George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives
Finding Aid: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives
Repository:
Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
 | Richard Wright presents an autographed copy of Native Son to Vivian G. Harsh in 1941. Wright used the Hall Branch Library’s Special Negro Collection as a research site for his own writings. This photograph hangs in the Harsh Collection at the Woodson Regional Library. Maker: George Cleveland Hall branch staff Owner: Chicago Public Library Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Vivian G. Harsh in her office with the Special Negro Collection, ca. 1930s. Maker: George Cleveland Hall branch staff Owner: Chicago Public Library Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Opening day staff of the George Cleveland Hall Branch Library, January 25, 1932. Top row (from left to right): Ellyn Askins, Nina Roberts, Marjorie Groff, Dagmar Bell, Edith Allman Gans, Bessie Benson, and Shirley Balch. Bottom row (from left to right): Charlemae Rollins, (children’s librarian), Esther Wilson, Vivian G. Harsh (head librarian), Arlene Morell (first assistant librarian), and Consuelo Young. Maker: George Cleveland Hall branch staff Owner: Chicago Public Library Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Gwendolyn Brooks at George Cleveland Hall Branch Library’s Book Review and Lecture Forum in 1949. Maker: Unknown Owner: Unknown Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Portrait of Vivian G. Harsh, head librarian of the George Cleveland Hall Branch Library from 1932 to 1958 and an early leader in the movement to promote and preserve African American history and culture, c.1920s. Maker: Unknown Owner: Unknown Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Book Review and Lecture Forum program dated November 6, 1940. The featured work under review was Langston Hughes’s autobiography, The Big Sea (1940). Maker: George Cleveland Hall Branch staff Owner: Chicago Public Library Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Du Sable History Club Spring Schedule of Programs, 1949. Co-organized by Vivian G. Harsh, the Du Sable History Club was an adult group that met regularly at George Cleveland Hall Branch Library to study African American history and culture, especially the history of early Chicago’s black settlers. Maker: Du Sable History Club members Owner: Unknown Note: George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |