Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers collection
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
-
University of Illinois at Chicago,
801 S. MorganChicago, ILUSA
- Repository Number
- MSCFSN82
- Creator
- Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers.
- Title
- Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers collection
- Dates
- 1896-1982
- Quantity
- 23.0 linear feet. 40 FH [full-sized Hollinger boxes]; 2HH [half-Hollinger boxes]; 2 OF [oversized Hollinger boxes] [Note added by Dan Harper, September 24, 2021]
- Abstract
- The collection contains minutes, speeches, annual reports, studies, reports, and correspondence dating from 1900 to the present. The materials pertain to Chicago area settlement houses, social work, childcare, public housing, poverty, Jane Addams, and Louise de Koven Bowen.
- Language of the Material
- English
Administrative Information
Biography/Profile
The Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (CFSNC) was founded at Hull-House in 1894 by representatives from Hull-House, Northwestern University Settlement, Maxwell Street Settlement, University of Chicago Settlement, Epworth House and Chicago Commons. The Federation brought together settlement workers, social work professionals, and supporters of the settlement house movement from all around the City of Chicago. As part of its mission, the CFSNC provided settlement workers with a forum to share objectives and ideas, organized and conducted studies of local economic conditions, planned charitable events, coordinated activities of area settlements, and cooperated with outside social service agencies.
From 1894-1921, the Federation grew to include thirty-six members and opened an office in downtown Chicago. In 1922, the Chicago Federation of Settlements was incorporated by the State of Illinois. The charter named six prominent Chicago settlement workers as directors: Jane Addams, Hull-House; Harriet E. Vittum, Northwestern University Settlement; Lea D. Taylor, Chicago Commons; Ruth Austin, Gad's Hill Center; Mrs. Beryl T. Gould, House of Happiness; and Winifred Salisbury. The enumerated objectives of the Federation were: "to act as a clearing house for information about settlements and their work; a placement bureau for settlement workers; to provide information and advice regarding training and to co-ordinate the activities of the settlement houses of the City of Chicago."
The bulk of the CFSNC Collection chronicles the years between 1961-1980 during the Executive Directorship of Clarence W. Boebel. During Boebel's tenure the CFSNC expanded the national Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program, founded pre-Kindergarten education programs (i.e. Head Start and Day Care), and created the United Settlement Appeal as a fund-raising mechanism for social service agencies. The CFSNC also cooperated with outside social service agencies such as the National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers, Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity, the Model Cities project, and the Illinois Commission on Children.
Though the Federation served as an umbrella organization for the settlement movement, Boebel's leadership style privileged local autonomy over centralized decision-making. In 1980, Boebel reflected on his career and the necessity for social workers to continue to settle in Chicago's lower-income neighborhoods. Boebel instructed the next generation of social workers: "The only [approach] that really worked was the simplest one. That was: regardless of your culture or ethnic differences, you settled in the neighborhood and said - What is it we can do together?"
Supporting Boebel was a cadre of staff including: Mary De Johnette, Director of Education services; Gladys Hilton, Coordinator of Social Action; Mattie Wright, Director of Finance, and Althea Murray, Director of the summer youth employment program. Hilton served as Director of the Social Education and Action committee (SEA) that lobbied state and city legislators to improve child care and welfare policymaking. De Johnette helped found Head Start and Day Care programs in Chicago in the early 1960s. In 1980, De Johnette replaced Boebel as Executive Director of the CFSNC.
Scope and Content
This collection reflects the history, activity, leadership, and mission of the CFSNC and its relationship with outside service agencies, government bodies, and the public. The bulk of the collection consists of material about social work in Chicago between the years 1960-1980. The collection illustrates the CFSNC's efforts to improve child care, education, housing, and access to health care in lower-income neighborhoods in the City of Chicago. The files contain correspondence, photographs, newsletters, articles, brochures, professional journals, newspaper clippings, legal publications, handbooks, meeting minutes, and annual reports.
The collection is divided into four series reflecting the administrative organization of the CFSNC. The committee file series illustrates the day-to-day operations of the CFSNC through meeting minutes, budget reports, and correspondence. The reference file series reveals the myriad community issues that Chicago social workers addressed from 1960-1980 and consists of reports, surveys, and studies conducted by local, state, and national social service agencies. The member agency series includes organizational records of over thirty Chicago settlements and neighborhood centers between the years 1950-1970. The member agency photograph series contains photographs of Chicago area settlements between the years 1905-1975.
