Archives of the South Side Community Art Center
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Archives of the South Side Community Art Center
- Identifier
- BMRC.SSCAC.SSCAC
- Dates
- 1938-2008
- Repository
- Southside Community Art Center
- Language
- Textual materials are in English.
- Size
- 75 linear feet
- Creator
- Southside Community Committee, Inc.
- Abstract
- The South Side Community Art Center opened in 1940 and is one of the only surviving community art centers founded through New Deal’s Federal Art Project between 1937 and 1942. In its early years the Center was a hive of activity, as well as a who’s who of the Chicago Renaissance. Federal spending on WPA projects was cut dramatically upon the country’s entry into World War II, and in 1943 all federal funding for the arts projects ended. However, fundraising at the Center enabled it to remain active. The Archives of the South Side Community Art Center document activities at the Center from the first meetings of the Sponsoring Committee in 1938 to the present day.
Acknowledgements
Processed for the Mapping the Stacks project, September 2009. This collection was also part of the BMRC Survey Initiative, 2009-2011.
Access
Archives are open by appointment only. Please call 773-373-1026. Some items are too fragile to handle and have been replaced with a suitable researcher copy.
Note on the Provenance
Property of the South Side Community Art Center with the following exceptions:
Diane Dinkins-Carr files: Gift of Diane Dinkins-Carr, 2008.
Lawrence Kennon
files: Gift of Lawrence Kennon, 2008.
Ulrich Middledorf files: Gift of
University of Chicago, 1968.
Pauline Kigh Reed files: Gift of Pauline Kigh
Reed, 1988.
Photocopy of “The South Side Community Art Center 50th Anniversary”
courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection.
Citation
When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is:
Archives of the South Side Community Art Center, [Box #, Folder # (if
applicable)]
Organizational History
The South Side Community Art Center opened in 1940 and is one of the only surviving community art centers founded through New Deal’s Federal Art Project between 1937 and 1942. Four arts projects were established under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (later renamed the Work Projects Administration) of the New Deal. The Federal Art Project offered funding to artists and arts administrators for a variety of projects, most notably the creation of public murals and the institution of 110 community art centers throughout the United States. These art centers would hold classes and exhibit original art work to communities that were perceived as “culturally deprived.” Only handful of FAP art centers were opened in African American communities, in New York, Florida, and Chicago.
Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago’s South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display their work. Pollack, an art dealer, owned a gallery on Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s Loop and had previously displayed the work of African American artists. Lochard arranged a meeting between Pollack and Pauline Kigh Reed, a social worker with extensive connections in the community, and, according to Reed’s recollection, she suggested founding an art center. Reed helped arrange an initial meeting with area artists at the South Side Settlement House at 32nd Street and Wabash Avenue. Businessman Golden Darby, chairman of the board of the Settlement House, became chair of the Sponsoring Committee of the proposed South Side Community Art Center.
Darby chaired the first official meeting of the Sponsoring Committee on October 25, 1938 at the offices of the Chicago Urban League. In addition to Darby, Pollack, and other organizers of the Sponsoring Committee, the meeting was attended by members of the Arts Crafts Guild, a group of Chicago-based African American artists organized in 1932 which included Margaret Taylor (Burroughs), Eldzier Cortor, Bernard Goss, Charles White, William Carter, Joseph Kersey, and Archibald Motley, Jr. George G. Thorpe, the State Director of the Federal Art Project of Illinois, informed the group that the FAP’s community art center program would provide an administrative staff, faculty, and renovation funds for a center if the community could raise funds for the purchase of a building and the costs of utilities and supplies.
The following year was spent organizing and raising funds for the center, with efforts ranging from membership drives and street corner collections (including Margaret Burroughs’s famous “Mile of Dimes” on South Parkway, now Martin Luther King Drive) to benefit parties and lectures by such luminaries as Augusta Savage. The most successful of these events, the Artists’ and Models’ Ball held at the Savoy Ballroom on October 23, 1939, became an annual tradition.
In late May 1940, the group purchased a vacant brownstone on South Michigan Avenue for about $8,000. Built in 1892 by George A. Seaverns, Jr., the building had been designed by Gustav Hallberg. (Though the building is sometimes referred to as the Comiskey Mansion, the house belonging to the former White Sox owner was actually further south on Michigan Avenue.) The Federal Art Project hired Hin Bredendieck and Nathan Lerner from the New Bauhaus School of Design to renovate the deteriorating building.
