006/05. Alumni and Fundraising

Description of the Collection

This collection includes a typed transcript of a September, 2004 interview with George Edson Danforth by three members of the Illinois Institute of Technology staff, Matt Cook, Director of Graham Resource Center, Lorna Shawver and Beth Wittbrodt, from the Illinois Institute of Technology Office of Institutional Advancement. In the interview, Danforth recalls his time as a student under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and reflects on his career.

Description of the Collection

Materials collected by John Blew that formerly belonged to George Danforth. The collection includes artifacts related to Danforth's time at the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, as well as World War II identification tags.

Description of the Collection

Alumni event postcards and invites for alumni of the College of Architecture, 2000-2008

Description of the Collection Papers of Louis John Johnson, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1962-circa 1990. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969. Johnson was also partner with another IIT Assistant/Associate Architecture Professor, Arthur S. Takeuchi, in the firm of Takeuchi and Johnson, Architects, of 37 S. Wabash in the 1960s and 1970s. The first file consists primarily of correspondence (1964-1969) conducted by Johnson while assembling a book...

Description of the Collection

One copy of the exhibit catalogue "Seven Photo Essays: Marvin E. Newman" which accompanied the showing of Marvin Newman photographs at the Keith DeLellis Gallery in New York, NY, January 19-March 25, 2000. Tear sheets (cover, index page, and pp. 18-21) from Zoom magazine, ("Tips Images" Special Issue, January 2004) with Marvin Newman interview and images.

Description of the Collection

Three copies of the exhibit catalogue The Face of Sport which accompanied the showing of Marvin Newman photographs at The Steven Daiter Gallery, May 31 - August 3, 2002. Contains an essay by Al Silverman about Newman's work. Tear sheets (cover, index page, and pp. 18 - 21) from Zoom magazine, ("Tips Images" Special Issue, January 2004) with Marvin Newman interview and images.

Description of the Collection

Two magazines published by Look, with photographs by Marvin Newman as follows: (1) Look, December 3, 1963, photo essay for "Madness is a Game on Sunday" (text by Leo Rosten), pages 63 - 74. (2) "Kennedy and His Family in Pictures" by the editors of Look, 1963, includes two funeral images by Newman on second-last page and last page. Also, Playboy's Girls of the World, 1971, cover image and some interior photo/s by Newman.