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008/10. Miscellaneous

 Record Group Term
Identifier: 008/10

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Institute of Design recordings, 1920-1944

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.04
Abstract Comments by Hattula Moholy-Nagy in 2007 regarding these recordings describes them as being "of considerable importance and interest to scholars of the Institute of Design and Moholy's cinematic works. Numbers 1, 2, and 4 were used in teaching. Moholy's integration of 'new' literature into the ID curriculum is set forth in Vision in Motion, pp. 292-357. Number 3 is especially informative, because it proves that Moholy showed his most famous film, Ein Lichtspiel schwarz...
Dates: 1920-1944

Institute of Design site photographs, 2000

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.02
Description of the Collection Five 8½ x 11" color laser images (made from 35mm Kodachrome slides) of Chicago architecture and markers related to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the Institute of Design. The photos were taken in October 2000 by Hattula Moholy-Nagy. The images include: 247 E. Ontario St. building, which held the School of Design from 1939-1945. The school was located on the second floor. 632 N....
Dates: 2000

Munsell Value Scale, 1947

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.01
Description of the Collection

Munsell Value Scales, a color chart "for judging reflectance...for illuminating engineers, architects, interior designers." Manufactured by Munsell Color Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD. Kit includes instruction booklet. Two kits, one of which is stamped "Institute of Design."

Dates: 1947

Thomas Knudtson research collection, 2009

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.05
Scope and Contents 2 folders of photocopies of manuscript originals housed in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library, ordered by Thomas Knudtson of Chicago in 2009. These research copies mainly cover correspondence between industrialist Walter P. Paepcke and several Bauhaus, New Bauhaus, and Institute of Design notables (Crombie Taylor, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Serge Chermayeff, Walter Gropius, Earl Kribben) regarding the operation of the Institute of Design between 1945 and...
Dates: 2009

William Kessler photographs, 1942

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.03
Description of the Collection

Photographs (black and white reprints except as noted) of the School of Design summer session in Somonauk, Illinois in 1942. All images by William Kessler.

Dates: 1942

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