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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.

Norshore Music Collection

The Norshore music collection includes music by Evanston, Illinois musicians who recorded music from 1947-2009. The music collection consists of commercially successful artists, such as Patti Drew, as well as local up and coming artists, such a MC Longshot (a.k.a. Chad Helsup). The music includes a variety of genres.

Marie Agnes Fese papers

The Marie Agnes Fese Papers reflect her work in the founding and leadership of the Coalition of Labor Union Women at both the national and local level, as well as her own political involvement and campaign for the Illinois 14th Congressional District seat. The collection includes primarily minutes, newsletters, clippings, background literature, correspondence and speeches.

Alice D. Clark Collection

Alice D. Clark was an instructor at Cook County Normal School.

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network collection

The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network was formed in 1990 to work with educators, policy makers, community leaders, and students to address homophobic and heterosexist behavior and bias in schools. GLSEN aims to protect students from bullying and harassment, to advance comprehensive safe schools laws and policies, to empower principals to make their schools safer, and to build the

Jacob Siegel papers

Jacob Siegel served as managing editor of the Chicago edition of the Jewish Daily Forward and was active in Jewish labor organizations such as the Workmen's Circle. After the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) formed in New York City in 1934, Jacob Siegel chaired the Chicago branch of the national organization. The Jacob Siegel Papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records,

Northwestern University Settlement Association Clubs and Classes Attendance and Registration Cards, 1886-1953

This series comprises boxes of Attendance Cards for Northwestern University Settlement clubs and classes, and boxes of three-by-five individual Registration Cards.

Arnett, Trevor. Papers

University and college administrator and trustee. A.B., University of Chicago, 1898. Personal auditor to the President, University of Chicago, 1896-1899; chief accountant, 1899-1901; auditor, 1901-1922; trustee, 1916-1922, 1926-1928, 1937-1941; vice-president and business manager, 1924-1926. Secretary, General Education Board, 1920-1924; president, 1928-1936. President, International Education Board, 1928-1936. Correspondence, drafts and copies of speeches and writings, account of a trip to Scandinavia

Lincoln Collection. Currier & Ives Lithographs

This collection of lithographs from the Currier & Ives Printmaking Company forms a portion of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Images located here are related to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and issues in politics pertaining to this time and the antebellum north in the second half of the nineteenth century through caricatures of migrant African Americans.

The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club Collection

The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club was a non-profit African-American women’s club in Evanston, Illinois. The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club collection spans from 1965 to 1978, and consists of photographs, artifacts, and meeting information.

Hudland/Snowden Family papers

Project IRENE records

Project IRENE began as a result of the initiative of Leadership Conference of Women Religious Region 8, July 1996. The shortened name of this organization is derived from the first letters of the formal title: Illinois Religious Engaging Nonviolent Endeavors. Its mission is to create systemic change through legislation related to decreasing violence against women and children in Illinois. The

Joint Youth Development Committee (Chicago, Ill.) records

The Joint Youth Development Committee (JYDC) was established by the city of Chicago in 1962 to fight juvenile delinquency. The JYDC emphasized the role of community institutions in the rehabilitation of youth by using a decentralized approach with numerous sub-committees. In preparing project proposals, the JYDC often focused on Chicago's Near North Side and Lincoln Park community areas, which included

Rev. J.H. Jackson and Olivet Baptist Church architectural drawings

Blueprints (9) documenting Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson's residence (formerly the Harry Holton residence) at 4935-37 Kimbark Ave., Chicago, Ill. originally designed and constructed in 1926 by Chatten & Hammond and annotated diazo prints (3) of the Olivet Baptist Church (405 E. 31st Street, Chicago, Ill.) steeple constructed in 1978 and designed by Lester Johnson.

Harold Bretz Papers and 35 mm slides

Harold Bretz was an Illinois Institute of Technology faculty member, 1957 to 1986 and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, (ca. 1969 – 86). From 1958 – 1963, Bretz acted as Camp Administrator at Camp Armour, IIT’s civil engineering camp on Upper Trout Lake, Wisconsin. He lived in campus faculty housing, apartment 701 Cunningham Hall.

Patricia Liddell Researchers (PLR) archives

In 1989 the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), based in Washington, D.C., invited several members of the Harsh Researchers to organize as the Chicago Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. Founding members Dr. Adlean Harris, Curtis Brasfield, CGRS, and Robert Miller, Harsh Collection curator, were listed on the application, representing 22 other charter members. In March

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Office of Student Affairs -- Administrative Files

The Office of Student Affairs dealt with student housing, student employment, financial aid, student government, and other student services and extracurricular activities. In 1968, the Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Donald A. Boulton as Dean of Student Affairs, to begin January 1969 (Source: University of Illinois Board of Trustees Fifty-Fifth Report 1969-1970, November 22 1968, p. 176). Throughout

Sterling Stuckey papers

Professor Stuckey was born in 1932 and holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Robert Mier papers

Correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, discussion papers, and other working files of Robert Mier, a Chicago city planner, professor, and social activist who served as commissioner of economic development for the City of Chicago in the Mayor Harold Washington administration and as assistant for development and planning in the Mayor Eugene Sawyer administration. Materials pertain to projects with which Mier was

Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project papers

Project documents and 27 oral history transcripts from Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project conducted by the Chicago History Museum in 2016.

William H. Ross papers

Corporal, 40th Illinois Infantry.

Valerie Howell/George Richardson collection

Illinois State Anti-Slavery Society minute book

Minutes of the statewide abolitionist society. Part written by the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Secretary.

Malcolm X College archives

Community college education has existed in Chicago since 1911, when Crane Technical High School opened its doors to 28 adults seeking higher education, which in turn led to the establishment of Crane Junior College. Crane eventually became part of the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC). It was renamed Malcolm X College in honor of the civil rights leader in 1969.

Anti-Defamation League, Chicago Office records

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an international non-governmental organization based in the United States. Founded in 1913 by The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish service organization, its original mission statement was "to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure