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McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1835-1923. Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

Title: Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

Papers of Nettie Fowler McCormick, a philanthropist and wife of the inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick, including correspondence with family and friends, with company officials, and with individuals, organizations, and institutions involved in her many philanthropies. Interfiled are legal documents such as powers of attorney, indentures, and contracts; and annual statements and reports. Correspondence before her marriage consists chiefly of letters relating to her own and her husband's ancestors and friends; relatives included the Adams, Esselstyn, Fowler, Merick, and Spicer families. She corresponded regularly with her children Harold, Stanley, Virginia, and Anita and with those who cared for Stanley and Virginia after their mental breakdowns. The papers reveal Mrs. McCormick's role as her husband's aid and her eldest son's advisor. The correspondence illustrates her involvement in business as she accompanied her husband on many trips, discussed problems and wrote letters for him, and in his absence received confidential mail relating to his business and their family life. After Cyrus H. Jr., entered the company in 1879 and became president in 1884, frequent communications between son and mother discuss the business, the estate, and investments. References are made to competitors, patents, and strikes of 1885 and 1886; the unsuccessful attempt to form the American Harvester Company in 1888-1890; and problems attending consolidation when the International Harvester Company was established in 1902. Her close contact with these interests, as well as investments and philanthropies, produced correspondence with lawyers, employees, financial agents, and advisors. Mrs. McCormick received informational copies of many letters and reports from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company long after she ceased to be closely involved. In the 1890s, Mrs. McCormick gave more attention to her interest in philanthropy, an interest that accounts for fully half of her correspondence. The McCormick Theological Seminary, originally her husband's interest, continued to receive a major share of her attention and funds. Its administrators and faculty, as well as her own pastors at Fourth Presbyterian Church, consulted with her regularly and advised her on other schools and missions. Using the need for Christian service as her personal motivation, she became greatly interested in aiding small schools and academies, particularly those stressing self help for students, manual training, and domestic service. These were chiefly white although some were African-American. Letters give evidence of the extent to which she advised them, influenced their curricula, and helped to maintain them. The extent of her personal involvement is illustrated by her many years of correspondence with Harold S. Clemons, whom she assisted through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her interest in the welfare of those in the southern Appalachians led her to aid the Home Industrial School at Asheville under Florence Stephenson ; and to give encouragement to the Laurel schools and to projects in mountain crafts, out of which grew correspondence with Frances L. Goodrich. She helped support Thornwell Orphanage in South Carolina, writing to William Plumer Jacobs; and she kept in touch with James G. K. McClure Jr., of the Farmers' Federation in North Carolina. Mrs. McCormick also received numerous requests from civic groups in the Chicago area, and responded to many. Letters concerning the Presbyterian Church, its various boards of education and missions, and its publications comprise much of the correspondence; Bible work and rescue missions were also important to her. In the last thirty years of her life, foreign mission schools claimed much of her attention; and both the personnel and the institutions were her correspondents as well as recipients of her largess. The papers also document her great interest in both the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Association, locally, nationally, and internationally. Through numerous letters exchanged with John R. Motte she aided the World's Student Christian Movement and the work of the International Committee of the YMCA. She corresponded also with Fletcher S. Brockman, George M. Day, Sherwood Eddy, Carlisle V. Hibbard, Richard C. Morse, and Luther D. Wishard concerning the YMCA; and with Grace Dodge and Elizabeth Wilson of the YWCA.

ArchivalResource: 145.2 c.f. (351 archives boxes and 25 index boxes)

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Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955. John R. Mott papers, 1813-1978 (inclusive), 1880-1955 (bulk).

Title: John R. Mott papers, 1813-1978 (inclusive), 1880-1955 (bulk).

Material documents the multitude of activities and involvements pursued by John R. Mott in over seventy years of working life. General correspondence, 1886-1955, comprises nearly half the bulk of Mott's papers, and includes letters to and from prominent American governmental leaders, philanthropists, international political, social and religious leaders. Family papers and correspondence provide valuable biographical and genealogical information as well as revealing another dimension of Mott's life, his role as a devoted son, brother, husband and father.

ArchivalResource: 95 linear feet (234 boxes, 4 oversize items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179259 View

McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947. Papers, 1881-1945.

Title: Papers, 1881-1945.

