Restrictions, Limitations On Access
Since Mapping The Stacks is committed to making hidden archives available to researchers and the general public, we have partnered with institutions who share this commitment as well.
That said, not every repository where MTS-processed collections are housed is a public facility. For instance, the Chicago Defender is a privately-owned corporation which restricts physical access to its photograph collection but does allow the public to purchase or license its images for reasonable fees.
MTS-processed collections housed at the Harsh Collection are available to the public to use on site at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Branch of the Chicago Public Library.
Currently, the DuSable Museum's archival holdings are not open to the public to use.
Contacts
Chicago Defender
For questions about the following collections at the Chicago Defender, contact copyright@chicagodefender.com
- Chicago Defender Photo Archives
DuSable Museum of African American History
For questions about the following collections at the DuSable Museum of African American History, contact mts@dusablemuseum.org.
- Frank Marshall Davis Papers
- Hope Dunmore/Chicago Old Settlers' Club Collection
- DuSable Museum Moving Image Collection
- Joseph & Charlemae Rollins Collection
Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
For questions about the following collections at the Harsh Collection, contact the Chicago Public Library.
- Abbott-Sengstacke Family Papers
- Barbara E. Allen Papers
- Etta Moten Barnett Papers
- Alice Browning Papers
- Ben Burns Collection
- Cyrus Colter Papers
- Chicago Chapter, Congress of Racial Equality Archives
- Earl B. Dickerson Papers
- Dungill Family Papers
- Richard Durham Papers
- Walter Henri Dyett Papers
- George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives
- Heritage Press Archives
- George Cleveland Hall Branch Library Archives
- Willa S. Jones Papers
- Frances Minor Papers
- Madeline Stratton Morris Papers
- Willard F. Motley Papers
- Path Press Archives
- Chicago SNCC History Project Archives
- Theodore Charles Stone Papers
- Charles Walton Papers
- Edith Wilson Papers
- Reverend Addie Wyatt Papers
South Side Community Art Center
For more information about the South Side Community Art Center Archives, visit the South Side Community Art Center online.