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Wallpaper Design scrapbooks

Scrapbooks for Wallpaper Design, a firm which advertised itself as ""America's first Black-owned and operated wallpaper store,"" at 1635 East 87th Street, Chicago (Ill.).

First Church of Deliverance photographs

Includes photographs related to the First Church of Deliverance, an African American church with at least two locations at 4633 South State Street and 3363 South Indiana Avenue in Chicago (Ill.). Primarily includes portraits of people associated with the church, including Reverends Clarence H. Cobbs and Mattye B. Thornton, and Edward Bolden, Harold Caldwell, Frances Hutto, and Ralph GoodPasteur. Also

Nathan Kellogg McGill papers

Nathan Kellogg McGill was born in Florida, 1888, and grew up in a house on Eighth Street and History Avenue in the Georgetown community of Sanford, Florida. His stepfather was a minister and a shoemaker who maintained a workshop behind the family home. Nathan McGill graduated from the Cookman Institute in Jacksonville in 1909; graduated from law school at Boston

Benjamin Chew papers

Philadelphia. Record of probate of will of Nathan Bewley, copy of will attached, includes impressed seal of Pennsylvania (1766 May 7, Document signed, 4 pages). A list of Chew's twenty enslaved people at Whitehall, listed by name, gender, and age; a list of Chew's ten enslaved people who have been "put out from Whitehall to service," by name and wages

James M. Richardson papers

James Richardson, M.D., was an ophthalmologist at Provident Hospital and civil rights activist from the 1940s through the 1990s. He also studied his family history in Oklahoma and Texas.

Uptown Chicago Commission records

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, press releases, and topical files of the Uptown Chicago Commission (UCC), a representative community organization, founded in 1955, in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago (Ill.) to serve as a forum for communication and as a catalyst for action for Uptown residents, community organizations, institutions, and businesses. Also present in the collection are reports, proposals,

Weeks, Charles Bryant Frederick. Papers

Charles Bryant Frederick Weeks, drummer, banker, and board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. The Charles Bryant Frederick Weeks Collection includes ephemera on events and organizations in Chicago, administrative records for the Jazz Institute of Chicago, correspondence, catalogs, method books, audio material, articles, photographs, and a scrapbook. The collection documents Weeks' professional life and involvement in Chicago jazz, jazz

Vicky Starr papers

Correspondence, research files, newsletters, financial papers, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, and other papers of Victoria Starr, a women's rights and labor union activist from Chicago (Ill.). Vicky Starr was involved in several labor and progressive organizations, such as the Chicago Women's Liberation Union and the United Packinghouse workers. Starr worked in the Chicago stockyards during the 1930s, and later worked

American Friends Service Committee records

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) founded in 1917 to work for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. It was created in order to provide conscientious objectors ways to serve without joining the military or taking lives. Through the years, the Committee became known for its work

Leon Despres photograph collection

Includes photographs relating to the career of former Chicago 5th ward alderman Leon Despres of Chicago (Ill.). Includes portraits of Despres and views of Despres with other Chicago municipal officials, such as mayors Jane Byrne and Harold Washington. Despres is shown at various events, such as ground breaking ceremonies, elections, and meetings. Includes a group of large format photographs showing

John Brown papers

The papers contain twenty-seven items by John Brown, 1842-1859. Twelve items are letters to members of his family. They deal chiefly with personal and household matters. Three pieces are business letters on the sale of sheep and wool. Seven letters are fundraising notes and receipts for Brown's western expeditions. There is also Brown's draft of the articles of peace between

Iroquois League collection

Founded in 1917 by Mrs. Eva Rouse and a small group of women, the Iroquois League sought to provide “a safe, supervised and economical home for Negro working girls.” The home, later called the North Shore Community House, was opened in 1924 on the corner of Garrett and Ridge Avenue and despite financial hardships through 1927, by 1929 the League

Henry T. Heald, University President's papers, 1920-1953

Henry Townley Heald served as Armour Institute of Technology's president from 1937-1940, and oversaw the consolidation of Armour and Lewis Institute. That merger led to the formation of Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940, with Heald serving as IIT's first president. Heald served until 1952, and under his guidance, IIT evolved from a small engineering school to a significant technology

Jack Berry papers

Jack Berry was born in Leeds, England, on December 13, 1918. He obtained his B.A. in Classics at the University of Leeds in 1939 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Linguistics at the University of London in 1952. Berry taught at the University of London from 1946 to 1963 when he came to the United States. After brief periods at Michigan

College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs -- Faculty papers -- Pierre de Vise papers

Pierre de Vise was a sociologist and taught at UIC, DePaul University, and Roosevelt University. In 1967, he published what has now become a classic study called "Chicago's Widening Color Gap", which is where Chicago's reputation for being the most segregated city in America comes from. In 1985, de Vise wrote about the expansion of the urban poor, particularly what

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences -- Department of Black Studies records

The Department of Black Studies (previously known as the Department of African American Studies) is a department within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (L.A.S.) at the University of Illinois Chicago. The programs within the Department of Black Studies consist of interdisciplinary fields of study that examine the history, politics, and cultural production of persons of African descent both

Dill Pickle Club Records

Miscellaneous material relating to the Dill Pickle Club of Chicago, Illinois (1916-ca.1933) and its leading founder, John (Jack) Jones. The bulk of the collection, most of which was removed from two scrapbooks, consists of handbills, fliers, programs and posters announcing and advertising numerous lectures, readings, parties, plays and other regular activities. Also includes art work, business and membership items, clippings,

Lang, Harvey. Collection

Harvey Lang, drummer. Lang started playing the drums at age three and played for over sixty years, primarily in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Disneyworld in Orlando. He played for a long list of performers including Wayne Newton, Herbie Fields, Ginny and the Gallions, Lee Caron, Frank Sinatra, Bubba Kolb, Louis Prima, and Clark Terry. The Harvey Lang Collection includes lists

A.M. Elgin document

Mobile, Alabama. State and County taxes for the year ending March 1864, receipted by H.T. Gaines, Tax Collector.

Chicago Circle Center -- Campus Programs -- records

Campus Programs is an office in Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, and within the Department of Campus unions. The office of the Vice Chancellor works to "create a student body that reflects the diversity of Illinois, facilitate graduation through special programs and services, and establish a positive and diverse learning environment that is necessary to expand student's

Chicago Public School Teachers oral histories

Project focuses of impact of the Daley Era (1945-1980) on public schools; oral histories of teachers and former students.

Zeta Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Collection

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate, African-American fraternal organization for men, was formed at Cornell in 1906 to promote and defend African-American civil rights. The Zeta Xi Lambda chapter was formed in Evanston, Illinois in 1956. The Zeta Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Collection spans from 1942 to 1997 and contains information relating to

Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago photograph collection

From 1890 to 1995, the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago employed its own nurses and other health professionals to provide health care to the underprivileged. Now the VNA Foundation operates exclusively as a grantmaking foundation, giving financial support to nonprofit organizations offering home- and community-based care to the underserved.

Victory Gardens Theater collection

Victory Gardens Theater is a theater in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights. The theater was founded in 1974 when seven Chicago artists, Warren Casey, Cordis Heard, Roberta Maguire, Mac McGuinnes, Cecil O'Neal, June Pyskaček, and David Rasche each fronted $1,000 to start a company outside the Chicago Loop. The theater's first production,

Morgan Park Co-op Credit Union archives

The Morgan Park Co-op Credit Union, founded in 1940, is the oldest African American credit union in Chicago.