The South Side Community Art Center opened its doors on December 15, 1940 with an exhibition of paintings that had been displayed at the American Negro Exposition held in Chicago earlier that year, including works by Henry Avery, William Carter, Charles White, Archibald Motely, Jr., Joseph Kersey, Margaret Taylor Goss (Burroughs), Bernard Goss, and William McBride. On May 7, 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt officially dedicated the Center in an extravagant ceremony broadcast nationwide on CBS radio. Professor and cultural historian Alain Locke was on hand to introduce the First Lady, and Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters also attended the party. The exhibition, entitled We Too Look at America, included pieces from the inaugural exhibition as well as works of white painters Gertrude Abercrombie, Margaret Brundage, Emil Armen, Si Gordon, Julia Thecla, and Sophie G. Wessel.
In its early years the Center was a hive of activity, as well as a who’s who of the Chicago Renaissance. In addition to exhibitions that changed as often as biweekly, art classes were taught by George Neal, Charles Sebree, Katherine Bell, and Joseph Kersey. Inez Cunningham Stark, the editor of Poetry magazine, taught a poetry class whose students included Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Blakeley, Margaret Danner, and Robert Davis. A regular writers’ forum was attended by Brooks, Richard Wright, and Willard Motley. On weekends, Nat “King” Cole played jazz. Photographer Gordon Parks, then employed by the Farm Securities Administration, kept a studio at the Center.
Federal spending on WPA projects was cut dramatically upon the country’s entry into World War II, and in 1943 all federal funding for the arts projects ended. But fundraising at the Center enabled it to remain active. In 1944, artist Rex Gorleigh became administrative director, and under his leadership the Center exhibited the works of Hughie Lee-Smith, Augusta Savage, Ellis Wilson, and John Biggers.
The escalation of the Red Scare curbed activity at the Center, as the executive board restricted artists from meeting at the Center in order to avoid suspicion. By the early 1960s, with the Center barely functioning, board members led by Wilhelmina Blanks, Fern Gayden, and Grace Thompson Leaming, along with young artists Sylvester Britton and Ramon Price, collaborated to keep the Center open, taking out a mortgage and instituting a new fundraising tradition: an annual art auction. The Center remains open today, offering classes and exhibiting new and local artists.
Sources
- Burroughs, Margaret, ed. The South Side Community Art Center 50th Anniversary, 1991.
- Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: the Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Mullen, Bill V. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
- Tyler, Anna M. “Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center.” International Review of African American Art 11.4 (1994): 31-37.
Scope and Content
The Archives of the South Side Community Art Center document activities at the Center from the first meetings of the Sponsoring Committee in 1938 to the present day. Records were kept intermittently and in different arrangements throughout the Center’s history. The collection has been divided into three superseries: Part I comprises documents detailing the Center’s history from 1938 to 1970; Part II comprises documents preserved and donated by individual board members; Part III, the largest portion of the collection, includes documents from after 1970.
Arrangement
Because they deal in the period of the Center’s history that bear the highest interest for researchers, Parts I and II have been arranged and described on the folder level. Part III has been arranged into series and is described on the level of subseries, but not on the folder level.
Scope and Content
Part I (1938-1970) includes meeting minutes, correspondence, and some event ephemera from the first Sponsoring Committee meeting on October 25, 1938 to 1970. Of particular interest are the minutes of meetings leading to the Center’s founding, 1938- 1939, and the correspondence of director Rex Gorleigh, 1945-1946.
Arrangement
Items in this section have been arranged chronologically without regard to document type or function; this arrangement preserves the order in which the documents were found and reflects the centralized structure of the Center’s management in its early years.
