Ayer Collection administrative files, 1931-1964.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Newberry Library. Special Collections Section.

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From 1945 until her retirement in 1969, Amy Wood Nyholm served as cataloguer and research librarian for the Newberry's Modern Manuscripts, later Midwest Manuscripts Collection. Nyholm was hired in 1945 to catalogue manuscript collections newly acquired for the Library by Lloyd Lewis as a result of Librarian Stanley Pargellis' decision to collect personal papers and archives complementing the Library's research strengths (particularly those relating to Chicago and the Mid...

Butler, Ruth Lapham, 1896-

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William B. Greenlee Collection.

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Storm, Colton, 1908-1988

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Author. From the description of A little dinner for Lincoln : typescript and published article, 1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980900 ...

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library)

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Smith, Clara A.

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Hall, Frederick Holden, 1915-1972

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