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Association House of Chicago records
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, staff handbooks, workshop materials, program reports, staff evaluations, newsletters, scrapbooks of newsclippings, and other materials created by staff, board members, community groups, and support groups affiliated with Association House, a Presbyterian-sponsored settlement house based in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago, concerning its administration, fund-raising, training of social workers and religious service workers, welfare services, day
Chicago Teachers Union records
The records of the Chicago Teachers Union are primarily textual and include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, financial information, contracts, publications, clippings, flyers, scrapbooks, materials for mass distribution, and general office files created by the CTU, the Men’s Teachers Union, the Federation of Women High School Teachers, the Joint Board of Teachers’ Unions and the American Federation of Teachers.
Clementine Skinner papers
Correspondence, newsclippings, scrapbook, minutes, and financial records relating to Dr. Clementine Skinner, an African American school teacher and librarian in Chicago, and her many civic and professional activities. Includes records of Kappa Delta Pi, an honor society in education (1968-1978) and records of the Sixth-Grace Presbyterian Church (1964-1981). A scrapbook of photographs documents Skinner's service in the WAACs during World
Hoke Norris Papers
Collection of correspondence, works, research materials, and personal information by and about Hoke Norris, reporter, book reviewer, novelist, and public affairs director. Norris worked for several papers including the Raleigh News and Observer, the Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Daily News.
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,
Oscar De Priest papers
Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, bulletins, and other papers of Oscar De Priest relating to his political career and family. He was U.S. Congressman (Republican) from 1st District of Illinois (Chicago's near South Side), 1929-1935, and active in Chicago politics before and after that period. Materials include several dozen condolence letters received by De Priest and his wife in 1916 upon the
Paul H. Douglas papers
Chiefly research files and constituent correspondence, recordings, scrapbooks, and other papers, from Douglas' career as U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois, 1949-1967), relating to Douglas' election campaigns, labor and unemployment issues, social security, the civil rights movement, preservation of natural resources and preservation of the Indiana Dunes, irrigation subsidies and the family farm, congressional ethics, government contracts, Truth in Lending bill, investigation