| Dates: | 1853-1994 |
| Size: | 27.5 linear feet in 36 boxes including 440 photographs, 16 oversize folders |
| Repository: | Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60605 |
| Collection Number: | spe-nhrc-ws |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | Transferred from Chicago Public Library Legler Branch Library in the 1980s as part of a Dr. Scholl Foundation grant. Supplements 1-2 originated with the West Side Historical Society in 1989 and 1990. Supplement 3 was the result of multiple transfers and donations over the years. |
| Conditions Governing Access: | Materials are open without restrictions. |
| Conditions Governing Use: | Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection. |
| Preferred Citation: | When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: West [Near West] Side Community Collection [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. |
| Finding Aid Author: | Original author unknown, circa 1989. Supplements to the collection were added in 1989, 1990 and 2018. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2022 |
Abstract
The West [Near West] Side Community Collection contains manuscripts, printed material and photographs that document Chicago’s Near West Side, an area bounded by 16th Street on the south, Kinzie Street on the north, the Chicago River on the east and Maplewood Avenue on the west. It was originally called the West Side Community Collection. The collection contains biographical information on residents, as well as information on businesses, religious institutions, clubs and organizations, municipal agencies, residences, schools, streets and transportation.
Biographical/Historical
The Near West Side neighborhood begins two miles west of the Loop. Its boundaries are the Chicago River in the east, the Pennsylvania Railroad near Rockwell Street to the west, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad near Kinzie Street on the north and 16th Street to the south. The Near West Side is number 28 of the 77 official communities that make up Chicago. The community area includes neighborhoods referred to as: Columbus Circle, Greektown, Little Italy, Medical Center, Near West Side, Tri-Taylor, Fulton River District, University Village.
After the Chicago Fire of 1871, more than 200,000 people took up resident in the area. By the end of the nineteenth century, the area attracted waves of European immigration including Greeks, Italians, Poles, Russian Jews and Poles. In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House settlement house that offered services to these groups.
African Americans and Mexicans moved into the Near West Side in larger numbers during the 1930s and 1940s.
Scope and Contents
The West [Near West] Side Community Collection contains manuscripts, printed material and photographs that document Chicago’s Near West Side, an area bounded by 16th Street on the south, Kinzie Street on the north, the Chicago River on the east and Maplewood Avenue on the west. It was originally called the West Side Community Collection. The collection contains biographical information on residents, as well as information on businesses, religious institutions, clubs and organizations, municipal agencies, residences, schools, streets and transportation. Among the organizations included are E.J Brach and Sons, Brown School, Daprato Statuary Company, Hull House, King School, Maxwell Street Civic Improvement Project, St. Ignatius High School, Sears, Roebuck and Company, West Division High School and West Side Department Y.M.C.A.
News clippings in the original collection that were duplicated in the library’s newspaper holdings have been indexed in this guide, but not physically included in the manuscript collection.
Photographs 6.1 through 6.56 are small tintypes that are mostly set in oval cardboard frames.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The initial collection was transferred from Chicago Public Library Legler Branch Library in the 1980s as part of a Dr. Scholl Foundation grant.
Supplement 1 (Box 20, Folders 1-15) originated with the West Side Historical Society. These include documentation of Brown School, including that of Billie Burke, widower of alumnus Florenz Ziegfeld (Box 20, Folder 13). The supplement was processed in February 1989.
Supplement 2 (Box 20, Folders16-43) largely originated with the collections of the West Side Historical Society. The documentation includes various members of the Guiteau Family, including Charles Julius Guiteau (1841-1882) who assassinated President James Garfield in 1881. Also included in this supplement are Oversize items 12, 13, and 14, described below. These materials were processed in February of 1990.
Supplement 3 (Box 21, Folders 1-6; Photograph 4.24) includes materials were transferred from other collections and donated by various people over a number of years. Photograph 4.24 was transferred from the Beverly-Morgan Park Collection and Joseph Prause donated the contents of Box 21, Folders 3-4 and 6. These materials were added to the collection in December 2018.
Maretta Twitty (1851-1934) collected Photographs 6.1 through 6.56. Additional items that belonged to Miss Twitty are in Box 4, Folder 2.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 11 series by topic:
- Series 1: Biographical Data, 1853-1953, undated
- Series 2: Business Establishments, 1862-1946, undated
- Series 3: Religious Institutions, 1875-1947
- Series 4: Clubs and Organizations, 1870-circa 1962
- Series 5: Historical Sketches, 1854-1994
- Series 6: Hospitals, circa 1890s-1949
- Series 7: Municipal Agencies and Parks, 1858-circa 1950, undated
- Series 8, Residences, circa 1867-1954, undated
- Series 9: Schools, 1857-1971, undated
- Series 10: Streets, 1872-1945
- Series 11: Transportation, circa 1850s-1939
Subject Headings
- Associations, institutions, etc -- Illinois -- Chicago – History
- Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Crane Junior College (Chicago, Ill.)
- Crane Technical High School (Chicago, Ill.)
- Local transit -- Illinois – Chicago --- History
- Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
- Parks -- Illinois – Chicago --- History
- Portraits -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Religious institutions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Schools -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Societies and clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- St. Ignatius High School (Chicago, Ill.)
- Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
Related Collections
- West End Women’s Club Records
- West Side Council of Parents and Teachers Records
- West Side Newspaper Collection
- West Town Community Collections
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Biographical Data, 1853-1953, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 1 includes biographical notes, certificates, correspondence, news clippings, reminiscences, certificates and other materials on West Side neighborhood residents. Of particular note are indentures and other documents dating from the 1850s-1920s from the Thumser family and the correspondence of Margaret Klein Jackson, an early resident of the West Side. Jackson’s scrapbook is in Subseries B (Box 2).
Arrangement
Series 1 is arranged into three subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1853-1952, undated; Subseries B: Margaret Klein Jackson Scrapbook, circa 1910s-1950s and Subseries C: Photographs, circa 1850s-1951
Subseries A: Documents, 1853-1952, undated
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by last name.
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Addams, Jane, articles on, 1936-1937 |
| Addams, Jane, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 September 3] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | Aitken, Andrew, news clipping, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | Anderson, Norman A., news clipping, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | Badger, Leonidas V. and family, eulogy, family history, news clippings, 1880s-1910s, 1942, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Ballard, Russell W., news clipping, reminiscence, 1943-1944 |
| Barker, J.M., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 December 14] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Bartholf, William J., news clipping, 1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Bartlett, Major Sidney S. news clipping, 1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Becker, Mabel Speer, news clipping, 1944 |
| Becker, Mabel Speer, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1944 April 6] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Beidler family, notes on, undated |
| Bimanski, Rev. Francis, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 December 10] | ||
| Bond, Carrie Jacobs, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 August 22] | ||
| Bond, George, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1942 March 11] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Bowen, Louise deKoven, news clipping [See also: Hull House], undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Brant, Mary K., news clipping, 1939 |
| Brown, Rev. John Francis, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1938 May 8] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Brown, William H., reminiscence of by grandson Harold P. Brown, 1932 |
| Brumback, Dr. Sophia Wiborg, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 June 23] | ||
| Bruner, Olive P., [See: Spalding School] | ||
| Camp, Ruth Orton, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1943 June 4] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Carpenter, Richard V., picture and reminiscence, 1943, undated |
| Carr, Charlotte [See: Chicago Daily News, 1946 December 23] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 1 | Best, Sally Keep, 1938 |
| Box 20 | Folder 17 | Booth, Henry (1818-1898), biographical sketches, 1925, 1931, 1941, undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 18 | Booth, Hervey Wister (1850-1910) and Caroline Hilton, correspondence (including Gov. Henry Horner), 1932, 1942-1943, undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 19 | Bowen, Lousie DeKoven, news clipping, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Case, Elisha, biography, business card, circa 1943, undated |
| Cheney, Dorothy, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 May 11] | ||
| Chritton, George A., [See: Historical Sketches] | ||
| Connelly, Mary, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 April 28] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | “Crazy Leonard,” news clipping, notes on, undated |
| Culver, Helen, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1937 December 12] | ||
| Dalton, Patrick, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1935 December 14, 23] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Dasso, August E., biography, business card, notes, reminiscence circa 1930s-1940s, undated |
| Dasso, Paul, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1941 October 24] | ||
| DeBoer, Bert, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 February 5] | ||
| DeCarlo, Pasquale R., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1937 September 26, 1938 February 6] | ||
| Dickinson, Mary, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1942 February 8] | ||
| Estabrook, George, [See: Streets: General information] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Fantus, Dr. Bernard M., autobiography, brochure, correspondence, news clipping, circa 1930s-1940s, undated |
| Fantus, Dr. Bernard M., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 April 15] | ||
| Farson, May, [See also: Brown School] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Fellows, Bishop Samuel, notes on [See: Chicago Tribune, 1935 October 27], circa 1930s |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Ferguson, Benjamin Franklin, biography, monument fund list, notes, circa 1930s, undated |
