Mildred Mead collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
The Mildred Mead collection is made up of five series including Biographical materials, Activity files, Exhibition files, Printed materials, and Photographic materials.
Series one, Biographical materials, contains Mead’s curriculum vitae, trophies won in photography contests, and newspaper articles related to Mead and her husband.
Series two, Activity files, includes research files on Maxwell Street, the Metropolitan Housing Council, the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood, as well as a large amount of miscellaneous newspaper articles pertaining to poor Chicago housing.
Series three, Exhibition files, contains flyers, newspaper articles, and notes on multiple exhibitions of Mead’s photographs, as well as installation photographs from an unidentified show.
Series four, Printed materials, includes four books, four periodicals, and one exhibition catalog which is signed.
Series five, Photographic materials, includes three sets of study prints organized and titled by Mead’s original folders, and Xeroxed prints. One folder was labeled “To keep – mine” with a piece of paper in the folder that stated “duplicated – for me,” while the Xeroxed prints were in a folder labeled “Xerox – dupes.”
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1990s
Creator
- Mead, Mildred (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement
Biographical Note
Mildred Mead (1910-2001) was a resident of Hyde Park, Chicago and worked as a professional photographer in association with the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, the Chicago Housing Authority, the South East Chicago Commission, the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, Michael Reese Hospital, the Fort Dearborn Project, the study of the Maxwell Street Market, the University of Chicago Planning Unit, and other entities associated with urban redevelopment. Mead photographically informed urban redevelopment reports by photographing areas of Chicago targeted for urban renewal, revealing poor housing conditions and overcrowding. She also photographed revitalized areas of Chicago, and other aspects of Chicagoan community life. Mead died in Arizona in 2001.
Extent
2 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Papers, clippings, publications, and awards, 1937-1990s, of Mildred Mead (1910-2001), photographer.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Biographical materials, n.d., 2 folders, 2 items
- Series 2: Activity files, n.d., 1946, 4 folders
- Series 3: Exhibition files, n.d., 5 folders
- Series 4: Printed materials, n.d., 1937-1984, 9 folders
- Series 5: Photographic materials, n.d., 2 boxes
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift of the artist to the Center in 2000.
Bibliography
Guide to the Mildred Mead Photographs 1948-1962.
The University of Chicago Library, www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.PHOTOMEAD. Accessed May 26, 2020.Mildred Mead – I Step Out of Myself.
The University of Chicago Library, www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/i-step-out-of-myself/mildred-mead/. Accessed May 26, 2020.Mildred Mead photograph collection, 1951-1958.
Explore Chicago Collections, explore.chicagocollections.org/marcxml/chicagohistory/30/9c6sv36/. Accessed May 26, 2020.
General
- Mead, Mildred, 1910-2001
- Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council University of Chicago
- Documentary photography Photography
- Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) Maxwell Street (Chicago, Ill.)
Processing Information
Collection processed and finding aid updated by Meghan Jordan in June 2016. Finding aid was updated again in 2020 by Tai Huesgen.Processed in of
- Title
- Mildred Mead collection 1937-1990s
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
