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Wesaw, Leroy

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago American Indian oral history project records

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Oral History
Abstract Reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, and edited typewritten transcripts of oral interviews with twenty-three long-time American Indian residents of Chicago completed as part of a project conducted under the auspices of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and funded by the Illinois Humanities Council, 1982-1984. Also a published index and finding aid to the transcripts, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Native Voices in the City" incorporating excerpts from the...
Dates: 1982-1985

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

Seeing Indian in Chicago Exhibition records

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Seeing Indian
Abstract

Photographs from the Seeing Indian in Chicago American Indian photography exhibit, July 22-September 21, 1985, Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, The Newberry Library. Also exhibition labels.

Dates: 1958-1985

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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 2
Photographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Audiotapes 1