WOMAN'S CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO COLLECTION, 1919-1924WOMAN'S CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO

Woman’s City Club of Chicago photograph collection

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

Rev. by D. Rinder, 2008

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Title: Woman’s City Club of Chicago photograph collection [graphic]

Main entry: Woman’s City Club of Chicago (Ill.)

Inclusive dates: 1919-1924

Size:

Call #: 1986.0597 PSM:

12 photographic prints : b&w ; 14 x 21 cm. (5 1/4 x 8 in.)

Call #: 1986.0597 PLS0151-0157:

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

Call #: 1986.0597 PN0069:

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

Accession #: 1986.0597

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

Description of the collection:

Lantern slide program showing various civic activities of the Club. Included are: improving housing conditions, beach improvements, sewage treatment, and aid to Polish refugees after WWI. Subjects include contrasting tenement and well kept housing, dirty alleys and vacant lots, loading debris from rivers and lake front onto scows, sewage treatment works, people at bathing beaches and the condition of Polish refugees. Also interior views of various rooms inside the Club building. Some lantern slides have copy negatives and prints which are noted on the container list.

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include folders in the Image file, Topics: "Organizations--Clubs (Illinois - Chicago) Woman's City Club of Chicago"; and the Woman's City Club of Chicago records.

Gift of Woman's City Club of Chicago, 1961, 1966 (1986.0597).

Storage: Lantern Slides (7 4 x 5 in. boxes), Lot Folder File (1 folder), Negatives (1 folder, N0069)

List of online catalog headings:

Woman's City Club of Chicago (Ill.)

Tenement houses -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Refugees -- Poland.

Charitable organizations -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Women -- Organizations -- Illinois -- Chicago.

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

Children playing outdoors -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Beaches -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Apartment houses -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Interiors -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Michigan, Lake

Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.

Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill. : Park) -- 1920-1929.

Lantern slides.

Silver gelatin prints.

Film negatives.

Container list of box and folder numbers and titles:

Box 1 Interior views of Club and Club activities

1 Private rest areas

2 Library

3 Lunch room

4 Cafeteria

5 Lounge

6 Corner of lobby

7 Home recreation (text)

8 Outdoor recreation

9 Committee service - women playing with children

10 Committee service - 8 Hour Day

11 Committee service - Interracial Committee

Box 2 Committee service - Improve Housing Conditions

1 Street & houses

2 Apartment buildings

3 Houses & apartment buildings

4 House between apartment buildings

5 Courtyard - apartment building

6 Neighborhood grocery

7 Three flats

8 George Pullman residence

9 Alley behind apartment building

10 Breezeway between apartment buildings

11 Rumsey House, Cass & Huron

12 Boat on Chicago River

13 Atlas Auto Repair Shop & house, 412 Oakland

14 Building & fence

15 Aerial view

16 Lake shore view

Box 3 Committee service - Aid to Polish Children Refugees, 1919

1 "Children in the Moosehart orphanage in Illinois..."

2 "Looking to America to keep them from starvation"

3 "St. Vincent's Girls Home, Salzburg"

4 "Children's abdomen puffed as a result of malnutrition"

5 "Typical cases of malnutrition due to starvation"

6 "Two Polish women who cook meals in..European Relief Council"

7 "A half starved Polish mother"

8 "Polish boy so weak from lack of food..."

9 "A case of rickets..."

10 "Feeding the little ones in the starvation area"

11 "A starving baby"

12 "Children in the canteen waiting to be fed"

13 "Infant Welfare Society of Chicago"

Box 4 Beach improvement

1 Swimmers on beach (+copy neg & print)

2 Park improvements

3 Children racing in park

4 Children at play

5 Children in water

6 Lake shore

7 Empty lot with trash

8 South Shore - condition of beach

9 Children playing in sand

10 Freight wagons

11 Main channel - rock section

12 Children swimming

13 Beach condition

Box 5 Beach improvement

1 Wilson beach (#30, #32 + copy neg & print)

2 Walker beach

3 Diversey beach (#35, #36, #42 + copy neg & print)

4 Lincoln Park bathing area (#38 + copy neg & print)

5 "Defying the Authorities" - kids playing in fire hydrant water

6 Children swimming (#82 + copy neg & print)

7 "What the children want"

8 "What the babies want" (#86 + copy neg & print)

Box 6 Beach improvement

1 Lincoln Park children's beach

2 Lincoln Park, children playing in sand

3 Austin - girl's section wading pool

4 Children playing in lake

5 Boy diving into lake

6 Cartoon - Lake Michigan as a free swimming pool

7 Children at lake front

8 57th(?) Street plan

9 Montrose Avenue lake view (drawing)

10 Children playing in sand

11 Children playing in lake

12 North Shore beach

13 Wilson beach (#13 + copy neg & print)

14 Bathing beach committee (#14 + copy neg & print)

15 54th Street beach (#17 + copy neg & print)

Box 7 Clean water & other social causes

1 54th Street squatters

2 Lake shore - a dump for rubbish

3 Loading debris on scows in Chicago River

4 Kind of debris loaded on scows

5 Desplaines River Treatment Plant, 1924

6 North Side Sewage Treatment Works-construction, 1924

7 Calumet Sewage Treatment Works, 1924

8 Clean City Committee

9 "A Call for Better Transportation"

10 "The incompetent driver..."