Reynolds-McBride family papers, 1866-2000.

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Reynolds-McBride family papers, 1866-2000.

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The Reynolds Family series contains letters between the members of the Reynolds family in Manchester, England, and their relatives in Chicago. Letters from Mary Reynolds (neé O'Toole) to her son, Laurence, in Chicago were dictated to her daughter Mary Ann or son William, and portray the mental and social struggles of a Irish immigrant family attempting to build a life and succeed economically in often harsh conditions.

4.5 linear feet (11 boxes)

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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...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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McBride family.

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Reynolds, William, 1847-1934.

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Irish family who emigrated to Manchester, England, and whose descendents settled in the Chicago area. Patrick Reynolds was a native of Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland. He married Mary O'Toole in 1830 and they had nine children, six of whom survived into adulthood, Laurence, John, Peter, Mary Ann, Patrick, and William. Patrick Reynolds died in 1849 at age 39 in the midst of the Great Famine. Within months of his death, his wife Mary emigrated with the children to Manchest...

Reynolds family.

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McBride, Anita, 1920-2000

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Reynolds, Mary, 1891-1950

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Mary Reynolds (1891-1950) was one of the most important figures of the Surrealist movement. A young war widow, she moved from the U.S. to Paris in 1919. In 1923 she met Marcel Duchamp and maintained a friendship with him until her death. During the 1920s, she studied with the Parisian bookbinder Pierre Legrain and applied her skills to books given to her by such friends as Max Ernst, Man Ray, Paul Eluard, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali. Reynolds was active in the French Resistanc...