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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
Boy scouts from Troop 225 on a hike in Forest Preserve
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Three boy scouts, Off-The-Street Club members of Troop 225, pose during a hike in a Forest Preserve.
Date:
c. 1960
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
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 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
Children and adults at cleanup event
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Group of adults and children holding small rakes and "Don't Litter" signs stand behind a microphone at an outdoor cleanup event.
Date:
August 14, 1966
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boys eating outdoors at camp
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Group of boys eating outdoors on the grass at camp.
Date:
c. 1970
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
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
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
Auguste Mathieu and others with Off-The-Street Club Christmas Benefit sign
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Auguste Mathieu (left), Bill Veck (from Chicago White Sox) and two other men pose with a boy holding a baseball bat in front of a sign for the Off-The-Street Club Annual Christmas Party Benefit.
Date:
December, 1959
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
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
Bicycling at summer camp
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Adolescent boys and girls on their bicycles under a sign for the Noah Van Cleef "1958" Trail at summer camp.
Date:
1958
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Mass Transportation at Jackson Blvd and Hamlin, Image 04
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Jackson Boulevard; Hamlin Avenue.
Date:
1942-11-12
Collection:
Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Traffic photographs
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
Boys performing a routine on stage
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Five boys wearing sunglasses and bow ties perform an onstage routine with Indian Clubs. A group of musicians is behind them.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
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
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
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
Children and adults at the beach
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Large group of children and adults in bathing suits on a sandy beach.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Jackson Boulevard (Folder 230)
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Collection:
Chicago Photographic Collection
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
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 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
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
Auguste Mathieu holding a "60" sign at Off-The-Street Club entrance
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Auguste Mathieu holds a sign reading "60" at the entrance to the Off-The-Street Club (OSTC), as four children look on. Probably 60th Anniversary of Off-The-Street Club.
Date:
c. 1962
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Mass Transportation at Jackson Blvd and Hamlin, Image 01
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Jackson Boulevard; Hamlin Avenue.
Date:
1942-11-12
Collection:
Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Traffic photographs
Access:
Public access
Taylor Street (Folder 255)
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Collection:
Chicago Photographic Collection
Access:
Public access
Boys looking at a stamp collection
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Group of six boys looking at a stamp collection.
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
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
Boys serving spaghetti to community members
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Three young boys in chef's hats serve spaghetti from a large pot to three women while three teens with bread plate, pitcher, and dish stand behind them.
Date:
February 20, 1957
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Eisenhower Expressway and CTA Congress Line train
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View looking west along the Eisenhower Expressway (Interstate 290) from Independence Boulevard. A pedestrian overpass is visible in the distance. A CTA Congress Line (later CTA Blue Line) train runs in the median of the expressway.
Date:
circa 1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Teenage girls meeting at Bethlehem Center
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Group of teenage girls meeting at Bethlehem Center
Date:
1959
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
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
Boys with baseball gloves to promote "Safe on Third" rally
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Group of boys with Off-The-Street Club (OTSC) t-shirts and baseball gloves pose with three men in suits to promote the "Safe on Third" rally for the Infantile Paralysis Foundation.
Date:
April 1957
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Children in a lunch line
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Children standing in a lunch line behind girl putting a condiment on her hot dog.
Date:
October 24, 1956
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Bridges and viaducts (Folder 97)
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Bridges and viaducts: S. Kedzie Ave. Bridge; Kennedy Feeder ramp; W. Kinzie St. Bridge; Kilpatrick-Kinzie Viaduct; E. Lake St. Viaduct; W. Lake St. Bridge; Lake Shore Drive (Outer drive. Ogden Slip); Lake Shore Drive at Wilson; La Salle St. Viaduct. Many of the 35 mm negatives document damage and deterioration on Chicago's bridges, viaducts and underpasses that need repair though some frames provide a general view of the bridges at the time they were taken.
Date:
1971
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
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
Boys studying rocks with Colonel Mathieu
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Group of boys studying rocks with Colonel Mathieu.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access
Boys baking rolls in a cooking class
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Two boys, both wearing 4-H Club award ribbons on their shirts, bake rolls as part of a cooking class. A man standing between them displays a pan of baked rolls.
Date:
June 1960
Collection:
Off-The-Street Club records
Access:
Public access

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