| Ferguson, Benjamin Franklin, [See also: Chicago Daily News, 1940 September 13] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | FitzSimons, Augusta Riley, biography, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Flint, Dr. Austin, biography, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Forster, Henry D., biography, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Frain, Andy, news clipping, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Freer, Dr. Joseph Warren, biography, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Gale, Stephen F., biography, reminiscence [See also: Residences], 1940 |
| Gibson, Rev. David E., [See: Chicago Daily News, 1937 May 22] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Gilson, Henry F., news clipping, 1929 |
| Goodman, Benny, [See: Hull House; Chicago Daily News, 1940 February 24; Down Beat, 1940 August 1] | ||
| Gorman, Patrick J., [See: Chicago Daily News, 1938 July 30] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Grant, Harlo, correspondence, printing samples [See also: Historical Sketches: “Oakley Hall”], circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Haas, Mrs. Joseph S., correspondence, circa 1940s |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Harris, Samuel, notes on, pamphlet by, circa 1880s, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Hayes, Margaret Fitzgerald, correspondence, 1938-1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Hecht, Frank A., correspondence, news clipping [See also: Chicago Daily News, 1940 January 4, 1942 July 9], 1939, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Heistad, Anna, news clipping, 1942 |
| Heistad, Anna, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 April 14, 23] | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Horowitz, Sam, news clippings, 1952, undated |
| Hurd, Elizabeth, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 August 18] | ||
| Igoe, Celestine, [See: Spalding School] | ||
| Iris, Scharmel, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1953 August 22] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 27 | Guthrie, Samuel (1782-1848) and Family, memoirs, 1919 |
| Box 20 | Folder 20 | Guiteau, Charles Julius (1841-1882), Chicago Public Library card, 1879 |
| Box 20 | Folder 21 | Garfield, James A., facsimile of bullet which killed Garfield, undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 22 | Guiteau, L.W., correspondence, 1853-1858 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 | Jackson, Margaret, child’s copybook and report card, correspondence, reminiscence [See also: Scrapbook Box 2 and Brown School, Box 8], circa 1890s, 1902, circa 1940s-1950s, undated |
| Jennings, O.D., [See: Garfieldian, 1937 April 15] | ||
| Jensen, Mrs. Alvin, [See: West Side Council of Parent-Teacher Associations] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Julian, Dr. Percy, news clipping, 1951 |
| Kohler, Le Roy Louis, [See: Garfieldian, 1941 January 23] | ||
| Landon, Levi and Ency, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 March 31] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Lee, William, news clipping, 1950 |
| Lindloff, Louise, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1944 June 17] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Livermore, Mary Ashton, biography, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Locke, Frank E., reminiscence [See also: Gale, Stephen F.], 1940 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Marland, Milton J., reminiscence, 1938 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | McCall, Dr. Oswald W.S., news clippings, program, 1939, 1942 |
| McCloskey, Brig. Gen. Manus [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 July 28] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | McDonald, Mike, notes on, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | McMillan, M. Helena, news clipping, 1938 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | McWatters, Frank, notes on, 1931 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Michaels, David Dundae, biography, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Miller, Alice Northway, reminiscences, undated |
| Miller, J.C., [See: Chicago Daily News, 1937 April 10; Chicago Tribune, 1940 May 12] | ||
| Montgomery, John, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1936 May 2] | ||
| Mooney, Mary, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1924 May 26] | ||
| O’Leary, James Patrick, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1935 March 31] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Olson, Henry Elias, notes on, poems by [See also: Pierson family], 1938, undated |
| Parker, Rev. A.K., [See: Centenary Baptist] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 2 | Lebeson, Anita Libman (1896-), correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 20 | Folder 28 | Masters, Frank, news clipping, 1941 |
| Box 20 | Folder 29 | Metcalf, Rev. I.E., news clipping, 1945 |
| Box 20 | Folder 23 | Norton, Frances Marie Guiteau Scoville, correspondence, [1880s] |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Patterson, John Ritchie, articles, diploma from King School, 1878, 1941 |
| Patton, Mrs. Joseph M., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1937 June 13] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Pawlan, Abe, news clipping, 1941 |
| Pera, Rev. Luther, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 December 2] | ||
| Phillips, R. Wendell, [See: Providence Baptist Church] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Pierson family, history, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Ramsay, Dr. Blaine L., news clippings, 1938-1939 |
| Ranney, Harriet E., [See also: Hayes School] | ||
| Ranous, Rodney, [See Chicago Daily News, 1940 April 26] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 24 | Reeder, Frances Scoville, correspondence, Field Museum cards, 1900-1903 |
| Box 20 | Folder 25 | Reeder, Frances Scoville, poetry volume (autographed), 1934 |
| Rehm, Mrs. George J., [See: Keep Off the Grass Club] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 3 | Reichelt, Marie Ward (1873-1936), correspondence, news clipping, 1935-1936 |
| Reilly, Caroline, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1938 March 13] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Rezanka, Edward L. and Mary Brabeck, biographies, funeral program, news clipping, 1943, 1947, undated |
| Rigali, John E., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1948 April 11; See also: Daprato Statuary Company] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Roebuck, A.C., correspondence, 1941-1942 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Rogers, Dorothy, news clipping, 1939 |
| Ryan, Dennis J., [See: Historical Sketches: “Lumber Yards and Mills on the Chicago River”] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Schnadig, Emanuel M., reminiscence, 1939 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Schubert, Frances E., correspondence, 1941 |
| Schuttler, Peter, [See: Chicago-American, 1935 July 23] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 4 | Schenck, Lucetta (1855- ), correspondence, 1943 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | Scott, Walter J., Pullman road race, contestant number, 1891 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | Scott, Walter J., “The Push of the West Side Y.M.C.A.,” poem, circa 1890s |
| Box 20 | Folder 26 | Scoville, George Luther (1824-1906), notes, obituaries, 1906, 1913, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Shannon, Isabella Helen, biography, news clipping, 1939, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Shipman, Dr. George E., biography and portrait, undated |
| Simon, Nicholas and Walburga Grobl [See: Chicago Tribune, 1941 February 2] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Slack, Charles C., correspondence, 1942 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Smyth, John Usher, news clipping, 1935 |
| Snell, Amos J., history of his murder [See: Chicago Daily News, 1944 May 3, 20, 23; Chicago Tribune, 1936 December 6, 1937 August. 1] | ||
| Spies, Nina Van Zandt, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1936 April 10] | ||
| Starr, Ellen Gates, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 February 10; See also: Hull House] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Stillians, D.J., correspondence, 1936 |
| Box 20 | Folder 30 | Smith, Ed W. (1867-1935), obituary, 1935 |
| Box 20 | Folder 31 | Stehman, John Hess (1850-1940), reminiscence, undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | Taylor, Dr. Graham, articles [See also: Chicago Daily News, 1937 October 19, 1938 September 26; Chicago Tribune, 1937 October 19], 1938 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | Taylor, Reuben, biography, undated |
| Tenney, Dr. George L., [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 February 18] | ||
| Tenney, Mrs. George, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 November 10] | ||
| Terrell, Ald. Thomas J., [See: Garfieldian, 1939 February 23] | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | Thompson, J.C., news clipping, 1936 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | Thumser, Christian, land indentures, marriage certificate, and other legal documents, circa 1850s-1924 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | Thumser family business cards, circa 1880s, undated |
| Oversize Folder 1 | Thumser, Christina, Cook County, Court of Common Pleas, Naturalization, 1858 February 26 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 | Thumser, Elizabeth, commencement certificate, report card and letter from the Apollo Musical Club (part of the World’s Columbian Exposition chorus), 1875, circa 1891 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 | Thumser, Mary J., invitation, news clipping, report cards, tickets, vaccination certificate 1882, 1893-1894 |
| Thumser Family, deeds and indentures [See: Oversize Folders 4-11], 1857-1860, 1871, 1895 | ||
| Toughy brothers (gangsters), [See: Chicago Sun, 1943 February 14-19] | ||
| Tree, Judge Lambert, [See: Chicago Sun-Times, 1952 October 5] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 1 | Twitty, Maretta, challenger’s credential for the Progressive Party, signed by Harold L. Ickes, precinct worker’s certificate, 1914 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 | Twitty, Maretta, news clipping, programs, receipt, 1879, circa 1880s, 1934 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 | Twitty, Maretta, autograph album [See also: Photographs 6.1-6.56], circa 1880s |
| Tyrrell, Mary, [See: Historical Sketches] | ||
| Vacco, Rep. Carmen, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 November 7] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Ware, Rev. Edward Newell, news clipping, 1941 |
| Webster, Roy F. [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 September 29] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Weckman, John W. family history, 1890 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Westerfeld, Sol, news clipping, 1935 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Willard, Samuel notes and pictures, circa 1880s-1890s |
| Zara, Louis, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 April 23] | ||
| Ziegfeld, Florenz, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 July 14, Thumser, Elizabeth] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Zimmer, Michael, correspondence, news clippings, reminiscence, 1931, 1937-1938, undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 5 | Washburne, Dorothy, correspondence, 1940, undated |
Series 1: Biographical Data, 1853-1953, undated
Subseries B: Margaret Klein Jackson Scrapbook, circa 1910s-1950s
Scope and Contents
Subseries B contains a scrapbook kept by Margaret Klein Jackson, a graduate of Chicago’s Brown School. Although later a resident of a small town in Michigan, Mrs. Jackson kept up a lively interest in Chicago, and particularly in Brown School. The scrapbook was made to house postcards and 108 postcards are still in it. Additional postcards of other Chicago scenes that were laid in the scrapbook are listed separately as Postcards 5.1-5.21. Postmarks were used to date the postcards. The scrapbooks also contained correspondence, news clippings and other documents that were once taped or laid in. These items are in Box 2, Folders 1-27.
Margaret Klein Jackson is depicted in Subseries C, Photographs 1.65-1.67.