Scope and Content
Part II (1938-2008) includes files maintained by the following current and former members of the Center’s Board of Directors: Diane Dinkins-Carr, daughter of artist Fitzhugh Dinkins and current Board President; Fern Gayden, a social worker who served as Board President in the 1960s; Pauline Kigh Reed, a founding board member; Ulrich Middledorf, chair of the Art Department at University of Chicago and founding board member; Douglas Williams, an artist and board member in the 1960s; and Lawrence Kennon, current board member. Two reminiscences of the Art Center by Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum and original board member, are also filed here, including a photocopy of the booklet The South Side Community Art Center 50th Anniversary from the Vivian G. Harsh Collection. Researchers investigating the first two decades of the Center’s history will be particularly interested in the following files: Diane Carr, which include photographs of the Center’s dedication ceremony and a program from the first Artists and Models Ball in 1939; Pauline Reed, which include correspondence from the run-up to the Center’s opening; Fern Gayden, which include the program from the original exhibition of paintings; and Ulrich Middledorf, which include annual reports from the Center’s earliest years. The papers of Douglas Williams have little to do with the Center’s history, but they contain documents from Hyde Park High School. The papers of Lawrence Kennon document the Center’s more recent history, from 1980 to the present.
Arrangement
Part III (1970-2008) has been divided into the following series: Administrative, Events and Publicity, Financial, Fundraising, Programs, Research, Media, Oversize, and Photographs.
Scope and Content
The Administrative series (1972-2008) is divided into the following subseries: Artists includes artist information files and consignment agreements; Board of Directors includes meeting minutes, reports and correspondence; Constitution includes copies of the Center’s constitution; Employees includes time sheets, job descriptions, and contracts; Executive Director includes correspondence, notes, and documents dealing with the Center’s daily operations; Insurance includes the Center’s insurance policies; Members includes member correspondence, member lists, and member addresses; Physical Plant includes documents relating to maintenance of Center property.
The Events and Publicity series (1970-2008) includes planning documents, press releases, and ephemera from Center events, and is divided into the following subseries: Auctions, Benefits, Exhibitions, Other SSCAC Events, and Non-SSCAC Events.
The Financial series (1980-2002; bulk 1980-1988) includes reports, receipts, checks, and account registers.
The Fundraising series (1980-1996; 2000; 2005) includes grant applications and correspondence with corporate donors.
The Programs series (1949-1985; 2005-2006) includes material from classes at the center as well as material from the following programs based at the Center: the Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (CASP); the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP); and RAW magazine. The CASP documents, dating from 1949-1981, were found in the Center’s vault; their provenance is unclear. The Center participated in two employment programs run by the Chicago Mayor’s Office—CETA and MYSEP—from 1975 to 1985. RAW magazine was created by a group of Columbia College students from 2005 to 2006.
The Research series (1979-2000) contains miscellaneous clippings, serials, and subject files relating to specific artists, techniques, and the history of African American art more generally.
The Media series (2000-2008) includes a number of largely unidentified data discs.
The Photographs series (1938-2008; bulk 1970-2008) includes hundreds of photographs of center activities and artwork, as well as several photographs from the Center’s early years.
Processing Information note
In 2009, the collection was processed and described as part of the University of Chicago's Mapping the Stacks project, and the finding aid was later added to the later UNCAP (Uncovering Chicago Archives Project) finding aids database.
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2011 November 30 by Andrew Steadham.
Indexed Terms
- Darby, Golden B.
- Dinkins-Carr, Diane
- Gayden, Fern, 1905-1986
- Middledorf, Ulrich Alexander, 1901-
- African American artists
- South Side Community Art Center
Inventory
- Title
- Clippings and Ephemera, 1938-1941
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- Minutes, 1938
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- Minutes and Correspondence, 1939
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- Minutes, 1940
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- Minutes, 1941
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- Opening Exhibition Program (fragment), 1941
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- Annual Report, 1944
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- Board of Directors Correspondence, 1944-46
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- Board of Directors Minutes, 1944-45
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- Board of Directors Meeting, 1945
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- Minutes, 1945
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- Board of Directors Correspondence, 1945
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- General Correspondence Received, 1945
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- General Correspondence, Jan-Jun 1945
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- Art Center Correspondence, 1945
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- Finance Campaign, 1945
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- Finance Campaign, 1945
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- Ways and Means Committee, 1945
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- Rex Gorleigh's Correspondence Received, 1945
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- Rex Gorleigh's Correspondence Out, 1945
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- Ball Correspondence, 1945
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- Contracts, undated
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- Volunteer Office Staff, 1945
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- Activities, 1945
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- Ball Committee, 1945
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- Programs Committee, 1945-46
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- Fundraising Letters, 1945-47
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- Board of Directors Correspondence, 1945-1947
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- Correspondence--General, 1946
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- Gorleigh Correspondence Out, 1946
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- Gorleigh Correspondence Received, 1946
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- Director's Reports, 1946
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- Artists and Models, 1946
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- Art Center Activities, 1946
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- Activities ca. 1946 ?