Access Restrictions
Access restrictions -- Available without restriction.
Use/Re-use Restrictions
Use restrictions -- Available without restriction.
Preferred Citation
Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
Acquisition Information
Accession No. 1982.059.ms. Acquired 1982-12-16
Indexed Terms
- Midwest Women's History
- Social settlements
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, b.1859
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers.
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.).
Inventory
Series I contains material pertaining to the history of social work and settlement houses in Chicago, current welfare and reform initiatives in Chicago, national professional social work organizations, and contemporary files of Chicago-based social work and welfare committees. The files contain correspondence, professional journals, reports, published material, legal publications, pamphlets, brochures, handbooks, and annual reports. Subseries are arranged chronologically and include material generated between 1896-1981, with the years 1960-1975 predominant. This series comprises 7.25 ft. of textual records (14.5 boxes).
Subseries A contains reference files related to Chicago social service agencies and social work. The files contain correspondence, pamphlets, reports, annual reports, published material, and legal publications. The bulk of the series consists of reports on low-income housing, public health and welfare, child care, and community activism in Chicago. Reports are written by institutions involved in forming Chicago's welfare and housing policies in the 1960s and 1970s. Reports and studies included in the files were conducted by the Chicago Housing Authority, the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago, the Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity, and the State of Illinois. This subseries includes material generated between 1926-1975, with the years 1960-1975 predominant. Subseries comprises 2 ft. of textual records (4 boxes).
- Title
- Settlements in Chicago
- Dates
- 1921-1947
- Title
- "Study of Aid to Dependent Children Programs of Cook County, Illinois"
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago reports
- Dates
- 1960-1963
- Title
- White House Conference on Aging reports
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Background Documents - Chicago Housing Authority statistics, housing, human relations
- Dates
- 1963-1964
- Title
- Conferences and social services information
- Dates
- circa 1920s-1940s
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- Housing Code Amendments
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- City of Chicago Community Renewal Program Report
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- City of Chicago Mayor's Office. "Improving Neighborhoods: Its 'In the Works' - A Look at Chicago's Model Cities Program"
- Dates
- 28 April 1967
- Title
- Tutoring Projects
- Dates
- 1963-1965
- Title
- VISTA proposal
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Chicago Health and Welfare Agency reports
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Educational Programs for the Blind and Deaf
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- CFSNC history and by-laws
- Dates
- 1965-1975
- Title
- Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity reports
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Industrial Areas Foundation report by Executive Director Saul D. Alinksy
- Dates
- 1969 1962
- Title
- Chicago Committee of Urban Opportunity report
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Chicago Community Coordinated Child Care Committee report
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Chicaog Community Coordinated Child Car Committee report
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity report, 1970
- Dates
- 1970-1970
- Title
- Child Care Resources
- Dates
- 1970-1973
- Title
- Chicago Community Trust Annual Reports
- Dates
- 1968-1971
- Title
- United Settlement Appeal Review and Summary
- Dates
- 1974
- Title
- United Settlement Appeal [scrapbook]-Wells Burnette and Associates
- Dates
- 1963
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- Correspondence, Mr. William R. Hammond, President of CFSNC to Lea D. Taylor of Chicago Commons
- Dates
- 1974 1953
- Title
- Community Fund of Chicago executive meeting minutes and correspondence
- Dates
- 1968-1970
- Title
- Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity Head Start Program
- Dates
- 1968-1969
- Title
- "Criteria For Admission to Membership in the CFSNC," CFSNC by-laws
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Day Care and Child Development Council of America report
- Dates
- 1974 1977
- Title
- Model Cities / Committee on Urban Opportunity Report
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- CFSNC newsletters
- Dates
- 1974 1980
- Title
- Illinois White House Conference on Children report
- Dates
- 1980
- Title
- President's Report, CFSNC Annual Meeting
- Dates
- 1980
- Title
- "Redistricting," Illinois Issues. Vol. VIII, No. 4
- Dates
- August 1982 April 1982
- Title
- [Gettysburg Address-facsimile of early draft of speech]
- Dates
- undated
Released on 2021-09-23.
