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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
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Public access
Boys gardening
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Boys hoeing in summer camp garden.
Date:
1954
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
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Public access
Boys playing dice in an alley
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Eight boys crouching in an alley while playing dice.
Date:
c. 1910
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
Camp Moss
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View of two cabins at Camp Moss in Michigan.
Date:
c. 1920
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
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Public access
Children disembarking from truck at camp
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Boys and girls disembarking from a truck as they arrive at camp.
Date:
1949
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
Boys paddling canoes on river
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Boys paddling canoes on a river.
Date:
c. 1950
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
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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
Boxer Andres Balderas with his Manager
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Boxer Andres Balderas posing with his manager.
Date:
1952
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
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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
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
Children at a Thanksgiving meal
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Young boys and girls seated at two long dining tables for a Thanksgiving meal.
Date:
c. 1913
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Boys in the backyard of the Off-The-Street Club
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Six boys (in suits and caps) sitting on fence in backyard of Off-The-Street Club (OTSC). Sunflowers are growing along the fence.
Date:
1911
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 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
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
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
Boy Scouts camping on the Des Plaines River
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Group of seven Boy Scouts and leader outside of a tent in a wooded area along the Des Plaines River where they are camping.
Date:
c. 1920
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boy Scouts on a hike
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Boy Scouts in uniforms scale a wooden fence while on a hike.
Date:
1912
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
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
Alley littered with garbage
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View of an alley littered with garbage.
Date:
c. 1940
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 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
Character building guide, Off-The-Street Club
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Two pages from the "Monitor of Architect Guild", a publication used by the Off-The-Street Club since about 1908. The selection is from the Working Ritual of the Guild. The Guild sought to build and encourage character, and character building was a primary goal of the OTSC.
Date:
1925
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
Children on a glider swing at the Off-The-Street Club
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Group of children on a glider swing outside the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1910
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Boys cleaning playground behind the Off-The-Street Club
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Group of boys with gardening tools cleaning the dirt playground area in back of the Off-The-Street Club (OTSC).
Date:
c. 1915
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boy playing French horn with instructor looking on
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A young boy plays the French horn with an instructor pointing out his place on sheet music, while another boy looks on.
Date:
c. 1915
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
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
Children in the Game Room
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Girl in rocking chair surrounded by other children in a room with bookcases and stuffed birds in glass cases. Two of the children are blowing up balloons.
Date:
c. 1920
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

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