Papers of Stanley R. McCormick, youngest son of industrialist Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick, who became mentally incompetent at the age of thirty-two; consisting of correspondence, notes, minutes, financial accounts, medical reports and charts, legal documents, and transcripts of court hearings. These concern his early business interests, arrangements for his care, controversies between the McCormicks and his wife Katherine, whom he married in 1904, and reports of medical consultants. The papers contain business letters of 1899 and 1900, chiefly in the latter year when he represented the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at the Paris exposition and corresponded with his Chicago office, his brothers Cyrus, Jr. and Harold, their competitor James Deering, and the Company manager in Hamburg, Germany, W. V. Couchman. A few letters and accounts appear relating to his Cimarron Ranch on the historic Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico, acquired in 1898 with John W. Garrett but later developed by McCormick. The bulk of the papers deal with the many problems concerning McCormick's care after his breakdown in 1906, and his progressive incapacitation due to a mental disease diagnosed as catatonia. In addition to letters of his wife, members of the McCormick family, and a few friends, correspondence of doctors and psychiatrists such as Frank Billings, Henry Baird Favill, C. G. Jung, Adolf Meyer, and George Tuttle is included, as is a special medical evaluation by August Hoch and Emil Kraepelin. Medical correspondence, reports by nurses and staff, minutes of the board of guardians, financial accounts, and arrangements for his care at the spacious California home provided him are all filed. Four volumes contain court proceedings of 1929-1930 regarding the question of guardianship and his multimillion-dollar estate. Guardians at various times included his wife, Dr. Favill, Cyrus Bentley, Anita McCormick Blaine, Harold Fowler McCormick, and Cyrus McCormick, Jr. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1881-1945, and is described in the register. There are unprocessed additions dating 1890-1909 which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes including 6 volumes); plusadditions of 0.8 c.f.

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Title: Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Composed primarily of monthly, quarterly, and annual statements of the income from real estate owned wholly or in part by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., or administered by him as trustee or executor. Besides real estate reports, more general financial reports by the trustees of Mary Virginia and Stanley are also included, along with legal documents appointing administrators of Stanley's property in 1906 and 1909. Also present are reports on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., and material on the proposed additions to the Reaper Block in 1919.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

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Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Print of Cyrus Hall McCormick [manuscript].

Title: Print of Cyrus Hall McCormick [manuscript].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Subject file, 1840-1942.

Title: Subject file, 1840-1942.

Papers consisting of correspondence, speeches, articles, maps, telegrams, newspaper clippings, financial statements, accounts, and receipts, reports, and bulletins relating to the business and personal interests of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 55.0 c.f. (138 archives boxes and 1 package)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787532 View

Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, 1854-1924. Charles L. Hutchinson papers, 1880-1924.

Title: Charles L. Hutchinson papers, 1880-1924.

Letters to Charles L. Hutchinson, a Chicago banker, president of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a major philanthropist; plus resolutions in memoriam. Correspondence chiefly concerns his business and charitable activities. Topics include efforts to place a memorial to George Howland in McKinley High School; a drive to establish a Samuel Willard Memorial Fund at Illinois College; World War I era relief activities of American groups, Belgian groups, French groups, and ca. 1921 Russian groups. Includes letters from sculptor Leonard W. Volk about replicas of his life cast of Abraham Lincoln's face that Hutchinson ordered sent to G.F. Watts, the English artist. Other correspondents include Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Chauncey McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Mary E. McDowell, Lorado Taft, and Samuel Willard. The resolutions in memoriam, Oct.-Dec. 1924, are contained in volumes, often illuminated and including elaborate calligraphy, from the Art Institute of Chicago, Caxton Club, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago Clearing House Association, Commercial Club of Chicago, Illinois Merchants Trust Company, Old People's Home of Chicago, Presbyterian Hospital, South Park Commissioners of Cook County, Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, and the University of Chicago. Also present are two expressions of appreciation: from the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922 April 27; and from the Chicago Society of Artists, 1923 Feb. 1. Includes a life membership in the Art Institute of Chicago issued to A.B. Mead and signed by Hutchinson, 1911 April 20.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715307217 View

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago records, 1853-1980.

Title: YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago records, 1853-1980.

