Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records [graphic], 1958-1985.

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Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records [graphic], 1958-1985.

Eighty-three mounted photographs accompanied by exhibition labels documenting the social life and customs of the Chicago American Indian community during the late 1950's to mid-1980's.

3.5 cubic ft. (5 boxes and 1 oversize box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7570679

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Wesaw family

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Bearskin family

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D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian

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Photographic exhibition held July 22-Sept. 21, 1985, at the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, as part of the Chicago American Indian photography project, which aimed to document the American Indian Community in Chicago by creating an archive of photographs taken by interested community members. Exhibition photographers included Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Orlando Cabanban, Joe Kazumura, F. Peter Weil, and Leroy Wesaw. From the description of Seei...

Battise, Dan.

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Wesaw, Leroy.

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Weil, Peter H

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Kazumura, Joe.

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Cabanban, Orlando.

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Bearskin, Ben.

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Battise family

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American Indian Center of Chicago

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