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West Side Historical Society (Chicago, Ill.)

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Austin Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-acc
Abstract

The collection contains manuscript, print and photographic documentation on demographic, economic, cultural, social, political, and religious development of the Austin neighborhood. The collection contains biographical information on Austin residents, as well as information on businesses, religious institutions clubs and organizations, hospitals, municipal agencies, parks, residences, schools, streets, transportation, and wartime activities.

Dates: 1839 - 1981

Austin High School Records

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-auhs
Abstract

This collection documents Austin High School from its earliest days in the 1870s through the federally mandated desegregation attempts of the 1960s and 1970s. The documentation includes histories, news clippings, photographs, programs, student publications and yearbooks.

Dates: 1881 - 1987

Belmont Cragin Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: nnhc-bc
Abstract

This small collection contains clippings, programs, yearbooks, photographs, and biographical and historical sketches of the Belmont Cragin neighborhood in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1883 - 1946; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1946

Lillian M. Campbell Memorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-lmc
Abstract

Lillian May (Smith) Campbell and her husband, Frank R. Campbell amassed a collection of photographs of Chicago views that primarily depict streetcars, trolley buses and other modes of transportation as well as document opening ceremonies for bus and streetcar lines across the city in the 1930s. The collection is particularly strong in the neighborhoods of Roseland, South Shore, South Chicago, Woodlawn, Lake View, Rogers Park, Portage Park and Logan Square.

Dates: 1858-1940; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1940

Hyde Park Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-hyde
Abstract

The Hyde Park Community Collection contains a selection of items related to Hyde Park businesses, club and organizations, municipal agencies, residences and schools. The documents include a range of documents brochures, historical sketches, municipal reports, newsletters and publications, with a selection that predates the 1889 annexation of the Village of Hyde Park into the City.

Dates: 1830 - 1988

Logan Square Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: nnhc-lsq
Abstract

This collection contains news clippings, historical sketches, photographs, and ephemera related to the Logan Square neighborhood, mostly from the first half of the twentieth century. There is also a small amount of material related to the Avondale neighborhood.

Dates: 1887-1989; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1955

Office of Civilian Defense Records

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-ocd
Abstract

The Office of Civilian Defense Records documents the civilian support efforts of the District 4 office, headquartered in the Gold Dome Building of Garfield Park, during World War II. The collection includes administrative and organizational materials, news reports and publicity items for civilian training, volunteer efforts and War Loan drives.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Portage Park Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: nnhc-ppcc
Abstract

Portage Park is one of Chicago’s 77 community areas, located on the Northwest side of the city nine miles from the Loop. The Portage Park Community Collection contains programs, fliers, brochures, publications, and other material related to local businesses, schools, and community organizations; clippings; a small amount of biographical information and historical sketches; and a scrapbook and scrapbook pages. It also contains a number of photographs, most of which date from the 1910s.

Dates: 1859-circa 2000; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940

West Garfield Park Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-wgp
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, directories, historical narratives, meeting minutes, news clippings, newsletters and over 300 photographs related to businesses, clubs, organizations, religious organizations, persons, residences, schools and street scenes in the West Garfield Park community area.

Dates: 1831 - 1970

West [Near West] Side Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-ws
Abstract The West [Near West] Side Community Collection contains manuscripts, printed material and photographs that document Chicago’s Near West Side, an area bounded by 16th Street on the south, Kinzie Street on the north, the Chicago River on the east and Maplewood Avenue on the west. It was originally called the West Side Community Collection. The collection contains biographical information on residents, as well as information on businesses, religious institutions, clubs and organizations,...
Dates: 1853 - 1994

West Side Historical Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-wshs
Abstract

The West Side Historical Society worked with staff at Legler Regional Library to collect information about Chicago's West Side. The collection includes the organization’s annual meeting proceedings, by-laws, constitution, collection development policy, correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, programming, publicity, research indexes and transcripts from a weekly radio quiz show featuring questions about Chicago’s West Side.

Dates: 1930 - 1955

West Side Newspaper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: spe-nhrc-wsnc
Abstract

The West Side Newspaper Collection consists of partial runs of West Side newspapers including The Austinite, Garfield News, Garfieldian and the West Town News, among others.

Dates: 1880 - 1966