Arrangement
The contents of the scrapbook are listed alphabetically by title or name following the main scrapbook entry.
| Box 2 | Folder 1 | Scrapbook, circa 1910s-1950s |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.9 | Art Institute, postcard, 1940 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.10 | Art Institute, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | Barrymore, Lionel (secretary to), correspondence (3 pieces), 1946 |
| Box 2 | Folders 16 | Barrymore, Lionel (1878-1954), news clippings, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 | Best, Sally Keep, correspondence 1946-1947 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 | Brown School, news clippings, 1955-1956, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice (secretary to), correspondence (3 pieces), 1949-1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), news clippings, 1950 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.19 | Century of Progress, General Motors Building, postcard, 1933 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.8 | Chicago in 1832 Wolf’s Point, postcard, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 | Chicago Public Library, Legler Library, news clippings, undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 5.20 | Chicago Public Library, Legler Library (?) interior view with 3 women at a table, circa 1940s |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 | Clark, Herma, correspondence (4 pieces), 1945-1954 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | Clark, Herma, news clippings, 1949, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 | Cook County Hospital, correspondence (2 pieces), 1945 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.1 | Edgewater Beach Hotel and Apartments, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.6 | Forest Home Cemetery, entrance, postcard, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.2 | Furniture Mart, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.11 | Garfield Park, Conservatory and Lorado Taft sculptures, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.12 | Garfield Park, Duck Island, postcard, 1910 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.13 | Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.14 | Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain by night, postcard, 1944 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | Hachfeld, Irene, correspondence (2 pieces), 1949 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 | Harrison, Carter H. Jr., correspondence (3 pieces), 1951 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.15 | Humboldt Park, sunken garden from pergola, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 | Jackson, Margaret, correspondence (7 pieces), 1942-1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 | Jenkins, Gertrude I., correspondence (3 pieces), 1946-1947 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | Jenkins, Gertrude I., news clippings, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.3 | Klas Czech-American Restaurant. Cicero, Ill., postcard, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.17 | Lake Shore Drive at Oak Street Beach, postcard, 1943 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 | Lytton, Henry C. (1846-), news clippings, 1946, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.4 | Merchandise Mart, postcard, (2 copies) 1942-1943 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 | Miscellaneous, correspondence (8 pieces), 1942-1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 | Miscellaneous, news clippings, 1947-1949, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.7 | Second Fort Dearborn, built in 1816, abandoned in 1821, undated |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.16 | Soldier Field and Field Museum, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 | Sneed, Benella, correspondence (4 pieces), 1949-1950 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 5.21 | Sneed, Mary Elizabeth (1857-1947), with two students at Brown School, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 24 | State Street, news clippings, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 | Third Presbyterian Church, news clippings, 1947 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.18 | Wacker Drive, postcard, 1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 | Wells, Harvey H., correspondence, 1947-1949 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 | West Side Historical Society, news clippings, 1949, undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 | West Side Historical Society-Programs, membership card, 1944-1947 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 | Wilson, Thomas E., correspondence (1 piece), 1943 |
| Box 35 | Postcard 5.5 | Wrigley Building, night view, postcard, 1942 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | Yard, Mary E., correspondence (2 pieces), 1921, 1941 |
Series 1: Biographical Data, 1853-1953, undated
Subseries C: Photographs, circa 1850s-1951
Arrangement
Subseries C contains photographs of community residents. Most of the undated photos are cabinet, carte d’visite, or tintype photos. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.45 | Abt, Clara Hirsch, circa 1890s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.46 | Adcock, Harriette Archdale DeBerri, circa 1890s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.47 | Addams, Jane (1860-1935), undated |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.48 | Badger, Leonidas Virgil (1806-), 1882 |
| Box 36 | Photograph 6.23 | Baker, Josie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.49 | Ballard, Russell, 1943 |
| Box 36 | Photograph 6.3 | Beers, Charlie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.50 | Beidler, Jacob (1816-98) and Mary Ann, circa 1895 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.51 | Bell, Elmira (died 1913), undated |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.52 | Benz, Emil J. (died 1941), 1904 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.2 | Bickerson, Thomas, tintype, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.1 | Bickerston, Joseph, tintype, undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.31 | Bickerton, Joe, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.7 | Blaney, Arthur, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.19 | Blum, Fred, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.53 | Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 1939 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.3 | Booth, Ellen Lemira (1861-1928), undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.4 | Booth, Ellen Morris (1823-1885), 1860s? |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.5 | Booth, Elmira Warner (18 -1877), 1874 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.6 | Booth, Henry (1818-1898), undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 3.7 | Booth, Samuel M. (1852-1927), undated |
| Box 32 | Photograph 3.8 | Booth, Rachel Morris (1854-1913), circa 1850s |
| Box 32 | Photograph 3.9 | Booth, Rachel Morris, circa 1860s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.10 | Booth, Rachel Morris, 1910 |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.11 | Booth, William Morris (1856-1904), circa 1878 |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.12 | Booth, Rachel (1854-1913), Ellen (1861-1928), Anna Morris (1848-1928), later Mrs. Kingsley, 1884 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.32 | Bradley, Emma, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.13 | Brown, Eldon A., circa 1930s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.12 | Brown, Watson, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.14 | Brown, William H. (1796-1867), copy print of painting, undated |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.15 | Burke, Ellen, Talcott School Principal, undated |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.16 | Burns, Martha, undated |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.54 | Carr, Charlotte, undated |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.17 | Claflin, James F., West Division High School, undated |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.18 | Clayberg, Mr., circa 1890s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.19 | Connors, Jimmy, circa 1890s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.55 | Dasso, August E. (1857-), circa 1880s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.20 | Dewey, J.R., 1890 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.56 | Dillie, Nathaniel Eggleston, circa 1890s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.21 | Dinnen, A.G., circa 1890s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.22 | Disney, Walt (1901-1966), undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.37 | Elbridge, Keith, Jr., with Maretta Twitty, Miss Matthews, Carrie Wright and two men from “Chicago First Regiment,” group portrait at Keyes [Kays?] Hotel, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, [1880s] |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.23 | Erickson, Eric (Alec), undated |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.57 | Fantus, Bernard M. (1874-1940), circa 1930s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.58 | Ferguson, Benjamin Franklin, circa 1910? |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.26 | Foster, Mary, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.7 | Gale, Stephen F., 1860s? |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.59 | Goodman, Benny (1909-1986), 1940 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.60 | Gould, Isabel, 1892 original, copied in 1942 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.5 | Hallenbeck, John, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.61 | Hardie, Mary Barrett, 1893 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.62 | Harris, Samuel, circa 1900 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.2 | Hart, Callie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.4 | Hart, Mollie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.11 | Hart, Henry, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.22 | [name part unknown] Heaton, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 32 | Photograph 3.31 | Hines, Harriet L., undated |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.24 | Hjerstedt Family, at site of Chicago North Western Railroad car, circa 1896 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.63 | Hogg, Lloyd W., circa 1898-1899 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.25 | Horton, Walter, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.36 | Huntoon, Mattie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.64 | Iris, Scharmel, circa 1950s |
| Box 24 | Photographs 1.65-1.67 | Jackson, Margaret Klein (3), 1940, 1944, 1951 |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.25 | Jones, Joseph Russell (1823-), print illustration, undated |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.68 | Kearns, Fr. Thomas, undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.20 | Kidston, John Missing, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 33 | Photograph 3.26 | Klum, Anna Maria Klingman, undated |
| Box 33 | Photographs 3.27-3.29 | Klum, George Peter (3), 1867, 1884, circa 1890s |
| Box 32 | Photograph 3.30 | Klum, William Klingman, undated |
| Box 25 | Photographs 1.69-1.70 | Klumb, Edgar Peter & Grace (2), undated, circa 1860s |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.32 | Lambrecht, G.J., 1885 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.17 | Lane, E. and Walter Horton, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.33 | Lewis, Abner Morton (1828-1901), 1898 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.34 | Lewis, Harriet (1833-1924), 1897 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.71 | Livermore, Mary Ashton (1821-1905), photograph of sculptural bust, undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.33 | Loomis, Eugene, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.35 | Loomis, Justin, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.35 | McDermott, William F., circa 1930s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.72 | McWatters, Frank (1870-1931), circa 1900 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.36 | Major, Elizabeth M., undated |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.73 | Marks, Morris (1848-), circa 1870 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.37 | Marshall, William and Raymond, 1911 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.38 | Martin, Ethel, 1899 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.39 | Michaels, Charles Dole, 1892 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.74 | Michaels, David Dundas, circa 1860s, 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.75 | Michaels, Sarah Anna (1831-1908), 1900 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.40 | Michaud, Frank, undated |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.41 | Michaud, Philip, Frank, and [unidentified], undated |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.76 | Miller, J.C., 1937 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.42 | Miller, James, 1867 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.10 | Miller, James, undated |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.77 | Mitchell, George A., circa 1900 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.78 | Monahan, James, undated |
| Box 34 | Photographs 3.43-3.44 | Norton, Frances Marie Guiteau Scoville (2), 1876, 1884 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.45 | O’Connor, John P., circa 1940 |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.79-1.82 | Olson, Albert S. (1839-1925) and family (4), 1864, 1906, 1924 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.14 | Owen, Robert, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.27 | Owen, Robert, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.83-1.87 | Patton, Grace Klumb (1862-) (5), circa 1862-1890s |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.88-1.90 | Patton, Joseph (3), circa 1880s-1890s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.6 | Pinkerton, Puss (Mrs. W.J. Chalmers), tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.46 | Pires, Emanuel C., 1922 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.47 | Plamandon, Emma, tintype, undated |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.48 | Prudence, Theodore, tintype, undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.30 | Reed, Annie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.13 | Reed, Mollie, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.91 | Rezanka, Edward & Mary Brabec, 1939 |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.92-1.93 | Roebuck, Alvah Curtiss (2), 1940 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.18 | Rounds, Kittie and friend, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 3.49 | Russell, Lillian (1861-1922), 1893 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.94 | Schnadig, Emanuel M., circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.95 | Scott, Walter J., 1891 November 10 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.96 | Scott, Walter J., 1897 July 10 |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.97-1.98 | Scott, Walter J. (2), 1898, 1901 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.8 | Scott, Walter J., 1898 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.50 | Shannon, Ellen E., circa 1890s |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.99-1.101 | Shannon, Isabella Helen (3), undated |
| Box 26 | Photographs 1.102-1.104 | Shannon Family (3), undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.34 | Sheppard, Ed, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.28 | Snell, Lina, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.105 | Snow, Ernie W., 1903-1904 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.24 | Soper, Etta, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.106 | Stamm. Frederick Keller, undated |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.107 | Stehman, John Hess (1850-1940), undated |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.108 | Stehman, Letta Harding, undated |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.51 | Stewart, Harry, 1897 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.52 | Stewart, William, copy print, circa 1911 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.109 | Stillians, Arthur Williams, undated |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.53 | Stillians, Daniel Clark, 1887 |
| Box 26 | Photograph 1.110 | Stillians, Gertrude Stickney (1847-1937), circa 1890s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.9 | Taylor, Douglas, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.54 | Thompson, Mary Walker Wyse, 1892 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.55 | Thompson, William Hale, print illustration, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.111 | Thompson, William Hale, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.112 | Thumser, Elizabeth, circa 1898 |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.113-1.115 | Thumser, Marie J. (3), 1893, circa 1920s |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.116 | Thumser, Minnie, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.117 | Tree, Lambert (1832-1910), undated |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.21 | Trimingham, Lou, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.8 | Twitty, Maretta, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.15 | Twitty, Maretta, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.38 | Twitty, Maretta, loose tintype, [1870s] |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.39 | Twitty, Maretta, framed tintype, [1870s] |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.40 | Twitty, Maretta, albumen print, 1898 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.42 | Twitty, Maretta, photo album with 41 unidentified tintype portraits, circa 1870s |
| Box 35 | Photographs 6.43-6.56 | Twitty, Maretta, photo collection with 14 unidentified tintype portraits, circa 1870s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.16 | Twitty, Walter, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.29 | Twitty, Walter, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.118 | Tyrrell, Mary (1841-), 1937 |
| Box 32 | Photograph 3.56 | Warner, Horace H. and Selina Yale, undated |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.57 | Wells, Frances or Elizabeth, 1861 |
| Box 34 | Photograph 3.58 | Wells, Ida, 1861 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.119 | Will, Ray, 1889 |
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.1 | Winans, Frank, tintype, circa 1880s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.9 | Zara, Louis (1910-), 1940 |
Series 2: Business Establishments, 1862-1946, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 2 includes advertising materials, news clippings, business and dance cards, histories and news clippings of Near West Side businesses.