Office files of the central office of the YMCA of metropolitan Chicago (Ill.) primarily concerning administration, fund raising and building campaigns, program development, and coordination of activities of YMCA departments in Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. Includes minutes of the board of trustees (1868-1975), the board of managers (1858-1975), the General Secretary's cabinet (1913-1962), and boards of directors of the branches, which are named departments (1892-1962, varying by department); correspondence and other files of General Secretaries (1881-1965, incomplete); reports of annual meetings (1939-70); news clippings and other publicity (1887-1980); biographical materials on board members and General Secretaries; and other miscellaneous records. Topics include programs for boys, men, girls, and women. Includes materials on recreation and sports, race relations, adult education, and juvenile delinquency. Includes information on establishment and operation of the Wabash Avenue YMCA to serve African Americans; information on Railroad Departments that served railroad workers based in Chicago; a Japanese Department in the early 20th century; and several Y camps, including Camp Duncan near Volo, Illinois (opened 1923), Camp Martin Johnson near Ludington, Michigan (opened 1925), Camp Northwoods at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin (opened 1929). By 1958, the Chicago YMCA operated 13 camps in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 66 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713908102 View

McCormick, Mary Virginia, 1861-1941. Papers, 1871-1923.

Title: Papers, 1871-1923.

Papers of Mary Virginia McCormick, eldest daughter of Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick who became mentally incompetent at the age of nineteen, consisting of correspondence; early diaries and school notebooks; reports from doctors, nurses, and companions; legal documents; and financial records. These concern relations with members of her family, arrangements for her personal welfare and medical treatment, upkeep of her several homes and estates in the United States and Canada, and plans for travel to her homes and to Europe. Correspondence describes Mary Virginia's daily activities and state of mind and contains detailed advice concerning her care. Medical letters, reports, and casebooks deal with her mental condition. Legal papers relate to sanity hearings and trusteeships. Financial records concern investments; management of her estate; household, personal, and medical bills; and expense accounts. Her papers, ending in the year of her mother's death in 1923, lack any information relating to the last three decades of her life, when she lived chiefly in California as a millionaire recluse with a staff of some thirty persons. Mary Virginia's mother, her brother Cyrus H., Jr., and her uncle Eldridge M. Fowler, served as original conservators and trustees for her share of the estate inherited from her father; her younger brother and sister, Harold and Anita, were successor trustees; and Judson F. Stone, representing McCormick Estates, managed her financial affairs. In addition to the correspondence of each of these individuals and many who cared for her, the papers include medical case histories and diaries of doctors such as Alice Bennett and Sanger Brown; and letters and reports from Grace T. Walker, head of Mary Virginia's household for forty years.

ArchivalResource: 25.2 c.f. (63 archives boxes including 64 volumes)

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Librarian's files, 1900-1936.

Title: Librarian's files, 1900-1936.

Miscellaneous items kept by McCormick's personal librarian composed of correspondence, telegrams, lists of artworks and catalogs of art for sale, articles, pamphlets, and reports of the library; attesting to McCormick's interest in art, music, Princeton University, and rare books.

ArchivalResource: 4.6 c.f. (12 archives boxes)

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Historical interest documents, 1891-1928.

Title: Historical interest documents, 1891-1928.

Documents representing the historical interests of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr., including correspondence often carried on through his secretaries and generally with people or organizations involved in historical research and publications; reports; and articles from newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets pertaining to the harvester and diverse historical subjects.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787543 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Title: Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in both the domestic and foreign fields, and dealing with McCormick's many other interests, particularly the Presbyterian Church and several charities; his activities as a member of the state and national Democratic party; and his investments, chiefly in Chicago real estate, railroads, and mines. Also included are deeds, contracts, investment proposals, and other documents. Some of the letters are to or from McCormick's wife Nettie Fowler, their son Cyrus, Jr., and others associated with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. The earliest dated items were written or received by Cyrus' father, Robert McCormick, and by other family members.

ArchivalResource: 84.6 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 50 card boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788280 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Title: Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Private and business correspondence of Chicago, Illinois industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr., consisting of incoming and outgoing correspondence, copies of monthly financial records, annual reports, newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, copies of wills, and other legal documents. A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, investments, trusteeships and settlements of estates, charities and donations, membership in many societies, particularly in Chicago, and family affairs. An alphabetical index to correspondence can be found in boxes 300 through 303.

ArchivalResource: 120.4 c.f. (299 archives boxes, 4 index boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787524 View

McCormick, Harold Fowler, 1872-1941. Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Title: Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Papers of McCormick, a Chicago industrialist with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company; consisting of correspondence, notes, business records, appointment books, speeches, clippings, and printed items. These concern financial interests, civic groups, personal and family life, and his publicized peace plan during World War I. Of his business activities the Belle City Malleable Iron Company is best documented. A small portion of the collection consists of papers of his daughter, Muriel, documenting her interest in postwar relief work, the theater, and Chicago grand opera.

