Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Slim Brundage papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brundage
Abstract
Writings and correspondence of Slim Brundage, founder of the College of Complexes, which operated on and off out of several locations on Chicago’s Near North Side during the 1950's-1960's as a forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. The collection also includes a variety of documents relating to the College of Complexes itself, such as correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry written by the College’s “students.”
Dates:
1955-1997; Majority of material found within 1964-1972
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,...
Dates:
1944-2007
Wallace Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract
Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.
Dates:
1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935
Winterbotham-Shaw Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-Shaw
Abstract
Correspondence, documents and miscellaneous items relating to the families of Rue Winterbotham Shaw and Alfred Phillips Shaw. Includes letters of Rue W. Shaw and Alfred P. Shaw to their son Joseph W. Shaw, correspondence to and from Theodora Winterbotham Brown and letters of other Winterbotham family members. Also, three large folder-notebooks of miscellaneous genealogical material amassed by Theodora Winterbotham Brown regarding the history of the Winterbotham, Baldwin and Rosencrans...
Dates:
1909-1991