Arrangement
Series 2 is arranged into 2 subseries: Subseries A: Documents, circa 1873-1946 and Subseries B: Photographs, 1862-1946, undated
Subseries A: Documents, circa 1873-1946
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by business name.
| Academy of Music, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1938 December 7] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Allied State Bank, article, circa 1910s |
| E. J. Brach and Sons, [See: Austin Community Collection] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | B.S. Hammond Market, flyer, 1893 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Bull’s Head Tavern, news clippings, 1887, 1938, 1943 |
| Butler Brothers (distributors), [See: Chicago Daily News, 1943 April 12] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Central National Bank, description, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Central National Bank, news clipping, 1946 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Charles M. Hovey and Company, broker’s license, 1909 |
| Chicago Mail Order Company, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1943 April 8] | ||
| Chicago Music College, [See: Thumser, Elizabeth] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Chicago Stadium, program, 1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Chicago Stadium, promotional booklet, circa 1930s |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Chicago Stadium, tickets, circa 1940s |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Chicago Stadium, World’s Championship Rodeo program, 1941 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Culmsee’s Book Store, reminiscence, 1942 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Dance Halls (general), dance cards, circa 1873-1874 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Dance Hall (Oakley Hall), reminiscence, Harlo Grant, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Daprato Statuary Company, history, 1945 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Daprato Statuary Company, promotional materials, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 21 | Folder 1 | Daprato Studios, “The Stained Glass Windows of Daprato Studios,” booklet, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Gibbons Brothers (tire dealers), news clippings, 1944 |
| Gold Coast Candy Company, [See: Shannon, Isabella H.] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Grant’s Printery, advertising samples [See: Grant, Harlo], circa 1941-1943 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | H.D. Ludlow (undertaker), picture of hearse, 1911 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Imperial Theatre, news clippings, 1939 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Imperial Theatre, ticket, programs, circa 1910s |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Jewelry, business cards, histories, circa 1930s, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Kenwood Manufacturing Company, advertisement, 1896 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | King’s Laundry Company, news clippings, 1938-1941 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | King’s Laundry Company, correspondence, 1945 |
| Lumber businesses [See: Historical Sketches] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 6 | Madigan’s Dry Goods, reminiscence, 1946 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 | Mason and Company (gambling paraphernalia), news clippings, 1939 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Paulina Dancing Academy dance card, circa 1870s-1880s |
| Pawlan Department Store, [See: Pawlan, Abe] | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, advertising materials, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, photostat copies of advertisements from 1890s-1900s, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, annual reports, 1940-1941 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, employee brochures, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, history, 1934 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Sears, Roebuck & Company, postcard, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Speakman’s High School Book Store, flyer, 1901 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 | William J. Strange Company (spice manufacturers), history, 1939 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 | West Town State Bank, news clipping, 1930 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 | Wolf Point Tavern, painting of site in 1833 (reproduction), undated |
Series 2: Business Establishments, 1862-1946, undated
Subseries B: Photographs, 1862-1946, undated
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by business name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.13 | A.J. Stone Real Estate Office Building, 1905 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.1 | Butcher shop, unidentified, circa 1930s |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.9-1.12 | Carl Stockholm Cleaners (4), 1940s |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.1-1.2 | Chicago Stadium (2), 1930, 1931 |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.3-1.3a | Daprato Statuary Company (2), 1886 November 14 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.2 | Daprato Statuary Company, circa 1940s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.22 | Dreamland Dance Hall, Paulina and Van Buren Streets, circa 1930 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.24 | Haymarket Square market day, undated |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.4 | Madigan’s Department Store, 1890s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.3 | McEnery Real Estate, Loans & Insurance, 1908 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.5 | Merchants National Bank, 1946 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.6 | Prairie State Bank, circa 1930s |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.6a | Rice and Jackson Block, 1920 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.7 | Rogers & Company Coal Dealers, 1862 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.8 | Smyth’s Town Market, 1934 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.14 | William W. Thumser, druggist, circa 1880 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.15 | Walter W. Watson, grocer, 1880s |
Series 3: Religious Institutions, 1875-1947
Scope and Contents
Series 3 contains programs, news clippings, souvenir books, and newsletters from neighborhood religious institutions.
Arrangement
Series 3 is arranged into 2 subseries two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1875-1947, undated and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1880-1946
Subseries A: Documents, 1875-1947, undated
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by the name of the religious institution.
| Box 5 | Folder 1 | Campbell Park Presbyterian, programs, 1930, 1941 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 | Carey Tercentenary A.M.E., program, 1941 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 | Centenary Methodist Evangelical, souvenir book, 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 | Centennial Baptist, memorial tribute booklet, 1898 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 | Centennial Baptist, programs, 1876, 1878 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Church of the Annunciation, news clipping, 1937 |
| Church of the Epiphany, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1942 November 22] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Church of Holy Trinity, postcard, undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Covenant Congregational, Fisk Jubilee Singers (gospel) brochure, circa 1899 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Covenant Congregational, flyers and programs, 1879, circa 1890s-1910s |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Covenant Congregational, manual, 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Covenant Congregational, newsletter, 1907 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Covenant Congregational, yearbook, 1898 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | Eighth Presbyterian Church, ticket, 1894 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | First Congregational Church, pamphlets, 1910, 1918, 1944 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | First Congregational Church, postcard, undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | First Congregational Church, program, 1927 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | First Greek-American Mission, advertising card, undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | First Scotch Presbyterian Church, broadsides, 1875, 1901 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | Fulton Street Methodist Evangelical Church, card, 1876 |
| Fulton Street Methodist Evangelical Church, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1939 December 10] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Halsted Street Institutional Church, description, 1940 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, program, 1940 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Leavitt Street Congregational Church, histories, 1900, 1917 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Lutheran Evangelical Church, National Sunday School Convention program, 1919 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Methodist Evangelical Church, postcard, undated |
| Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1937 August 7] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | New First Congregational Church, brochures, 1903, 1941, undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | New First Congregational Church, The Message, newsletter (not inclusive), 1937-1941 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | New First Congregational Church, news clippings, circa 1940s |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | New First Congregational Church, programs, 1938-1941 |
| New First Congregational Church, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1941 March 22, May 3, 21; Chicago Herald-American, 1941 May 21; Chicago Tribune, 1939 February 5, October 2] | ||
| New First Congregational Church, [See: Historical Sketches] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 8 | Notre Dame, souvenir book, 1937 |
| Notre Dame, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1937 September 15] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | Original Providence Baptist Church, news clipping, 1944 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Columbkille Catholic Church, Jubilee magazine, 1910 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Columbkille Catholic Church, news clipping, 1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Columbkille Catholic Church, Old Timers Club mailings, 1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Jarlath Church, news clipping, 1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Jarlath Church, program, undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Malachy Church, news clippings, 1938-1939 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Patrick Church, news clippings, 1931, 1937-1938 |
| St. Patrick Church, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1946 February 23, 1942 March 14] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Paul Methodist Church, news clipping, 1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, card, circa 1930s |
| Second Baptist Church, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1938 November 6] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 32 | St. Paul’s Reformed Evangelical, music program, 1882 April 25 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Third Presbyterian Church, The Centennial (newsletter), 1947 June |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Third Presbyterian Church, news clipping, 1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Third Presbyterian Church, program, 1938 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Third Presbyterian Church, sermon transcript, 1909 |
| Union Park Congregational Church, [See: First Congregational Church] | ||
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Western Avenue Methodist Episcopal, news clipping, 1930 |
| Zion Evangelical and Reformed, [See: Austin Community Collection] |
Series 3: Religious Institutions, 1875-1947
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1880-1941
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by the name of the religious institution. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.16 | Campbell Park Presbyterian Church, before 1890 |
| Oversize Folder 16 | Photograph 2.1 | First Congregational Church, 1941 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.17 | Lincoln Street Methodist Episcopal Church, undated |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.18-1.19 | Notre Dame (2), 1940 June 1, undated |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.20 | Reunion Presbyterian, circa 1880 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.21 | St. Patrick’s Church, 1940 October 12 |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.22-1.23 | St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church (2), 1940 October 12 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.24 | Western Avenue Baptist Church, 1930 |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.25-1.26 | Western Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (2), 1930, 1931 |
| Box 22 | Photographs 4.4-4.5 | Western Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (2), circa 1910 |
Series 4: Clubs and Organizations, 1870-circa 1962
Scope and Contents
Series 4 is comprised of newsletters, programs, historical sketches, invitations, news clippings, flyers, and other materials documenting the settlement houses, civic action groups, and business, social, and athletic clubs of the Near West Side.