ArchivalResource: 36.7 c.f. (91 archives boxes and 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787574 View

Blaine, Anita McCormick. Correspondence and papers, 1828-1958.

Title: Correspondence and papers, 1828-1958.

Correspondence and other papers of Blaine, a Chicago philanthropist, consisting of letters, telegrams, and summaries of telephone conversations; reports of committees, boards, and organizations; speeches, essays, and random notes; financial statements and ledgers; clippings; and photographs; concerning her absorbing interests in education, improvement in social and economic conditions, international understanding, and world peace, and her relations with members of the McCormick family and their friends. The daughter of industrialists/philanthropists Cyrus Hall McCormick and Nettie Fowler McCormick, Anita in 1889 married Emmons Blaine, attorney and son of James G. Blaine. Her husband's death in 1892 left her with one son, Emmons, Jr., born in 1890, whom she enrolled in the laboratory school of Cook County Normal School in 1897. For the next two decades her attention focused chiefly on education and child welfare. Following World War I, Mrs. Blaine's interests expanded to include America's entry into the League of Nations, problems of world peace, and the United Nations. In their treatment of all those interests, her papers are extensive and revealing, demonstrating the depth and breadth of her own involvement both personally and financially.

ArchivalResource: 393.1 c.f. (939 archives boxes, 16 record center cartons, 9 v., and 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787559 View

Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. Donation Papers, 1880-1937

Title: Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. Donation Papers, 1880-1937

Routine records of philanthropic donations by Chicago industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. to a variety of organizations and individuals. Grouped by recipient, the files typically include a letter of appeal, McCormick's or his secretary's response, his secretary's letter enclosing the check, letters from the recipient thanking him for the money, and occasional correspondence between McCormick and his secretary on how much to give; all enclosed with a slip for each recipient identifying the subject with remarks on what the donation was for. The individuals McCormick gave to varied from people asking for a few dollars to large yearly donations. Organizations represented include those concerned with world peace, Native Americans, education, the Presbyterian Church of Chicago and the United States, women's and children's charities, and Chicago area philanthropies. Miscellaneous volumes in the series are donation record lists, dockets, financial record books, and YMCA International Committee subscription books.

ArchivalResource: 14.4 cubic feet (38 archives boxes)

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Murray, Joseph Bradley, 1888-1961,. Joseph Bradley Murray collection, 1706-1958 (inclusive).

Title: Joseph Bradley Murray collection, 1706-1958 (inclusive).

A collection of autograph letters, manuscripts, portraits, and clippings of and relating principally to European and American scientists of the 18th through the 20th centuries. The collector, Joseph Bradley Murray, was a businessman and member of the Class of 1910, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168321 View

Smith, Delavan, 1861-1922. Papers, 1868-1921, bulk 1879-1913.

Title: Papers, 1868-1921, bulk 1879-1913.

The collection includes personal and business papers of Delavan Smith. The papers include records of the "Indianapolis News" and other interests including the American Corporation for Investors, the Cass Cigar Manufacturing Company, the Cox Multi-Mailer Company, the Oliver Typewriter Company, the Regugio Syndicate, and the Securities Corporation Limited. Other papers concern Smith's philanthropic activities. Correspondence includes letters between Smith and his father, and friends, including Charles W. Fairbanks, Hilton U. Brown, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Cyrus and Medill McCormick, and Louis F. Swift. Also included are William Henry Smith's papers relating to the Western Associated Press, the national Republican Party, and local politics. Photographs consist of portraits of family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 31 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 box of photographs, 2 boxes of OVA photographs, 1 box of OVB photographs, 2 OVC graphics.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47977780 View

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1869-1945

Title: Catharine Waugh McCulloch papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945

