• Creator Names Chicago Historical Society.
  • Title Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture project oral histories and transcripts [manuscript], ca. 1996-1999.
  • Physical description
    • 1 linear foot (2 boxes)
    • 105 audiocassettes (in 4 boxes)
  • Access and usage restrictions For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
  • Collection summary Recorded oral histories and community meetings, as well as transcripts (including some interviewer check list forms, topic sheets, log sheets, and release forms) that were made as part of the project, Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture. Some oral history interviews were made by students at Loyola University of Chicago, some were completed by CHS staff and others involved in the project.
  • Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
    • Copyright status of most items is unknown. Written permissions were not secured by Chicago Historical Society.
    • Some interviews may not be copied for researchers.
  • Acquisition information Collected by the Chicago Historical Society or created by CHS in collaboration with others (2002.0131.1).
  • Location of Other Archival Materials Note Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture project video archives (2002.0131.2); CHS archival files of this project; the Chicago Historical Society collection of visual materials for My History Is Your History project (2000.0121.1-4); Oral history interviews with staff and residents of Stateway Gardens (1999.0085); and the Photographs at Stateway Gardens, by Patricia Evans (1999.0085).
  • Names
    • Chicago Historical Society. Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture (Project) Archives.
    • Black, Timuel D.
    • Chicago Historical Society Collection.
    • Loyola University of Chicago.
    • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Chicago Historical Society. Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture (Project)
    • Loyola University of Chicago.
  • Subjects
    • African Americans Illinois Chicago.
    • Catholics Illinois Chicago.
    • Community organization Illinois Chicago.
    • Housing Illinois Chicago.
    • Immigrants Illinois Chicago.
    • Jews Illinois Chicago.
    • Mexican Americans Illinois Chicago.
    • Polish Americans Illinois Chicago.
    • Russian Americans Illinois Chicago.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) History.
    • Chicago (Ill.) Race relations.
    • Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
    • Douglas (Chicago, Ill.)
    • East Garfield Park (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Grand Boulevard (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Lower West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Rogers Park (Chicago, Ill.)
    • South Lawndale (Chicago, Ill.)
    • West Ridge (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Genre
    • Audiocassettes. aat
    • Oral histories. aat
    • Transcripts. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.