Arrangement
Series 4 is arranged into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1870-circa 1962 and Subseries B: Photographs, 1896-1949
Subseries A: Documents, 1870-circa 1962
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by club or organization name.
| Box 6 | Folder 1 | Active Club of the Central West Side, roster of members and businesses, 1915 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 | Jane Addams House, Jane Addams News, newsletter (not inclusive), 1939-1940 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Ashland Club, Ashland Club Messenger, newsletter, 1905 June 1 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Ashland Club, membership and dance cards, 1902-1903 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Beacon Neighborhood House, The Beacon Light, newsletter (not inclusive), 1960-1962 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Beacon Neighborhood House, brochure and reports, circa 1962 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Bethel House, reminiscence, 1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, West Chicago Engineers, no. 96, invitation, 1888 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Cathedral Shelter, news clipping, 1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Central Park Improvement Association, directory, 1906 |
| Ceska Beseda (Bohemia Club), [See: North Lawndale Community Collection] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chase House Community Center, news clippings, 1940, 1944 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chase House Community Center, pamphlets, circa 1940s |
| Chicago Commons, [See also: Taylor, Dr. Graham] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Culture Club, poem, 1924 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Foundling’s Home, Faith Record, newsletter, 1931-1937 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Foundling’s Home, history, undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Foundling’s Home, letter, 1915 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Foundling’s Home, pictures of superintendent and of exterior, undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | Chicago Hebrew Institute, program, 1909 |
| Chicago Woman’s Shelter, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1938 April 24] | ||
| Cook County Wheelmen, [See: Scott, Walter J.] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | Congress Street Development Council, goals, circa 1936 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | Congress Street Development Council, news clippings, circa 1930s |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | Rufus Dawes Center, news clippings, 1939-1940 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | The Drama of Chicago on Parade (Chicago Homecoming Celebration), programs, manual and minutes, circa 1924 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 | Eastern Star, dance card, 1875 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 | Excelsior Quadrille Club, dance card and invitation, 1870 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 | Fort Dearborn Club, programs and club miscellany, circa 1907-1908 |
| Box 20 | Folder 35 | Hull House, Christmas cards (3), undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | Hull House, Hull House Association News (newsletter), circa 1962 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | Hull House, Hull House Block News, 1939 April 7, 14 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 | Hull House, news clippings, 1935-1941 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | Hull House, playbill, 1936 |
| Box 20 | Folder 35 | Hull House, “The Roof,” program, 1931 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | Hull House, tour descriptions, circa 1938-1941 |
| Box 20 | Folder 33 | Hull-House, “What Kind of World. . .?” brochure (2 copies), undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 34 | Hull House, yearbook, 1921 |
| Hull House, [See: Ballard, Russell W.; Bowen, Louise deKoven; Camp, Ruth Orton; Carr, Charlotte; Addams, Jane; Starr, Ellen Gates.] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 9 | Irving Literary Society, constitution, circa 1884 |
| Irving Literary Society, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 June 1] | ||
| Irving Literary Society, [See: McKinley High School] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 9 | Keep Off the Grass Club, news clipping, 1940 |
| Knights of Columbus (Barry Council), [See: Austin Community Collection, Young Men’s Institute] | ||
| Box 6 | Folder 9 | Madonna Center, news clippings, 1943-1944 |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 | Madonna Center, program, property data, and statistical report, 1940 |
| Box 20 | Folder 7 | List of clubs and organizations, 1937 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10 | Masons, Metropolitan Lodge #860, program, 1908 |
| Box 19 | Folder 1 | Maxwell Street Civic Improvement Project, scrapbook, circa 1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10 | Maxwell Street Merchants Association, poster, publicity flyers, and other printed materials, circa 1939 |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 | Meat, Pastry-Cooks and Confectioners of Chicago, dance card, 1877 |
| Box 7 | Folder 2 | Midwest Community Council, brochure, 1952 |
| Near West Side Progressive Council of Clubs, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1941 May 11] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 36 | Near West Side Community Council, correspondence, directory, flyers, 1954-1959 |
| Box 20 | Folder 37 | Newberry Avenue Center, news clipping, 1935 |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 | Off-the-Street Club, news clippings, 1938-1945 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 | Onward Neighborhood House, program, 1929 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 | Queen City Pleasure Club, invitation, 1878 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 | Salvation Army, correspondence, 1932 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 | Salvation Army, news clipping, 1939 |
| Squires’ Social Club, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1938 December 25] | ||
| Box 7 | Folder 4 | Union Glee and Quadrille Club, dance card, 1871 |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 | Washingtonian Home, annual reports, 1877, 1911-1914, 1917 |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 | Washingtonian Home, news clipping, 1931 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, 12th annual meeting poster, 1938 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, bus tour itinerary, 1939 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, correspondence, 1935-1939 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, news clippings, 1939-1940 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, pamphlet, circa 1936 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, poster, 1938 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, speech drafts, undated |
| Oversize Folder 2 | West Central Association, “Increased Property Values!” meeting broadside, 1938 December 8 | |
| Oversize Folder 3 | West Central Association, “The West Side Superhighway is Here!” meeting broadside, 1940 December 6 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 | West Central Association, West Side Superhighway, “Congress Street Development,” meeting broadside, 1940 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West Chicago Club, reminiscences, 1943 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West End Women’s Club, history, 1906 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West End Women’s Club, news clippings, 1938, 1945 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West End Women’s Club, programs, 1920, 1942 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West End Women’s Club, souvenir book, 1917 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West Side Armistice Day Committee (Emergency Peace Campaign), correspondence, 1936 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West Side Co-Educational Club, invitation, 1941 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West Side Co-Educational Club, programs, 1941, 1944 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | West Side Council of Parent-Teacher Association, news clippings, 1937-1948 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 | West Side Department, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), brochures, circa 1940s |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 | West Side Department, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), list of track team members, 1897 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 | West Side Department, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), programming description, 1906 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 | West Side Department, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), reminiscence, circa 1930s |
| West Side Department, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), [See: Scott, Walter J.] | ||
| Box 7 | Folder 9 | West Side Development Committee (Chicago Association of Commerce), report, 1937 |
Series 4: Clubs and Organizations, 1870-circa 1962
Subseries B: Photographs, 1896-1949
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by organization name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.27-1.27a | Democratic Party (2), 1940, circa 1931 |
| Box 23 | Photographs 1.28-1.32 | Hull House (5), circa 1940s |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.33 | Madonna Center, undated |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.34 | North West Side Commercial Association, 1911 |
| Box 23 | Photograph 1.35 | West End Women’s Club, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.36 | YMCA-Sears’, 1949 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.6 | Young Men’s Institute, 1896-1898 |
Series 5: Historical Sketches, 1854-1994
Scope and Contents
Series 5 includes essays on historical subjects and reminiscences of life on Chicago’s Near West Side. The research of George Estabrook, long-time neighborhood resident, is included here. Series 1: Biographical Data includes some additional reminiscences related to families or individuals.