Subseries B contains reference files relevant to nationwide social service issues in the United States including child care, education, care for the aging, and community organizing. The files contain handbooks, pamphlets, published material, and annual reports. The bulk of the subseries consists of material related to child care published by national and local social service agencies. Subseries is arranged chronologically and includes material generated between 1955-1981. This subseries comprises 2 linear ft. of textual records (4 boxes).
- Title
- Peck Harris B. "Our Young Citizens: Promise and Problem." The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Symposium
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Job Skills Training resources
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Early Childhood Development resources
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Early Childhood Development resources
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Head Start and Early Childhood Development resources
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Research Guide for Community Organizing
- Dates
- 1962
- Title
- Administrative Skill Development Program resources
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Early Childhood Development resources, "For Children's Sake What are We Doing"
- Dates
- 1972-1973
- Title
- Disability and Early Childhood Development resources
- Dates
- 1974
- Title
- "Resource For the Aging: An Action Handbook"
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Caring For Children. Publication of U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, nos. 1-5
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Caring For Children. Publication of U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, nos. 6-9
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- "Effectiveness of Social Work with Acting Out Youth: Seventh Year Progress Report," Seattle Atlantic Street Center
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- "Effectiveness of Social Work with Acting Out Youth: Seventh Year Progress Report," Seattle Atlantic Street Center
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Early Childhood Development resources and handbooks
- Dates
- 1972-1975
- Title
- Resource Materials for pre-kindergarten teachers and Head Start Staff
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Social Work: The Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Vol. 26, No. 1
- Dates
- January 1981
- Title
- Head Start Matching Grant Applications
- Dates
- 1978
- Title
- Report on Juvenile Delinquency Act of 1968
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Report on Juvenile Delinquency Act of 1968
- Dates
- n.d.
Subseries C contains material related to the history of social work and settlement houses in Chicago. The files contain magazines, newspaper clipping, photographs, and correspondence. Subseries is arranged chronologically and includes material generated between 1897-1973, with the years 1897-1954 predominant. This subseries comprises 1.5 linear ft. of textual and photographic records (3 boxes).
- Title
- The Commons: A Monthly Record Devoted to Aspects of Life and Labor from the Social Settlement Point of View, Vol. II, No. 5
- Dates
- September 1897
- Title
- The Commons, Vol. IV, No. 43
- Dates
- Februrary 1900
- Title
- The Commons, Vol. VI, No. 66
- Dates
- January 1902
- Title
- The Commons, Vol. IX, No. 2
- Dates
- Februrary 1904
- Title
- The Commons, Vol. IX, No. 8 - Vol. X, No. 1
- Dates
- August 1904 - January 1905
- Title
- The Commons, Vol. X, No. 2 - Vol. X, No. 9
- Dates
- Februray 1905 - September 1905
- Title
- Fellowship and Onward Neighborhood Center, photographs
- Dates
- November 1938 n.d.
- Title
- Sixty Year Anniversary of Settlement Houses in Chicago newspaper clippings and photographs
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Correspondence, Sixty Year Anniversary of Settlement Houses in Chicago
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Correspondence, Sixty Year Anniversary of Settlement Houses in Chicago
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Chicago Committee On Urban Opportunity Report
- Dates
- October 1938 1967
- Title
- U.S.A. Annual Report to Attorney General
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- Newspaper Clippings about Hull-House and Jane Addams
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Historical: Chicago Commons Association, photographs; Olivet House Summer Camp, photographs; South Chicago Community Center; Marcy Center
- Dates
- n.d.
Subseries D contains material related to national professional social work organizations including the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (NFSNC). The files contain correspondence, annual reports, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. Subseries is arranged chronologically and includes material between 1965-1981, with 1968-1970 predominant. Subseries comprises 1 linear ft. of textual material (2 boxes).
- Title
- Newspaper Clippings, Chicago Defender
- Dates
- 1963-1973
- Title
- Reports on Cost Analysis and Analysis of Neighborhood Need; Youth Opportunity Committee
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- United Christian Community Services
- Dates
- 1967-1971
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers annual report
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- College Financil Aid resources
- Dates
- 1969-1970
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers, photographs of Chicago settlements
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- National Federation of Settlements Regional Conference minutes
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence
- Dates
- 1968-1969
- Title
- United Neighborhood Centers of America national legislative conference meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1973 1981
Series II contains material generated by the Finance, Planning, Personnel, Special (non-standing), Executive, and Membership and Standards committees of the CFSNC. Subseries are divided by committee and arranged chronologically. The files contain financial records, meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, and organizational newsletters. Series includes material generated between 1946-1970, with the years 1960-1970 predominant. Series comprises 5 linear ft. of textual and photographic materials (10 boxes).
