....
Dates: 1909-1951; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973

Leopold and Loeb Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS85
Abstract Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904-August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905-January 28, 1936), often referred to as "Leopold and Loeb", were privileged and wealthy teenage University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 in a desire to commit the "perfect crime," and were sentenced to prison for 99 years plus a life term. Through correspondence, newspaper clippings, court documents, miscellanea, photographs, publications,...
Dates: 1894 - 1990; Other: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1963

General Seeger by Ira Levin Production Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS134
Abstract

Playwright Ira Levin was born in New York in 1929. He was twenty-two when he wrote his first novel, the thriller A Kiss Before Dying, and twenty-five when he wrote his first play, the popular adaptation of Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants. Other plays include the comedy hit Critic's Choice, the musical Drat! The Cat!, the thriller Veronica's Room, and Deathtrap. His novels include Rosemary's Baby , The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil.

Dates: 1961-1962

Hyman Levy Collection

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Identifier: MS69
Abstract

The Hyman Levy Collection contains professional and personal papers of Hyman Levy (1889-1975), a Scottish-Jewish mathematician, philosopher, political thinker, and public figure active in Britain from the early to late 20th century. Papers include letters, academic writing, newspaper clippings, lecture materials, literary writings, meeting agendas, and political writing. The collection is arranged into 5 series, spanning 21 document boxes ranging in date from 1894 to 1969.

Dates: 1894-1969

Chicago Tribune. Limited edition

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: XI-302
Abstract

Issues of Limited edition, the house organ of the Freedom Center (the Chicago tribune printing plant); "News of the Chicago Tribune's new production and circulation facility"

Dates: 1981 - 1982

Line o' type or two: books by contributors

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: XI-315
Abstract

Books by contributors to the Chicago Tribune's "Line o' type or two" column, consisting in some cases of that had appeared in that column, and in others of other material.

Dates: 1924 - 1978

Richard Loeb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS204
Abstract

The Richard Loeb Papers consist of 1 box and 1 oversize folder of correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous biographical information dating 1886 to 1956 related to the Loeb family and the prosecution and incarceration of Richard Loeb and his friend Nathan Leopold following their May 1924 murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks.

Dates: 1886-1956

Loujon Press electrotype printing blocks for Insomnia or the Devil at Large by Henry Miller

 Collection
Identifier: MS83
Abstract

Loujon Press electrotype printing blocks for Insomnia or the Devil at Large by Henry Miller consists of all the textual and photographic electrotype printing blocks for the publication Insomnia or the Devil at Large, as well as some miscellaneous graphic printing blocks. The collection is arranged into two series and spans 13 boxes dating circa 1970.

Dates: circa 1970

Macho Tips Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS195
Abstract

Macho Tips Letters (MS195) consists of letters dating from January 1987 to April 1990, predominantly in Spanish, with some wholly or partially in English, and some sexually explicit, mostly from men in Mexico (as well as in Spain, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Brazil, and the United States). The letters are written in response to an ad seeking pen pals placed in Macho Tips, a Spanish-language gay magazine published in Mexico City, Mexico.

Dates: 1987 January 8-1990 April 2 and undated

Eleanor Martin Collection on Robert P. Tristram Coffin

 Collection
Identifier: MS135
Abstract

The Eleanor Martin Collection on Robert P. Tristram Coffin contains correspondence from and about American poet, educator, and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert P. T. Coffin. The collection of letters was compiled by Eleanor Martin, a friend of Coffin, and mostly focuses on their relationship and Martin’s position as solicitor and coordinator of Coffin’s lectures in the Midwest region. This collection also includes ephemera and artifacts related to Coffin’s career and spans from 1926 to 1983.

Dates: 1926-1983

John M. Maxwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS75
Abstract

The John M. Maxwell Papers consist primarily of drafts and revisions of Maxwell's book, The Man Behind the Mask, which ascribes authorship of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets to Sir Robert Cecil or George Somers. Maxwell failed in his attempts to get his book published, even though Theodore Dreiser interceded with publishers on his behalf.

Dates: 1916-1924

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