Lillian Powell Barbour papers, 1877-1984.

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Lillian Powell Barbour papers, 1877-1984.

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Papers of Mrs. Lillian Powell Barbour, including autograph book signed by male and female friends, many from Douglas School (1877-1878); scrapbooks of invitations, dance programs, etc. (6 v., 1881-1894); volume about plays, entitled "What I Have Seen," with ca. 30 letters by theater people responding to Lillian Powell's requests for autographs (1906-1909); poetry written by Powell (1 v., before 1888); ca. 20 letters written from European cities to Powell and typed and handwritten draft of her M.A. Thesis (in Spanish and English) at the University of Chicago, "The Influence of French Naturalism in the Works of Emilia Pardo Bazan" (1928); university cards and information (1915-1944) and diplomas (1917, 1928). Also present are 4 certificates of her father Moses W. Powell (1861-1899).

2.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8082088

Chicago History Museum

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Barbour family.

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Powell, Moses W.

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Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de, 1852-1921

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Barbour, Lillian Powell, 1891-1984.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Douglas School (Chicago, Ill.)

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