Hope Dunmore / Chicago Old Settler's Club Collection
Finding Aid: Hope Dunmore / Chicago Old Settler's Club Collection
Repository:
The DuSable Museum of African American History
 | Maker: Dunmore family Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 2, Folder 2 |
 | Hope Dunmore's Diploma from the Shields School, 1902. Hope Ives Dunmore was the eighth of Anna Bumbry and Robert Dunmore's twelve children. Born and raised on Campbell Avenue in Chicago's South Side, Hope and her siblings soon followed in their parents' footsteps, becoming active in a host of African-American social, cultural, fraternal, and religious organizations. The DuSable Museum contains a small collection of Dunmore family papers and ephemera, including five of the Dunmore children's elementary school diplomas. Maker: Chicago Public Schools [?] Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 7 (oversized) |
 | Photograph of Ida McIntosh Dempsey, ca. 1909. Ida McIntosh Dempsey (1857-1924) held the first meeting of Chicago's Old Settlers Social Club on May 11, 1902, although the permanent group was not organized until two years later. The DuSable Museum's collection includes a small number of Hope Dunmore's records from the club's meetings and social programs. Maker: unknown Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 6, Folder 2 |
 | Old Settlers Social Club application form, 1905. The DuSable Museum's collection also includes a number of membership applications for the Old Settlers Club from 1905-1935. Length of residence in Chicago qualified black Chicagoans for membership in the organization. Maker: Old Settlers Social Club Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 2, Folder 5 |
 | Old Settlers Social Club application form, 1934. As increasing numbers of southern blacks migrated to Chicago in the early twentieth century, members of the Old Settlers Club took special pride in their families' long histories in the city. Maker: Old Settlers Social Club Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 2, Folder 23 |
 | Dunmore Family Magazine, 'Table of Contents,' 1935 Maker: Dunmore family Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 2, Folder 2 |
 | Dunmore Family Magazine, map of 'Negro Settlement,' 1935 Maker: Dunmore family Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 2, Folder 2 |
 | Old Settlers Social Club event ticket, 1937. The DuSable Museum's collection documents a variety of club gatherings that Hope Dunmore may have organized and/or attended. The Old Settlers Social Club picnics were frequently mentioned in the social columns of the Chicago Defender newspaper. Maker: Old Settlers Social Club Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 3, Folder 1 |
 | Heroines of Jericho song sheet, undated. Hope Dunmore was a longtime member and Grand Matron of Fidelity Court #22, Heroines of Jericho, Order of the Eastern Star. Black freemasonry has been documented as early as the American Revolution; however, women's auxiliaries like the Order of the Eastern Star did not emerge until the late nineteenth century. Distinguished by costume and ritual, these fraternal groups provided another social outlet for many of Chicago's first African-American families. The DuSable Museum's collection documents the events and ritual life of local and statewide freemasonry. Membership overlap between the Old Settlers Social Club and Chicago's black Masonic groups may have been high - for example, Ida McIntosh Dempsey, founder of the Old Settlers Social Club, was also an early member of the Heroines of Jericho and penned the songs seen here. Maker: Ida McIntosh Dempsey [?] Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 3, Folder 16 |
 | St. Thomas Church Bulletin, 1915. Black churches opened up further opportunities for socializing, community development, and black leadership on the South Side. While African Methodist, Baptist, or smaller 'storefront' churches dominate the history of religious life of African-Americans in Chicago, the Dunmore family worshipped at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, seen here in one of the many church publications from the 1910s, 20s, and 30s that are preserved in the DuSable Museum's collections. As Chicago's first black Protestant Episcopal congregation, St. Thomas attracted many of the 'old settlers' to its pews when it opened in the late 1870s. Maker: St. Thomas Episcopal Church Owner: Property of the DuSable Museum of African American History Note: Located at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Social Club Collection, Box 5, Folder 7 |