- Title
- Agency - Chicago Federation Public Hearings and Federal Financing
- Dates
- 1958-1959
- Title
- Public Aid; Time Analysis Rochester Accounts
- Dates
- 1962
- Title
- Approved Budgets of Member Houses
- Dates
- 1963 1964
- Title
- CFSNC expense report
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Model Cities Carefare Family Centers budget report
- Dates
- 1973 1972
- Title
- Chicago Federation of Settlements - Financial
- Dates
- 1980
- Title
- Annual Reports
- Dates
- 1952-1957
- Title
- Program Committee: Public Relations Ideas, Annual Reports
- Dates
- 1958-1960
- Title
- Chicago Welfare Agency reports
- Dates
- 1955-1960
- Title
- Federation Study Committee (Statement of Federation); Committee on Headworkers; Nursery School Project; Nursery School Planning Committee; Committee on Inner City Work
- Dates
- 1958-1960
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- Census Material
- Dates
- 1963 1940, 1950, 1960
- Title
- Census Material
- Dates
- 1963 1940, 1950, 1960
- Title
- Public Housing reports
- Dates
- 1961-1963
- Title
- Information on Chicago Public Schools, newspaper clippings and correspondence
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- Operation Evanston (Public Relations committee); Committee on Rehabilitation and Repairs
- Dates
- 1962
- Title
- CFSNC Annual Meeting reports
- Dates
- 1962-1964
- Title
- CGSNC Annual Meeting Reports
- Dates
- 1964-1965
- Title
- Food For the Needy Project, "Operation Bar Cupboard"
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- Correspondence about Model Cities Program
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- CFSNC annual meeting report
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- CHS archivist Archie Motley, Jr. to CFSNC President Clarence Boebel
- Dates
- 1968 1968
- Title
- Community Fund of Chicago Annual Report
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago correspondence and background information
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago correspondence
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- CFSNC correspondence and newspaper clippings
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Youth Development Program budget proposal
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago correspondence
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Youth Enrichment Services Program, correspondence and brochure
- Dates
- 1965 1970-1981 1981
- Title
- Head Start program informational packets
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- News. CFSNC newsletter. Vol. I, No. II - Vol. III, No. II
- Dates
- August 1974 - December 1977
- Title
- News. CFSNC newsletter
- Dates
- December 1979 - May 1980 1968-1977 1977-1980
- Title
- "Chicago Needs You, You Need Chicago" [Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers fundraising brochures]
- Dates
- 1975
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- "Chicago isEL." [Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers fundraising brochures]
- Dates
- 1979-1983
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- Clarence Boebel papers
- Dates
- 1960s-1970s
- Title
- United Neighborhood Centers of America, Inc. Mid-West Regional Confernce meeting minutes and correspondence
- Dates
- 1981
- Title
- News and Views. "The State of the Child." Illinois Commission on Children. Vol. 18, No. 9
- Dates
- n.d. 1982 September 1981
- Title
- News. CFSNC newsletter
- Dates
- February 1980 1980
- Title
- Chicago Tribune newspaper clippings
- Dates
- 1981
- Title
- Chicago Tribune newspaper clippings
- Dates
- 1981
- Title
- Personnel Committee meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1953
- Title
- Correspondence, Personnel Committee
- Dates
- 1955-1959 1956-1957 1955-1959
- Title
- Personnel Committee meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1955-1959
- Title
- Personnel Committee meeting minutes and correspondence
- Dates
- 1960-1962
- Title
- Employment - Current
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Committee on Agency Personnel
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Committee on Agency Personnel
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee - Special Executive Council
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee, Springfield Legislative Seminar
- Dates
- 1959
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee - Family Court
- Dates
- 1961-1963
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- Social Legislation Information Service, Inc., Washington Bulletin
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee - Washington Legislative
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1960-1964
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Clairol Project
- Dates
- Feburary 1962 November-December 1963
- Title
- Food Emergency
- Dates
- May 1963
- Title
- Employment of Youth; Illinois State Employment Service; Executive's Meetings; Instant Settlements; Food Crisis Clippings
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Cost Analysis; Federation Activities Outline; Insurance Committee Meeting; South Side Senior Citizens
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Camp Training Material for Staff; Food for the Needy; "Operation Bare Cupboard"
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Chicago Education System, background information
- Dates
- 1949-1971
- Title
- News. CFSNC newsletter
- Dates
- 1945 1980
- Title
- Summer Staff Orientation photographs and textual materials
