Title: McCormick Family Properties Photographs and Graphic Materials
Inclusive Dates: circa 1883-1966

Call Number: M2002-176

Quantity: 8.3 c.f. (11 flat boxes, 7 archives boxes, 2 card boxes, and 1 record center carton)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Photographs, drawings, blueprints, and other visual materials depicting residences, estates, furnishings, and other properties owned, rented, visited, or funded by members of the McCormick family.

Note:

Forms part of the McCormick Collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2002176

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Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M2002-176

M2002-176	Photos Found Among Nettie McCormick's Personal Belongings
Box   1 Folder   1	Buildings
Box   1 Folder   2	Uracca Ranch?
Box   1 Folder   3	An orphanage?
Box   1 Folder   4	Foreign views, Algiers?
Box   1 Folder   5-6	Individuals
Box   1 Folder   7	Henrietta Hamilton McCormick?
Box   1 Folder   8	675 Rush Street
Box   1 Folder   9	Study of Kildare by F.J. Thielbart and O.C. Simmonds
Box   1 Folder   10	Ruins of stone stack and house
Box   1 Folder   11-21	Walnut Grove restoration, 1937-1938
Box   1 Folder   22	Photos taken at Walnut Grove during filming of Romance of the Reaper, 1929
Box   2-3	Walnut Grove maps, plans, large photographs
	Flower Arrangements and McCormick Family Crest/Coat of Arms
Box   4	Cyrus McCormick's cemetery wreaths Note: Including reaper-shaped arrangement.
Box   4	Nettie Fowler McCormick's 80th birthday flowers
Box   4	Original paintings of McCormick family crest Note: Various versions.
Box   5	Burton Place home owned by Stillwell
Box   5	Residence for Stanley McCormick Physical Description: Blueprints, sketches
Box   5	Unidentified home
Box   5	Island Lake Camp photo album
Box   5	Herter Brothers sketches of furniture, fixtures, decoration
Box   6-7	Primarily Cyrus McCormick Jr. snapshots and negatives of residences, camps, travel, circa 1906-1935 Note: Including White Deer Lake Camp, Jekyll Island, Walden and snaps of Harriet Hammond's family in England.
Box   8	40 and 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, exteriors
Box   8	Merrick home in Clayton, New York
Box   8	50 E. Huron St., interior photos documenting paintings
Box   8	50 E. Huron St., proposed alterations, blueprints
Box   8	House-in-the-Woods, Rush street exteriors, winter scenes
Box   8	Council Bluff, Iowa, Harold McCormick home
Box   8	Houses chiefly Physical Description: 21 pictures  Note: Separations from Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence.
Box   8	Cyrus McCormick Sr. house alterations, blueprints
Box   8	Girard Antiquities furnishings
Box   8	Northern Ireland, scenes of area (Sligo) where McCormick's ancestors lived, prints and negatives
Box   9	California, Chicago, Maine and elsewhere
	Photo Albums of Residences
Box   10	Rockbridge Place, Rush Street Mansion, Chicago, Illinois
Box   10	Cyrus McCormick Jr. estate, possibly Walden, Lake Forest, Illinois
Box   11	Walden
Box   12	Marcotte and Herter Brothers, drawings of furnishings Note: Very fragile, very brittle.
Box   12	Herter for Kildare in Huntsville, Alabama
Box   12	Marcotte for McCormick mansion, circa 1877-1878 Note: See detailed inventory.
Box   12	Stanford White monument
Box   12	Crayon drawings of 675 Rush St.
Box   12	Lake Forest bridge, Valley Ranch, New Mexico (#349af)
Box   13	House-in-the-Woods
Box   13	Walden, Illinois, Cyrus McCormick Jr.
Box   13	Huntsville, Alabama, Mary Virginia McCormick
Box   13	Island Lake Camp
Box   13	White Deer Lake Camp
Box   13	Rental properties, mainly Mary Virginia McCormick home
	Plats of Survey
Box   14	Riven Rock, California
Box   14	Lake Forest, Illinois
Box   14	Chicago, commercial lots township 14, range 39 Note: Site of 4th Presbyterian Church.
Box   14	Blueprints of Tusculum College, boys' dormitory by D.R. Beeson, 1923
Box   15-17	Walnut Grove, Virginia, restoration and landmark dedication, 1907-1933, 1966
Box   18	Memorials
Box   18	Washington and Lee centennial
Box   18	ASAE McCormick Medal
Box   18	Virginia House of Delegates
Box   18	Cemetery monuments
Box   18	Unidentified monument
	Miscellaneous blueprints and plats
	Reaper Block, Nettie Fowler McCormick
Box   19	62-64 W. Washington
Box   19	Bedford Building
Box   19	Dexter Building extension, Holabird and Root, 1940
	Bridges and mining properties
Box   20	Casabi mining district, Arizona
Box   20	New Fork bridge, White Deer Lake, Gordon McCormick, 1941
Box   20	Graceland Cemetery
Box   20	Clayton Lodge, Richfield Springs, New York
Box   20	Warren Manning plans for Walden
Box   21	Walden plans