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Chicago Commons Association. Chicago Commons Association records, 1894-1999.

Title: Chicago Commons Association records, 1894-1999.

Correspondence, minutes (1894-1960), annual and other reports, personnel records, records of clubs based at the settlement house, neighborhood census data and surveys compiled by the Chicago Commons, the second settlement house founded in Chicago, and by the Chicago Commons Association, which operated several additional settlement houses. Topics include employment, housing, education, and social conditions in the neighborhoods that the settlement houses served, primarily on the Near North Side; ethnic and racial neighborhood change and its problems, particularly among Polish, Italian, and African Americans; and various children's and adults' activities at the Commons, including education for naturalization and, during the 1940s and 50s, interracial camping. Correspondents include head residents Dr. Graham Taylor, his daughter Lea D. Taylor, William H. Brueckner, and others.

ArchivalResource: 8 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717282913 View

McCulloch, Frank W., 1905-1996. Frank W. McCulloch papers, 1931-1988 (bulk 1931-1948).

Title: Frank W. McCulloch papers, 1931-1988 (bulk 1931-1948).

Correspondence, notes, articles, reports, minutes, newsletters, and other papers of Frank W. McCulloch about his activities in Chicago on behalf of unemployment relief in the 1930s and labor education in the 1940s. Except for a few miscellaneous items, the collection does not extend beyond late 1948, when McCulloch accepted a staff appointment with Senator-elect Paul Douglas (Democrat; Illinois). Large portions of the collection pertain to the Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches and the James Mullenbach Industrial Institute (Chicago) and reflect McCulloch's basic Christian humanism in his advocacy for worker-oriented educational programs and labor/management dialogues. Specific topics include the 1937 Republic Steel strike; the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters drive for recognition by the Pullman Car Company; the 1936-1937 General Motors sit-down strike; the 1938 Maytag Company strike; the World War II-era labor dispute at Montgomery Ward; and National War Labor Board reports on disputes at International Harvester, Albert Pick Company, and the Western News Company, 1943-1944. Includes sound recording of an interview of Lea Taylor, head resident of the Chicago Commons settlement house, and a short biography of her. Also includes 2 reel-to-reel audio tapes entitled "McCulloch Luncheon, Sept. 11, 1970."

ArchivalResource: 3 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712707928 View

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers, 1877-1983

Title: Papers of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, 1877-1983

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Catharine Waugh McCullouch, suffragist and lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet, 1 folio folder, 2 folio+ folders, 2 oversize folders

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00730/catalog View

Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976.

Title: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976.

Miscellaneous correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings, annual reports, statistical data, etc. of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. Correspondence is chiefly with donors (1903-1949, 1957), who included many socially prominent Chicagoans; plus case study data in Patient Service, Nursing Substation & Coordinated Home Care Program reports, 1962-1968. Also, many items on the Mayor's City-County Polio Planning Committee (1956); a VMA 75th anniversary scrapbook; and Society for Ethical Culture correspondence, 1883-1887. Also present is a paper on Lea Demarest Taylor, 1883-1968, and in box 16, folder 2, there is a Masters thesis on the "History of Public Health Nursing in Chicago, 1883-1920," by Helen Lyons (University of Chicago, 1947).

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713908043 View

Chicago Teachers' Federation. Chicago Teachers' Federation records, 1864-1968 (bulk 1898-1968).

Title: Chicago Teachers' Federation records, 1864-1968 (bulk 1898-1968).

Correspondence, minutes of meetings 1898-1966 (incomplete 1906-1920), reports, excerpts of court transcripts, newsclippings, pamphlets, speeches, and other office files, primarily on subjects of interest to teachers. Includes material on the Federation's relationship with organized labor and its membership in the Chicago Federation of Labor (1902-1917); salaries, pensions, tenure protection, educational theory and practice, classroom conditions, discipline problems, double shifts for students, the junior high school system, personnel and policies of the Chicago Board of Education, school legislation, tax matters. Collection also includes materials from local, state, and national teachers' organizations, particularly the National Education Association and the Chicago Teachers Union. Correspondents include Margaret A. Haley, CTF business representative; Catherine Goggin, CTF financial secretary; Frances Dorney M. Kenney, CTF business representative; and Ella Flagg Young, Chicago educator. Includes several versions of an unpublished autobiography by Margaret A. Haley, who served as principal spokesman of the CTF, 1900-1939. The microfilm of fragments of the autobiography lacks many segments and probably does not contain the last version. A version was published in 1982, edited by Robert L. Reid, as Battleground : the autobiography of Margaret A. Haley. The bulk of correspondence by Federation officers Margaret Haley, Catherine Goggin, and Frances Kenney has not survived. Financial information pertaining to the organization is limited mostly to fund raising matters and mimeographed appeals for dues payments. There are few membership records in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 39 linear ft.2 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. (Partial copy of Haley autobiography).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712674949 View

Taylor, Lea Demarest, 1883-1975. Lea Taylor papers, 1901-1967.

Title: Lea Taylor papers, 1901-1967.

Correspondence, minutes, financial and statistical records, articles, sociological studies, arrangements for speaking engagements, and other papers of Lea Taylor, relating to her career as a social worker and head resident of the Chicago Commons settlement house, founded by her father Graham Taylor. Topics include schools, housing, racial discrimination in housing and other areas, employment problems, child care, child labor, juvenile delinquency, and prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages. Includes records of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations (1944-59), Chicago Federation of Settlements (1917-59), Chicago Recreation Commission (1926-55), Citizens Schools Committee (1936-62), National Federation of Settlements (1901-61), Wider Use of the School Plant Committee (1910-50), and various other organizations.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713351677 View

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers, 1877-1983

Title: Papers of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, 1877-1983

The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, and of speeches, statements, and articles by Catharine Waugh McCulloch; also included are photographs of McCulloch, genealogical information, articles about McCulloch, and McCulloch's scrapbooks. The collection is divided into two series: personal and professional. Series I, Personal papers, documents McCulloch's family life and features letters from Frank Hathorn McCulloch to McCulloch from the years just before and just after their marriage. For articles and clippings about McCulloch, see #73-83 in Series II. Series II, Professional papers, consists primarily of correspondence, speeches, and articles, many of which detail McCulloch's work in Illinois politics; of particular interest are letters (1906) from prominent Chicago businessmen in response to McCulloch's inquiry regarding their views on woman suffrage, and a notebook kept by McCulloch when she served as foreman of a grand jury investigating election fraud in 1940-1941. Also included in this series are six scrapbooks. Three (#65v-67v) contain McCulloch's reminiscences about a number of suffragists and a few anti-suffragists, as well as the temperance movement (66v). The other three (#88-90) contain clippings documenting McCulloch's suffrage work and some of her legal work, and include information about other topics, such as temperance, anti-suffrage, and her family; these three volumes suffered severe water damage. These volumes include printed material, correspondence, and articles, and originally contained clippings. Occasional annotations in the hand of McCulloch's son Frank appear throughout the collection. Most clippings were discarded after microfilming.

ArchivalResource: 2.42 linear feet ((2 cartons, 1 file box) plus 1 folio photo folder, 2 folio+ folders, 2 oversize folders)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990013488260203941/catalog View

Taylor, Lea Demarest, 1883-1975. Lea Demarest Taylor collection, 1894-1969.

Title: Lea Demarest Taylor collection, 1894-1969.

The collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and photographs. The materials pertain to operation and activities of Chicago Commons, the Chicago Federation of Settlements and the National Federation of Settlements. The collection also includes writing and publications by Graham Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52354067 View