Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 10
Art & Soul Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Art&Soul
Abstract
Art & Soul (1968-1969) was a nonprofit workshop and gallery project designed and organized by the Conservative Vice Lords, Inc. in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art. It provided a platform for the West Side community to pursue creative collaboration and arts education. These records include organizational and funding proposals, course materials, photographic copies, slides and DVDs, interview transcripts, and media coverage relating to A&S and the Black Arts Movement.
Dates:
1917-2018; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1992
Burton Cherry ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 1-183
Abstract
Materials designed and collected by Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry, between approximately 1929 and approximately 1962. The collection includes correspondence to and from Cherry, items he designed or which were produced under his supervision, items possibly designed by Cherry, articles containing information about his work, and ephemera he collected.
Dates:
approximately 1929-approximately 1962
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Allied Arts
Abstract
Records kept by Thomas Hart Fisher, secretary for the Chicago Allied Arts, Inc., a short-lived organization which produced a series of programs of new music and dance in Chicago from 1924-1927. Includes business correspondence and financial information, with some program planning information.
Dates:
1924-1928
Frederic Grant Gleason papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract
Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi,...
Dates:
1852-1908
John Drury-Marion Neville Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.
Dates:
1860-1970
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
M. W. Newman Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newman
Abstract
Works, correspondence, personal materials, and memorabilia of Chicago newspaper editor, reporter, and critic M. W. Newman.
Dates:
1917-2002
Mark Turbyfill Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Turbyfill
Abstract
Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.
Dates:
1911-1985
MoMing Dance and Arts Center Records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-MoMing
Abstract
MoMing was a center in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood for dance training and avant-garde performance as well as an art gallery. It was formed in 1974 by Jackie Radis, Jim Self, Susan Kimmelman, Eric Trules, Kasia Mintch, Tem Horowitz, and Sally Banes. Along with local artists, it hosted many guest dancers and artists of renown, including Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris, and Meredith Monk. It officially dissolved in 1991.
Dates:
1968-1991; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1990
Sherwood Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ross
Abstract
Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.
Dates:
1956-2014
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 9
- Arts -- Press coverage 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 2
- Clippings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 2
- Correspondence 2
- Exhibition catalogs 2
- Graphic arts 2
- Graphic design (Typography) 2
- Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
- Moving images 2
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
- Printing 2
- Printing industry 2
- Programs 2
- Sound recordings 2
- AIDS (Disease) and the arts 1
- Advertisements 1
- Advertisements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Advertisements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
- Advertising 1
- Advertising cards 1
- Advertising layout and typography 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- African Americans in radio broadcasting 1
- Alcoholics 1
- Alternative publications 1
- Amateur arts 1
- American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- American periodicals -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Announcements 1
- Announcements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Announcements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
- Annual reports 1
- Annual reports -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Annual reports -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
- Architecture -- Middle West 1
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Art -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Catalogs 1
- Artists' books 1
- Artists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Arts, Black 1
- Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Audiocassettes 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Audiovisual materials 1
- Authors, American 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century 1
- Autobiographies (literary works) -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
- Birthday cards 1
- Blank forms 1
- Book jackets 1
- Book prospectuses 1
- Bookmarks 1
- Bookplates 1
- Booksellers' advertisements 1
- Booksellers' catalogs 1
- Boxing -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Broadsides 1
- Brochures 1
- Business cards 1
- Buttons (informational artifacts) 1
- Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
- Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
- Calendars 1
- Calligraphy 1
- Calligraphy (visual works) 1
- Catalogs 1
- Certificates 1
- Chesterton (Ind.) -- History 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
- Christmas cards 1
- Christmas cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Christmas cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
- Cities and towns -- Research 1
- City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements 1
- Clippings 1
- Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
- Clippings -- 1950-2001 1
- Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
- Clippings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Commercial art 1
- Composers -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Composition (Music) 1
- Conference programs 1
- Conservatories of music -- History -- 19th century 1
- Contracts 1
- Corporate culture -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1 ∧ less
- Language
- French 1
- German 1
- Italian 1
- Russian 1
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Swedish 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bolm, Adolph 2
- Chicago Allied Arts, Inc 2
- Chicago Daily News, Inc 2
- Monroe, Harriet 2
- Page, Ruth 2
- Turbyfill, Mark 2
- Abercrombie, Gertrude 1
- Adolph Bolm Ballet 1
- Aliquando Press 1
- American Institute of Graphic Arts 1
- Anderson, Margaret C. 1
- Appel, David ((Choreographer)) 1
- Art & Soul (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Art Directors Club of Chicago 1
- Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art 1
- Beach, Amy 1
- Beck, Bruce 1
- Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company 1
- Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie 1
- Booklyn Artists Alliance 1
- Bremer Presse 1
- Brighton Press 1
- Burton Cherry & Associates 1
- Campbell, Joan 1
- Carpenter, John Alden 1
- Centro del bel libro (Ascona, Switzerland) 1
- Challenge Machinery Company 1
- Cherry, Burton 1
- Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor 1
- Chicago Urban League 1
- Clark, Herma Naomi 1
- Cuneo Press 1
- Daley, Richard J. 1
- De Lamarter, Eric 1
- Dean, Laura 1
- Derleth, August 1
- Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold) 1
- Drury, John 1
- Dunham, Katherine 1
- Dunn, Douglas 1
- ELM Press 1
- Field, Henry 1
- Fisher, Thomas Hart 1
- Floersheim, Otto 1
- Foolscap Press 1
- Frederick, John T. (John Towner) 1
- Fuller, Henry Blake 1
- Gilbert, Peter 1
- Gleason, Frederic Grant 1
- Gounod, Charles 1
- Grand Union (Performance group) 1
- Gregynog Press 1
- Grieg, Edvard 1
- Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch 1
- Hansen, Harry 1
- Hetherington, Daniel 1
- Hetherington, Jackie 1
- Houlihan, James 1
- Idaho Center for the Book 1
- Illinois Music Teachers Association 1
- Imago Press (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Indulgence Press 1
- Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
- International Printing Museum (Carson, Calif.) 1
- Kinard, John, 1936-1989 1
- Lerner, Leo 1
- Limited Editions Club 1
- Liturgy Training Publications (Firm) 1
- Lowell, Amy 1
- MacDowell, Edward 1
- Madison, Reginald 1
- Maeterlinck, Maurice 1
- Mahler, Gustav 1
- Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
- Mark Morris Dance Group 1
- Massenet, Jules 1
- McKittrick, Bruce 1
- MoMing Dance and Arts Center (Chicago) 1
- Monk, Meredith 1
- Music Teachers National Association 1
- Nash, John Henry 1
- National Urban League 1
- Neville, Marion 1
- Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 1
- Newman, M. W. (Morton William) 1
- O'Brien, Howard Vincent 1
- Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
- Peabody, Augustus S. 1
- Perishable Press Limited 1
- Printers Row Printing Museum 1
- Putnam, Samuel 1
- R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company 1
- Radis, Jackie 1
- Randolph, Vance 1
- Remisoff, Nicolas 1
- Ross family 1
- Ross, Sherwood 1
- Saint-Saëns, Camille 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more