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Oral History Digitization Project at EHC Now Complete

June 14, 2016
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Oral History Digitization Project at EHC Now Complete Lori Osborne, Director of Archives & Outreach, Evanston History Center The Evanston History Center (EHC) began collecting oral history interviews in the 1970s and all of the interviews were recorded on cassette tapes. Over the years these early interviews were added to and the collection now numbers…

“We Shall Take No Golf Clubs”: Charles Gates Dawes and the Dominican Mission, 1929

August 4, 2015
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“We Shall Take No Golf Clubs”: Charles Gates Dawes and the Dominican Mission, 1929 Written by Jacob Slutsky, EHC Intern. As I have continued my work researching unlabeled items in the Evanston History Center’s artifact collection, I came across a curious artifact from 1929. Primarily made of fine wood in a square, almost book-like shape,…

New portrait on display at the Dawes House

July 12, 2014
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Erin FH Hughes is the Curator of Collections. She spends a lot of her time making sure the collection is properly cared for while using artifacts to educate the public. During the dreary winter months we received an e-mail from the Clearing House Association, L.L.C. asking if the EHC would be interested in a portrait of…

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