Chicago Community Trust collection of visual materials, 1893-1959

The Chicago Community Trust collection of visual materials, 1893-1959

Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center

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Title: The Chicago Community Trust collection of visual materials

Inclusive dates: 1893-1959, bulk 1910-1939

Main entry: Chicago Community Trust

Accession #: 1980.0084 & 1985.0466

Extent:

Call #: 1980.0084 PPL

76 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.

2 paintings : watercolor painting ; 26 x 36 cm. (10 x 14 in.)

Restriction: Credit photographer.

Summary: Visual materials primarily relating to the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, a Chicago philanthropic organization which merged into The Chicago Community Trust in 1961. Subjects include adult and children's programs, including the Open-Air Schools, 1910-1918; parent nutrition training, social work with nurseries and kindergartens in the early 1900s; the Voluntary Child Welfare Committee's Central American visit in the 1930s; and portraits of trustees. Also present are two watercolors painted by Elizabeth McCormick (1892-1905).

Provenance statement: Gift of The Chicago Community Trust (1980.0084, 1985.0466).

Description of some related material:

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include The Chicago Community Trust photograph collection (1998.0193); The Chicago Community Trust records; and many CCT publications. Additional photographs of 848 N. Dearborn are in Image file, Topics.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Special Collections Dept. holds extensive records of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund.

List of online catalog headings:

The following headings were placed in the online catalog for this collection:

1. McCormick, Elizabeth, 1892-1905.

2. Chicago Community Trust

3. Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund

4. Adult education--Illinois--Chicago.

5. Charitable organizations--Illinois--Chicago.

6. Children eating & drinking--Illinois--Chicago.

7. Children--Clothing & dress--Illinois--Chicago.

8. Children--Health & welfare--Illinois--Chicago.

9. Children playing outdoors--Illinois--Chicago.

10. Children reading & writing--Illinois--Chicago.

11. Classrooms--Illinois--Chicago.

12. Nurseries--Illinois--Chicago.

13. Open-air schools--Illinois--Chicago.

14. Private libraries--Illinois--Chicago.

15. Chicago (Ill.)--Streets--Dearborn--North--00848.

16. Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

17. Portrait photographs.

18. Photographic prints.

19. Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund

Container list of box/folder numbers and titles:

Box 1

Folders:

1 Biography--portraits

2 Boys & Girls Club Congress, 1927

3 Buildings (including 848 N. Dearborn), interior & exterior, 1921

4 Library interior, 1944

5 Nursery schools, interior, 1927

6 Nutrition classes (adults & children), 1930, 1933, 1943

7 Open-air schools, 1910-1918

8 Parent education, 1920s-1930s

9 Parker Practice School (nursery), 1927

10 Voluntary Child Welfare Committee--Latin America visit by Mary E. Murphy

11 Watercolors by Elizabeth McCormick