Rare Book Monthly

Articles - April - 2016 Issue

South Chicago’s Woodson Library scheduled for long needed structural repairs; Regional Library & Afro-American Harsh Collection will close while improvements made

Vivian Harsh, Chicago's first Afro-American librarian and namesake of the Harsh Collection housed at the Woodson Regional Library on Chicago's South Side. (Photo Chicago Public Library)

Vivian Harsh, Chicago's first Afro-American librarian and namesake of the Harsh Collection housed at the Woodson Regional Library on Chicago's South Side. (Photo Chicago Public Library)

Links and contacts:

Our particular thanks to

Janet Olson manager of the Chicago Area Archivists  list serv for posting our inquiry about the Woodson Library and Harsh Collection and transmitting the response.

j-olson@northwestern.edu

www.chicagoarchivists.org/listserv

www.chicagoarchivists.org



Other contacts for this story:

 

Patrick Molloy

Director of Government & Public Affairs

Chicago Public Library

312-747-4051

pmolloy@chipublib.org

Rodney Freeman rfreeman@chipublib.org

Andrea Telli atelli@chipublib.org

Melvin R. Thompson 

Executive Director - Endeleo Institute (affiliated Trinity Church)

1947 W. 95th St.

Chicago, IL 60643

(773) 966-1590 tel

(773) 779-7674 fax

MRThompson@trinitychicago.org

trinitychicago.org

www.facebook.com/EndeleoInstitute

Rare Book Monthly

  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.

Article Search

Archived Articles