FORTY BLOCKS: Nicole Hollander

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Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Title:: FORTY BLOCKS: Nicole Hollander
Creator:: Hollander, Nicole
Breakthrough Film Crew
Contributor to Resource:: Breakthrough Urban Ministries (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:: Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum
Date of Original:: 2016-03-26
Subject:: Oral history
Interviews
Cartoonists
Location:: United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park, 41.88087, -87.70283
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, North Lawndale, 41.86003, -87.71839
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, West Side, 41.8542, -87.66561
Medium:: oral histories (literary works)
Type:: Sound
Text
StillImage
Format:: audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Description:: Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a community based organization that provides social services on Chicago's West Side, and the Chicago History Museum collaborated on this oral history project. The Museum worked with Breakthrough's Film Crew, a group of nine young people from East Garfield Park and other West Side communities, to conduct these interviews. Breakthrough and the East Garfield Park Youth Collaborative recruited most of the narrators. Nicole Hollander was born in 1939 in Chicago. She grew up at 3914 West Congress Parkway. Ms. Hollander recalled a close-knit, diverse neighborhood. She graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960. After working as a graphic designer of a feminist publication, she gained some notoriety for her comics. She became a syndicated cartoonist for Tribune Media Services. Her most popular comic, Sylvia, was inspired by a friend of her mother’s and her experiences growing up on the West Side. In 2016, she was working on a memoir of he
Metadata URL:: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/172
IIIF manifest:: https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:172/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: © 2016 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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Extent:: Audio file: 22:07 minutes
Original Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum
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