Arrangement
Series 5 is arranged alphabetically by topic or title of essay.
| Box 20 | Folder 8 | Beidler, George (1863-), reminiscences, 1936 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 10 | “The Brown School District” (general Near West Side history) by Adelaide Holloway, 1940 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 | “Historical Events of the West Side,” undated | |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 | “The History of a Once Fine Residential Section” by George Estabrook, circa 1930s | |
| Oversize Folder 4 | Land deed - Marks, Samuel and Sarah; and Leopold and Regina Mayer, Deed to Frederick Stiegele; sale of lots in Page and Woods’ Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1854 February 24 | ||
| Oversize Folder 5 | Land deed - George, Thomas, Deed to Christian Thumser; sale of lots in Page and Woods’ Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1856 December 22 | ||
| Oversize Folder 6 | Land deed - Jefferson, Hiram and Luther, Deed to Thomas George; sale of lots in Page and Woods’ Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1859 Nov 22. | ||
| Oversize Folder 7 | Land deed - George, Thomas and Sarah, Deed to Christian Thumser; sale of lots in Page and Woods’ Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1859 November 23 | ||
| Oversize Folder 8 | Land deed - Thumser, Christian and Catharina, Deed to Henry Eccardt; sale of lot in Page and Woods’ Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1860 January 18 | ||
| Oversize Folder 9 | Land deed - Egan, Wiley M. and Mary P., Deed to Frederick A. Braymer; sale of lots in Wiley M. Egan’s Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1869 October 9 | ||
| Oversize Folder 10 | Land deed - Pearson, Andrew and Cynthia A; David C. and Alethra Parmelee, Deed to Catherine Thumser; sale of lots in Race and Pearson’s Subdivision, City of Chicago, 1871 December 1 | ||
| Oversize Folder 11 | Land deed - Sharp, William T. and Addie, Deed to Moses E. Greenebaum; sale of lots in Colorado Addition, City of Chicago, 1895 December 14 | ||
| Box 7 | Folder 11 | “The Last of the Ashland Avenue Prairies” by George Estabrook, circa 1930s | |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 | Marquette Monument, description by John A. Ouska, 1936 | |
| Box 20 | Folder 9 | Mulholland, Mary J. Cameron (1868-), reminiscences, 1941 | |
| Box 20 | Folder 16 | Near West Gazette, 1986 April 3 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 12 | Real estate development in the Neat West Side, essay by George Estabrook, 1937 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 | Reminiscences by George A. Chritton, 1940 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 | Reminiscences by Walter S. Holden, undated | |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 | Reminiscences by Sigfred Lindholm, 1949 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 | Reminiscences by Dennis J. Ryan, undated | |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 | Reminiscences by Mary Tyrrell, 1937 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 | Settlers, list of early settlers on Ashland Avenue between Madison and Harrison Streets, 1869-1870s, compiled by George Estabrook, 1937 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 | Streets and subdivisions, essays on early real estate development, undated | |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 | “A Study of the Near West Side and the New First Congregational Church,” circa 1923 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 2 | West Side History Project, The New Midwest Magazine, historic tours of the area as it was in 1928, 1993 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 2 | West Side History Project, The West-Sider, overview of neighborhood in 1929, 1994 February 6 |
Series 6: Hospitals, circa 1890s-1949
Scope and Contents
Series 6 contains programs, newsletters and a souvenir book on hospitals located on Chicago’s Near West Side.
Arrangement
Series 6 is arranged into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1910-1949, undated and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1890s.
Subseries A: Documents, 1910-1949, undated
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by hospital name.
| Box 8 | Folder 1 | Robert Burns Hospital, programs from the training school for nurses, 1910-1912, 1916 |
| Box 8 | Folder 2 | Medical Center District, fact book and proposals, 1948-1949 |
| Blaine Ramsay Hospital, [See: Ramsay, Blaine] | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 2 | “A Souvenir of the ’Latin Quarter’ of Chicago,” booklet, undated |
| Box 8 | Folder 3 | Women and Children’s Hospital, Our Hospital, newsletter (not inclusive), 1940 |
Series 6: Hospitals
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1890s
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by hospital name.
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.37 | Jefferson Park Hospital, circa 1890s |
Series 7: Municipal Agencies and Parks, 1858-circa 1950s, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 7 contains a fire alarm station directory published in 1858 along with brochures and other materials published by the Chicago Housing Authority and a news clipping on Chicago’s first municipal bath house.
Arrangement
Series 7 is arranged into 2 subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1858-circa 1950s and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1890s-circa 1940s, undated
Subseries A: Documents, 1858-circa 1950s, undated
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by municipal agency.
| Box 8 | Folder 5 | Chicago Fire Department, fire alarm station directory, 1858 |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 | Chicago Housing Authority, brochures, news clippings and related material on Near West Side public housing developments, circa 1930s-1950s |
| Box 20 | Folder 38 | Chicago Housing Authority, housing projects brochure and info sheets, 1952-1954 |
| Box 20 | Folder 39 | Chicago Housing Authority, Jane Addams Houses, Public Works administration booklets, 1935 |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 | Carter H. Harrison Municipal Bath House, news clipping, 1940 |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 | Union Park, pictures, circa 1892, 1929, undated |
Series 7: Municipal Agencies and Parks, 1858-circa 1950s, undated
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1890s-circa 1940s, undated
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by municipal agency. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 24 | Photographs 1.38-1.39 | Chicago Fire Department (2), 1860s-1870s, circa 1920s |
| Box 24 | Photographs 1.40-1.42 | Chicago Police Department (3), circa 1910 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.23 | Humes Park, Hoyne Avenue and DeKalb Street, glass plate negative, 1904 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.43 | Unidentified park, circa 1905 |
| Box 24 | Photograph 1.44 | Union Park, circa 1890s |
Series 8: Residences, circa 1867-1954, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 8 includes news clippings and an essay on the architectural history of Chicago’s Near West Side.
Arrangement
Series 8 is arranged into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, circa 1920-1954 and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1867-1941.
Subseries A: Documents, circa 1920-1954
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by street name or residential topic.
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | Adams Street and Racine Avenue, Fraser home, news clipping, circa, 1930s-1940s |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1938 W. Adams Street, news clipping, 1938 |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | Architectural history of the Near West Side and list of early residences, with notations by George Estabrook, circa 1930s |
| Oversize Folder 12 | Chicago Guarantee Survey Company, Plat of survey of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15, and 16 in block 17 in Duncan’s Addition to Chicago; being a subdivision . . . May 29, 1930, revised, 1930 July 11 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 723 Congress Street, Sheldon home, news clipping, 1950 |
| Box 20 | Folder 40 | 558 De Koven Street, news clipping, 1954 |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1503 W. Jackson Boulevard, Ferguson home, news clipping, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1533 W. Monroe Street, Pinkerton home, picture, 1928 |
| Oversize Folder 12 | S. Morgan and S. Sangamon on W. Jackson Boulevard, Beidler and Gardiner homes, blueprint, [See also: Photograph 1.150], 1930 | |
| 1238 W. Washington Street, Lincoln home, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1943 October 22] | ||
| 1238 W. Washington Street [See also: Lincoln home] | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1239-1241 W. Washington Boulevard, Madlener home, flyer, circa 1920 |
Series 8: Residences, circa 1870s-1954
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1867-1941, undated
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by street name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 35 | Photograph 6.41 | W. Adams Street, between Lincoln and Winchester Avenue, Twitty home, circa 1870s |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.120 | 650-654 W. Adams Street, Brooks, Twitty, Rang homes, 1878 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.10 | 1222 W. Adams Street, circa 1936 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.2 | 1413-1415-1419 W. Adams Street, 1940 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.11 | 1434 W. Adams Street, circa 1936 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.121 | 1448 W. Adams Street, Ziegfeld home, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.3 | 2000-2012 W. Adams Street, 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.122 | Ashland and Jackson, Henry Waller home, circa 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.123 | Ashland Boulevard, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.124 | 122 Ashland Boulevard, Abner Morton Lewis home, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.4 | 231 Ashland Boulevard, Henry Carter Harrison home, 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.125 | 303-311 S. Ashland Boulevard, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.126 | 311 S. Ashland Boulevard, Judge Ryan home, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.127 | 329 S. Ashland Boulevard, 1939 December 4 |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.128-1.129 | 310 S. Campbell Avenue (2), 1939 December 3, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.130 | 332 S. Campbell Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.131 | 428 S. Campbell Avenue, 1939 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.132 | 502 S. Campbell Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.133 | 509 S. Campbell Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.134 | 723 W. Congress Street, Daniel H. Sheldon home, 1941 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.5 | 723-727 W. Congress Street, Sheldon home, 1940 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.6 | S. Damen Avenue near Madison, Owsley Row, 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.135-1.136 | 558 S. DeKoven, O’Leary cottage (2), 1936 March 27, undated, |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.137 | 2065 W. Harrison Street, William James home, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.138-1.139 | 316 S. Hermitage Avenue (2), 1939 December 3, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.7 | 1503 W. Jackson Boulevard, Benjamin Franklin Ferguson home, 1940 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.8 | 2200-2202 W. Jackson Boulevard, 1940 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.9 | 2224 W. Jackson Boulevard, 1940 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.21 | 505 W. Lake Street (Henry Booth home), 1880s? |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.140-1.141 | 1254-1262-1270 W. Lexington Street (2), 1939 December 3 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.10 | 118-124 S. Loomis Street, G. B. Swift home, #124, 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.142 | 240 S. Loomis Street, William J. McAllister home, circa 1940 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.143 | 252 S. Loomis Street, Swift home, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.11 | 718 S. Loomis Street, Bremner home, 1940 May 14 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.12 | 316 Marshfield Avenue, 1940 May 14 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.13 | 1822 Maypole Avnue, Shannon home, 1941 April 7 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.144 | 2327-2331 W. Maypole Ave., 1939 December 3 |
| Box 27 | Photographs 1.145-1.146 | 1048-1050 W. Monroe Street (2), 1939 December 3 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.12 | 1154 W. Monroe Street, circa 1930s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.13 | 1256 W. Monroe Street, circa 1936 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.14 | 1533 W. Monroe Street, circa 1880s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.15 | 1685 (?) W. Monroe Street, circa 1930s |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.147 | 2340 W. Monroe Street, Fanny Reeder home, undated |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.148 | 2150 W. North Avenue, Judge Allen home, undated |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.14 | 124-132 S. Racine Avenue, 1941 April 7 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.149 | 191-193 S. Racine Avenue, built by John Clark in 1882, [1893?] |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.15 | 191-193 S. Racine Avenue, circa 1900 |
| Box 27 | Photograph 1.150 | Sangamon Street and Jackson Boulevard, Beidler home, circa 1888-1893 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.16 | 108 Seeley Avenue, circa 1930s |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.151 | Throop and Monroe Streets, Cochrane home, 1940 |
| Box 28 | Photographs 1.152-1.154 | 109-111-113 S. Throop Street, Ryan, Snell, Murphy homes (3), circa 1940 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.17 | 119 S. Throop Street, before 1936 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.155 | 1252 S. Throop Street, Col. Ray home, undated |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.168 | Unidentified apartment houses, 1878 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.169 | Unidentified apartment building, circa 1930s |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.156 | Warren Boulevard, and Paulina Street, Charles Barchvogei home, 1878 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.157 | 3125 Warren Boulevard, William H. Powell home, 1940 May 3 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.16 | 3125 W. Warren Boulevard, William H. Powell home, 1940 June 1 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.158 | Washington and Morgan Streets, Beidler home, 1873 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.159 | Washington and Ogden Avenue, circa 1940 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.160 | 1112 W. Washington Boulevard, circa 1930s? |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.17 | 1238 W. Washington Boulevard, Mary Todd Lincoln home, 1867? |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.18 | 1239 W. Washington Boulevard, 1940 October 18 (Madlener home) |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.161 | 1239 W. Washington Boulevard, Madlener home, circa 1930? |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.162 | 1434 W. Washington Boulevard, 1940 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.19 | 1744 W. Washington Boulevard, Dole home, 1940 May 14 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.163 | 1744 W. Washington Boulevard, Dole home, 1940 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.164 | 2501-2509 W. Wilcox Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.165 | 2430-2432 W. Wilcox Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.166 | 2448 W. Wilcox Avenue, 1939 December 3 |
| Box 28 | Photograph 1.167 | 21 Willard Place, circa 1930s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.20 | 124 Willard Court, 1940 October 12 |
Series 9: Schools, 1857-1971, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 9 includes reminiscences, histories, programs, yearbooks, school publications, class lists, identifications to photographs, report cards and other items.
