About — The City Beyond the White City

About the exhibition

Co-Curators: Rebecca S. Graff and Pauline Saliga

Graphic and website design: Robin Winge, Winge Design Studio

Exhibit preparation: Tiffany Charles

Editors: Ryan J. Cook and Karen Kingsley

Exhibit consultants: Lynne Horiuchi, John N. Low, Sherry Williams, Déanda M. Johnson, and Daniel Bluestone.

Consultation assistant: George Sigaev.

Staff at the SAH have been invaluable in supporting this project, especially after we lost Pauline. Thank you to Helena Dean (Director of Communications), Anne Hill Bird (Director of Membership), Beth Eifrig (Comptroller), and Carolyn Garrett (Director of Development). We also thank SAH President Patricia A. Morton and SAH Interim Executive Director James M. Buckley.

Colleagues at the Illinois Institute of Technology generously donated a selection of tiles from the Mecca Flats for use in our exhibit and loaned several artifacts recovered from the 2018 excavations. We especially thank Michelangelo Sabatino, Alicia Bunton, and Mark Osorio.

Funds from the Lake Forest College Digital Chicago and Humanities 2020 grants via the Mellon Foundation supported this exhibit. Thanks to Desmond Odugu, Davis Schneiderman, and Ryan Walters for making this possible.

Beyond the White City has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Sustaining Humanities through the American Rescue Plan in partnership with the American Historical Association.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition/website do not necessarily represent those of the American Historical Association or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This exhibit is dedicated to the memory of

Pauline Saliga.

Website text by Rebecca S. Graff.