Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

Chicago American Indian Photography Project photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Photo Project
Abstract Photographs taken by Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Orlando Cabanban, Joe Kazumura, F. Peter Weil, and Leroy Wesaw for the Chicago American Indian Photography Project. Images document the social life and customs of the American Indian community in Chicago during the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Includes many photographs from activities of the American Indian Center. Many of these photographs were displayed in the Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery at the Newberry Library as part of an exhibition...
Dates: approximately 1950s-1987

Goodman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Harvey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harvey
Abstract

Collection of letters, photographs, diaries, writings, business records, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago native and longtime Rand McNally employee Bennet B. Harvey, his wife Dorothy Wegener Harvey, their son Bennet B. Harvey, Jr., and their ancestors, many of whom were early Chicago settlers and involved in the development of the city. Families represented include Botsford, Chapin, Fisk, Gehrke, Harvey, and Wegener.

Dates: 1800-2007; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1984

Orlando Cabanban photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Cabanban
Abstract Negatives (35 mm and 120 film format), contact sheets, prints, and transparencies created by Chicago photographer Orlando Cabanban primarily of events related to the American Indian Center of Chicago during the late 1960s. Social activities documented include powwows, day camps, the AIC canoe club and basketball team, and the American Indian Festival held at the Field Museum. Also includes images of AIC meetings, demonstrations, individual and family portraits, miscellaneous photographs and...
Dates: approximately 1920s-1991; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1986

Welling Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Welling
Abstract

Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Harriet Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; John P. Welling material includes military records from his service in World War I.

Dates: 1899-1988

Filtered By

  • Subject: Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs X
  • Subject: Photographs -- 1951-2000 X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 4
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 2
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 2
Photographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
∨ more
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Autochromes (photographs) 1
Business records -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- To 1875 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Children's books -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Contact sheets -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Cuba -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Diaries 1
Divorce 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Egypt -- Description and travel -- 20th century 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- Sources 1
Florida -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen. English. 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Indians of North America -- Culture 1
Japan -- Description and travel -- 20th century 1
Love-letters -- United States -- 20th century 1
Mackinac Island (Mich.) -- History 1
Mackinac Island Region (Mich.) -- Description and travel 1
Massachusetts -- Genealogy 1
Millinery -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Negatives (photographs) -- 1951-2000 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Philanthropists -- United States 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Biography 1
Powwows 1
Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater programs -- 1901-1950 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
American Indian Center of Chicago 2
Cabanban, Orlando 2
Wesaw family 2
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1