Archive ID: FIC-0000-083

Photo of mural in Calumet Park fieldhouse of Native Americans in the Calumet region

Date Created: 1928

Donor: Rod Sellers

Media Type: Photograph

Backstory:

Photo taken by Rod Sellers of one of four murals depicting Native Americans in the Calumet and Chicago region at the time of first encounters between white traders/settlers and indigenous groups. Murals were painted by artist Tom Lea in 1928 in the Calumet Park fieldouse. Lea was a student at the Art Institute and apprentice to John W. Norton and would later become a well-known muralist of the American Southwest.

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