Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection
Identifier: AFC 1981/004
Abstract
The collection consists of sound recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, videorecordings, publications, ephemera, administrative files, and field notes produced and collected during the 1977 Chicago Ethnic Arts Project field survey from 1976-1981; but primarily during fieldwork conducted by fourteen folklorists directed by the American Folklife Center in 1977. The final project report presented to the Illinois Arts Council summarized the current conditions and folk arts needs in a...
Dates
1976-1981
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Truman K. Gibson Papers
Identifier: MSS83215
Abstract
Lawyer, business executive, and boxing promoter. Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers reflecting the social life of the Gibson family in Chicago, Illinois. Also included in the papers is Gibson's correspondence with his wife, Isabelle Carson Gibson, written while he served as an adviser on African-American affairs to the United States War Department in Washington, D.C., during World War II.
Dates
circa 1900-1994; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1956)