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Off-The-Street Club records

The Off-The-Street Club (OTSC), Chicago's oldest boys and girls club, is a club for children and young adults located on Chicago's west side. The collection pertains to OTSC programs and activities.

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Members of Off-The-Street Camera Club
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Members of the Off-The-Street Club Camera Club. Fifteen boys are pictured, including unidentified members of the Janske family.
Date:
February 2, 1956
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Merrill Miegs greeting children on wing of airplane
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Merrill Miegs greets a young girl and boy, standing on the wing of a small propeller airplane.
Date:
July 18, 1962
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Mothers Club members with Thanksgiving sign
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Group of seven Mothers Club members and one man with a sign for a Thanksgiving celebration.
Date:
c. 1956
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Museum at Off-The-Street Club
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Small group of boys looking at a diving suit on display in the museum area of the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
National and local organizational memberships, Off-The-Street Club
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Flyer showing national and local organizations to which the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) belongs. A photograph of the Off-The-Street Club building is included.
Date:
c. 1940
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Norbert Locke (Uncle Ned) and Bob Baron (Uncle Bob) of WGN-TV’s “Lunchtime Little Theater” directing a balloon-blowing contest between eight children at OTSC Christmas Party
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Norbert Locke (ringmaster Ned on Bozo's Circus) and another man direct a balloon blowing contest between eight children at the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) Christmas Party.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club Baseball Team 1941
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The 1941 Off-The-Street Club Baseball Team, American League Champions for Chicago. Through understanding leadership, undesirable rivalry gives way to fair play and healthful recreation.
Date:
1941
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club Board members with children of the Jack and Jill Club
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Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) Board members visiting with the children of the Jack and Jill Club. The children are displaying their artwork.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club annual benefit flyer
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Flyer for the fifteenth annual benefit given by the Advertising Men of Chicago, a primary fundraising group for the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC). The benefit event featured a baseball game at White Sox Park and a stage show of comedy, music and a movie.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club brass band members with instruments
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Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) brass band members posing with musical instruments in a room with a fireplace.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club campers with truck in wooded area
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Large group of day campers posing by an Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) truck in a wooded area.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club flyer
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Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) flyer with photographs of exterior of club building at 1346 W. Van Buren Street, the OTSC Band, children being served Thanksgiving dinner at two dining room tables, and an unidentified man.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club flyer with free War Fund movie ticket
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Off-The-Street Club flyer with a free ticket to a movie launching their War Fund Drive. The flyer also includes a request for donations of paper, magazines, and cardboard boxes, an announcement of a volleyball tournament for high school girls, and a message from the library.
Date:
c. 1943
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club membership cards
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Six membership cards for Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) clubs glued to a scrapbook page. Cards shown are for The Swappers Club, Modern Craft Club, Best Pals Club, Phi Delta Club, The Red Knights, and The Young Flashes Club. OTSC sponsored many recreational and educational clubs for children.
Date:
c. 1940
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club officials with fundraising check
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Three men posing with fundraising check, including Maurice Rothschild, Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) President, Glenn Miller, Secretary, and Chester Price, Finance Officer.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club organizational chart flyer
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Flyer with organizational chart describing structure of the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) and the programs it offers. Includes a drawing of OTSC entrance.
Date:
c.1940
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club, 1000th Member
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Auguste Mathieu (right) shakes hands with the 1000th member of the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1940
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street Club, Cub Scouts at Fire Station
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Boys from Den 2 Cub Scout Troop stand next to fire truck ladders during a visit to a fire station. One boy is climbing while a man holds the ladder.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street-Club Summer Season flyer
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Off-The-Street-Club flyer announcing 1935 summer season programs. Includes dates of big athletic tournaments, and photos of the playground, baseball tournament winners, Boy Scout Troop 225, and the Harmonica Band.
Date:
1935
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Off-The-Street-Club members appearing on Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour
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Page from a booklet with photograph of a group of Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) members with musical instruments. From left to right they are: Nanci Venti, the two Lamb sisters, Mary Zick, Lawrence Laine, Frank Perrelli, Sam Racina, George Rico and Frank Alfano. The musicians performed on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour on May 18, 1941 as a publicity event.
Date:
1941
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Original Off-The Street Club building on W. Congress
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Two-story, dilapidated wood frame building was "the humble beginning" of the Off-The-Street Club. The building was located at about 1200 W. Congress Parkway.