- Dates
- 1955-1958
- Title
- Summer Staff Orientation
- Dates
- 1959-1964
- Title
- Governor's Advisory Committee on Youth Fitness
- Dates
- 1958-1960
- Title
- Committee on Volunteers
- Dates
- 1959-1960
- Title
- Summer Staff Orientation
- Dates
- 1961-1964
- Title
- CFSNC correspondence vwith Social Education and Action Committee
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Social Education and Action Committee Bulletins
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Blue Cross files; Correspondence, G. Lewis Penner, Executive Director, Juvenile Protective Association to Donald Rumsfeld, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Executive Committee meeting minutes and financial reports
- Dates
- 1952-1954
- Title
- Executive Council meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Executive Council and other committee meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1952-1958
- Title
- Executive Council meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1951-1954
- Title
- Executive Council reports and meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- CFSNC Bulletin, CFSNC newsletter
- Dates
- 1956-1962
- Title
- CFSNC Bulletin, CFSNC newsletter
- Dates
- 1959-1965
- Title
- Boebel Clarence-resignation
- Dates
- 1980
Released on 2021-09-24.
- Title
- CFSNC by-laws and NFSNC membership standards
- Dates
- 1959
- Title
- Membership and Standards Committee meeting minutes
- Dates
- 1957 1956-1957
- Title
- Correspondence, Membership and Standards Committee
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- CFSNC Criteria for Admission and Membership
- Dates
- 1966 n.d.
- Title
- U.S.A. Distribution of Funds
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- Economic Opportunity Report
- Dates
- n.d. n.d. 1972
- Title
- CFSNC Criteria for Admission; CFSNC by-laws
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Correspondence, Erie Neighborhood House and Association House of Chicago to Membership and Standards Committee
- Dates
- 1975 1981
Series III contains informational packets on the settlements and neighborhood centers that comprised the CFSNC. The files consist of correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, organizational newsletters, and newspaper clippings. Series includes material generated between the 1946 and 1971. Series comprises 4.5 linear ft. of textual and photographic materials
- Title
- Olivet Community Center
- Dates
- 1946-1963
- Title
- Assocation House of Chicago background information; Howell Neighborhood House background information
- Dates
- 1947 n.d.
- Title
- Mary McDowell Settlement
- Dates
- 1945-1963
- Title
- Onward Neighborhood House
- Dates
- 1951-1964
- Title
- Association House
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Marcy Center
- Dates
- 1953-1963
- Title
- Hull-House Association
- Dates
- 1948-1959
- Title
- Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
- Dates
- 1948-1963
- Title
- Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
- Dates
- 1948-1963
- Title
- South Chicago Community Center
- Dates
- 1949-1964
- Title
- Chicago Commons Association
- Dates
- 1947-1963
- Title
- Gads Hill Center
- Dates
- 1947-1963
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln Center
- Dates
- 1948-1963
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln Center
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Erie Neighborhood House
- Dates
- 1951-1963
- Title
- Parkway Community House
- Dates
- 1950-1963
- Title
- Neighborhood Service (Howell and Bethlehem)
- Dates
- 1955-1963
- Title
- Salvation Army Settlement
- Dates
- 1957-1963
- Title
- Newberry Avenue Center
- Dates
- 1952-1963
- Title
- Neighborhood House Association
- Dates
- 1958-1963
- Title
- Northwestern University Settlement
- Dates
- 1959-1965
- Title
- Neighborhood House Association
- Dates
- 1964-1967
- Title
- Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- Newberry House Groundbreaking photographs
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- Madonna Center
- Dates
- 1954-1960
- Title
- Agency Statements of Operations
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Neighborhood Service Organization
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Chicago Commons Association
- Dates
- 16 May 1966 1964 1964, 1971
- Title
- Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Erie Neighborhood House
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Olivet Community Center
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln Center
- Dates
- n.d. 1964
- Title
- Hull-House Association
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Association House
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Hull-House Association
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Salvation Army Settlement
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Newberry Avenue Center
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Marcy Center
- Dates
- 1971 1964-1965
- Title
- Gads Hill Center
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Henry Booth House
- Dates
- 1958-1965
- Title
- Firman House
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Christopher House; Trumbull Park Community House
- Dates
- 1955-1966
- Title
- South Chicago Neighborhood House
- Dates
- 1957-1967
- Title
- Jones Memorial Community Center
- Dates
- 1960-1970
- Title
- Correspondence, Joseph E. Reynolds, Executive Director of Christopher House, to Rev. William D. Watkins, Crerar Memorial Presbyterian Church.