The Catharine Waugh McCulloch series of the Mary Earhart Dillon collection has been divided into four subseries: Personal and biographical, Writings and speeches, General correspondence, Suffrage and woman's rights. The papers primarily document McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and also her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the League of Women Voters (LWV). There is also documentation of women in the legal profession and of McCulloch's friendships with other women suffragists and lawyers, and some biographical material. The papers contain little information about her family or social life. In reprocessing this series, the processor assumed that the existing filing system was either McCulloch's or Mary Earhart Dillon's and rearranged the papers as little as possible. Notes of explanation and background papers by McCulloch were found in many folders. These have not been listed in the inventory. There are also scattered notes by person/s unknown. There is correspondence in every subseries, and individuals and issues overlap: colleagues and associates were also personal friends. This means, for example, that there may be correspondence about suffrage not only in subseries D, but also in subseries C, in both general correspondence and correspondence arranged by individual. Subseries A, Personal and biographical (#54-58), is arranged chronologically and includes college and law school catalogs and programs, photographs of McCulloch and her husband, clippings about and tributes to McCulloch, and a small amount of personal and family correspondence. Subseries B, Writings and speeches (#59-83), is arranged chronologically and includes pamphlets by McCulloch and others; writings exclusively by others are at the end. The series includes works in manuscript, typescript, and print. Subseries C, General correspondence (#84-178), is divided into two sections. The first consists of correspondence with numerous people, and is arranged chronologically, with undated letters at the end. It includes a letterbook of copies of outgoing letters, 1892-95. Only about one-quarter of these are fully legible; the rest are badly faded so that another quarter is illegible and half barely legible. As much as possible was microfilmed. There is a large amount of correspondence of National American Woman Suffrage Association, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, and other state suffrage associations in this section. The second section, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, consists of larger groups of letters exchanged with fewer individuals. Subseries D, Suffrage and woman's rights (#179-335), includes one folder on Prohibition and a section on the League of Women Voters. The bulk of the subseries is further sub-divided into National American Woman Suffrage Association, Illinois, Other states, and International. The series consists of correspondence, organizational records, photographs, lists, reports, questionnaires and responses, programs, publications, memorabilia, clippings, itineraries, drawings, press releases, legislation, scrapbooks, and surveys. Clippings were scattered throughout the subseries and are noted in the inventory only for folders containing solely clippings. Most clippings were discarded after microfilming.

ArchivalResource: 281 folders

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American Harvester Company. Records, 1889-1890, 1899.

Title: Records, 1889-1890, 1899.

Papers of a proposed nineteenth-century merger of the principal manufacturers of harvesters and mowers in the United States under the title of American Harvester Company; consisting of correspondence, inventories, contracts, minutes, resolutions of meetings, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

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Adams, Robert McCormick, 1847-1925. Papers, 1869-1953.

Title: Papers, 1869-1953.

Correspondence, receipts, and reports of R. M. Adams, son of Cyrus Hall McCormick's sister, Amanda, including many letters from his wife and children; his brother, Edward S. Adams; and his sister-in-law, Grace C. (Mrs. James W.) Adams, and her sons.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786586 View

Leaf, Martin, 1874-1967. Martin Leaf papers, 1914-1964.

Title: Martin Leaf papers, 1914-1964.

Memorabilia, letters, and telegrams, mainly congratulatory, from friends, business associates, and diplomatic officials to Leaf, an International Harvester Company representative in Scandinavia (1902-1936) and the U.S. vice consul in Norrköping, Sweden (1918-1922). Some items comment on International Harvester sales and on World War II conditions in Denmark.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474219 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Letterpress copy books [microform], 1891-1928.

Title: Letterpress copy books [microform], 1891-1928.

Outgoing correspondence of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (later International Harvester), 1884-1918, and chairman of the board, 1918-1935. The letters reflect external business conditions including the unsuccessful attempt in 1890 to combine with other companies to form the American Harvester Company; the successful consolidation with the Deering Harvester Company and other companies to form International Harvester; the role of J. P. Morgan and Company in effecting that consolidation; and problems attendant to the government's subsequent anti-trust suit. Internal operations such as plant expansions, introduction of new lines, and domestic and foreign marketing are also covered. Other topics include McCormick's personal investments; his service as trustee of Princeton University, 1889-1936; and his role as a member of the government's special diplomatic mission to Russia (the Root Commission) in 1917.

ArchivalResource: 72 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Reuben Gold Thwaites papers

