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The Harriet Choice Collection was processed and preserved as part of the "Uncovering New Chicago Archives Project," funded with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
| Title: | Choice, Harriet. Collection |
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| Dates: | 1972-2002 |
| Size: | 8.25 linear feet (8 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Harriet Choice, journalist, editor and publishing executive, worked as a jazz critic for the Chicago Tribune. She was also a founding member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. The collection contains photographs documenting jazz performances at festivals and concerts held around 1972-1973. |
The collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Choice, Harriet. Collection [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Harriet Choice, journalist, editor and publishing executive, worked as a jazz critic for the Chicago Tribune. She was also a founding member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago.
The Harriet Choice Collection contains photographic negatives, prints and contact sheets, dating from the mid-1970s. Most of the photographs document jazz performances at festivals and concerts held around 1972-1973. Also included are informal portraits of performers and other individuals, as well as travel photographs.
Many of the photographs are credited to Alain Lerner, while others are credited to Harriet Choice. Most of the photographs are in the form of contact sheets and negatives, and are organized into several distinct numbered sets.
Most of the subjects in the photographs are unidentified. Draft indexes and research notes identifying some of the performers are included at the end of the collection. Also included is research material on the Newport Jazz Festival.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
Chicago Jazz Archive
| Box 1 Folder 1-30 | Jazz performances, sets of negatives numbered 1-30, circa 1970s |
| Box 1 Folder 31 | Newport Jazz Festival, negatives, 1973 |
| Box 1 Folder 32 | Schaefer Music Festival, prints and contact sheets, circa mid-1970s |
| Box 1 Folder 33 | Jazz performances, prints, circa 1970s |
| Box 1 Folder 34-35 | Alain Lerner, negatives, 17 April 1972 - 8 May 1972 |
| Box 2 Folder 1-30 | Alain Lerner, negatives, 2 June 1972 - 22 October 1973 |
| Box 3 Folder 1-3 | Alain Lerner, sets of negatives numbered 1-21, 1972-1973 |
| Box 3 Folder 4-9 | Negatives, circa 1970s |
| Box 4 Folder 1-6 | Negatives, circa 1970s |
| Box 4 Folder 7-8 | Negatives and contact sheets, circa 1970s |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Sonny Rollins, print, circa 1972-1973 |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Budapest airport, prints, circa 1972-1973
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| Box 5 Folder 3 | Radio City, print, circa 1972
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| Box 5 Folder 4-7 | Set of contact sheets numbered 1-72, circa 1972-1973 |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Set of contact sheets and negatives numbered 4A A-Z, circa 1972- 1973 |
| Box 6 Folder 2-4 | Set of contact sheets and negatives numbered 4A AA-ZZ, circa 1972-1973 |
| Box 6 Folder 5-6 | Set of contact sheets and negatives numbered 4B A-S, circa 1972- 1973 |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Contact sheets and prints, circa 1972-1973 |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | Contact sheets and negatives, circa 1972-1973
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| Box 8 Folder 1 | Jazz performances, slides, circa 1970s
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| Box 8 Folder 2 | Indexes of photographs
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| Box 8 Folder 3 | Notes and partial indexes of film rolls, negatives and slides, circa 2002 |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | Newport Jazz Festival, programs and photocopied clippings, 1969- 2002 |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | Hang tag, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Burr Oaks Camp, brochure, undated |