- Dates
- 5 June 1966.
- Title
- Beacon House
- Dates
- 1963-1967
- Title
- Ada S. McKinley Community House
- Dates
- 1951-1967
- Title
- Marcy Center Employee Training Program
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Clarence Boebel, Executive Director of CFSNC, correspondence
- Dates
- 1968-1970
- Title
- Clarence Boebel, Executive Director of CFSNC, correspondence
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Head Start program information for CFSNC member agencies
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Clarence Darrow Community Center
- Dates
- 1963-1970
- Title
- Correspondence. Clarence Boebel, Executive Director of CFSNC
- Dates
- 1968-1970
- Title
- Beacon House brochure
- Dates
- n.d.
- Title
- South Chicago Community Center
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Trumbull Park Photographs
- Dates
- n.d.
Series contains photographs of settlements in Chicago, CFSNC board and committee meetings, local residents, settlement workers, and dignitaries. The series contains photographs of prominent figures in U.S. social work and politics in the twentieth century including Clarence Boebel, Executive Director of CFSNC; Jane Addams, founder of Hull-House; Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (1964-1968); Robert Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General (1960-1964); and William Heinsimer, President of CFSNC. The bulk of the photographs depict job training workshops, sporting events, summer camps, vocational programs, language lessons, and day care programs conducted by Chicago social service agencies. The series consists of photographs taken between 1905 and the 1980s, with the years 1960-1980 predominant. This series comprises 4 linear feet of photographic and textual materials (8 boxes).
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- Photos, ink drawing (brochure proof), and award certificate
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos
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- undated
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- Photos, contact sheet
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- undated
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- Contact Sheets (Northwestern University Settlement, Jane Addams Center, Abraham Lincoln Center and area south and north), Uptown Center, Gads Hill activities, unidentified settlement house) Photo (circus elephants)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Senator Charles Percy and two men, Gads Hill Center, unidentified apartment building, Hubert Humphrey, Hubert Humphrey and others, two men at construction site, man carrying leopard, acrobats at Daley Plaza) and food stamps news clipping
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (children and adults in a gym, Richard Daley and others, children in auditorium, construction worker George Alexander, construction worker, Clarence Boebel and unidentified man) Contact Sheet (unidentified neighborhood center, Abraham Lincoln Center and area south), Negatives (unidentified)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (boys on monkey bars, three unidentified men, two children, child on swing, children) Contact Sheets (Una Puerta Abierta area, Abe Lincoln Center, miscellaneous)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (burnt house, boy with building blocks, metal shop, classroom, woman at switchboard, children at circus)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (children at school, people eating lunch, Christopher House, children at play, Northwestern University settlement people and building, three men)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (construction workers, child on swing, young man being fitted for clothing, karate class, children seated on lawn, West Town mural (1977), two men conversing, International Federation of Settlements Conference in Rome 1961), Jane Addams - Chicago 1960 booklet
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (classroom, an unidentified man, two men talking, circus at Daley Plaza, Santa Claus and child, Santa Claus, mother and child, boy doing acrobatics, CTA bus with advertisement "We're nothing but people getting together...")