Title: Reuben Gold Thwaites papers

Papers of Reuben Gold Thwaites, a historian and superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1887-1913, together with papers of his son geologist Frederick Turville Thwaites and Frederick's wife Amy Mueller Thwaites, his father-in-law Henry Turvil, and other relatives. Reuben Gold Thwaites' papers chiefly consist of correspondence and drafts and notes for speeches and articles on American and Wisconsin history. Correspondents include historians Frederick Jackson Turner, James Ford Rhodes, and Albert Bushnell Hart; Richard T. Ely concerning land investments; and Lucius Fairchild, Cyrus McCormick Jr., Ida Tarbell, Charles Van Hise, and William F. Vilas. Some notes relate to published interviews with Andrew J. and Peter J. Vieau, Morgan L. Martin, and Alexis Clermont. There are also notes for travel that became the subject of writings including a journey by boat down the Fox, Ohio, Rock, and Wisconsin Rivers; a trip by bicycle through Virginia; and travel in Great Britain and Ireland. The correspondence is chiefly professional in nature, covering Thwaites' writing career and relations with other historians and professional organizations. Also included are notes taken during classes with William Graham Sumner, Francis A. Walker, and others; detailed household account books, 1882-1929; house plans and elevations drawn by William Schuchart; and extensive photographs documenting family life and travel. The fragmentary papers of his wife Jessie Turvil Thwaites include diaries and records relating to a history study club organized by Anna Sheldon. The papers of Frederick T. Thwaites consist of diaries, account books, personal correspondence exchanged with his wife Amy Mueller Thwaites, professional correspondence related to the Geology Department of the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Geological Survey, and many scientific photographs. Henry Turvil Sr., a Madison area farmer, and several of his sons are represented by diaries and account books.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 cubic feet (15 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 3 card boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), and 37 photographs

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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. Letters, 1804-1814.

Title: Letters, 1804-1814.

Bound volume of various correspondence and clippings of Robert Fulton; consisting of signed autograph letter (2 p.), from Fulton to Peter Ogden, dated Nov. 6, 1813, concerning his plans for the development of the steamboat business; signed autograph letter (2 p.), from Fulton to Benjamin West, dated May 22, 1814, complimenting him on his painting and writing of his own endeavors in life; signed autograph letter (3 p.), from Bolton and Watts to Fulton, dated Oct. 26, 1811, regarding the engine they are building for Fulton's steamboat, and others; illustrated with a portrait of Fulton, by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 5 lithographs in tint and colors from designs by Fulton, and 6 other illustrations and postcards dating from 1804; also with broadside on cloth entitled "Lines occasioned by the explosion of the Steam Frigate Fulton, in which perished the gallant and amiable Lieut. Samuel M. Breckinridge," by Rodolphus.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49373530 View

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Letter and drawings, 1852.

Title: Letter and drawings, 1852.

Bound volume containing an autograph letter from Thackeray, signed with initials and dated 1852. Together with two original pencil sketches: a half length figure resembling a character from "The Virginians"; sketch of Napoleon in characteristic pose, beside two faces of Italian brigands. Also includes an origninal pen-and-ink sketch for the figure of Mr. Osborne in the illustration "Mr. Osborne's welcome to Amelia"; another sketch of Mr. Osborne in pencil, with two partly finished figures on same sheet.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (8 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81410916 View

Strachey, William, 1572?-1621. The historie of travell into Virginia Britania : manuscript, [1612].

Title: The historie of travell into Virginia Britania : manuscript, [1612].

Manuscript of Strachey's "The historie of travell into Virginia Britania ...," in unknown hand, with dedication and corrections written in Strachey's hand. Extra-illustrated with a copy of John Smith's 1612 map of Virginia (1st state) and 27 of De Bry's 1590 engravings of John White's drawings of Virginia (handcolored).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (150 p.) ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49370711 View

Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. On honour : manuscript, [18--?].

Title: On honour : manuscript, [18--?].

Autograph manuscript of an essay by Burr, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (4 leaves) ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49366007 View

Sullivan, Louis. McCormick Family Architectural Drawings, 1874-1964.

Title: McCormick Family Architectural Drawings, 1874-1964.

Blueprints and drawings of buildings and properties owned by the family of Cyrus Hall McCormick, including Nettie Fowler McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Jr., Harold McCormick, Mary Virginia McCormick, and Stanley McCormick. Properties include Walden, Walnut Grove, Caravels, Clayton Lodge, Harbor Point, Oaklands, House in the Woods, and Kildare. These and other properties were located in Chicago, Illinois; Lake Forest, Illinois; Cohassett, Massachusetts; Huntsville, Alabama; Raphine, Virginia; Harbor Springs, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

ArchivalResource: 759 architectural drawings and blueprints.

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McCormick family. McCormick family photographs and graphic materials, ca. 1842-1966.

Title: McCormick family photographs and graphic materials, ca. 1842-1966.

Photographs and other graphic materials relating to the family of Cyrus Hall McCormick. Included are cartes-de-visite, lithographs, informal photographs, formal studio photographs, tintypes, painted porcelain, daguerreotypes, and photo albums featuring the children and grandchildren of Cyrus Hall McCormick; the Fowler, Spice, and Merrick families; the Robert McCormick family; and friends of the McCormicks.

ArchivalResource: 14.0 c.f.

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