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Abraham Augur receipt
New Haven; Receipt for £25 to enslaver Joshua Chandler for his purchase of enslaved Black girl "[Peg], supposed to be about nine years old." [Peg] was sold by the state of Connecticut for forfeit of the debt of Stephen [Wit]. Receipt is signed by Abraham Augur.
Theodore Charles Stone papers
Theodore Charles Stone (1912-1998) was a Chicago-based baritone operatic singer and journalist who served as president of both the National Association of Negro Musicians and Chicago Music Association. The Theodore Charles Stone papers span from 1929-2001 and provide insight into the African-American operatic music scene throughout the 20th century. Material includes programs, flyers, invitations to concerts and performances, subject and
Chicago Youth Centers records
Board meeting minutes of the Chicago Youth Centers.
Florence Kelley Collection
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a social worker, reformer, lawyer, suffragist, and confirmed socialist. In 1891, she left her husband and moved to Chicago with her three children to become a resident of Hull-House. In 1892, Kelly was appointed by Govenor Atgeld as the state’s first chief factory inspector. In 1899, Kelley helped to establish the National Consumer’s League (NCL) and
Harold Washington Archives and Collections. Mayoral Records. Central Files Records
The Central Files Records consist of correspondence received by the Mayor's Office. Incoming mail was sorted by Harold Washington's Executive Office using the Central Filing System. Included in the collection is a small amount of papers from Harold Washington and the files of Dolores Woods, Harold Washington's Executive Secretary.
Spink, George. Collection
The George Spink Collection contains transcripts and audio cassettes of interviews with saxophonist Bud Freeman and Richard "Dick" Wang.
Miriam Tyler papers
Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Miriam Tyler worked as a case worker for the Juvenile Protective Association from 1945 to 1955 in the section of the city bordered by Division St. on the north and 45th on the south. Miriam Tyler also lived in the Jane Club for eight years. In 1954, she left Chicago for the Shenandoah
Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives
The Archives of the Illinois Central Railroad Company document the activities of the Company and its subsidiary lines and companies from before its charter on Feb. 10, 1851, through and a bit beyond 1972, when the line merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to become Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. The collection includes correspondence of administrators and staff, minutes,
Thelma Kirkpatrick Wheaton papers
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photo albums, newsletters, meeting minutes, flyers, brochures, and other papers of Thelma Kirkpatrick Wheaton, a Chicago (Ill.) social worker and civil right activist. Materials mostly relate to religious, educational, and civil rights organizations in which Wheaton participated, such as the NAACP Women's Auxiliary.
Eileen Southern papers
Eileen Jackson Southern was born February 19, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Walter Wade and Lilla (Gibson) Jackson. Southern gave her first piano recital at the age of 12 and made her debut in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall at age 19, playing a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Musical College Symphony Orchestra. Although she studied the traditional white classical genius of
African-American Studies Program records
The Afro-American Studies program (AASP) was formally started in March 1971 through the work of the AASP Committee and Dr. Milton A. Gordon, who was named the first director. The Afro-American Studies program was introduced to add the possibility of studying Black history and culture into the Loyola curriculum. In 1990 the name of the Afro-American Studies Program was changed
University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs -- H.M. Engle -- Affirmative Action Files
H.M. Engle was appointed on 1 Feb 1970 to be vice-chancellor at the Medical Campus and to serve as Medical Director of the University of Illinois Hospital.
John W. M. Kirby tax document
Payment of taxes to the Sheriff of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, on land, enslaved people, horse, carryall, 3 County levies and 2 Parish levies, amounting in all to $4.13.
Thoma, George F. Collection
George F. Thoma, musician. The George F. Thoma Collection contains photographs of various members of the Artie Shaw Band at the navy barracks of Pearl Harbor in 1943.
The New Americans Video Project records
The New Americans is a 411-minute 2004 documentary television series produced by Kartemquin Films. It follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his
Austin Newspapers Collection
The collection contains community newspapers includes The Austin Herald, The Austin News, The Austinite, The Austin Voice, The Austin Weekly News, and The Windy City Word. The issues primarily span 1970-1997.
James Zartman papers on the Illinois Civil Rights Rally
James Zartman (1925- ) is an attorney who worked to defend civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. Zartman was first involved in civil rights through the Ad Hoc Committee for Civil Rights. In 1963, Zartman attended the March on Washington. He then served as treasurer for the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights, which organized Martin Luther
Kartemquin Films records
Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit documentary and educational film production company founded in 1966 in Chicago by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter, three University of Chicago graduates who wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of ""Cinematic Social Inquiry."" They were later joined by Jerry Blumenthal, who along with Gordon Quinn remains with the organization today.
Captain Harry Dean papers
The Captain Harry Dean papers spans from 1817-1973 with the bulk of material from 1909-1934. Dean was an African-American sailor who supported the Pan-Africanism movement. Dean spent the majority of his adolescent and adult years sailing throughout Europe and Africa. In 1900, he purchased a ship, “The Pedro Gorino,” which he captained before coming back to America, circa 1920. The
Maria Mootry papers
Poet, literary critic, and essayist Maria Mootry was a professor at the University of Illinois-Springfield and the author of literary criticism on Gwendolyn Brooks.
Bob Crawford Audio Archive collection
The Bob Crawford Audio Archive collection consists of roughly a hundred tapes of interviews, radio programs and City Council proceedings collected from about 1970 to 2001 by Bob Crawford of Chicago's WBBM radio station. The collection includes more than 2,100 sound clips from Chicago mayors and other politicians or public figures in Chicago.
Evanston Community Development Corporation Records
The Evanston Community Development Corporation was founded in July 1975. It worked to foster and coordinate community rehabilitation of residential and commercial areas, eliminate deteriorating sections of the city's African-American community, and engender economic development in the city of Evanston, Illinois. The Evanston Community Development Corporation disbanded in the 1990s. The collection covers the organizational history including meetings, proposals, resolutions,
Southwest Community Congress records
Office files of the Southwest Community Congress (SCC) in Chicago (Ill.) including topical files, newspaper clippings, committee minutes, correspondence, SCC publications, press releases, annual SCC delegate information sheets, SCC constitution, financial and accounting records, personnel records, fundraising records, photographs, and other organizations' publications. Primarily records of SCC's activities regarding Daley College, Midway Airport, pre-purchase counseling for FHA mortgage buyers, the
Charles Luquet slavery document
New Orleans; Sale of enslaved person by Charles Luquet to Charles Weiss.
Economic Survey of Liberia records
Between January 1961 and August 1962 a team of researchers from Northwestern University conducted an economic survey of Liberia in West Africa. Their purpose was to "analyze the structure of the Liberian economy and measure its performance in order to suggest policies for development." The project was initiated by the Government of Liberia through the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) and