Illinois Institute of Technology
Organization
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
High school events collection, 1976-1991
Collection
Identifier: 011.03.04
Description of the Collection
Events hosted on Illinois Institute of Technology campus for high school students, excluding open houses. The collection includes the First Annual Chicago Region Junior Engineering, Science, and Humanities Symposium schedule, 1976, and the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation speaker program book, 1991.
Dates:
1976-1991
IIT Campus Aerial photographs, 1940-2002
Collection
Identifier: 037.02.25
Description of the Collection
Aerial photographs of IIT's main campus on South State Street and surrounding neighborhoods. Some photos include the Chicago Loop skyline or Lake Michigan horizon. Photos are in print (generally 8" x 10") format for earlier years and 35mm contact sheets (ca. 24 to 36 images per 8" x 10" sheet), slides, and some photocopies for later years. With few exceptions, these aerial survey photos were taken annually from 1940 until ca. 1968 (which represents the final build-out of the IIT campus) by...
Dates:
1940-2002
IIT Independent Press collection, 1968-1969
Collection
Identifier: 027.10.05
Description of the Collection
IIT Independent Press, was a student-produced radical newspaper of the 1960s. "Published monthly by Jericho Publications Inc. ...Staff: Charles Peters; Bill Bolton; Charles Erdell; Andre Souffront" (per Vol. 2 , No. 1). Topics covered include IIT Black Student Organization, urban renewal, and faculty member Max Primack. Collection contains 2 copies of the October 1968 issue (vol 1, no. 2) and the March 1969 issue (vol. 2, no. 1). (1)
Dates:
1968-1969
Main Building and Machinery Hall Landmark Designation papers, 2004
Collection
Identifier: 037.01.01
Description of the Collection
Materials related to the designation of Main Building and Machinery Hall (former Armour Institute of Technology buildings) on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology as Chicago Landmarks. Includes the Preliminary Summary of Information submitted to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Jan. 2004 (30 pages) and a copy of the May 26, 2004 ordinance which awarded the designation (6 pages). Also copy of notes by Catherine Bruck for suggested edits to first draft of the nomination (3...
Dates:
2004
Office of External Affairs presentations, 1998-2005
Collection
Identifier: 034.01.02
Description of the Collection
This collection consists of oversize presentation boards with images (concept designs, architects' drawings, blueprints) of various physical and architectural development projects on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology and surrounding Bronzeville area redevelopment executed as part of the university's long-range plans begun ca. 1998. Projects documented include the following: Mies Campus (reproductions of historic images), 1941 and later; "Reurbanization", 1998; Main Campus Master...
Dates:
1998-2005
South Side Redevelopment photographs, 1949-1959
Collection
Identifier: 050.01.05
Description of the Collection
Aerial photographs and photographs of plans and models concerning the post-World War II planned redevelopment of Chicago's South Side. See item listing for description of specific images. Also included are a small number of copies of photographs from other sources.
Dates:
1949-1959
University Statistics and History slides, 1940-1955
Collection
Identifier: 039.01.40
Description of the Collection
Glass slides apparently used in two early presentations about IIT. Slides were found in a drawer with two empty slide boxes labeled as follows: 1) Complete set used for UET presentation; 2) Used 6-4-40 Alumni Banquet. Images include photographs and drawings of Mies-designed buildings on IIT campus (probably taken by Hedrich-Blessing), aerial photographs and diagrams of campus and surrounding Bronzeville neighborhood, graphs & charts with statistical information regarding...
Dates:
circa 1940 -1955
W. Ronald Johnson collection, 1952-1956
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.35
Description of the Collection
Film and scrapbook made by W. Ronald Johnson concerning Illinois Institute of Technology ca. 1951-1955 when he was a student there. The film was made in May, 1997 using historic images primarily from the IIT student yearbooks (1951 - 1955) and photos taken by Johnson during those years, except as noted below. Video details in particular Delta Tau Delta and Fire Protection Engineering program, those in which the narrator participated. Film includes segments on the history of IIT, the...
Dates:
1952-1956
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- Subject: Chicago (Ill.) X
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- Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) 14
- Aerial photographs 4
- Campus planning 4
- Chicago (Ill.) 4
- College buildings 3
- College campuses 3
- Community development, Urban 3
- Architecture--Designs and plans 2
- Photographs 2
- African Americans 1
- Apartment houses 1
- Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
- Architecture 1
- Architecture--Drawings 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- College buildings--Design and construction 1
- College facilities 1
- Dormitories 1
- Education--Illinois--Chicago 1
- Educational change 1
- Fraternal organizations 1
- Fund raising 1
- Greek letter societies 1
- High schools 1
- Historic districts 1
- Historic sites 1
- Hotels 1
- Landscape architecture 1
- Natural landscaping 1
- Neighborhoods 1
- Oral histories 1
- Serial publications 1
- South Side (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Student publications 1
- Students--Social life and customs 1
- Universities and colleges--Curricula 1
- Universities and colleges--Planning 1
- Universities and colleges--Societies, etc. 1
- Universities and colleges--Statistics 1
- Viaducts 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Schools 1 ∧ less
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