UNITED CHARITIES OF CHICAGO LANTERN SLIDE SHOW COLLECTION, 1910-1930UNITED

United Charities of Chicago lantern slide show collection

Finding Aid for the Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center

Rev. by D. Rinder, 2008

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Title: United Charities of Chicago lantern slide show collection [graphic]

Main entry: United Charities of Chicago

Inclusive dates: 1910-1930, bulk 1915-1920

Size:

Call #: 1986.0594 PSM:

2 photographic prints : b&w ; 12 x 21 cm. (4 3/4 x 8 in.)

Call #: 1986.0594 PLS0198-0203:

83 transparencies : lantern slide ; 9 x 11 cm. (3 1/2 x 4 in.)

Call #: 1986.0594 PN0048:

2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Call #: 1986.0594 PCT0028:

31 transparencies : b&w ; 35 mm.

Accession #: 1986.0594

Restriction: To consult negatives, transparencies or lantern slides or negatives in the Research Center it is necessary to make an advance appointment (email: Research@chicagohistory.org).

Description of the collection:

Slide presentation of views of poor economic conditions, especially of disadvantaged children in Chicago, and of programs by United Charities to educate and provide for parents and their children. Includes several slides with text. Prints and negatives match but differ from lantern slides.

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the United Charities of Chicago collection of visual materials (1967.0527); the United Charities of Chicago camp photograph collection (1985.0419); and the United Charities of Chicago records.

Gift of United Charities of Chicago, 1967 (1986.0594).

Storage: Lantern Slides (5 4 x 5 in. boxes), Transparencies (l folder, T0028), Negatives (l folder, N0048), Lot Folder File (l folder)

List of online catalog headings:

United Charities of Chicago

Mary Crane Nursery (Chicago, Ill.)

Nurseries -- Illinois -- Chicago.

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

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

Women -- Health & welfare -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Children playing -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Slums -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Charitable organizations -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Interiors -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Economic conditions.

Film transparencies.

Lantern slides.

Container list of box and folder numbers and titles:

Box l

Boys napping in camp barracks

Little girl & boy poorly dressed

Little boy eating bread

Young girl & toddler (tubercular children)

Sunset over a river

Young girls ironing

Mary Crane Nursery laundry & women

Mary Crane Nursery children - Christmas lunch

Children on train

Children playing in alley

Row clapboard houses

View of poor housing

Babies in cribs - open air room

Baby

Boys been fishing

Box 2

Muddy alley

Crowded but clean alley

Trash in a backyard

Dirty backyard

Child eating using chair as table

Little girl & cat

Children eating lunch

Children washing dishes

Boys in dirty, trashy alley

Trash in alley

Girl standing by alley

Measuring height of boy

Small clapboard house

Row clapboard houses

Children in dirt yard

Dirty bedroom & 3 adults

Box 3

TB Institution bedroom

Day care (Mary Crane Nursery)

Bedroom - without light or air

Wooded area & cabin

Girls sitting & reading outside

Trash filled alley

Children displaying butterfly collection

Children at camp listening to story

Children around a piano

Children around a stove

People in tenement backyard

Children in front of clapboard row houses

Dirty kitchen

Children playing on dumpster

Box 4 Text, broadsides, titles

"Every cent for relief..."

"Making human junk..."

"Babies Who Might be Saved..."

"What one society found..."

"The United Charities started the first..."

Christmas ad

"Accidents..."

"Speaking of flies..."

"Preserve the babies milk", 1908

Diagrams, cartoons, illustrations

Growth of bacteria

Cartoons

Illustration - nurse

Illustration - "Give that these may live"

Box 5

Illustrations

"The Right Way to Keep Babys Milk"

"The Wrong Way to Keep Babys Milk"

"The Right Way to Feed the Baby"

"The Wrong Way to Feed the Baby"

"Constructive Christmas giving..."

Flow chart

United Charities

Maps

Districts of Chicago

Solicitation letters from:

Indianapolis, 1925, 1926

Marion County, 1926

Oklahoma City, 1927

Box 6 Flexible transparencies in glass

Method of Directing Trained Service, 1911-12 (diagram)

Map of Chicago districts

Text:

"Every time the clock strikes..."

"General office..."

"1333 children sent to the country..."1919

"From a wise man's will..."

"From a real boy's letter..."

Boy & American flag

Lot Folder File

Copy print of lantern slides (not in Lantern slide collection)

washing children

children waiting on El platform on way to camp