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Collection Access
60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610
Gartz Family papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Gartz Family papers
- Identifier
- Midwest.MS.Gartz Family
- Repository
- The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts
- Language
- English
- Size
- 63.4 linear feet (68 boxes)
- Dates
- 1870-2018
- Location
- 1 42 3-6
- Language
- Materials are in English.
- Abstract
- Diaries, letters, scrapbooks, photographs, financial documents, and some artifacts, art, and audiovisual materials documenting Chicago life from the 1910s through the 1960s and 1970s. The Gartz family settled in West Garfield Park, Chicago, and lived there as the all-white, mostly European immigrant families community changed to an all African American community due to housing discrimination in the City. Donor Linda Gartz wrote the book "Redlined" (2018) based on her family's experience and archive.
- Creator
- Gartz, Linda
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unprocessed and available by appointment only.
Scope and Contents note
Diaries, letters, scrapbooks, photographs, financial documents, and some artifacts, art, and audiovisual materials documenting Chicago life from the 1910s through the 1960s and 1970s. The Gartz family settled in West Garfield Park, Chicago, and lived there as the all-white, mostly European immigrant families community changed to an all African American community due to housing discrimination in the City. Donor Linda Gartz wrote the book "Redlined" (2018) based on her family's experience and archive.