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Sierra Leone collection with supplements about the Atlantic Slave Trade
This collection focuses primarily on the British administration of Sierra Leone, 1691-1833. The collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825.
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs -- Center for Urban Economic Development -- Publications -- Assorted Reports
Assorted reports published by the College of Urban and Economic Development. Publications include assessments of Chicago public housing, urban development and urban renewal issues, and economic impact of job losses on African-Americans and Latinos.
Herbert Simmons papers
Born in St. Louis in 1931, Herbert Simmons was one of the earliest Black genre crime writers. His protagonists fought the restrictive nature of white society toward Black men.
Chicago Seed (newspaper) records
Sundry mailings, underground press announcements and brochures, a few letters, and other office files of Seed Publishing Company, publishers of the Chicago Seed, an alternative newspaper. Topics include the 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations in Chicago, the civil rights movement, rights of high school students, the war in Vietnam, and other national social and political issues.
University Offices -- Vice-president for Academic Affairs -- Publications -- "Overview of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action" (1975)
Overview of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, a report prepared for presentation to the Board of Trustees on October 8th, 1975.
Douglas, Stephen A. Papers
Stephen A. Douglas, lawyer, judge, politician. The Stephen A. Douglas papers document his professional and personal life from 1764-1908. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, memoranda, notes, financial and legal documents, portraits, maps, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and artifacts. The largest portion of the collection consists of Senate and Constituent correspondence.
Pierre Chouteau papers
Various items of Chouteau mainly regarding financial matters. Includes: Letter written in St. Louis to Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Menard, Kaskaskia; personal matters; also mentions the sale of land near Fort Chartres (1807 September 26, Autograph letter signed, 2 pages); St. Louis. Document of sale of a racially mixed woman by Pelagie Chouteau to Pierre Chouteau, document signed by S.
Jazz Piano Song Sheet. Collection
The Jazz Piano Song Sheet Collection contains printed sheet music and books ranging from 1885-1967 and includes showtunes, fox trots, waltzes, and jazz, arranged alphabetically by title. The inventory contains the song title, lyricist(s), composer(s), publisher, and date.
eta Creative Arts Foundation Records
eta was founded in 1969 by Abena Joan Brown and Okoro Harold Johnson. The theater produces dramas and musicals by local and national playwrights and features "Playwrights Specak," a readers' theater for new playwrights.
Ethel and Irene Kawin papers
Irene Kawin was a probation officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County from 1913 to 1962, serving as deputy chief beginning in 1927. Ethel Kawin was a child psychologist who directed the Pre-School Department of the Institute for Juvenile Research from 1925 to 1934. The collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and articles.
Shorefront Legacy Center Publications Collection
Shorefront Legacy Center began as a response to a lack of documentation concerning the African-American experience in and around Evanston, Illinois's North Shore. Shorefront seeks to promote, preserve, educate, and offer and outlet for research of local African-American history. As part of this mission, the Center has produced, and continues to produce, several publications related to its efforts. The collection
Durrett, Reuben T. Collection. Broadsides, Broadsheets, Pamphlets, and Leaflets
Reuben Thomas Durrett (1824-1913), lawyer, manuscript and book collector, and Kentucky historian. The Reuben T. Durrett Collection of Broadsides, Broadsheets, and Circulars consist primarily of broadsides relating to political issues, national and local elections, and meetings. Also contains business advertisements; announcements for the sale of lands and slaves; and posters relating to church matters, opposition to slavery, speeches, stagecoach fares,
Heman Swift slavery document
Document, from Cornwall, Litchfield County, to Daniel Rexford: Order for return of fugitive from slavery to Amos Bochford [i.e. Botsford] at New Haven. Rexford's bill for expenses added.
Joseph Desha papers
Soldier & statesman; Governor of Kentucky.
Platt R. Spencer Papers
Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business.
United Woodlawn, Inc. Records
The collection documents efforts on behalf of neighborhood improvement projects undertaken by United Woodlawn, Inc.
Adrian Scheltes collection
The Adrian Scheltes collection contains photographs either taken by or collected by Scheltes while he was the Supervisor of Counsel and Guidance for the Blind from the Illinois Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this position he assisted blind people with learning professional skills to enter the workforce. Scheltes also advocated for black blind
Chicago Women's Liberation Union photographs
Images related to the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU). Activities and issues the group was involved with included equal job treatment and wages for women, abortion rights, women's heath, a legal clinic for women, rape project, graphics collective, and publications, such as "Womankind," CWLU's monthly periodical. Images in the collection show women at the founding meeting of CWLU, and several
W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America records
Speeches, notes, etc., chiefly from the second national convention of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America."
INform Collection
INform was the departmental newsletter of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
Frank W. McCulloch papers
Correspondence, notes, articles, reports, minutes, newsletters, and other papers of Frank W. McCulloch about his activities in Chicago on behalf of unemployment relief in the 1930s and labor education in the 1940s. Except for a few miscellaneous items, the collection does not extend beyond late 1948, when McCulloch accepted a staff appointment with Senator-elect Paul Douglas (Democrat; Illinois). Large portions
Industrial Areas Foundation records
Russ Gilbert "New Left" Pamphlet collection
This collection contains papers, publications, and clippings that deal with various "New Left" organizations and their causes. The dominant areas of concern are opposition to the Vietnam War, social justice for women and African Americans, and the advocacy of the interests of rank and file workers in various industries.
Uptown Chicago Commission photographs of buildings
Photographs of buildings in the Uptown community of Chicago (Ill.) and in adjoining community areas (Edgewater, Lake View, Lincoln Square) taken by the Commission to show housing conditions. For some buildings there are several photographs, interiors and exteriors, showing decline in condition over several years prior to demolition. Photographs are filed in order by street name and address number for
A. Achen letter
Achen, an Ohio regimental surgeon at the Union lines before Vicksburg, describes recent events of the siege, such as Union naval attempts to break the Mississippi blockade, a speech by General Thomas on abolition, and the formation of African American regiments. On verso is a map in pencil of Vicksburg and vicinity, with various fortifications and encampments indicated. Also includes