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Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials
A Terra Foundation Resource
In 2015, with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, more than 75 Chicago archival repositories were surveyed. Browse by repository or search across the nearly 900 records to discover the history of American Art in Chicago.
The Archives of American Art would like to acknowledge the work of Chicago-based art historian Dr. Wendy Greenhouse who completed the survey, and the valued participation of the contributing institutions and organizations.
Repository Locations
Surveyed Collection Descriptions
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 3Inclusive Dates: 1930–1949 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 4Inclusive Dates: 1929–1959 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoonsInclusive Dates: 1915–1937 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 5Inclusive Dates: 1930–1961 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 6Inclusive Dates: 1926–1961 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 7Inclusive Dates: 1929–1946 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr cartoon collection part 1Inclusive Dates: 1930–1946 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Carey Orr editorial cartoons for Chicago TribuneInclusive Dates: 1926–1960 Repository: Lake Forest College Library
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Collection Title: John Nash Ott Time-lapse photography collectionRepository: Winnetka Historical Society
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Collection Title: Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica ArchivesRepository: Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica
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Collection Title: P. F. Volland collectionInclusive Dates: 1917–1958 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections and Preservation Division
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Collection Title: Elizabeth Paepcke papersInclusive Dates: 1889–1994 (bulk 1950–1993) Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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Collection Title: Walter P. Paepcke papersInclusive Dates: 1912–1961 Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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Collection Title: Palette and Chisel Club recordsInclusive Dates: 1895–1976 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts ArchiveInclusive Dates: circa 1895–present Repository: Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
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Collection Title: Bertha Palmer and Palmer Family research collectionInclusive Dates: 1891–1974 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Bertha Honoré Palmer correspondence collectionInclusive Dates: 1883–1899 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Potter Palmer and Palmer Estate papersInclusive Dates: 1849–1920 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Esther Parada papersInclusive Dates: 1929–1993 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library Center
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Collection Title: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and Art Department of Art and Design -- faculty papers -- Esther Parada papersInclusive Dates: 1955–2005 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Joseph Parrish cartoon collectionInclusive Dates: 1942–1970 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Ed Paschke Studio Collection (EPAC)Repository: Ed Paschke Art Center
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Collection Title: Passavant Memorial Hospital, general art files, and Edith L. Patterson papersInclusive Dates: 1865–1972, circa 1906–1972, circa 1933–1967 Repository: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives
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Collection Title: Joseph Medill Patterson papers and J. M. Patterson cartoonist correspondenceInclusive Dates: 1901–1950, 1912–1946 Repository: Lake Forest College Library
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Collection Title: Abbott Pattison collectionRepository: Winnetka Historical Society
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Collection Title: Paul Theobald and Company recordsInclusive Dates: 1935–1988 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Photographs of Peace Museum activities and staffInclusive Dates: circa 1981–1984 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Peace Museum exhibition recordsInclusive Dates: circa 1984 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Rembrandt Peale collectionInclusive Dates: 1826, 1846 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Ray Pearson's Institute of design collection of visual materialsInclusive Dates: 1930–circa 1979 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Ray Pearson papersInclusive Dates: 1943–1982 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Ray Pearson collection of visual materials,Inclusive Dates: 1954–1972 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Irving Penn archivesInclusive Dates: circa 1924–2005 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists interviewsInclusive Dates: 2008–2014 Repository: Pentimenti Productions
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Collection Title: Dwight Perkins exhibition photographsInclusive Dates: 1989 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Architectural records and personal papers of Dwight PerkinsInclusive Dates: circa 1890–1975 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Enid Eder Perkins papersInclusive Dates: 1929–1973 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Lucy Fitch Perkins papersInclusive Dates: 1909–1937 Repository: Evanston History Center
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Collection Title: Perkins, Marion/Perkins Family papersInclusive Dates: 1938–2003 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library Center
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Collection Title: Alfred Perlman collectionInclusive Dates: 1881–1922 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Norman Perman design collectionInclusive Dates: 1983–2000 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Olivia Petrides papersInclusive Dates: 1988–2011 Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives
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Collection Title: Herbert Pinzke papersInclusive Dates: 1948–1987 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Nancy Plotkin papersInclusive Dates: 1984–2005 Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives
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Collection Title: Plucked Chicken Press collectionInclusive Dates: 1970s–1990s Repository: Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College
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Collection Title: Joy Poe papersInclusive Dates: 2011 Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives
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Collection Title: Polish Arts Club of ChicagoInclusive Dates: 1925–1988 Repository: Polish Museum of America
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Collection Title: Peter Pollack recordsInclusive Dates: 1947–1957 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
