28 linear feet of material consisting of administrative files, clippings and articles, photographs, memorabilia, and biographical, subject, and pamphlet files documenting the activities of the George Cleveland Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library and comprising part of the “Special Negro Collection” begun by the Hall branch library’s first director, Vivian G. Harsh. With a few exceptions, the biographical and subject vertical files contain newspaper clippings, journal articles, reprints, and pamphlets from African American publications such as the Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Ebony, and Jet. They include materials on artists John Biggers, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Augusta Savage, Henry Osawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. The subject files include materials on the American Negro Exposition, 1940; Black American Artists Index, 1972; Black Arts Guild, 1973; Chicago Murals, 1967; Lively Arts Series of Black Esthetics, 1970; and Negro in Art Week, 1927.