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Ryan, Frank, b. 1886. Papers, 1930-1957.

Title: Papers, 1930-1957.

The collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, reports, and campaign material. The materials pertain to Ryan's electoral campaigns, his career as a member of the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Budgetary Commission, the Medical Center Commission, and the Swedish Tercentenary of 1938. Correspondents include William G. Stratton, Henry Honor, Dwight Green, Anton J. Cermak, Edward J. Kelly, James A. Farley, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

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Donnersberger, Joseph. Joseph Donnersberger Memorial Resolution.

Title: Joseph Donnersberger Memorial Resolution.

Memorial Resolutions passed by the Board of South Park Commissioners honoring Joseph Donnersberger after his death in 1929 and signed by the members of the Board of South Park Commissioners. Contains signature from Edward Kelly, former Mayor of Chicago. Also contains photograph of Joseph Donnersberger with his wife and a Chicago newspaper clipping noting Joseph Donnerberger was the president of the Board of South Park Commissioners in 1894.

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Horner, Henry, 1878-1940. Papers, 1899-1940.

Title: Papers, 1899-1940.

Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, campaign material, department files, subject files, published material, scrapbooks and clippings. The collection covers Horner's gubernatorial years and his tenure in the Probate Court.

ArchivalResource: 191.3 linear ft. (443 boxes + 39 oversize bound volumes)

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Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council. Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Title: Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Minutes, 1903-22, of the Chicago Federation of Labor; sound recordings, ca. 1960s-1980s, and files from the office of the president, primarily incoming letters to John Fitzpatrick, 1913-39, and topical files of William Lee, primarily 1963-82. Includes some personal papers of Fitzpatrick as well. Topics include Fitzpatrick's work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. The Fitzpatrick material relates to his presidency (1899-1901, 1905-46) of the CFL, work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, leadership of the Journeyman Horse Shoers Union, and unsuccessful candidacy for mayor of Chicago on the Labor Party ticket (1919). Topics include labor, Chicago civic and political affairs, the Farmer-Labor Parties of Cook County and of the United States, Brookwood Resident Workers College (Katonah, N.Y.), Chicago and Illinois teachers organizations and school matters, African Americans in labor, William Z. Foster, socialism and communism and their relevance to the labor movement, the independence of Ireland, and Russian relief in the early 1920s. Correspondents include Samuel Gompers, William Green, Frank Morrison, and Edward Nockels. Also present is a microfilm copy of John H. Keiser's dissertation on Fitzpatrick. Also present are files relating to the Federation News and other CFL topics that were gathered by Irwin Klass.

ArchivalResource: 15 sound recordings.6 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. Camera negative of typed minutes.6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Reader copy of typed minutes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717282914 View

Papers, 1928-1946.

Title: Papers, 1928-1946.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, drafts of articles, printed bulletins and circulars, press clippings, and other items pertaining to his work with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, 1930-1940; as Secretary of Commerce, 1938-1940; and as Special Assistant to the President, 1941-1945, which concerns American production of war materials and their distribution to Allied countries, particularly Great Britain and the Soviet Union, intelligence activities, and military planning and war strategy. Correspondence, clippings, charts, drafts, reports, notes, and other materials, 1933-1945, from Hopkins' papers used by Robert Sherwood for his book ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY which particularly concerns his war work. Correspondence files, 1933-1940, concerning official duties and politics. Correspondents include James Byrnes, Homer Cummings, Marriner Eccles, James Farley, Jerome Frank, W. Averell Harriman, Leon Henderson, Harold Ickes, Edward J. Kelly, John A. Kingsbury, Fiorello La Guardia, Floyd Olson, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, James H. Rowe, Jr., Robert Sherwood, Henry Wallace, and Aubrey Williams. Speech and article files which include some related correspondence, 1933-1945, and clipping file on his career, 1933-1940.

ArchivalResource: 117 linear ft., 27 microfilm reels.

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Nestor, Agnes, 1880-1948. Agnes Nestor papers, 1896-1954.

Title: Agnes Nestor papers, 1896-1954.

Correspondence, reports, pamphlets, clippings, passports, etc., arranged chronologically, and manuscript autobiography of Agnes Nestor, primarily relating to her career as a labor union leader in Chicago and official of the International Glove Workers Union of America, plus some items on her personal life. Topics include the status of women in the labor market ca. 1900-1940; the eight-hour workday movement in Illinois; women's suffrage movement in Illinois; Nestor's participation in labor organizations on the national, state, and local levels and in federal, state, and local governmental commissions and agencies concerned with employment of women, employment services, and problems of unemployment, ca. 1906-1943; travels to Europe on missions sponsored by organized labor during World War I, particularly the American Labor Mission to Europe, 1918; her campaign for state senator in 1928 (includes lists of registered Democratic voters); her support for the 1923 mayoral campaign of William E. Dever, the 1939 mayoral reelection campaign of Edward J. Kelly, and the 1932 Presidential campaign of Franklin Roosevelt; service on the board of trustees of the Century of Progress International Exposition.. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Paul H. Douglas, Samuel Gompers, Harold L. Ickes, Mary E. McDowell, and Frances L. Perkins; officials of the WTUL, the glove workers union, the Cooperative Glove Association of Chicago, Chicago Federation of Labor, and American Federation of Labor. Collection also includes printed reports of conferences, conventions, meetings of labor organizations, etc. that Nestor attended, often with her annotations.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711880455 View

President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration). 1945 - 1960. Personal Files. 1945 - 1953. Roosevelt, Eleanor: General [1 of 3]. 1945 - 1953. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, accompanied by a copy of a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan

Title: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration). 1945 - 1960. Personal Files. 1945 - 1953. Roosevelt, Eleanor: General [1 of 3]. 1945 - 1953. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, accompanied by a copy of a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan

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Sheil, Bernard J. (Bernard James), 1888-1969. Bishop Bernard J. Sheil papers, 1897-1967.

Title: Bishop Bernard J. Sheil papers, 1897-1967.

Speeches (1931-1959) on theological, political, and social topics; phonograph records, awards, commemorative documents, manuscripts of writings, and other materials relating to Bishop Bernard J. Sheil of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The 124 phonograph records relate to the installation of Samuel Cardinal Stritch as Archbishop of Chicago (1940) and the reception afterward, to the 25th anniversary of Sheil's consecration as a Bishop, the 50th anniversary of his ordination, to the Catholic Youth Organization, to Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, and other topics.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715307213 View

Bryans, Dr. Herbert L., Papers

Title: Bryans, Dr. Herbert L., Papers

ArchivalResource: 4716

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Carr, George R. (George Russell), b. 1877,. [Collection of letters to George R. Carr, 1912-1953].

Title: [Collection of letters to George R. Carr, 1912-1953]. 1912-1953.

Short letters of acknowledgment or introduction from federal, state, and Chicago officials, for George R. Carr, chairman of the board of Dearborn Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill.

ArchivalResource: 8 items ; 19-28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77340844 View