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Correspondence and other papers relating to Carey's activities as a lawyer, politician, and alderman (1947-1955) of the 3rd ward in Chicago; member (1955-1961) of the President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; and pastor of Quinn Chapel (African Methodist Episcopal Church). Collection...

Newspaper clippings, correspondence, one scrapbook, Republican Party 1952 National Convention material, photographs, political campaign material, International Woman Suffrage Alliance conference photos, reports of Liquid Carbonic Co., photos of Chicago Post Offic e interior circa 1900, certificat...

Primarily photographs relating to Charles H. Percy's political career as a U.S. Senator (Republican, Illinois) from 1967 to 1985, including views of him campaigning; at Senate hearings; traveling abroad; interacting with staff and interns, students, constituents, and groups representing older Ame...

Letters, clippings, photographs, and mementos of Chicago businessman and philanthropist Chauncey McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Company, and was president of the Art Institute of Chi...

Clarence Manion's papers are comprised of incoming correspondence and carbon copies of outgoing letters; transcripts of Manion Forum broadcasts, 1954-1979; and publications advocating conservative positions on American domestic and foreign affairs, including monographs written or published by Man...

Primarily copies of correspondence, legal documents, speeches, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to Davis family matters or to Davis's career as a lawyer; a judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1848-1862; Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme C...

Personal and business correspondence relating to Chicago journalist Herma Clark's writings, family matters, and realty business in Chicago and Florida. Includes letters and notes; fan mail; play scripts, texts of speeches, manuscripts of books and columns; songs, poetry, sayings, epitaphs, and re...

Correspondence, mimeographed and printed material, certificates, posters, phonograph records of speeches, minutes of meetings and conventions, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to activities of Mrs. Gaines, a leader in local, state, and national organizations of African American club...

Correspondence of I.N. Arnold, a Chicago lawyer, Republican Congressman (1861-1865), Episcopalian, and historian; as well as books written by Arnold. Concerns Civil War era politics and Arnold's writings, including biographies of Abraham Lincoln, whom Arnold knew personally, and a biography of Be...

Correspondence, political statements, newspaper clippings, four scrapbooks, and other materials of Joseph D. Bibb, a Chicago lawyer and newspaper columnist, an African American activist for equal rights and economic opportunity, and a state law enforcement official. Materials relate to the Republ...

Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Judge David F. Matchett, Sr., his wife Jennie Elizabeth Moore Matchett, and his son David F. Matchett, Jr. Present are materials related to Judge David F. Matchett's involvement with ...

Correspondence, speech transcripts, materials relating to media relations, research files, newspaper clippings, and other papers primarily relating to Richard E. Friedman's 1971 campaign in the April general election against incumbent Richard J. Daley to become mayor of Chicago. Also inc...

This collection reflects Arrington's activities in the Illinois State Senate between the years of 1965 and 1971. The bulk of the information within pertains to legislation influenced by the Republican party between those years. Documents reflect communication within the Senate itself, as well as ...

Images of Rentschler's political activities in Chicago and Illinois, 1950s-1970s, concentrating on his unsuccessful 1960 and 1970 bids for a Republican seat in the U.S. Senate and his work as Richard Nixon's Illinois presidential campaign manager in 1968. Also includes campaign publicity photogra...

Letters, chiefly personal letters exchanged between members of the Bailhache family, particularly William and his wife, Ada Bailhache. Includes letter from Paul Selby to Bailhache about the Republican presidential nomination, June 1, 1892. Also includes May 18, 1860 letter from Bailhache to his w...