Date:
c. 1905
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Peeling Potatoes at camp
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Three boys sitting on the ground and peeling potatoes at summer camp.
Date:
1949
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Picking toys at Christmas party
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Children choosing toys off a table at Christmas party.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Playing Billiards in Game Room
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Group of boys watching at a billiards table as one boy lines up his shot.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Playing a game at camp
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Children with paper bags over their heads playing a game in the grass at camp.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Playing in the game room
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Two boys playing Pic-Up-Sticks at a table in game room. Other children playing games in background.
Date:
1921
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Pumping water at camp
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Older girl pumping water for another girl at an outdoor pump at camp.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Roasting Marshmallows
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Children sitting on a log eating marshmallows roasted on sticks.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Sack race at Mother's Club Picnic for campers
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Group of boys racing in a sack race during the Mother's Club Picnic for campers.
Date:
1961
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Scouts with Scout Master Auguste Mathieu at Mark Twain Adventure Camp
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Group of boys, Members of Scout Troop 225, gather around a campfire with Scout Master Auguste Mathieu at Mark Twain Adventure Camp.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Staff Resources chart, Off-The-Street Club
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Staff resources chart prepared for the Chicago Community Fund showing names of permanent and volunteer staff and the details of their experience and work at Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
April 1, 1952
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Story Hour in the Kindergarten
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Children in a kindergarten seated on small chairs listen as a woman reads a story to them.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Story telling class under Miss Lilly Riley
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Standing girl reading a story to group of seated girls in Miss Lilly Riley's story telling class.
Date:
c. 1920s
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Swimming at summer camp
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Group of boys splashing in the water at summer camp.
Date:
1949
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teen Age Street Dance
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Teenagers and children dancing outdoors on a city street.
Date:
May 30, 1955
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teenage girls and woman making Easter baskets
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Group of teenage girls with an older woman making Easter baskets with colored eggs in them.
Date:
1954
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teenage girls sledding and skating on a pond at Mark Twain Camp
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Teenage girls and young women sledding and skating on Golf Course pond adjacent to Mark Twain Camp.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teenagers and adults rehearsing a play
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Group of teenagers and adults rehearsing a play onstage.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teens in costumes for the "Safe on Third" rally
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Teens dressed in costumes for the "Safe on Third" rally for the Infantile Paralysis Foundation.
Date:
May 1957
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Teens listening to a young man speaking
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Group of teenagers, seated outdoors on logs, listen as a young man speaks.
Date:
1963
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Thanksgiving Dinner flyer, Adventurers Club
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Flyer for a Thanksgiving Dinner served to needy children from the Chicago area, hosted by and held at The Adventurers Clubin downtown Chicago. The program included entertainment and volunteer club members could stay and eat dinner after the children, for a fee.
Date:
November 23, 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
The Good Turn, Boy Scout Troop 225 newsletter
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"The Good Turn" newsletter published by Boy Scout Troop 225, which was the second troop to be formed in Chicago (in 1911). The newsletter included a block print by Scout Sylvester and a sampling of semaphore signals to learn.
Date:
January 26, 1931
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Trails of Chicagoland nature film flyer
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One page flyer for 16mm nature movie by Auguste Mathieu, available for screening with accompanying lecture.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Two girls with flowers inside room
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Two girls, one standing with a basket of flowers and another seated with flowers in her lap, pose in front of a painted backdrop of trees.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Watching swimmers in pool, Mark Twain Camp
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Adults and children watching swimmers in the outdoor pool at Mark Twain Camp through a chain link fence.
Date:
c. 1960s
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Woodworking in Manual Training Room
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Boy sawing a piece of wood in workshop of the Manual Training Room. Three other boys are working in background. Working in the Manual Training Room was a reward for good behavior.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Young boys in boxing gloves sparring in the ring
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Two young boys in boxing gloves sparring in a boxing ring. An instructor assists one of the boys with his glove.
Date:
1947
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Young girls in costumes performing on stage
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Group of young girls in costumes performing onstage. They are all wearing large ruffled bonnets and holding homemade tambourines.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access

Collection Details

Repository
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
Manuscript Collections
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
Alternative Title
Off the Street Club records
Theme
Social Services & Settlement Houses
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