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Dill Pickle Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dill Pickle
Abstract
Miscellaneous material relating to the Dill Pickle Club of Chicago, Illinois (1916-ca.1933) and its leading founder, John (Jack) Jones. The bulk of the collection, most of which was removed from two scrapbooks, consists of handbills, fliers, programs and posters announcing and advertising numerous lectures, readings, parties, plays and other regular activities. Also includes art work, business and membership items, clippings, a few letters, photographs, poetry and Jack Jones memorabilia.
Dates:
1906-1941; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1935
Little Room Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Little Room
Abstract
Business records of the Little Room, an early twentieth century Chicago social club composed of artists, writers, musicians, etc., including correspondence, memorabilia and membership material.
Dates:
1898-1931
Round Table Sketchbooks
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wyers
Abstract
Two manuscript sketchbooks created by artists, commentators, poets, newspapermen, and other writers who were members of a small and informal Chicago club, the Round Table, documenting the social and political climates in Chicago and the United States during the Great Depression. In addition to Renier Wyers, club members included James A. Barnes, Finney Briggs, William L. Griffin, Henry Hammer, Edmond Hayes, Eugene Murdock, Edwin Prehm, Kurt Stein, Lowell H. Truettner, and E. C. Woodward.
Dates:
1931-1933
Town and Country Arts Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-TownandCountry
Abstract
Records of the Town and Country Arts Club of Chicago, previously known as the Art Study Class and the North Shore Arts Club. Conceived in 1932 and continuing to the present, the group meets “to study the great world arts that have gone before, to assist in their preservation for future generations, and to encourage the arts of the present day.” Records include president’s books, minutes, reports, membership rosters and attendance records, directories, presentations, photographs, histories, and...
Dates:
1944-2007
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
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- Art Institute of Chicago 1
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- Attic Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Barnes, James A. 1
- Briggs, Finney 1
- Carter, William H. (William Harding) 1
- Casino (Club : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) 1
- Chicago Historical Society 1
- Constant, George 1
- Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Fuller, Henry Blake 1
- Gerstenberg, Alice 1
- Griffin, William L. 1
- Hammer, Henry 1
- Hatfield, James Taft 1
- Hayes, Edmond 1
- Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) 1
- Hoover, Herbert 1
- Jones, John A. (John Archibald) 1
- Junior League of Chicago 1
- Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- McCormick, Edith Rockefeller 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) 1
- Morgan, Anna 1
- Murdock, Eugene 1
- Philadelphia Museum of Art 1
- Pond, Allen Bartlit 1
- Prehm, Edwin 1
- Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis) 1
- Smithsonian Institution 1
- Stein, Kurt M. 1
- Szukalski, Stanisław 1
- Tech-Up (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Town and Country Arts Club 1
- Truettner, Lowell H. 1
- Voevodsky, George 1
- Walker, Nellie V. (Nellie Verne) 1
- Welling, Harriet Walker 1
- Welling, John Calvin 1
- Welling, John Paul 1
- Woodward, E. C. 1
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