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (includes party scene, circus scenes, Clarence Boebel with unidentified man, theater entrance outdoor scene) Negatives (unidentified group shots)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (includes several of Clarence Boebel)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos, (adult and youth, group scenes, construction workers), Contact Sheet (Trumbull Park)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (McKinley Job Training Center, South Chicago Neighborhood House, South Chicago Community Services, Neighborhood Service Organizations
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (McKinley Job Training Center, Neighborhood Service Organization), Photos (man seated at desk, group of men talking, man playing basketball with kids, boy with dog)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Financial appeal correspondence, Contact Sheets (Jane Addams Center, Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, Christopher House, Gads Hill, McKinley Job Training Center, Trumbull Park), Photo (unidentified building exterior)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Abe Lincoln Center, Marcy Center, Northwestern University Settlement), Photo (Junked Car in Vacant Lot, 1961), Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers booklet
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Contact Sheets (Trumbull Park, Lincoln Center), Negatives (Lincoln Center), Northwestern University Settlement House news clipping from 1978, Photos
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos, Contact Sheets (Uptown Center, Una Puerta Abierta English classes, Abraham Lincoln Center, Neighborhood Service Organizations), Community Center flyer
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Contact Sheets (Northwestern Unversity Settlement, Jane Addams Center, Christopher House, Uptown Center, Una Puerta Abierta, Nettlehorst School)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Una Puerta Abierta, Abe Lincoln Center teen scene & area, Olivet, Marcy Center), Photo (group of people boarding bus)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (McKinley Job Training Center, Trumbull Park, South Chicago Neighborhood House, Marcy Center, Aztlan, Gads Hill, Northwestern Unversity Settlement), Photos (Clarence Boebel in center of group, construction worker)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos, Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers newsletter (1977), Contact Sheet (Christopher House)
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos, Contact Sheets (includes Gads Hill)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Neighborhood Services Organizations, Christopher House), Photo (man and woman talking)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (Hubert Humphrey, Hubert Humphrey and Paul Jans), Contact Sheets (Olivet)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Gads Hill, Marcy Center, Aztlan, Olivet, Mckinley Job Training Center), Photo (unidentified building exterior)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Contact Sheets (Northwestern University Settlment, Abe Lincoln Center, Chicago Federation of Settlements, Gads Hill, Aztlan, McKinley Center)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Aztlan Community Center, Hyde Park, Una Puerta Abierta, Jane Addams Center, Uptown Center, Chicago Federation of Settlements Office
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Contact Sheets (Abe Lincoln Center) , Negatives (unidentified), Photos (Benton House, group of unidentified people, child tumbling through air, group of people eating, group shot at Benton House)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (group outside Benton House, Hubert Humphrey shaking hands with unidentified woman, group shot of three women and a girl behind desk, Benton House exterior, group of people around conference table, Hubert Humphrey speaking at outdoor event, Hubert Humphrey group shot
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (various group shots, circus scenes, switchboard operator) Contact Sheet (Neighborhood Service Organizations)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (various scenes of children playing, side view of Northwestern University Settlement in winter), Clarence W. Boebel's resume (c. 1962)
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (martial arts class, news clipping about the Community Center in Chinatown, Community Center of Chinatown flyer, scrapbook
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Community Center of Chinatown brochure (1949), Photos (scouts group photo, children activities), Scrapbook pages (children outdoor and indoor activities)
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- 1949-1950
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Mildred Wood conducting family counseling at Assocation House, settlement house youth activities, street scene, English class, craft class, Parkway House side exterior, 1958 aerial view of central Chicago, settlement directors greeting boys)
- Dates
- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Alton Linford, 1964 interview by William Braden of Robert H. MacRae and James Brown, children activities)
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- 1960s
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (settlement house gatherings, exterior building scenes)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (children activities, Erie House health clinic and dental school, 1963 deportment training class)
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Christmas gathering, children playing, hearing test, exterior street scenes, man working on pottery bowl)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (youth activities - puppetry, leaping, reading, basketball, printing newsletter, youth gatherings)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (South Chicago Community Center children and teen activities)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (settlement house activities)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (outdoor produce vendor, Parkway Community House, Jane Addams Center, seniors playing card, Firman House group, woman with baby
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photo (Founders of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers)
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- 1908
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (Maxwell Street Market)
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- c. 1905
