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001/04. Students/Alumni

 Record Group Term
Identifier: 001/04

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Maximilian August Zink papers, 1911-1974

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.01
Scope and Contents Collection mostly includes materials from Zink’s time as a student at Lewis Institute, with some material from alumni activities. Includes several bound and indexed volumes of articles from technical journals presumably collected by Zink (mostly The Architectural Record), class notebooks with assignments and exercises, and some instructional books. Also includes substantial materials related to Daedalian fraternity, including an alumni scrapbook with correspondence, alumni directory, and...
Dates: 1911-1974

Janet Lewis papers, 1941-1999

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.03
Description of the Collection Materials related to Janet Lewis including an issue of Caxtonian featuring Janet Lewis and her husband Arthur Ivor Winters, a photocopy of the essay “The Return of Janet Lewis” by Larry McMurtry published in The New York Review of Books, and a photocopy of her obituary from The New York Times. Also includes two books authored by Janet Lewis: The Wife of Martin Guerre; Swallow Press Books; Seventh Printing; 1984; copyright 1967. Poems Old and New, 1918 – 1978; Swallow Press; Reprinted 1982;...
Dates: 1941-1999

Henry Holmquest papers, 1928-1987

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.02
Content Description

Papers and books by Henry Holmquest on a number of topics, most from the 1940s and 1950s. Also contains one schoolbook from Holmquest’s time at Lewis Institute, and a self-created volume of his early publications.

Dates: 1928-1987

Raymond Murphy papers, 1904-1907

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.04
Description of the Collection

Two issues of The Lewis Bulletin from January 1904 and March 1904, along with a report titled “To the teaching force of the institute” about establishing faculty committees and names of various faculty members and instructors.

Dates: 1904-1907

Leah Van Blarcom Beezley papers, 1903-1960

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.07
Description of the Collection Papers relating to Leah Grace Van Blarcom's student days at Lewis Institute, Chicago: three grade reports from 1903 to 1904, a photocopy of her diploma with an Associate in Arts degree, a printed music score for the “Klahowya Two Step” by Jennie A. Murphy published by Joseph Flanner, Milwaukee, Wis., 1904, copy autographed by composer “To Leah”; snapshot-type photograph of a Klahowya reunion, ca. 1930s; letter to Charles F. Beezley from Edwin H. Lewis, 1921; 2 copies of theater program...
Dates: 1903-1960

John M. Rise papers, 1918 & 1958

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.05
Description of the Collection

U. S. Army discharge papers - a 1918 "Copy for the American Red Cross File" and a 1958 "Certificate in lieu of lost of destroyed discharge" - for Private John M. Rise, 3 457 282. Inducted Oct. 21, 1918; honorably discharged Dec. 9, 1918. Also what appears to be the panorama-type photo of his unit (photo cannot be unrolled and viewed).

Dates: 1918 & 1958

David S. Strong papers, 1904

 Collection
Identifier: 001.04.06
Description of the Collection

Two black and white professional portrait photographs of students at the Lewis Institute taken by George H Partridge of Chicago. One shows eleven male students, including Walter and Ralph Strong, with a faculty advisor. The other shows six Beta Theta Pho members with winner banner for the Inter-Fraternity Half Mile Relay Race.

Dates: 1904

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