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Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago records, 1914-1978.

Title: Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago records, 1914-1978.

Correspondence, minutes, financial records, committee and division files, member agency files, annual and other reports, historical summaries, statistical information and printed materials of the Welfare Council relating to the evaluation and coordination of private charities and public health and welfare services in Chicago and suburbs. Contains information on agencies, funding, social workers, and social conditions, such as housing, disease, delinquency, employment, recreation, and rehabilitation, dealt with by the Council's member organizations, which included hospitals, child care agencies, neighborhood and ethnic groups, nursing homes, and counseling services.

ArchivalResource: 341 linear ft. (802 boxes, 11 v., 29 card file boxes)

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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

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

Emerson House (Social settlement : Chicago, Ill.). Emerson House (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1911-1960.

Title: Emerson House (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1911-1960.

Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, minutes, constitution, by-laws, lists of directors, brochures, handbook, black and white photographs of Emerson House, a settlement house located at 645 N. Wood Street in Chicago, which merged with the Chicago Commons Association in 1948. In addition to institutional ephemera the collection contains minute books from 1911-1916, 1916-1921, 1922-1928 and a volunteer manual from 1952.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/718737209 View

Olivet Community Center (Chicago, Ill.). Olivet Community Center records, 1885-1966 (bulk 1940-1960).

Title: Olivet Community Center records, 1885-1966 (bulk 1940-1960).

Correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, case files, reports, newsletters, scrapbooks, abstracts of title, and other records of the Olivet Community Center (formerly known as Olivet Institute), a Chicago settlement house and community center in the Near North Side. Includes materials related to the Olivet Day Nursery, Olivet Day Camp, and the Chicago Nisei Athletic Association (a Japanese American sports group). Also present is correspondence regarding the relationship between the Olivet Institute and the Presbyterian Church, its original sponsor.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713357811 View

Snyder, Leroy. Leroy Snyder papers on the Chicago Commons Association, ca. 1966-1973.

Title: Leroy Snyder papers on the Chicago Commons Association, ca. 1966-1973.

Correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, memoranda, by-laws, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, financial records, statistics, schedules, contracts, instruction manuals, photographs, and other papers of Leroy Snyder related to the Chicago Commons Association, a social service agency. Materials pertain to activities and projects of the Chicago Commons Association, such as day care centers, youth programs, camps, and career training. Also present are administrative records of the Emerson House and Taylor House, and records related to the Chicago Commons Association's work with other community organizations, including the National Association for Community Development, the Council for Underprivileged Youth, and the Urban Coalition.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713357635 View

Benton House (Social settlement : Chicago, Ill.). Benton House (Chicago, Ill.) records, ca. 1892-1980.

Title: Benton House (Chicago, Ill.) records, ca. 1892-1980.

Board minutes and reports, Guild minutes, correspondence, clippings, reports, and other office files of Benton House, a settlement house founded in 1907 and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago at 3052 South Gratten Avenue in the Bridgeport community of Chicago (Ill.) for many years. Early materials relate to the operation of a missionary kindergarten named Providence Kindergarten, Providence Day Nursery, and later, House of Happiness. Topics include economic and social conditions in the neighborhood, including the period after 1967, when Benton House became a part of the Chicago Commons Association.

ArchivalResource: 9.25 linear ft. (22 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711874977 View

Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938. Graham Taylor papers, 1820-1975, (bulk 1866-1940).

Title: Graham Taylor papers, 1820-1975, (bulk 1866-1940).

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, works, diaries and other material relating to Taylor, the Chicago Commons, and his other activities, including a Chicago Daily News newspaper column, 1902-1938.

ArchivalResource: 34 cubic ft. (72 boxes and 2 oversize boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57180658 View

Elizabeth Robins Papers, 1803-1963

Title: Elizabeth Robins Papers 1803-1963

Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952) was an actress, playwright, prolific novelist and suffragist. American born and educated, Robins spent most of her adult life living and working in England, first in London and later in London and Sussex. The nearly one hundred linear feet of materials which comprise the Elizabeth Robins Papers reflect the many facets of Robins' life. The collection includes diaries, photographs, scrapbooks and ephemera, as well as correspondence with a variety of dynamic personalities, and is a resource not only for studying her life and works, but for examining a wide range of family, social, and political issues. The collection provides insight into American and English theater in the late 19th century, English literary circles, and the women's suffrage and feminist movements in England and America, as well as information on gold mining camps in post Civil War Colorado and turn of the century Alaska. Largely because of her long term friendship with Dr. Octavia Wilberforce, there is information on the movement for improved health care for women and children. The correspondence of Raymond Robins, Elizabeth Robins' brother, adds another dimension to the collection. His letters are an excellent source for the study of Chicago political history, the Settlement House Movement, and Progressive Party politics.