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (settlement house activities including South Side Community Center)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (cover of 1894 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, children group activities, woman holding up blouse for sizing, front exterior Jane Addams center, street scene)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (children, Hull-House mansion exterior drawing, back and side view of Parkway house exterior, exterior shot of Erie Neighborhood House doorway)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (Hull-House Branch, Community Center of Chinatown cooking, youths playing basketball, exterior shot of Erie Neighborhood House, children crafts, Christopher House)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (1961 outside shots, Erie Neighborhood House Meals on Wheels, Association House people looking at Neighborhood House Districts map)
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- mostly undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos ( group gathering, youth instruction at Christopher House, youths playing basketball, children Christmas crafts, music performance, teens dancing, young men shoveling gravel)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (children, Chicago City Missionary Society building exterior, teen girls cooking, woman hanging up coat, youths playing pool)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- Elamite
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- Photos (senior portraits, youths fixing building exterior, girls in cooking class at Gads Hill, African-American singing group)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (group activities, kids with games, Clarence Darrow Community Center, 1950 exterior shot of Chicago Commons, Chicago Commons Association group activities)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (youth dance, children activities, children in Halloween costumes, group of children sleeping on cots)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos and large negatives (group activities)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos and negatives (group activities)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Chicago Commons Street Worker Program, portraits of Mrs. Ben Heineman and Al Roth - director of Association House, group activities, Christopher House children playing on a playground)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Photos (group shots, portrait of Randall S. Hilton and Herbert C. Paschen, children in mostly group activities, men with carts outside tavern
- Dates
- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Lincoln Center - craft shop boys building a soap box racer, exterior of building, boys painting stairs, boys playing basketball, small girls playing games with their teacher, young men repairing floor), news clippings
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- News clippings, Photos (portraits of Herbert C. Paschen and Paul Jans, Herbert C. Paschen and Benny Goodman, young men playing pool at Lincoln Center, group shots)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Clippings, photo caption information sheets, press release
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- 1962-1964
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (cover and illustrations from 1894 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly article on the work of the University Settlement in New York City, settlement activities, couple dancing, children playing board game, Clarence Darrow Community Center children painting, Gads Hill exterior seen through cyclone fence)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Christopher House boys studying, Erie Neighborhood House Meals on Wheels, group activities, Association House activity, Newberry Center nursery school, 1950 exterior shot of Chicago Commons)
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- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (settlement house activities, Beth Chapel in 1960, Association House, Jane Addams Center pool, Henry Booth House in 1964)
- Dates
- 1960s
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (exterior view of Parkway House, South Chicago Community Center children playing, Planned Parenthood Associaton House, Paul Jans)
- Dates
- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (Beacon Neighborhood House hearing test and dental test, Association House, map of areas with lowest income and education levels, Erie House mother and baby awaiting checkup, Ben Richardson, Association House carnival setup in gym)
- Dates
- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (portrait of William Heinsimer, Christopher House, little girl shaping clay, group activities)
- Dates
- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (1958 teens dancing, children playing store, Planned Parenthood Association mother feeding baby, boy by radiator, 1963 Erie Neighborhood House parent meeting, children playing in small outdoor pool, Unknown booth)
- Dates
- undated
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Photos (people dancing, group activities)
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- By-laws, notices, membership lists, reports, ballots
- Dates
- 1973
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Membership dues payment ledger
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- 1951-1958
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Invoices
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- 1957
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Ballots and nominations
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- 1976
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Ballots
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- 1972
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Ballots and election materials
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- 1973-1974
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- 1974 financial statement and two 1982 memos
- Dates
- 1974, 1982
- Language of the Material
- English
- Title
- Standards for Project Design for Child Development Programs
- Dates
- 1976
- Language of the Material
- English
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- Abraham Lincoln Center [slides]
- Dates
- circa 1981
Released on 2021-09-23.
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- Hyde Park [slides]
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- circa 1978
Released on 2021-09-23.
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- Jane Addams Center; Northwestern University Settlement Area [slides]
- Dates
- circa 1972
Released on 2021-09-23.
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- Korean; Hull; Fed [slides]
- Dates
- circa 1981
Released on 2021-09-23.
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- Trumbull Park [slides]
- Dates
- circa 1970s - circa 1980s
Released on 2021-09-23.
Released on 2021-09-23.
Released on 2021-09-23.
Released on 2021-09-23.
- Title
- [Woman reading newspaper-photograph]
- Dates
- circa 1940s-circa 1980s
Released on 2021-09-23.