Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Content
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Custodial History
- Other Descriptive Data
- Other Descriptive Data
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Chicago Commons Association collection of additional photographs
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Chicago Commons Association collection of additional photographs
- Dates
- ca 1896-1979
- Identifier
- 1980.0315
- Creator
- Chicago Commons Association
- Creator
- Brueckner, William H, Russell, John
- Size
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248 photographic prints :
b&w ;14 x 17 1/4 in. (36 x 44 cm.) or smaller.
- Size
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15 negatives :
b&w ;8 x 10 in. or smaller.
- Size
- 1 folder of non-graphic material.
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Includes photographs documenting people, facilities and activities of the CCA. Adults and children are shown participating in educational groups, theatrical productions and a few athletic activities. Women are shown in group portraits and doing handicraft. Identified ethnic groups are Italian, Norwegian and (after 1940) African Americans. One photo series (ca. 1965-1979) shows social workers Rev. John Russell and William Brueckner with teenagers of African American, Puerto Rican and Polish descent some of which belong to street gangs in the vicinity of Grand Avenue and Division Street.
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the archives for more information on licensing and permissions for use and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Acquisition Information
Chicago Commons Association 1980/00/001980.0315Gift.Custodial History
Gift of the Chicago Commons Association, 1980 (1980.0315).
Other Descriptive Data
See container list for a description of negatives.
Other Descriptive Data
All negatives are copy negatives.
Container list available (80-315).
Indexed Terms
- Brueckner, William H.
- Russell, John
- Chicago Commons Association -- Photographs
- Chicago Commons (Chicago, Ill.) -- Photographs
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1940-1979
- Charitable organizations -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Children -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Ethnicity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Handicraft -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Italian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1930-1979
- Norwegian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1930-1979
- Polish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1930-1979
- Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1930-1979
- Settlement houses -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1890-1979
- Theatrical productions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1930-1979
- Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1890-1979
- Division Street (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1890-1979
- Grand Avenue (Chicago, Ill.) -- 1890-1979
- Group portraits
- Snapshots
- Gelatin silver prints
- Negatives