Papers, 1916-1975 (bulk 1950-1969).

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Papers, 1916-1975 (bulk 1950-1969).

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts, reports, memoranda, interviews, articles, notes, notebooks, travel accounts, biographical material, and photographs. Papers document Wirth's active career as a social worker, especially in the area of Chicago public housing. Includes material relating to the Chicago Housing Authority for which Wirth served as Supervisor of Community and Tenant Relations (1952-1958), the Department of Urban Renewal, and an investigation of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Michigan. Also includes material relating to University of Chicago alumni activities and Wirth's reaction over the nonreappointment of Marlene Dixon to the faculty at the University.

2.5 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Wirth, Mary Bolton.

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Social worker. From the description of Papers, 1916-1975 (bulk 1950-1969). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248526 ...

Chicago Housing Authority

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Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Urban Renewal.

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Dixon, Marlene, 1945-

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Michigan. Economic Opportunity Office

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