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- Correspondence--Museums and Institutions, 1946
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- Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce, 1946
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- Correspondence, 1946-47
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- Special Meeting Board of Directors, 1946-1947
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- Annual Report, 1946-1947
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- Chicago Association of Commerce, undated
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- Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1947-1970
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- Financial Campaign, 1947
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- Extension Activities, 1947
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- Special Meeting Minutes, Oct. 21, 1947
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- Activities, 1948
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- Duplicate Letters, 1948
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- Letters, July 1948
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- Board of Directors, 1954
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- David P. Ross, Jr. Correspondence, 1954
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- David P. Ross, Jr. Correspondence, 1954 (2)
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- Correspondence, 1954
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- Board Committees and Lists, 1954
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- Membership Committee, 1954
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- Membership Committee, 1954 (2)
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- School Committee, 1954
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- Drama Group, 1954
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- Tea, 1954
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- Photography Class, ca. 1954
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- Members / Board of Directors, 1955
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- Board of Directors, 1955-1956
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- Annual Election, 1956
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- Membership Correspondence, 1956
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- Members, 1956
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- Carbon Copies (outgoing correspondence), 1956-57
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- Maintenance Committee, 1956
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- Wine Sip, 1956
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- Board of Directors, 1957
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- Meeting Minutes, 1957
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- Correspondence, 1957
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- Executive Committee, 1957
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- Membership Committee, 1957
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- Program Committee, 1957
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- Program and Schools Committee, 1957
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- Public Relations, 1957
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- Report on De Paur's Gala, 1957
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- Class Materials, 1957
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- Administrative File, 1958
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- Center Activities, 1958
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- Events, 1961
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- Activities, 1963
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- Events, 1964
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- Events, 1965
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- Events, 1966
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- Events, 1967
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- Black Heritage Exhibition, August 18, 1968
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- Events, 1968-69
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- Events, 1968-71
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- Board of Directors, 1969
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- Meeting Minutes, 1969
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- Y.A.M. Benefit, 1969
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- Y.A.M. Benefit, 1969 (2)
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- Art Auction, 1969
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- Marvin Young Exhibition, 1969
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- Black Expressions Exhibition, 1969
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- Activities and Events, 1969-71
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- Board Meetings, 1970
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- Annual Meeting, 1970
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- President's Annual Report, 1970
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- Activities and Events, 1970
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- Art Auction, 1970
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- Englewood Art Fair, 1970
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- Members, 1970
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- Announcements, 1971
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- Events, 1971
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- Rental Contracts, undated
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- Forms and Form Letters, undated
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- Job Descriptions, undated
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- J.O. Price calligraphy class, undated
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- Past Publicity, undated
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- Margaret Burroughs, "They Should Be Remembered," 1998
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- Margaret Burroughs, et al., "South Side Community Art Center 50th Anniversary," 1991
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, 1939-2006 (see also: Oversize, Box 15, and Photographs, Box 16)
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- Fern Gayden, Addresses, undated
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- Fern Gayden, Artist Information, undated
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- Fern Gayden, Bills and Receipts, 1960-64
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- Fern Gayden, Board Meeting Minutes, Resolutions, and Constitution, 1961-63, undated
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- Fern Gayden, Clippings and Ephemera, 1941-1970
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- Fern Gayden, Correspondence, 1957-68
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- Fern Gayden, Events 1941-1971
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- Fern Gayden, Membership Lists, undated
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- Fern Gayden, Notes, undated
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- Fern Gayden, Roll Book, undated
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- Pauline Kigh Reed, Ephemera, 1941-1981
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- Pauline Kigh Reed, Correspondence, 1944, 1977-83
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- Pauline Kigh Reed, Notes, undated
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- Pauline Kigh Reed, Clippings, 1957, 1980-83
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- Ulrich Middledorf, 1941-1968
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- Douglas Williams, Art Instruction Inc. Correspondence, 1954
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- Douglas Williams, Art Coursework, undated
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- Douglas Williams, Sheet Music, undated
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- Douglas Williams, Hyde Park High School Music Programs, 1957-58, undated
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- Douglas Williams, Hyde Park High School Materials, 1956-58
