Chicago Women's Liberation Union photographs
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union photographs
- Dates
- 1968-1977
- Identifier
- 1978.0029
- Creator
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union
- Creator
- Size
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10 negatives :
b&w ;35 mm.
- Size
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29 photographic prints :
b&w ;5 x 7 in. or smaller.
- Size
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40 photographic prints :
b&w ;8 x 10 or smaller.
- Size
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1 photographic print :
b&w, contact sheet ;8 x 10 in.
- Size
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1 print :
col., silkscreen print ;14 x 17 in.
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
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 demonstrations in Chicago and New York City where people are carrying signs reflecting the issues of concern to the group. Also includes views of women at a softball game, and several views of women and children. Also includes a silkscreened poster advertising a lecture sponsored by CWLU.
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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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 Women's Liberation Union, 1978.0029 Gift.Custodial History
Gift of Chicago Women's Liberation Union, 1978.
Indexed Terms
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union
- 852 West Belmont (Chicago, Ill.)
- Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Demonstrations -- New York (State) -- New York
- Equal rights amendments -- United States
- Feminism -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Feminists
- Feminists -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Feminists -- New York (State) -- New York
- Mothers & children
- Softball
- Women
- Women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies and clubs
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography -- Portraits
- Film negatives
- Gelatin silver prints