Key
Accomplishments in 2007
I.
Hosted Annual Calumet Heritage
Conference, October 13, 2007, at Chicago State University
- Keynote speech by Dr. Sharon Ann Holt,
Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University-Camden,
“The Next Day, and the Next: Doing History After Demolition”
- Presentation
by Dr. Leon Fink and Jeff Helgeson, University of Illinois-Chicago
and the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies, “Extending the
Labor Trail to the Calumet Region”
- Presentation
by Dr. Mark Bouman, Chicago State University and Marian Byrnes,
Calumet Heritage Partnership, “Beyond the Coke Plant: New Developments
on the Acme Steel Museum Project”
- Tour
of Pullman Factory Building, Pullman State Historic Site, led
by Dr. Jane Eva Baxter, DePaul University
- Numerous
poster and displays
II.
Successfully unveiled Industrial
Heritage Archives of the Calumet Region website (http://www.pullman-museum.org/ihaccr/)
in November
- A partnership between CHP, Pullman State
Historic Site, and Southeast Chicago Historical Museum made possible
by a Library Services and Technology Act grant of the Illinois
State Library
- CHP’s
portion of the archives represents hundreds of hours of volunteer
labor in retrieving the documents and photographs from former
Acme facilities, especially the former Coke Plant, securing them
at the Pullman site, cataloguing them, and researching the “story”
behind each document posted to the site (ie. Provenance, date,
photographer, context and setting, other technical information).
III.
Developed Calumet Industrial Heritage
Project on a firm footing
- Memorandum of Understanding with Pullman
State Historic Site creates Calumet Industrial Heritage Project
- Developed
a Statement of Purpose and Scope of Collections
- Developed
a Collections Policy
- Accepted
two large donated artifacts and moved them to the Pullman Factory
site:
- i.
Small Bell from former Acme Blast Furnace
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ii.
Ingot Mould Pattern from
Mittal Steel Indiana Harbor West
IV.
Improved communications
- Revitalized content and look of www.calumetheritage.org
(Dr. Mike Longan, Valparaiso University, Webmaster)
- Monthly
newsletters, conference information, photos, press releases, and
important CHP policies now posted to website
Mark Bouman, President, CHP
January, 2008