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Chicago Black Lives Matter Protest Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ChicagoBLM
Abstract
Announcements, flyers, artwork, buttons, newsletters, photographs, posters, t-shirts, and other materials collected by various individuals at Chicago protests, 2015-2016, responding to recurring police violence and civil rights violations against black citizens. This documentation was solicited as part of a 2016 Newberry Library exhibition, From Civil War to Civil Rights, and also includes responses to events posted by visitors to the exhibition.
Dates:
2014-ongoing
Dorothy Hild papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract
Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates:
1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1980
John M. Wing Foundation Printing Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Abstract
Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.
Dates:
Approximately 1750-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1999
Joseph Giganti papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Giganti
Abstract
Papers and photographs pertaining to Chicagoan Joe Giganti, a labor defense activist who served as the Chairman of the Board of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. The collection includes 1930s periodicals, documents, and ephemera of Communist and Socialist groups in Chicago, New York, Italy, and elsewhere. Also included are Giganti's University papers, a file on Giorgio del Vecchio, an audio recording of Giganti, and a photograph album, which features Joe's wife, Rose.
Dates:
1917-1986; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950
Mexican Hometown Associations Oral History Project records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mexican Hometown-Associations OH
Abstract
Oral histories of 23 leaders of various Mexican Hometown Associations located in Chicago and its suburbs. Interviews were conducted in Spanish in 2016 and transcribed in Spanish under the direction of Professor Xóchitl Bada, then Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Brief biographies of the leaders are included. A total of 22 separate Hometown Associations are represented in the collection. To listen to the audio files, use the links...
Dates:
2016
Never The Same Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-NTS
Abstract
Ephemera collected by Never The Same, a project begun by Northwestern University Professor Rebecca Zorach and Daniel Tucker, founder of AREAChicago. Never The Same collects items documenting socially and politically engaged art in Chicago since the 1960s. Collection consists of brochures, fliers, postcards, pamphlets, posters, artwork, books, journals, CDs, DVDs, and 3-dimensional artifacts emanating from a wide variety of sources, both individual and organizational.
Dates:
1968-2014
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