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Collection Title: Allen Porter collectionInclusive Dates: 1987 Repository: Illinois Institute of Technology
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Collection Title: Allen Porter papersInclusive Dates: 1946–1995 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Powell/Kleinschmidt recordsInclusive Dates: 1969–1993 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Jessie M. Preston scrapbookInclusive Dates: circa 1911–1943 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Ariadne Prior papersInclusive Dates: 1936 and undated Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Public Art Workshop recordsInclusive Dates: 1968–1995 (bulk 1970–1982) Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Puerto Rican Cultural Center collectionInclusive Dates: 1973–2009 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company ArchiveInclusive Dates: 1844–2005 Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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Collection Title: Madeline Murphy Rabb papersInclusive Dates: 1980–1991 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections and Preservation Division
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Collection Title: Ralph Watkins metalcrafts collection of design drawingsInclusive Dates: before 1982 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Rand McNally and Company recordsInclusive Dates: 1856–1996 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Julius O. Randahl collection of visual materialsInclusive Dates: circa 1925–1969 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Randolph Street Gallery collectionRepository: Art Institute of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John M. Flaxman Library
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Collection Title: Will Ransom papersInclusive Dates: 1883–1954 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Philip Reed collectionRepository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Carl Regehr papersInclusive Dates: 1959–1983 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Else Regensteine collectionInclusive Dates: 1914–2003 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago recordsInclusive Dates: 1965–present Repository: Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago
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Collection Title: Director Daniel Catton Rich records from the Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional ArchivesInclusive Dates: 1934–1938 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
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Collection Title: James L. Riedy research collection on Chicago sculptureInclusive Dates: 1970–1977 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Robert Henry Adams Gallery recordsRepository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Donald Robertson papersInclusive Dates: 1825–1947 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Henry Robertz design collectionInclusive Dates: 1970–1989 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Bruce Rogers papersInclusive Dates: 1902–1951 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: Carl Milles photograph collectionInclusive Dates: circa 1938–1939 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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Collection Title: Art Slide collectionRepository: Roosevelt University
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Collection Title: Roosevelt University's Biographical collectionInclusive Dates: date unknown and 1929–2007 Repository: Roosevelt University
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Collection Title: Records relating to Ganz HallInclusive Dates: 1971–2002 Repository: Roosevelt University
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Collection Title: Portrait collection from the Roosevelt UniversityRepository: Roosevelt University
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Collection Title: David Root photograph collectionInclusive Dates: circa 1965–1974 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Ted Rose photography and artInclusive Dates: 1950s–2000s (bulk 1960s–1990s) Repository: Lake Forest College Library
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Collection Title: Julius Rosenwald papersInclusive Dates: 1905–1963 Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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Collection Title: Roslyn Group for Arts and Letters records relating to the exhibition of The Dinner PartyInclusive Dates: 1978–1984 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Seymour Rosofsky collectionInclusive Dates: 1953–1954, 1977 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections and Preservation Division
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Collection Title: Peter Frederick RothermelInclusive Dates: 1880 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Edward Rozanski collectionInclusive Dates: 1946–1988 Repository: Polish Museum of America
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Collection Title: Leonard S. Rubenstein design collectionRepository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: Norma Rubovits papersInclusive Dates: 1966–1998 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: George F. Rumsey papersInclusive Dates: 1862–1870 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Eileen Ryan papersInclusive Dates: 1991–1997 Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives
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Collection Title: Martin A. Ryerson personal papersInclusive Dates: 1890–1932 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
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Collection Title: DeForest Sackett papersInclusive Dates: 1876-1994 Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Collection Title: George Salter papersInclusive Dates: 1919–1967 Repository: Newberry Library
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Collection Title: William Deering family papersInclusive Dates: 1845–1983 Repository: Northwestern University
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Collection Title: Carl Schniewind papersInclusive Dates: 1918–1965 Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
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Collection Title: Franz Schulze art and architecture collectionsInclusive Dates: 1940s–2000s Repository: Lake Forest College Library
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Collection Title: Rachelle Schur negative collectionInclusive Dates: circa 1960–1969 Repository: Chicago History Museum
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Collection Title: Martin Schütze papersInclusive Dates: 1900–1950 Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
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Collection Title: Isaac Scott papersInclusive Dates: circa 1875–circa 1920 Repository: Glessner House Museum
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Collection Title: Walter B. Scott papersInclusive Dates: 1907–2002 Repository: Northwestern University
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Collection Title: William Edouard Scott papersInclusive Dates: 1846–2007 Repository: Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library Center
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Collection Title: Lars Gustaf Sellstedt collectionInclusive Dates: 1863–1898 Repository: Chicago History Museum