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- Douglas Williams, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Programs, 1955-59
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- Douglas Williams, Drawing Patterns, undated
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- Douglas Williams, sketches, undated
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- Douglas Williams, Bethel AME Church Program, 1959
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- Douglas Williams, Rhythm and Blues Jazz Scrapbook
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- Douglas Williams, Charles Atlas Newsletter, undated
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- Douglas Williams, Art Instruction Inc. booklets
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board Member correspondence and agendas, 1984-1986
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC Constitution and By-laws, 1957
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC mailings and correspondence, 1981-1983
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- Lawrence Kennon, Membership, 1983
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1982-1983
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board Development Workshop, 1980-1984
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1980-1982
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- Lawrence Kennon, Flyers and Correspondence, 1985
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC Constitution, undated
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- Lawrence Kennon, Indiana NCA, 1984
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- Lawrence Kennon, Flyers, serials, clippings, 1970-1990
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1987-1989
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- Lawrence Kennon, Press Releases, 1990-1991
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- Lawrence Kennon, Stationery
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1988-1990
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC files, 1990-1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board of Directors meeting notes, 2001
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- Lawrence Kennon, Inventory--Permanent Collection, 1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, Constitutions, 1985
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- Lawrence Kennon, Auction, 1982-1986
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- Lawrence Kennon, Mailing List / Names, undated
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- Lawrence Kennon, Membership, 1983-1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Minutes / Reports, 1993-1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, Public Relations, 1983; 1993-1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Fliers, 1990-1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board Meetings, 1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art: Literature, definitions, 1989-1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board of Directors miscellany, 1989-1990
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board of Directors, 1993-1994
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC Files, 1997
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- Lawrence Kennon, Stationery, 1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Correspondence, 1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Handbills, 1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art Clippings and Pamphlets, 1980-1990
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- Lawrence Kennon, Artists: Clippings and Info, auction lists, 1990-1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art: concepts (clippings), 1990-1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Artists and Models Ball, 1992-1995
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art History clippings, 1978
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- Lawrence Kennon, Auction 1992-1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board of Directors, 1995-1998
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- Lawrence Kennon, Board of Directors, 1986-1991
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- Lawrence Kennon, Diane Carr, 2000
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- Lawrence Kennon, Brochure, 1993
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- Lawrence Kennon, Calendar, 1996-1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, Correspondence, 1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Financial, 1986, 1994-1997
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- Lawrence Kennon, Fundraising, 1987-1997
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- Lawrence Kennon, Fundraising, 1996
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art Galleries, 1991-1997
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- Lawrence Kennon, Grants, 1986
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- Lawrence Kennon, History, 1990
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- Lawrence Kennon, Art Information--clippings and pamphlets, 1996-1999
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- Lawrence Kennon, Book Collection List, undated
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- Lawrence Kennon, Corporate--SSCAC IRS documents, 1974
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- Lawrence Kennon, Executive Director, 1992
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- Lawrence Kennon, SSCAC Annual Report, 1997
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- Non-SSCAC events, 2000-2008
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, oversize: miscellaneous serials
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- Douglas Williams, oversize: sheet music and art instruction booklets
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of George Thorpe, Peter Pollock, Pauline Kigh Reed, Patrick Prescott, and Eleanor Roosevelt at Art Center Dedication, 1941
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of unidentified women, ca. 1940s
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of art class, ca. 1940s
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Margaret Burroughs with bust of DuSable, undated
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of dance by Clifford J. Burress, ca. 1940
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Pauline Kigh Reed, George Thorpe, and Eleanor Roosevelt at Art Center Dedication, 1941
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Margaret Burroughs by Beverly Swanagan, undated
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Alain Locke, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Patrick Prescott at Art Center Dedication, 1941
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Board Meeting by Illinois Art Project, ca. 1940
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- Diane Dinkins Carr, photograph of Margaret Burroughs, undated
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Diane Dinkins-Carr by Ralph Jenkins, 1978
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, photograph of Annabel C. Prescott, Katherine Dickerson, Oneida Anderson, Peter Pollock, and Pauline Kigh Reed, ca. 1940
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, mat for photograph of first exhibit in completed gallery, 1940 (photograph missing)
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- Diane Dinkins-Carr, mat for photograph of art center dedication (photograph missing)
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- Douglas Williams, photograph of the Magnificents
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- Douglas Williams, photograph of the Magnificents
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- Administrative: Artists, 1973-2007
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- Administrative: Artists, 1984-2001
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- Administrative: Artists, 1981-2000
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1972-75
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1976-79
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1977-83
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1982-84
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1983-86
