Cheever glass negative collection, ca.
1910-1920
Descriptive
Inventory for the Collection at Chicago Historical Society, Research Center.
by
Diane M. Ryan, 1989, rev. 2014
Please address questions to:
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Center
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Title:
Cheever glass negative collection, ca. 1910-1920
Storage: Glass negatives (6 4 x 5 in. boxes; 10 5 x 7
in. boxes--GN0093-GN0108)
Accession
number: 1989.0403
Restriction: To consult this collection in the Research
Center it is necessary to make an advance appointment (email:
Research@chicagohistory.org ).
Description
of the Collection
Includes
a mixed selection of ninety 4 x 5 in. and 174 5 x 7 in. images from an
unknown
but probably single photographer. The
collection may have had some
connection
with a news publication as there are a number of copy negatives with
images
taken from news clippings and also what appears to be European military
news.
The
strength of the collection lies in the numerous images of an air meet at
Grant
Park (probably 1911 or 1912). There are
also several photographs of
Chicago
beaches and people in swimming costume.
A smaller group shows a parade
down
Michigan Avenue with what appears to be women's groups and women's rights
advocates. Another small group shows racetrack scenes
(probably Washington Park
racetrack)
and jockeys.
The
collection also includes two scenes at a swimming pool (in a Chicago park?),
children
with buckets and wagons on residential streets, and assorted portraits
of
men and women.
Probably
one-third of the plates have some emulsion damage, usually
characterized
by
crazing or bubbling which has caused the emulsion to chip away. It is
estimated
that approximately twenty plates are beyond restoration. In some
cases
two
plates are stuck together. The glass
plates need cleaning and some are
chipped--the
pieces may or may not be present. There
are some white stains and
very
few brown stains on the plates.
Container
List
4 x 5
in.
Box
1 GN0093
Art--Painting
of people
Buildings--Rooming
house
309-315 ________ St. (Painters
District Council, No. 14)
Unidentified building complex and
grounds
Construction
(3)
Copy
negatives (mostly from halftone clippings)
Aerial view with airplanes
Convict?
European royalty?/Military man
Group portrait/Cartoon soldier on
horse
Group or queue of people with
military men
Ladies' personals column
Man with (fencing?) sword
Military men
Police or military group at ease
Box
2 GN0094
Copy
negatives (cont.)
Portrait of a man (3)
Portrait of a women (full-length)
People on mountain/soldiers by
doorway
"Society girl with noble
aim"--Mildred Armour
World War I military men?
Events--Parades
& processions
Military group on parade ground
2 people on horseback during
parade?
Parade (2)
Parade in front of C.D. Peacock
store
Parade float for civil liberties
Box
3 GN0095
People--[Group
portraits]
People with dog and monkey
People in horse drawn carriage
People in park?
Seated group (emulsion turned
brown)
Portrait of seated couple
Portrait of standing couple
People--Children
Boy standing on chair
Boy sliding down bannister
Boy with three men
Girl with hat
Two girls with hand carried boxes
Kindergarten?
People--Men
Portrait of a man in military uniform
Portrait of a young man (2)
Two men looking at vehicle or motorized
equipment
Crowd of men
Box
4 GN0096
Sports
Ball game in gymnasium
Ice hockey game
Ice skating (6)
Ice skating scenes?--Group with horse
cart (2)
Man with horse
cart
Woman with horse
cart
Streets
City sidewalk (2)
Residential street (2)
Box
5 GN0097
Women
Portrait of a woman (12)
Woman in party hat at a vehicle decorated
with flowers
Woman at window of a vehicle decorated
with flowers
Woman in theatrical costume
Two women
Three women on vehicle (trolley?)
Group of 5 women posed (2)
Women's
rights group
Box
6 GN0098
Miscellaneous
Vehicles--Funeral hearse
Hands and fabric
Manuscript note by J. Hackett to police
confessing to murder
Need
treatment
2 negatives stuck together; images
undefinable (3)
5 x
7in.
Box
7 GN0099
Art
Framed painting on wall (image almost
gone)
Framed painting of woman at piano
Painting of women in dance hall or theater
Buildings
Franklin Park State Bank (2)
Lodge or dining room interior
Events
Air meet (11) [unless stated otherwise,
all air meet photographs are of
flying airplanes]
Box
8 GN0100
Air meet (18)
Box 9 GN0101
Air meet--Retouched to show flight
maneuver (2)
Air meet or airport
Air meet--Aerial view
Birds' eye view of crowd and
airplanes on ground
Birds' eye view of airplane
wreckage with bystanders
Airplane wreckage with
policemen and bystanders
Airplane wreckage
Crowd? (5)
Crowd watching biplane in
flight
Observer looking upward
Box
10 GN0102
Air meet (cont.)
Man at controls of plane (6)
Men and plane on ground (3)
Group before airplane on ground (2)
Biplane
Man before biplane
Two men before plane on ground (2)
Men and plane #57 on ground
Men and plane #32 on ground
Box
11 GN0103
Events--Parade
on Michigan Avenue (8)
Land--Waterfronts--Beach
scene with bathers (14)
Box
12 GN0104
Land--Waterfronts
Beach scene with bathers (3)
Beach scenes with sand sculpture
Woman at beach (5)
Beach scenes with women bathers (5)
Oak Street beach?
Women and children at beach
Box
13 GN0105
People
People in park
People in open automobile
Mail bags? with men bystanders
People on street in rain or snow?
Man & woman on veranda
People--Children
Children with buckets on residential
street
Children with wagon on residential street
Two girls with buckets on residential
street (2)
Women and children opening packages
Children opening packages (2)
Children on residential street
Woman and children in snow
Girl with horse and carriage
Three children in park? with water spray
Box
14 GN0106
People--Men
Lifeguards in rowboats
Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man in hat and coat (2)
Man on veranda
Man in vehicle? (dark plate)
Two
men
Two men in crowd
Men with crowd in background
Group of men with water spigot
Seated man and boy (3)
Four men on street (2)
Four men in top hats
Men on street with horse drawn vehicles
Men in open automobile
Group of men (most of image gone)
Man shoveling snow
Box
15 GN0107
People--Peddlers
Peddler on stairway
Peddlers on stairway (2)
Sports
Racetrack (4)
Jockey and man
Jockey on horseback
Swimming pool
Swimming pool competition (2)
Transportation
facilities
Railroad station [small] and tracks
Railroad station interior
Women
Portrait of a woman (6)
Box
16 GN0108
Undefinable images (12) [some are two or
three plates stuck together]
dmr
June
23, 1989