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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Stirn, Ernest W. and Henry J. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Ernest W. Stirn received his Masters degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1922 and later worked as a statistical consultant for private businesses and the government. Between 1931 and 1943 he was involved with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Bankruptcy Reorganization. During his lifetime he was also actively interested in the life of Robert M. LaFollette, and in 1937 the University of Chicago Press published a bibliography he had prepared on LaFollette.
mong these manuscripts are letters written to and by his father, Henry J. Stirn who, in addition to working in his printing company, was an expert on the collecting of old violins and stamps.
The papers are divided into four series. Series I comprises correspondence written and received by Ernest W. Stirn and his father Henry J. Stirn, a printer and collector of antique violins and stamps. Series II includes records of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation Bankruptcy Reorganization. Series III, Music includes Sheets of music copied from printed manuscripts, music notebooks, and manuscripts of E. W. Stirn's own compositions. Series IV, Writings, contains essays, reports, and sketches written by E. W. Stirn and The Life of Robert M. LaFollette by E. W. Stirn
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