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Booker T. Washington Progressive Club album

Richard Henry Williamson (1865 - 1953) was a retired railroad porter who founded the Booker T. Washington Progressive Club in 1936 based on a dream of promoting equality and goodwill between all people in the North Shore area. The Zion civic and social organization, named for the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, was a primarily black organization that was active

Dates: Bulk, 1950-1959   |   Extent: 0.5 Linear feet
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Curt Teich Postcard archives

Curt Teich (1877-1974) was a printer who immigrated to the United States from Lobenstein, Germany in 1896. Curt Teich & Company opened in January 1898 in Chicago, Illinois and closed in 1978. The Teich Company was the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards. Teich is best known for its ""Greetings From"" postcards with their big letters, vivid colors,

Dates: 1900-2009   |   Extent: 1.0 Linear feet
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Ethel Ina Untermyer papers

Ethel Ina Untermyer (1925 – 2009) was a deaf education advocate, social reformer, poet, and the leader in the quest to found a forest preserve district in Lake County. Untermyer (nee Kotal) was born in Chicago in 1925. She moved to Lake County with her husband and children in the mid-1950s. In 1957, Untermyer organized a countywide referendum to create

Dates: Bulk, 1958-1966   |   Extent: 12.0 Linear feet
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Bess Bower Dunn Museum

1899 W. Winchester Rd. Libertyville, IL 60048

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