Hyde Park Community Collection
Scope and Contents
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, a selection of which (Box 1, Folders 7-11) predate the 1889 annexation of the Village of Hyde Park (also known as Hyde Park Township) into the City. The Board of Trustees minutes in Box 1, Folder 10 date to the village’s last independent meeting. The collection contains several Hyde Park high school publications and newspapers from between 1895 and 1960.
Dates
- 1830 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection.
Biographical / Historical
The Hyde Park neighborhood is 6 miles southeast of the Loop. The neighborhood runs from 51st Street south to 60th Street and from the Lake west to Cottage Grove Avenue. The area was annexed into the city in 1889, along with most of what is now Chicago's South Side. Hyde Park is number 41 of the 77 official communities that make up Chicago.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet (in 6 boxes plus 2 photographs and 10 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
English
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.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into alphabetically by topic and then alphabetically within topic.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The initial accession was transferred from the Woodlawn Community Collection or the Historical Society of Woodlawn Records and the West Side Historical Society in 1989.
The contents in Box 1, Folders 1-3; Box 2, Folder 2 Folders 2, 5-7, 9; and Box 3 Folder 4 were originally cataloged as part of the Woodlawn Community Collection, having been in the collection of the Historical Society of Woodlawn. The printed material in Box 1, Folders 7-11 and Box 3, Folders 5-6 were received from the Historical Society of Woodlawn but never cataloged. The manuscript and printed material in Box 1, Folders 5-6, 12-14; Box 2, Folders 1, 3, 4, 8; and Box 3, Folders 1-3 were from a West Side Historical Society “miscellany” box. The material in folder Box 1, Folder 4 arrived by mail.
Supplement 1 (Box 3, Folders 7-9) was transferred from the Woodlawn Community Collection in April 1989 and contains two documents relating to the Village of Hyde Park sewage system, and a 1887 “abstract of record” and other testimony regarding Hyde Park’s annexation to the city of Chicago.
Supplement 2 was transferred in June 1989 from the Woodlawn Community Collection in April and June of 1989 and appear to have been originally part of the Historical Society of Woodlawn Collection. This supplement contains two examinations of titles for the same lot in Hyde Park, 1873 and 1891 and includes two small flat maps of a section of Hyde Park in the area of Washington Street and Elm Street.
Supplement 3 was donated in August 1989 and housing Oversize Folders 4, 5, 6, and 7. This material is of uncertain provenance.
Supplement 4 was added in February, 1990 and is housed in Box 4, Folders 1-7 and Oversize 8-10. The materials include deeds signed by Paul Cornell, founder of Hyde Park, and three pre-annexation maps of the water and sewer system.
Supplement 5 is housed in Box 4, Folder 8.
Supplement 6 is housed in Box 4, Folders 9-12.
Supplement 7 is housed in Box 4, Folder 13, and includes Photograph 1.2.
Supplement 8 was donated by Ross Harano in 2018 and contains 48 issues of the Hyde Park High School newsletter, The Hydeparker. The issues are housed in Box 5.
Supplement 9 is from various donors in Box 4, Folders 14, and Box 6.
Source
- Historical Society of Woodlawn (Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- West Side Historical Society (Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Hyde Park Community Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Original author unknown, 1989. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2021
- Date
- 1989
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Unit at Harold Washington Library Center Repository
Harold Washington Library Center, 9th Floor
Chicago Public Library
400 S. State Street
Chicago IL 60605 United States
(312) 747-4875
specoll@chipublib.org