Arrangement
Series 9 is arranged into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1857-1971, undated and Subseries B: Photographs, 1857-1959
Subseries A: Documents, 1857-1971, undated
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by school name.
| Box 8 | Folder 8 | Brown School, autograph album, 1903 |
| Box 8 | Folder 9 | Brown School, Brown Spot, newspaper (not inclusive), 1931-1932 |
| Box 19 | Folder 5 | Brown School, certificate of graduation, 1872 |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 | Brown School, class lists, “Famous Pupils 1850-1932” 1889, 1903 |
| Box 20 | Folder 14 | Brown School, chalk slate of Margaret Klein [Jackson], circa 1895 |
| Box 8 | Folder 11 | Brown School, commencement programs (not inclusive), 1881-1940 |
| Box 8 | Folder 12 | Brown School, correspondence, primarily in response to plans for “Brown School Night,” circa 1941-1942 |
| Box 20 | Folder 10 | Brown School, correspondence of Benjamin Douglas, 1941-1942 |
| Box 20 | Folder 11 | Brown School, correspondence of Margaret Klein Jackson, 1947-1953 |
| Box 20 | Folder 12 | Brown School, correspondence of Robert Lowery Sherman (1867-) and wife, undated |
| Box 20 | Folder 13 | Brown School, correspondence of Billie Burke Ziegfeld (3 letters and 1 photo), 1952-1955 |
| Box 8 | Folder 13 | Brown School: Newspaper clippings, 1932-1945 |
| Box 20 | Folder 41 | Brown School, The Normal Music Course, textbook used at Brown by Mamie Klein, 1893 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by W.J. Brown, 1932 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Richard V. Carpenter, 1932, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Meyer Cerf, 1941 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by C.H. Cowper, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Marie Nagl Crossland, circa 1930s |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Ola W. Delbridge (class prophecy), 1916 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Benjamin Douglas, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Margaret, Jackson, 1944 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Edward H. Kimbark, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Franklyn J. Peitz, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by May Bradford Petersen, 1941 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Jessie E. Murphy Ryan, circa 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Gene T. Skinkle, 1932 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Meta Schadel Smith, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Carrie Hubbar Stetson, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Gertrude Morgan White, 1942 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | Brown School, reminiscences by Harvey T. Woodruff, 1932 |
| Box 8 | Folder 15 | Brown School, Scholars Literary Society, minute book, 1885-1887 |
| Box 9 | Folder 1 | Brown School, slate, circa 1875-1881 |
| Box 20 | Folder 15 | Brown School, student notebooks of Margaret Klein [Jackson], 1895, undated |
| Box 8 | Folder 16 | Brown School, ticket to visit Field Columbian Museum (Mamie Klein), circa 1890s |
| Brown School, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1938 July 21; 1939 September 2; 1941 September 18, November 21, December 13; 1943 October 19; Chicago Tribune, 1932 June 2, November 19; 1942 January 4] | ||
| Brown School, [See: Brown, William H.; Jackson, Margaret Klein] | ||
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Central High School, Directory, undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Central High School, list of graduates 1858-1880, undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Central High School, notes on the class of 1871, 1917 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Central High School, programs, 1870-1871 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Central High School, School Facts, newspaper, 1931 October 8 |
| Central High School, [See : Chicago Daily News, 1944 January 28] | ||
| Crane Evening School, [See : Thompson, J.C.] | ||
| Box 21 | Folder 3 | Crane Junior College, Collegian, yearbook, 1930 |
| Box 21 | Folder 4 | Crane Junior College, commencement program and ticket, 1930 January 30 |
| Box 9 | Folder 3 | Crane Junior College, news clippings, 1992-1939 |
| Box 9 | Folder 4 | Crane Junior College, Parent-Teacher Association handbook, 1938 |
| Box 9 | Folder 4 | Crane Junior College, Pen and Pal, literary magazine, 1971 October |
| Box 9 | Folder 5 | Crane Technical High School, Crane Summer Review, newspaper, 1931 August |
| Box 19 | Folder 2 | Crane Technical High School, The Crane Tech Chronicle, newspaper, 1925 May 29 |
| Box 19 | Folder 2 | Crane Technical High School, The Crane Tech Chronicle, newspaper (not inclusive), 1927-1928, 1931-1933 |
| Box 10 | Folders 1-3 | Crane Technical High School, The Crane Tech Chronicle, newspaper (not inclusive), 1933-1934 |
| Box 11 | Folders 1-7 | Crane Technical High School, The Crane Tech Chronicle, newspaper (not inclusive), 1935-1938 May |
| Box 12 | Folders 1-7 | Crane Technical High School, The Crane Tech Chronicle, newspaper (not inclusive), 1938 September-1947 |
| Box 12 | Folder 8 | Crane Technical High School, flyer, undated |
| Box 12 | Folder 8 | Crane Technical High School, handbook, 1931 |
| Box 12 | Folder 9 | Crane Technical High School, news clippings, 1939-circa 1940s |
| Box 12 | Folder 10 | Crane Technical High School, programs, circa 1930s |
| Box 12 | Folder 10 | Crane Technical High School, report card, 1924 |
| Box 13 | Folders 1-10 | Crane Technical High School, Science and Craft, yearbook and magazine (not inclusive), 1922-1932 |
| Box 14 | Folders 1-3 | Crane Technical High School, Science and Craft, yearbook and magazine (not inclusive), 1936-1937 |
| Box 21 | Folder 5 | Crane Technical High School, Science and Craft (yearbook), 1942 |
| Crane Technical High School, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 May 4, May 14; Chicago Tribune, 1940 May 5, 1941 May 25] | ||
| Crane Technical High School, [See : Webster, Roy F.] | ||
| Box 14 | Folder 4 | Crerar School, program, 1939 |
| Box 14 | Folder 5 | Dante School, programs, 1938-1940 |
| Box 14 | Folder 6 | Dante Adult School, class list, 1938 |
| Box 14 | Folder 6 | Dante Adult School, programs, 1938, 1940 |
| Box 14 | Folder 6 | Dante Adult School, yearbooks, 1938, 1940 |
| Box 14 | Folder 7 | Emerson School, programs, 1887, 1890, 1939 |
| Box 14 | Folder 8 | Foster School, notes on, undated |
| Box 14 | Folder 8 | Foster School, picture of, 1857 |
| Box 14 | Folder 8 | Foster School, programs, 1914, 1938 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 | Gladstone School, class list, 1939 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 | Goodrich School, program, 1938 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 | Grant School, correspondence, 1941 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 | Grant School, programs, 1938 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Hayes School, class poem, 1891 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Hayes School, news clipping, 1939 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Hayes School, programs, 1891, 1940 |
| Holy Family School, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1932 May 2] | ||
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Irving School, programs, 1891, 1939, 1941 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Jackson School, program, 1886 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Jefferson School, class list, 1941 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Jefferson School, programs, 1941-1942 |
| Box 14 | Folder 11 | King School, alumni list from 1873-1890, 1916 |
| Box 14 | Folder 11 | King School, graduates list, circa 1940s |
| Box 14 | Folder 11 | King School, King School Courier, circa 1931 |
| Box 14 | Folder 11 | King School, news clippings, 1939, 1943 |
| Box 14 | Folder 12 | King School, programs, 1877, 1889, 1916, 1918, 1939, 1940. |
| Box 14 | Folder 12 | King School, reminiscence by Laura Kendall Thomas, undated |
| Box 14 | Folder 13 | King School, scrapbook, “Schools at War,” 1942 |
| Box 14 | Folder 13 | King School, speech notes by John R. Patterson, 1939 |
| Box 21 | Folder 6 | Lewis Institute, Lewis Annual, yearbook, 1936 |
| Box 14 | Folder 14 | Lewis Institute, flyer, 1936 |
| Box 14 | Folder 14 | Marquette School, program, 1903 |
| Marquette School, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1935 December 7] | ||
| McKinley High School, Irving Literary Society, school club, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1940 June 1] | ||
| Box 14 | Folder 14 | McKinley High School, news clipping, 1939 |
| Box 14 | Folder 14 | McKinley High School, song sheet, 1926 |
| Box 19 | Folder 3 | McKinley High School, Orange and Black, newspaper (not inclusive, 1928-1929, 1938 |
| McKinley High School, [See: Chicago Tribune, 1940 June 2] | ||
| McKinley High School, [See: West Division High School] | ||
| McKinley High School, [See: Reilly, Caroline] | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | McLaren School, programs, 1938 |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | Medill High School, program, 1937 |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | Montefiore School, article, 1936 |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | Montefiore School, program, 1939 |
| Montefiore School, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1939 December 15] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 42 | Penmanship book, Minnie Thumer, circa 1870s |
| Box 15 | Folder 2 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine, 1938 June, December |
| Box 15 | Folder 3 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1939, June, December, undated |
| Box 15 | Folder 4 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1940 June |
| Box 16 | Folder 1 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1943, January, June |
| Box 16 | Folder 2 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1944, January, June |
| Box 16 | Folder 3 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1945 June, September, December |
