025/03. Crerar/Kemper, and Early Libraries and Archives

Description of the Collection Materials concerning the Frank W. Gunsaulus Rare Books Collection, which he gifted to Armour Institute of Technology. Includes inventories of titles in the collection, correspondence regarding purchases and proposed sales of the books and historical values. Folder titles: Reference Materials; includes a copy of Catalogue of the Gunsaulus Collection by IIT Special Collections Librarian Vince Golden, 2001 Rare books collection/Folder 1 of 2 Rare books collection/Folder 2 of 2 Gunsaulus Rare...

Description of the Collection

Collection concerns books, manuscripts, and/or documents identified as stolen and/or missing from the collections of the Kemper Library/Paul V. Galvin Library (including the Gunsaulus Rare Book collection) and the John J. Crerar Library.

Description of the Collection Collection appears to be the office files of former Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) Librarian William H. Hyde, Jr. Materials consist primarily of printed matter: brochures, announcements, publications, etc. Also included are smaller amount of manuscript materials: memos, correspondence, notes, newsclippings, etc. A number of the materials in both groups are original and/or unique items and are of significant historic value. Folder titles/item identification are as follows: BOX 1...

Description of the Collection

"Library Accessions", being 24 bound volumes with the original hand-written register of books and serials purchased for the Armour Institute of Technology, and subsequently, for the Illinois Institute of Technology library collections. Dates: 1893-1963.

Description of the Collection 16 mm B&W silent film (3 minutes long) of the move of the Crerar Library collection from its Chicago Loop location to the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology in September 14, 1962 by (Jack) Hallett & Sons Movers. Shows images of trucks being loaded, exterior of Crerar Kemper Library (IIT's campus),and movers replacing shelves loaded with books on the uprights. Two additional vintage film roles believed to be the same film were added to this collection 10/23/2003 (previously...

Description of the Collection

Correspondence file concerning a collection of materials relating to the Society of Typographic Arts which was previously housed in the Crerar/Kemper Library. The collection was transferred to Chicago Historical Society per the correspondence dated 1977.

Description of the Collection Appears to be a record of book and journal purchases by the Kemper (and/or Crerar) Library on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. Binder titles, (Materials were found in three-ring binders and were removed to archival folders, one folder per binder.) as identified on the spines, were as follows: Periodicals-1962 Periodicals-1963 Funds- 1961-62 Funds- 1962-63 Funds- 1963-64 Funds- 1965-66 Funds- 1966-67 Funds- 1967-68 Political and Social Science-1965-66 Political and Social...

Description of the Collection

Library handbooks for the Kemper Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, for the following years (with quantities): 1971 (2), 1972 (2), 1973 (2), 1974 (2), 1975 (2), 1976 (2).

Description of the Collection Materials related to the termination of the agreement between the John Crerar Library and IIT's Kemper Library, and plans regarding the future of IIT's academic library/libraries. See below for folder listing. BOX 1 IIT/JCL Lease Library Planning/JCL Materials and IIT Planning Parameters Library Planning Committee BOX 2 J. Crerar Library Library Planning Committee (appointed 2/82) Library Synopsis of NSF Proposal Library Steering Committee LCS Issues 1980-81 Library Correspondence General...

Description of the Collection Administrative files apparently created by director David Dowell and/or Anita Anderson concerning operations of IIT's academic library, the Kemper Library. Additional found-in-collection materials related to Kemper Library were also incorporated into this collection. See below for folder listing. Kemper Library Dedication Materials, 1963 Miscellaneous Materials, (1946, 1947, 1975) Kemper Library Handbooks (1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79) Reference Department- Old Memos...