ArchivalResource: 100.0 linear feet

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Salter, John R. Hunter Gray papers, 1889-1992, 1996-2000.

Title: Hunter Gray papers, 1889-1992, 1996-2000.

Papers of a sociologist and professor who was active in several civil rights and community organizing groups during the 1960s and 1970s, and more recently, has worked to improve the lives and conditions of American Indians. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1957-1982, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1889-1992, 1996-2000 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 1.8 c.f. (1 record center carton, 2 archives boxes),1 tape recording, and56 photographs; plusadditions of 9.2 c.f.,7 tape recordings, and149 transparencies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613414656 View

Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954. Papers, 1878-1956.

Title: Papers, 1878-1956.

Correspondence, 1878-1951, diaries, 1908-1920, 1922-1923, 1933, speeches, 1902-1948, and miscellaneous papers of a social worker, labor and political activist, and lecturer. Includes material relating to his life in Alaska, 1897-1900; and his work in the slums of Chicago's seventeenth ward, as a staff member of Chicago Commons, Chicago Municipal Lodging House, and Northwestern University Settlement, 1900-1914, and service on the Chicago Board of Education beginning in 1906. Among his Chicago associates were Jane Addams, Frances A. Kellor, Harold Ickes, James Mullenbach, and Graham Taylor. Also includes material regarding his support of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Presidential campaign, 1912, and relations with Henry F. Cochems and Medill McCormick in the Illinois Progressive Party: Robins' lecture tour with Fred B. Smith in 1913 for the Men and Religion Forward Movement; his work in the Young Men's Christian Association with A. J. Elliott and Harry N. Holmes; and his 1917-1918 tour of Russia as a member of the American Red Cross mission, where he became acquainted with Lenin, Trotsky, Chicherin, and other Bolshevik leaders, with United States Ambassador David R. Francis, and with D. Heywood Hardy, Thomas D. Thatcher, William Boyce Thompson, and Allen Wardwell. Other material concerns Robins' support for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, and efforts to promote stronger economic ties between the two countries, especially his correspondence with Alexander Gumberg. Also includes papers regarding Robins' association with Salmon O. Levinson in the outlawry of war movement; Robins' activism in the Republican Party, including his support for Hiram W. Johnson, William E. Borah, Chicago mayor William E. Dever, and Prohibition; his 1933 trip to the Soviet Union; his political friendship with Florida Senator Claude Pepper; and association with numerous other well-known correspondents. Also in the collection is correspondence, 1907-1945, of Margaret Dreier, woman's suffrage and trade union leader, whom Robins married in 1905; of her sister, Mary Dreier, New York leader of women's rights and labor organizations, mostly relating to her Southwest Harbor, Maine house, 1926-1948; and letters from Raymond's sister, Elizabeth Robins, actress and playwright. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 19.8 c.f. (50 archives boxes) and8 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 0.6 c.f.,395 photographs, and4 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701177 View

Chicago Commons. Collection, 1927-1968

Title: Chicago Commons. Collection 1927-1968

The Chicago Commons settlement was founded in 1894 by Graham Taylor, a Dutch reform minister and pioneer of social work in Chicago. Located on Chicago's Northwest side, the settlement was home to a large number of Chicago’s growing immigrant population. Taylor’s daughter Lea Demarest Taylor took over as Head Resident in 1921 upon her father’s retirement, and oversaw the administration of the Commons during the Great Depression. This collection contains seven annual reports of the Chicago Commons, documenting the changing ethnic profile of the neighborhood and efforts to improve the lives of residents. The collection also includes a transcription of an oral history by Lea Demarest Taylor, dictated to the Training Center of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers.

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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.CHICAGOCOMMONS View