| Box 16 | Folder 4 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1946, June |
| Box 16 | Folder 5 | St. Ignatius High School, The Ignatius Prep, yearbook and magazine 1947, June, December |
| Box 16 | Folder 6 | St. Ignatius High School, news clippings, 1938-1948 |
| Box 16 | Folder 7 | St. Ignatius High School, Seventy-five Years of Jesuit Education in Chicago, 1945 |
| Box 16 | Folder 8 | St. Mary’s High School, program, 1939 |
| Box 19 | Folder 4 | St. Mary’s High School, St. Mary’s Herald, newspaper (not inclusive), 1938-1940 |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Skinner School, news clipping, 1945 |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Skinner School, program, 1939 |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Spalding School, news clippings, circa 1940s |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Spalding School, programs, 1936, circa 1940s |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Spalding School, Spalding Flash yearbook, 1936 June |
| Spalding School, [See: Chicago Daily News, 1942 February 6, 18, March 4; Chicago Tribune, 1941 March 2] | ||
| Box 20 | Folder 43 | Smyth School (1059 W. 13th Street), Smyth News, 1941 |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | West Division High School, history, undated |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | West Division High School, mailing lists, 1948 |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | West Division High School, miscellany, 1897, undated |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | West Division High School, news clippings, circa 1940s |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | West Division High School, programs, 1886-1902 |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | West Division High School, report card, 1902 |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | West Division High School, reunion materials, (classes of 1885, 1902 and 1888), 1935, 1937-1938 |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | West Division High School, schedules, circa 1890s-1900s |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | West Division High School, ticket, 1890 |
| Box 17 | Folder 4 | West Division High School, The Voice, newspaper, (not inclusive), 1892-1894 |
| Box 17 | Folder 5 | West Division High School, The Voice, newspaper, (not inclusive), 1895-1899 |
| Box 17 | Folder 6 | West Division High School, The Voice, newspaper, (not inclusive), 1900-1901 |
| Box 17 | Folder 7 | West Division High School, The Voice, newspaper, (not inclusive), 1902-1903 |
| West Division High School, [See: Thumser, Marie] |
Series 9: Schools, 1857-1971
Subseries B: Photographs, 1857-1959
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by school name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.170-1.174 | Brown School (5), 1883-1940s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 2.24 | Brown School, Grade 6, 1888 |
| Box 29 | Photograph 1.175 | Clarke School, 1891 |
| Box 29 | Photograph 1.176 | Crerar School, 1939 |
| Box 29 | Photograph 1.177 | Dante Adult School, 1938 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.178-1.179 | Foster School (2), 1857 (?), 1881 |
| Box 29 | Photograph 1.180 | Gladstone School, 1939 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.181-1.182 | Grant School (2), 1940 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.183-1.186 | Hayes School (4), 1883-1890 |
| Box 29 | Photograph 1.187 | Irving School |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.188-1.189 | Jackson School (2), 1938 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.190-1.192 | Jefferson School (3), circa 1907-1942 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.193-1.208 | King School (15), circa 1907-1942 |
| Box 29 | Photographs 1.209-1.210 | King School (2), 1883-circa1900 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.211-1.214 | King School (4), 1883-circa1900 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.215-1.221 | King School (7), 1916-1942 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.271-1.273 | King School War Drive (3), 1942 October 7 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.18 | Lewis Institute, circa 1910s |
| Box 30 | Photograph 1.222 | McKinley School, circa 1912 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.223-1.227 | McLaren School (5), 1957-1959 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.228-1.231 | Scammon School (4), undated, 1929 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.232-1.233 | Spalding School (2), 1936, 1940s |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.234-1.241 | West Division High School, 1888-1890s |
| Oversize Folder 15 | Photograph 1.241a | West Division High School, 1902 |
Series 10: Streets, 1872-1945
Scope and Contents
Series 10 includes newspaper clippings on various streets, and publicity materials on Maxwell Street and on the proposed improvements on Congress Street. Also included is a city-wide list of proposed street name changes compiled by George Estabrook.
Arrangement
Series 10 is arranged into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1872-1945 and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1880s-1940.
Subseries A: Documents, 1872-1945
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by street name
| Oversize Folder 13 | [Ashland Avenue Prairie, 1883] hand-drawn maps (2) by George Estabrook, sketched from memory (Map 13a shows Harrison south to Polk, Ashland west to Wood; Map 13b shows Flournoy south to 12th Street Nixon west to Wood), 1937 October | |
| Oversize Folder 14 | [Plat of blocks 10 & 11 Ashland’s addition showing all the buildings in these two blocks at the time the first section of the Presbyterian Hospital was started. . .as of year 1883] hand-drawn maps by George Estabrook, circa 1937 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 | Ashland Avenue, news clippings, 1929-1940 |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 | Ashland Avenue, reproduction of drawing, 1872 |
| Bickerdike Street, news clipping, 1938 | ||
| Box 17 | Folder 10 | Congress Street, flyers, mailings, maps and sticker regarding proposed improvements, circa 1935-1945 |
| Box 18 | Folders 1-3 | Congress Street, news clippings, 1935-1945 |
| Box 18 | Folder 4 | Halsted Street, news clippings, 1931-1945 |
| Box 18 | Folder 5 | Maxwell Street, news clippings, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Maxwell Street, [See: Maxwell Street Merchants Association] | ||
| Box 18 | Folder 6 | Ogden Avenue, news clippings, circa 1930s |
| Box 18 | Folder 7 | Randolph Street, description of Haymarket, undated |
| Box 18 | Folder 7 | Robey Street, history, 1927 |
| Box 17 | Folder 8 | Street name changes (proposed), compiled by George Estabrook, circa 1930s |
Series 10: Streets, 1872-1945
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1880s-1940
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by street name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.19 | S. Aberdeen Street, circa 1930s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.20 | 956 W. Adams Street, circa 1936 |
| Box 30 | Photograph 1.242 | Canal Street, 1940 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.21 | Congress Parkway and Ashland Avenue, circa 1880s |
| Box 30 | Photograph 1.243 | 517-531 W. Jackson Boulevard, 1934 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.244-1.245 | 2510-2537 W. Madison Street (2), 1939 December 3 |
| Box 30 | Photographs 1.246-1.250 | Maxwell Street (5), circa 1939 |
| Box 31 | Photographs 1.251-1.252 | Maxwell Street Merchants’ Association (2), circa 1939 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.253 | Maxwell and Liberty Streets, 1934 June 29 |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.22 | Monroe Street and Hoyne Avenue, Hoyne Street frontage, circa 1930s |
| Box 22 | Photograph 4.23 | Monroe Street and Hoyne Avenue, Monroe Street frontage, circa 1930s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.254 | 641-645 W. Washington Street, 1928 |
Series 11: Transportation, circa 1850s-1939
Scope and Contents
Series 11 contains a few new clippings and two descriptions of the Chicago and North Western depot and of Union Station.
Arrangement
Series 11 is arranged into 2 Subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1891-1939 and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1850s-circa 1915
Subseries A: Documents, 1891-1939
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by transit type or name.
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | Mass Transit - subway, news clipping, 1939 |
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | Railroad - Chicago and North Western Depot, description, 1939 |
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | Union Station, brochure, circa 1930s |
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | Union Station, description, 1891 |
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | Union Station, articles, brochures, 1891, 1933, 1939 |
Series 11: Transportation, circa 1850s-1939
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1850s-circa 1915
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by transit type or name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.255 | Automobile, 1902 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.256 | Automobile - Packard, 1902 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.257 | Automobile - Ford, 1914 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.258 | Automobile - Regal All-G, circa 1915 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.259 | Bicycle with unidentified owner, circa 1899 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.261 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, grain elevators, circa 1860s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.262 | Galena and Chicago Union Depot, circa 1850s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.260 | Horse and buggy, circa 1880 |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.263 | Illinois Tunnel Co., circa 1910? |
| Box 31 | Photographs 1.264-1.269 | Lake Street Elevated train (6), circa 1890s |
| Box 31 | Photograph 1.270 | West Division Rail Way Company, circa 1880s |
