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| Title: | Mead, Mildred. Photographs |
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| Dates: | 1948-1962 |
| Size: | 2.5 linear ft. (4 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The collection contains more than 1000 8x10 photographs and slides by the freelance photographer Mildred Mead. Between 1947 and 1962, Mead documented architecture and living conditions in Chicago, particularly on the south side. |
The collection is open for research. The photographs and slides have been fully digitized, and researchers are encouraged to consult the digital files in the University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Mead, Mildred. Photographs, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Mildred Mead, born in 1910, worked as a professional photographer (both freelance and by contract). Mead recorded activities associated with the South East Chicago Commission, The Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference, Michael Reese Hospital, the University of Chicago Planning Unit, the Fort Dearborn Project (for Marshall Field), the study of Maxwell Street Market sponsored by agencies when the South Freeway was projected to go through the Market, city parks, the lakefront, the Hyde Park 57th St. Fair, the Robie House, and public housing and urban redevelopment projects of the Land Clearance commission and the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council. Mildred Mead died in Arizona in 2001.
The collection contains more than 1000 8x10 photographs and slides, organized by Mildred Mead. The photographs and slides have been fully digitized and are available as part of the University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Hyde Park-Kenwood fires, 1948-1949 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Fort Dearborn project area, 1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | University of Chicago campus and environs, 1949-1952 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Conservation area problems, 1948-1955 |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | 18th and Indiana slum, 1950-1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council bus tours and observers in housing court, n.d. |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | South Chicago near steel mills, 1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Japanese tea house on Wooded Isle, Jackson Park, between 1935 and 1943 |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | "Shyster's Firetrap'' story and other fire sites, 1949-1953 |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | "Mother with Problems'' exhibit photos, 1952 |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Demolition for Congress Street superhighway, 1948 |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | In and around the Loop, 1952-1955 |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Public housing, 1950-1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | John Kalhart renovation, Old Town 1955-1959 |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | DeKoven Street, Mrs. O'Leary's house and other historical sites, 1950-1955 |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | 57th Street Art Fair, 1950-1955 |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Slum conditions, rats, trash, fire hazards, 1948-1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Middle income housing, Marshall Field and the Chicago Dwellings Association, 1952-1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Maxwell Street, 1955 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | 57th Street Art Fair participants, 1950-1956
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| Box 2 Folder 5 | Schoolcraft, Freeman and Nelson, Perdita Kwok Wai Lau |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Hyde Park scenes, 1950s |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | 215-219 East 31st Street, 1948 |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Alley shack fire, Washburn Street, 1950 |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, 1946-1958 |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Housing exhibit, 1948 |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | D. E. Mackelmann housing exhibit, 1954 |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | Mayor Daley's housing exhibit, 1956 |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | "Outhouse Alley'' at 35th and Honore, 1950 |
| Box 2 Folder 14 | Chicagonas, 1951-1955 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council luncheons, 1950-1956 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Back of the Stockyards, 1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | City tree cutters at work, 1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Housing near Maxwell Street, 1952 |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | University of Chicago Laboratory School city plan, Olga Adams, 1951-1952 |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Illinois Children's Home and Hospital, 1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Industry and housing, shoe factory, 1953 |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Improvised play space, 1951-1955 |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Michael Reese Hospital area, 1948-1956 |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | Clearance for New York Life project, 1950-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Meadville Theological School, 1958 |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Hyde Park Coop, 1954-1957 |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | Clearance for industrial redevelopment, 1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | Unidentified, 1950-1952 |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | Miscellaneous, 1947-1953 |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | Mildred Mead sorting photographs, color photo, 1994 |
| Box 4 | Slide File 1: Conservation area #4, Normal Park, 1953 (22) |
| Box 4 | Other conservation areas, excluding Hyde Park-Kenwood (20) |
| Box 4 | Sample residences of older suburbs, 1952-1958 (2) |
| Box 4 | Urban League-sponsored clean-up and fix-up, 1952 (5) |
| Box 4 | Planned communities, Park Forest and middle income, Marshall Field Garden Apartments, 1952 (5) |
| Box 4 | Steel mills in south Chicago near housing, 1950s (3) |
| Box 4 | Educational tours for groups by Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council and the Urban League, 1950s (6) |
| Box 4 | West Chesterfield opening for sale to blacks only, 1950s (2) |
| Box 4 | Volunteer observers in Housing Court for Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council (1) |
| Box 4 | Louis Sullivan residence (?) in Kenwood (2) |
| Box 4 | Lincoln Park house, renovated, living room, 1956 (1) |
| Box 4 | Lincoln Park Art Fair, 1955 (20) |
| Box 4 | Maxwell Street Flea Market, 1955-1962 (44) |
| Box 4 | Slide File 2: Hyde Park-Kenwood Conservation: |
| Box 4 | South side plan, 1950s (1) |
| Box 4 | Birthplace of William Rainey Harper, 1960 (1) |
| Box 4 | Overviews of Hyde Park, 1950s-1962 (11) |
| Box 4 | Fountain of Time statues by Lorado Taft, 1958 (11) |
| Box 4 | Chicago Dwellings Association, first subsidized housing built for middle income families in Chicago after World War II, 1950s (5) |
| Box 4 | Tot-lots, block projects using vacat lots in Hyde Park (8) |
| Box 4 | Assorted views in Hyde Park before urban renewal, 1950s (25) |
| Box 4 | "Going out of business'' signs on 55th Street, 1956-1957 (6) |
| Box 4 | Hyde Park Coop, 1956 (3) |
| Box 4 | Houses in Kenwood, 1950s (8) |
| Box 4 | Demolition in Hyde Park, 1956-1957 (22) |
| Box 4 | Repairs to buildings, fires, 1955 and 1957 (8) |
| Box 4 | Beaches along Lake Michigan east of Hyde Park and Kenwood (11) |
| Box 4 | Lake front scenes, 1950s (15) |
| Box 4 | 57th Street Art Fairs, 1950 and 1954-1956 (26) |
| Box 4 | Slide File 3: General Chicago: |
| Box 4 | Near and around the Loop (64) |
| Box 4 | Michael Reese Hospital (9) |
| Box 4 | Garfield Park Conservatory (4) |
| Box 4 | Lake Meadows (21) |
| Box 4 | Slum conditions (23) |
| Box 4 | Slum demolition (9) |
| Box 4 | Illinois Institute of Technology (3) |
| Box 4 | Super highway west, clearance (4) |
| Box 4 | In Chicago Public Housing (2) |
| Box 4 | Downtown public library housing exhibits (11) |