Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Contents note
- Processing Information note
- Immediate Source of Acquisition note
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Eleanor Page papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Eleanor Page papers
- Identifier
- BMRC.CHM.PAGE
- Repository
- Chicago History Museum
- Language
- English
- Size
- 0.5 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1957-1985
- Creator
- Page, Eleanor, 1910-1994
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, newsclippings, and drafts of some newspaper columns of Eleanor Page Voysey, Society Editor for the Chicago Tribune (under the name "Eleanor Page"). Most of the material consists of information gathered by her in the late 1960s/early 1970s, while she was preparing columns about African American high society in Chicago and about "The Star-Spangled Banner." Other topics include architecturally significant houses in Northeastern Illinois and the Mayflower Pilgrims (discussed in a letter from Louis E. Laflin, Jr., to Miss Page, 1957 November 28, 12 p.).
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 June 7 by Lisa Calahan and Andrew Steadham.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Eleanor Page Voysey.