Chicago and Illinois in the Nineteenth Century

Chicago and Illinois in the Nineteenth Century:
Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections

Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.

For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

• Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
  
• Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
  
• Associate Reformed Congregation (United Presbyterian). Illinois Session Book. [Ms. 940]
  
• Louis E. Asher. Papers.
  
• Baptist Ministers Conference of Chicago. Records.
  
• Baptist Theological Union and Baptist Union Theological Seminary. Records.
  
• Elwyn A. Barron. Papers.
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. William E. Barton. Papers.
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Civil War Song Sheets
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Civil War Era Sheet Music
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Currier & Ives Lithographs
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Collection Miscellaneous Numbers of Newspapers Issued During the Civil War
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln-Herndon Law Library Books
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Law Case Manuscripts
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Finding Aid
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Pamphlets
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Portraits
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Sheet Music
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Sites
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Nineteenth-Century American Sheet Music
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Charles Edwards Wilcox. Civil War Diary.
  
• Bonney Family. Civil War Letters.
  
• D. E. Burlingam. Notes on Lectures at Chicago Medical College, Mercy Hospital, and Cook County Hospital. [Crerar Ms. 4.]
  
• Samuel J. Burrows. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 5]
  
• Digby B. Bulter. Papers. Finding Aid
• Butler-Gunsaulus Collection.
  
• Henry Kendall Carter. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 208]
  
• Chicago Belt Railroad Company. Records. [Crerar Ms. 189]
  
• Chicago Child Care Society. Records.
  
• Chicago Fire Telegrams. [Ms. 388]
  
• Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. Records.
  
• Chicago Mechanics' Institute. Records.
  
• Church History Documents Collection.
  
• Commerce City [later Nauvoo], Illinois. Merchant's account book. [Ms. 723, Vol. 22]
  
• John Crerar Library. Records.
  
• John Christlieb Curtiss. Papers. Finding Aid
• Stephen A. Douglas. Papers.
  
• Elgin, St. Charles & Southern Railway Company. Articles of Incorporation. [Crerar Ms. 190]
  
• Eugene Field. Correspondence. [Ms. 1366]
  
• Eugene Field. Correspondence. [Ms. 1524]
  
• Eugene Field. Miscellaneous Manuscripts. [Ms. 459]
  
• Eugene Field. The Temptation of Friar Gonsol. [Ms. 228]
  
• The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
  (via Library of Congress American Memory)
  
• Edward Goodman. Papers. Finding Aid
• Adelaide Eunice Goodrich. Papers.
  
• Gridley Family. Papers.
  
• Ludvig Hektoen. Clinical Case Histories and Postmortem Examiniations. Records. [Crerar Ms. 74]
  
• James Bryan Herrick. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 44]
  
• Bayard Taylor Holmes. Collected Papers. [Crerar Ms. 91]
  
• Bayard Taylor Holmes. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 95]
  
• Horace Everett Horton. Notes on the Manufacture of Glucose, Grape Sugars, and Starches. [Crerar Ms. 209]
  
• Charles L. Hostetter. Papers. Finding Aid
• Hulbert Family. Papers.
  
• Hyde Park Historical Society. Records.
  
• Illinois Central Railroad Company. Records. [Crerar Ms. 191]
  
• Illinois Society for Medical Research. Records.
  
• Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet. Testimony before the Board of Prison Commissioners Investigating Cases of Inhuman Treatment of Prisoners.
  
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Papers.
  
• Charles Herman Koenitzer. History of the First University of Chicago, 1856-1886.
  
• Ebenezer Lane Family. Papers.
  
• Elon Lee and Edson S. Bastin. Papers.
  
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
  
• Harriet Monroe. Papers.
  
• Thomas J. Morgan. Papers. Finding Aid
• Northwestern Baptist Education Society of Chicago. Records.
  
• Ida E. S. Noyes. Papers.
  
• Ida E. S. Noyes. Photograph Album.
  
• Old University of Chicago. Records.
  
• Francis Wayland Parker. Papers.
  
• Bessie Louise Pierce. Papers.
  
• Playbills and Programs Collection.
  
• Political Pamphlets Collection.
  
• Julius Rosenwald. Papers.
  
• Rush Medical College. Alumni Directory.
  
• Rush Medical College. Announcements.
  
• Martin Ryerson (1818-1887). Papers.
  
• Ryerson Family. Papers.
  
• Jonathan Young Scammon. Papers.
  
• George A. Schilling. Papers. Finding Aid
• Nicholas Senn. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 100]
  
• Henry Shimer. Epidemic Diseases; Thesis Submitted to Chicago Medical College. [Crerar Ms. 31]
  
• Society of Medical History of Chicago. Records. [Crerar Ms. 33]
  
• Frederick Starr. Papers.
  
• Frederick Stenn. Papers. Finding Aid
• William Warren Sweet. Papers.
  
• William H. Thomson. Notes on Medical Clinic. [Crerar Ms. 35]
  
• University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
  
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Subscriptions for Contributions. Records.
  
• George C. Walker. Scrapbooks.
  
• Edward Franklin Wells. Papers on Pneumonic Fever. [Crerar Ms. 101]
  
• Edward Franklin Wells. Plumonary Tuberculosis. [Crerar Ms. 102]
  
• Edward Franklin Wells. The Amelioration of the Condition of Consumptives and Restriction of the Extension of Tuberculosis. [Crerar Ms. 103]
  
• Ida B. Wells. Papers. Finding Aid
• Thomas Winston. Papers.
  
• Thomas Foster Withrow. History of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company. [Crerar Ms. 195]
  
• Napier Wilt. Index of Chicago Theatrical Performances.
  
• World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago. C. D. Arnold Photographs. [Archival Photographic Files].
  
• World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago. Department of Liberal Arts. Report. [Ms. 969]
  
• World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago. E. R. Walker Photographs. [Archival Photographic Files].
  

See also: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War and Medicine.