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United Steelworkers of America, District 7 collection of visual materials
Photographs of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) District 7 and Local 1033 at Republic Steel (later LTV). Subjects include the steel plant ca. 1968, particularly showing dilapidated conditions of the building and facilities; various banquets and events; bowling leagues; youth basketball games; group and individual portraits including Barratt O'Hara, Art Leitherer, Frank Guzzo, Russel L. Pisle, Robert Johnson, and Casey
United Steelworkers of America, District 31 records
Correspondence, reports, minutes, contracts, grievances, arbitrations, appeals to the international union, dues reports, political campaign materials, newsletters, newsclippings, publications, and other records related to the operations of the United Steelworkers of America, District 31, serving northern Illinois and Indiana, and to the activities and policies of USWA's international office in Pittsburgh (Pa.). Topics include the Steelworkers Organizing Committee, local unions
United Steelworkers of America, District 31 collection of visual materials
Photoprints relating to USWA, District 31, whose purpose is to provide plant level union leaders in northern Indiana (St. Joseph, LaPorte, Porter & Lake counties) and Illinois (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will & Kankakee counties) with services and skilled advice. Subjects include union leaders including the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (1930s), especially Joseph Germano, director of District 31 from
United Nations Association, Illinois and Greater Chicago Divisions records
Correspondence, newsletters, press releases, brochures, meeting minutes, financial records, itineraries, speeches, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and other records of United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), Illinois and Greater Chicago Divisions, the local chapter of a nonpartisan organization to increase awareness of the work of the United Nations. The majority of the collection pertains to meetings and events
Unidentified photograph collection
The Unidentified photograph collection of the Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society includes photographs found throughout the Bronzeville neighborhood, at resale-shops, abandoned homes, or were discarded throughout the community.
Unidentified artifacts collection
The Unidentified Artifact Collection consists of discarded items from the Bronzeville neighborhood. In 2009, Sherry Williams collected these items with attempts to preserve the social and cultural aspects of everyday life in the community. The collection is organized in a container list. Currently, the items fit in one archival box. The majority of the items are not dated.
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Collection
Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly was an anti-slavery novel that profoundly affected American attitudes towards African Americans and slavery in the United States. The collection contains 23 documents, most of which are of British origin and describe or announce theatrical presentations of the tale.
Umbrian Glee Club records
African American choral and musician club in Chicago in the early to mid twentieth century. Organized in 1895 at Bethel AME Church, the legendary men's chorus was a musical icon in Chicago. Throughout its existence, the Umbrian Glee Club was a tradition in Chicago and supported community and musical organizations, as well as provided support and opportunity to aspiring musicians.
UE/Wells Film Project elements
UE/Wells is a 15-minute 1975 film by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, and Guillermo Brzostowski. The film follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to
Tutoring Project For Mothers records
By-laws, announcements, lists of volunteers, training and organizing information, etc. of a project by women in the Woodlawn community of Chicago, Ill., to tutor mothers free in reading and other household and vocational skills. This adult education project was based at the YWCA and at Immanual Lutheran Church.
The Tuskegee Student collection
A student newspaper at Tuskegee University.
Trick Bag Film Project records
Trick Bag is a 21-minute 1974 film coproduced by Kartemquin Films, Columbia College Chicago, and the Chicago area activist newspaper Rising Up Angry. Gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers from Chicago's neighborhoods tell of their personal experience with racism - who gets hurt and who profits.
Traveler's Aid Society records
The Traveler's Aid Society of Chicago was established in 1888 as an adjunct of the YWCA. By 1914, as Chicago had become a destination or transit stop for great numbers of immigrants, the unemployed and traveling servicemen, the Travelers Aid Society was established as a separate, non-sectarian organization. The Travelers Aid Society was responsible for the care of dependent children,
Transportation Center Research and Consulting Reports 1966-1982
This series fills three boxes and is comprised of research and consulting reports published or issued by the Northwestern University Transportation Center. Although the series spans the years from 1966-1982, the majority date from the period 1977-1982.
Toward Freedom Newsletter records
Toward Freedom is a newsletter founded by William Bross Lloyd, Jr. in the late 1950's to call American attention to civil rights issues, African colonial and postcolonial issues, and other occurrences of racial and religious discrimination across the globe.
Tina Lifford Papers
These papers contain Tina Lifford’s play programs for performance in Evanston and Chicago. Although Lifford primarily works in California, she has made an effort to put on productions in her hometown of Evanston, Illinois.
Timuel Black papers
Reports, brochures, convention packets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, publications, course materials, and other papers of Timuel D. Black, Jr., a Chicago educator, civil rights and labor rights activist, and oral historian. Materials largely pertain to the civil rights movement in education. Also present are materials by or about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Negro American Labor Council,
Timothy Jackson papers
Chicago Defender editorial cartoonist Tim Jackson is also renowned as the creator of the website “Pioneering Cartoonists of Color,” the most extensive database of information about early African American cartoonists. Jackson also worked for LifeTimes, a publication issued by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.
Thyra Edwards papers
Correspondence, articles, scrapbook with photographs, and other papers of Thyra Edwards, a social worker at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, Ill. Included are Edwards' observations on workers' education and social conditions in Europe and her feelings as an African American when traveling there; material relating to her work on behalf of the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, the
Thomas Trent Plantation Account Book
Account book kept by Thomas Trent, a plantation owner in Buckingham County (now Appomattox County), Virginia.
Thomas P. Dombkowski papers
Thomas P. Dombkowski helped found Chicago House, an HIV and AIDS hospice, eventually becoming its Executive Director. He also worked for the Howard Brown Health Center and for the Chicago Department of Health, and founded the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
Thomas McReynolds papers
Correspondence of McReynolds, a resident of Macoupin County (Ill.); bill of sale (1832) to McReynolds for an enslaved girl from Kentucky; and a list of trustees of a Macoupin County school (1839). McReynolds describes Illinois and the Black Hawk War in an 1831 letter. Letters from his native Kentucky contain his father's description of a cholera epidemic (1835) and his
Thomas Fardon bill of sale for two enslaved people
Rumbouts, Dutchess County, New York. Bill of sale for 2 enslaved Black people to Abraham Fardon. Witnessed by John Gibson and Jacobus Fardon. Attested by Jacobus Fardon, Feb. 13, 1772, whose statement is notarized by Andrew Gautier. Red wax seal.
Thomas Chinn bill of sale for enslaved woman, Milly
Bill of sale to William Kerner for enslaved Black woman, Milly. Witnessed by Hugh Frazer. Notice of record in Harrison County, Kentucky, May 24, 1817, by Wm. Moore. Inclosure: Letter signed from Henry J. Patten transmitting gift from former owner E. D. W. Pogue to Chicago Historical Society.
Thomas Calhoun Walker papers
Thomas Calhoun Walker was born at the end of slavery in Gloucester, Virginia, and educated at Hampton Institute. He later became a lawyer and community activist.