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1985-87
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1994-2008
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1980-1990
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- Administrative: Board of Directors, 1993-2004
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- Administrative: Constitution, 1983-1985
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- Administrative: Employees, 1978-2001
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- Administrative: Employees, 1981-1983
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- Administrative: Employees, 1985-1987
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1977-1985
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1981-1988; 1995-1997
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1980-1986
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1981-1988
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1983-1991; 2000-2008
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1977-86
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1985-1991
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- Administrative: Executive Director, 1997-2003
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- Administrative: Insurance, 1978-86
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- Administrative: Insurance, 1979-1984; 1998-2004
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- Administrative: Members, 1981-1994
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- Administrative: Members, 1981-1984
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- Administrative: Members, 1983-2000
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- Administrative: Members, 1986-1997
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- Administrative: Members (card file), undated
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- Administrative: Members (card file), undated
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- Administrative: Members (card file), undated
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- Administrative: Physical Plant, 1982-1990
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- Administrative: Physical Plant, 1980-1992
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- Events and Publicity: Auctions, 1974-1994
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- Events and Publicity: Auctions, 1980-2004
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- Events and Publicity: Auctions, 1982-1988
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- Events and Publicity: Auctions, 1984-1998
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- Events and Publicity: Auctions, 1985-2004
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- Events and Publicity: Benefits, 1981-1985
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- Events and Publicity: Benefits, 1981-2002
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1976-1986
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1990-2002
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1973-2002
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1981-1991
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1974-1989
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1985-86
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- Events and Publicity: Exhibitions, 1990-2008
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- Events and Publicity: Other SSCAC Events, 1973-89
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- Events and Publicity: Other SSCAC Events, 1973-86; 1991-2000
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- Events and Publicity: Other SSCAC Events, 1973-2002
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- Events and Publicity: Other SSCAC Events, 1980-1985
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- Events and Publicity: Other SSCAC Events, 1980-1987
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- see also: Oversize Box 110
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- Events and Publicity: Non-SSCAC Events, 1973-1983
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- Events and Publicity: Non-SSCAC Events, 1970-1990
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- Events and Publicity: Non-SSCAC Events, 1975-2002
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- Events and Publicity: Non-SSCAC Events, 1986-2000
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- Financial, 1981-1983
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- Financial, 1981-1985
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- Financial, 1982-1992
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- Financial, 1980-1985
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- Financial, 1981-1984
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- Financial, 1981-1985; 1992-1997
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- Financial, 1980-1988
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- Financial, 1990-2002
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- Fundraising, 1981-1985
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- Fundraising, 1984-1985
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- Fundraising, 1984-1985; 2000
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- Fundraising, 1980-1995
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- Fundraising, 1982-85; 1995; 2005
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- Fundraising, 1983-1987; 1995-1996
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- Programs, 1982-2004
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- Programs, 1982-2006
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- Programs: CASP, 1952-1987
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- Programs: CASP, 1949-1981
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- Programs: CASP, 1951
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- Programs: CASP, undated
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- Programs: CASP, 1951
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- Programs: CETA, 1975-1977
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- Programs: CETA, 1979
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- Programs: CETA, 1979-1984
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- Programs: MSYEP, 1983-1984
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- Programs: MSYEP, 1980-1981
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- Programs: MSYEP, 1982-1983
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- Programs: MSYEP, 1980-1985
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- Programs: RAW Magazine, 2005-2006
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- Programs: RAW Magazine, 2005-2006
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- Research, 1981-2000
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- Research, 1979-1983
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- Media
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- Oversize: Plaques, 1972-1981
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- Oversize: Plaques, 1972; 1978
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- Oversize: Events and Publicity, 1979-2008
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- Oversize: Student Materials, Serials
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- Photographs, 1938-1969
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- Photographs, 1970-1979
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- Photographs, 1970-1979
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- Photographs, 1980-1989
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- Photographs, 1990-2008
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- Photographs, 1970-2000
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- Photographs, Artwork
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- Photographs, undated
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- Photographs, undated
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- Photographs, undated
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- Photographs, undated
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- Unidentified negatives
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- Oversize photographs