Field Enterprises records, 1858-2007, bulk 1950-1975.

ArchivalResource

Field Enterprises records, 1858-2007, bulk 1950-1975.

The collection includes administrative, promotional, and legal materials, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts from the Chicago Daily News, the Sun and Times Company, the Chicago Sun-Times, Field Communications, and other miscellaneous holdings owned by Field Enterprises.

110 cubic ft. (154 boxes, 17 oversize boxes, 12 bound v., and 107 scrapbooks)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7245856

Newberry Library

Related Entities

There are 40 Entities related to this resource.

Newberry Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7hww (person)

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...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bm24mm (corporateBody)

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wt4t9n (corporateBody)

Burck, Jacob

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz5qjf (person)

Field Communications Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz89n8 (corporateBody)

Chicago sun-times. School Services Division

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc05hj (corporateBody)

Field, Marshall, 1834-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m620r3 (person)

Businessman. From the description of Marshall Field correspondence, 1891-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450239 American merchant. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to Mr. Schell at Harper & Brothers, 1890 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517828 ...

Shuman, Nick.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fr2rt2 (person)

Hoge, James F.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dj8b6x (person)

Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt2kg4 (person)

Owner and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, 1925-1931. From the description of Walter Ansel Strong papers, 1847-2008, bulk 1912-1931. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 318598235 ...

Geyer, Georgie Anne, 1935-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx0cn8 (person)

American journalist and author. From the description of Georgie Anne Geyer papers, 1944-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123401603 Biography 1935, April 2 Born, Chicago, Illinois 1959 1975 Reporter, Chicago Daily News ...

Marsh, Baker.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr1w31 (person)

Hempstone, Smith, 1929-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6031n6s (person)

German American Bund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk8b8b (corporateBody)

Fascist organization in the United States. From the description of German American Bund records, 1936-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869948 Biographical/Historical Note Fascist organization in the United States. From the guide to the German American Bund records, 1936-1941, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Field, Marshall, 1893-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0wjw (person)

Akers, Milburn P.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w5b60 (person)

Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k543k (person)

Dedmon, Emmett.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf2srw (person)

Associated press

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f22njb (corporateBody)

Weller, George, 1907-2002

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q24m57 (person)

George Weller (1710-1778) was the son of Robert Weller of Tonbridge and Elizabeth Poley of Boxted Hall, Suffolk. He was at Tonbridge School in 1721-2, and probably longer, and continued to live at Tonbridge, and then at Tunbridge Wells until some time after 1766. He was a lawyer and Recorder of Queenborough, and he seems to have played an active role in county affairs. On inheriting Boxted Hall from his mother, he took the added surname of Poley, and later moved to Suffolk, where he died in 1778...

Mowrer, Richard Scott

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b57wm4 (person)

Freelance journalist and foreign correspondent for several newspapers including the Chicago daily news, New York post, and the Christian science monitor. Son of journalist Paul Scott Mowrer. From the description of Richard S. Mowrer papers, 1942-2004, bulk 1951-1975. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 187971678 ...

Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q24gjh (person)

Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and poet. From the description of Paul Scott Mowrer papers, 1894-1988, bulk 1912-1971. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 182630334 ...

Chicago Daily News, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v1845 (corporateBody)

Chicago sun-times

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k75pc (corporateBody)

Field Enterprises.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6422wsk (corporateBody)

Chicago media conglomorate founded by Marshall Field III. The company was dissolved in 1984. From the description of Field Enterprises records, 1858-2007, bulk 1950-1975. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 276770347 ...

Landers, Ann

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64q83rf (person)

Esther Pauline Lederer (b. 1918; nee Friedman; nicknamed Eppie) became the advice columnist Ann Landers in 1954 for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her column's topics included sexuality, marital roles and family relationships, divorce, drugs and alcoholism, and ethical issues. It eventually was syndicated in over 1100 newspapers. In 1987, she left the Sun-Times, taking the column with her to the Chicago Tribune, where she remained its primary author until 2000. From the description of Ann La...

Fresh Air Fund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jq65w1 (corporateBody)

Beech, Keyes

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6254dgx (person)

Kogan, Herman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg9jsp (person)

Field, Marshall, 1941-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c27qt1 (person)

Field, Marshall, 1916-1965.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t6fnt (person)

Kupcinet, Irv.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r6mq5 (person)

Fanning, Larry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt2jsr (person)

Pryor, Louise

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq5wz1 (person)

Drury, John, 1898-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f48sq6 (person)

Farmer in the Bellevue, Ohio area. From the description of Accounts 1885-1890. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 55968985 John Drury was a Chicago newspaper columnist, poet, and author of several books on Chicago and the Midwest. His wife Marion Neville was a book reviewer, columnist, and amateur painter. From the description of John Drury-Marion Neville papers, 1860-1970. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 187973...

Quinlan, Sterling.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b02177 (person)

Royko, Mike, 1932-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc46ms (person)

Chicago newspaper columnist. Mike Royko was born September 19, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of an immigrant tavernkeeper and his wife. He grew up in Chicago, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. He spent four years in the air force in Korea as a radio operator and at O'Hare Field as editor of the base newspaper. In 1956 Royko applied to the Chicago City News Bureau for a job. He began writing articles for small Chicago neighborhood papers, and then in 1959 Royko was ...

Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fx77kb (person)

American cartoonist, best known for the long-running comic strips Terry and the pirates and Steve Canyon. Lived for many years in New City, NY as a neighbor of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Maxwell Anderson, Alan Jay Lerner, and others. Also an original board member of the Kurt Weill for Music thanks to his long association with Lenya. Caniff died in 1988. From the description of An oral history interview with Milton Caniff / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spo...

Wille, Lois

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wd5wn6 (person)

Sizer, Lawrence B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m0729x (person)