Lower West Side Community Collection, 1906-1944.

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Lower West Side Community Collection, 1906-1944.

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The materials in this collection document the era when the Czechoslovakians and Germans held sway in the Lower West Side. The bulk of the collection concerns the Gads Hill Center which was a settlement house, and Trinity Evangelical Church, whose newsletters continued to be published in English and German into the 1940s. More information re Trinity Church can be found in the Kircher Family Papers; Julius Kircher pastored the church for half a century.

.25 linear feet : 8 photographs.

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525630

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center

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Trinity Evangelical Church (Chicago, Ill.)

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Gads Hill Center (Chicago, Ill.)

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Gads Hill Social Settlement was established in 1898 at 869 West 22nd Street, in a predominantly Polish American, German American, and Czech American area. It changed its name to Gads Hill Center in 1916 and moved to a new building at 1919 West 20th Street, later 1919 West Cullerton Street. Miss Ruth Austin served as head resident from 1914 to 1923 and from 1926 to 1946. Miss Meta K. Schwiebert was head resident during the 1950s and 1960s. Over the years, many Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, an...