57th Street Art Fair collection by Mary Louise Womer, 1948-1987.

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57th Street Art Fair collection by Mary Louise Womer, 1948-1987.

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Minutes and reports of the 57th Street Art Fair Committee, collected by Mary Louise Womer. Includes correspondence related to entries, publicity, and awards; three publicity scrapbooks (1948-51, 1958-59; 1960; 1961); one sound recording; a typed transcript signed and several transcript copies of the "History of the 57th Street Art Fair," by Mary Louise Womer, 1980 May 11; and a framed certificate (1967) to Mary Louise Womer, founder of the fair.

1 sound recording.

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57th Street Art Fair (Chicago, Ill.)

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This collection contains the planning and promotional materials for the 57th Street Art Fair, including meeting minutes, reports, posters, textiles, banners and buttons. From the description of 57th Street Art Fair records, 1964-2006 (inclusive) (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 608248487 Chicago’s 57th Street Art Fair continues its role as one of the country’s largest not-for-profit art fairs dedicated to exhibiting original art by artists who sell their ...

Womer, Mary Louise

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Letters to author from various individuals on folk art in the Ozarks, specifically Missouri. From the description of Letters, 1939-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 56529680 The 57th Street Art Fair is Chicago's oldest juried art fair. It was founded in 1948 and is held on the first weekend in June, on 57th Street between Kimbark and Kenwood Avenues, in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, directly north of the University of Chicago campus. From the descript...