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Ann Stull was director of Friendship House in Chicago from 1951 to 1955. Friendship House was a Roman Catholic mission that preached and practiced racial tolerance in the pre-civil rights era. Her collection of rare serials and newspaper clippings documents racism, Catholicism's involvement in in...

Includes interior and exterior views of Brent House, the building constructed in 1905-1906 by the firm of Holabird and Roche as a home for Dr. E. Fletcher Ingals and his family at 5540 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, and converted in the 1930s into the Protestant...

This collection contains the records of the Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council, from 1911-1993. Included are administrative records such as minutes, correspondence, budgets and directories of membership. This collection also contains general subject files covering Council projects and affil...

Photographs, nearly all by Mildred Mead, a photographer for the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, showing neighborhoods in Chicago (Ill.) targeted by the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council for urban renewal. The photographs depict slum conditions, homes in revitalized areas (inclu...

W. Alvin Pitcher (1913-1996), professor, minister, community and social justice activist. The Pitcher Papers include manuscripts, correspondence, press clippings, and extensive records from numerous political and civic organizations. The papers document Pitcher’s scholarly career at Denison Unive...

Correspondence, sermons, speeches, articles, biographical scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and photographs, and other papers of Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein. Materials relate to his activities as a Reform rabbi in San Francisco, California, and at K.A.M. Temple in the Hyde Park neighborhood...