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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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Children on bicycles at camp
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Three children with their bikes, who were the first to make the trip to camp via bicycle.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children on rocking horses in front of the Off-The-Street Club
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Group of children and youths seated on rocking horses on the sidewalk in front of the Off-The-Street Club.
Date:
November 14, 1964
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children painting a Community Model
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Group of boys and girls paint a three-dimensional wooden model of their community in the arts and crafts room.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children performing at a Christmas Benefit Party
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Children dressed as American Indians perform onstage in front of an adult audience at a Christmas Benefit Party.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children receiving presents from Colonel Mathieu
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Group of children receiving donated Christmas presents from Colonel Mathieu near Christmas Tree
Date:
December 1, 1962
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children sawing logs for campfire
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Group of children sawing logs with a cross saw at camp.
Date:
July 1946
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children with Santa Claus
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Group of children holding presents surround Santa Claus.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Christmas Party Benefit program for Off-The-Street Club
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Cover of the program for the 1954 Christmas Party benefit for the Off-The-Street Club, sponsored by the Chicago Federated Advertising Club, a primary sponsor of the OTSC.
Date:
1954
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Cleaning Crew at camp
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Group of adolescent boys and girls with shovels, brooms, rakes, and a bucket outside of camp cottages.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Clearing land around a dormitory, Mark Twain Adventure Camp
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Girl chopping large branches with an axe outside a dormitory at Mark Twain Adventure Camp.
Date:
1945
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Cooking Class with Florence Bernstein
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Girls in aprons and caps clean dishes and scrub the counter as part of a cooking class with teacher Florence Bernstein.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Cooking over a campfire
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Boys building a campfire and cooking in a skillet at outdoor camp.
Date:
c. 1925
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Dedication of new swimming pool, Mark Twain Camp
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Four men in suits stand by a plaque dedicating a new outdoor swimming pool at the Mark Twain Camp near Wheaton, Illinois in memory of former Off-The-Street Club board member and president Maurice Rothschild. A group of children are waving from the pool.
Date:
June 26, 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Derby Car Race, Off-The-Street Club
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Two boys in soap box derby cars race outdoors while others watch.
Date:
June 1941
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Drama club students in costume for Mary Poppins play
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Drama club students costumed as chimney sweeps and as Mary Poppins (holding umbrella) for a Mary Poppins play.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Drawing Class
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A young girl poses with her arm upraised as other children seated at easels draw her, and an instructor looks on.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Eleanor Mathieu hands out games at the game room counter
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Eleanor Mathieu hands out board games and other game equipment to children from behind the game room counter.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Entering a building through a window
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Person climbing through a window opening to enter a building.
Date:
c.1910
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Fall Program flyer for Girls' classes, Off-The-Street Club
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Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) flyer to attract girls to register for a fall program of music, athletic, social and educational classes.
Date:
October 11, 1939
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Flag Raising at camp
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Auguste Mathieu (third from right) and an older boy raise the American flag at camp while other boys and girls look on.
Date:
c. 1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Fran Allison with Kukla and Ollie at Off-The-Street Club Christmas Party
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Fran Allison (right) with puppets Kukla and Ollie poses with a boy and a man holding a Christmas toy at the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) Christmas Party. Fran Allison appeared on the television program "Kukla, Fran and Ollie".
Date:
November 30, 1956
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Frank Baker and boy scouts with American flag
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Board member Frank Baker watches as boy scouts from Troop 225 take down the American flag outside the Off-The-Street Club building.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Game Room at camp
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Boys and girls reading and playing checkers in front of the fireplace in a game room at camp.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girl being fitted for boots in a supply storeroom
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Girl being fitted for boots in a storeroom where second-hand clothing was distributed to the poor.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girl picking blackberries at Mark Twain Camp
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Teenage girl picking blackberries at Mark Twain Camp.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girl receives polio shot for "Safe on Third" rally
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Girl in scout uniform receives a polio shot from a man in suit, to promote the "Safe on Third" rally for the Infantile Paralysis Foundation. A priest, a man holding baseball bats, and other children are in the group.
Date:
April 19, 1957
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls dancing on stage
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Eight young girls in frilly dresses and one in a tophat and tails tap dance on a stage in front of an audience seated at banquet tables.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls in hats they made in craft class at camp
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Girls modeling hats they made in craft class at summer camp.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls in the Jack and Jill Club performance
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Four girls costumed in matching shorts and capes strike a pose during the Jack and Jill Club performance.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls on bunkbeds in camp cabin
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Girls seated on bunkbeds in a cabin at summer camp.
Date:
c. 1970
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls practicing with hoops in a yard
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Large group of girls practicing with hoops in a yard, for an annual baseball game held at Sox Park as a benefit for the Club.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls rolling bandages for The Red Cross
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Group of girls at a table rolling bandages for The Red Cross while Miss Foreman supervises.
Date:
c.1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Girls working on hand-sewing projects
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Group of girls working on hand-sewing projects.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Group at a Masquerade Party
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Large group of children and teenagers posing in costumes at a masquerade party.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Group at a banquet table
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Group of adults dining and chatting at a banquet table.
Date:
June 1942
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Group of boys at an archery lesson
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Large group of young boys, some dressed in scouting uniforms, watch a man give an archery lesson.
Date:
February 1964
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Group of children boarding a bus at camp
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Group of African American children boarding a school bus to go home from camp.
Date:
1979
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Group of day campers next to truck
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Large group of children and teenagers, and young women wearing "Off The Street Club" t-shirts pose outdoors around a truck after a day trip to a forest preserve.
Date:
1941
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Gypsy Children
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Gypsy boy and girl posing in room filled with plants and a parrot cage.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Gypsy Girls
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Two girls in ethnic dress posing in a room with potted plants at the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Halloween Performers
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Group of children in Halloween costumes posing by corn stalks.
Date:
1951
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Handcraft class, hemming skirt
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Girl having her skirt hemmed by an adult woman in a handcraft class as other children look on.
Date:
January 24, 1947
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
High School students distribute toys to Off-The-Street Club children
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Five New Trier High School students distribute donated toys to Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) children during a Christmas party.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Ida and Katy Weiss
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Ida and Katy Weiss: seated woman reading from a large book with a girl seated next to her on the arm of her chair.
Date:
c.1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Jumping into the Pool
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Group of girls and boys jumping into an outdoor swimming pool.
Date:
July 4, 1965
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Junior Dramatic Club Valentine Party, Van Buren Club
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Members of the Junior Dramatic Club behind a banquet table during their Valentine Party at the Van Buren Club.
Date:
c. 1940
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Kohn Family children at Off-The-Street Club
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Four children including small boy standing on ladder in interior of Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Linda Crane twirling a baton on stage
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A young girl, Linda Crane, twirling a baton on stage.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Lynch Family in Their Home
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Woman scrubbing laundry at a washboard with three children behind her. A boy at right is eating at a table.
Date:
c. 1915
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
May Queen Portrait
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Two girls garlanded with flowers pose as the May Queen and attendant in front of a painted backdrop of trees.
Date:
1911
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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