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037. Buildings and Campus

 Record Group
Identifier: 037

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

IIT in the Landscape, After Mies and Caldwell report, 1999

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.45
Description of the Collection Publication titled IIT in the Landscape: 1999 Illinois Institute of Technology West Campus Landscape Master Plan. After Mies and Caldwell: A Report to the Mies Campus Committee. The Plan concerns IIT's main campus at 33rd and S. State Streets. "West campus" refers to the academic area on the west side of State St., as opposed to the residential area on the east side of the street. Fifty-one page document with drawings, photos, text, and tables. Contents as follows: Introduction; Large-Scale...
Dates: 1999
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

IITRI/IIT Buildings film

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.04
Description of the Collection

Apparently a film about IIT Research Institute and IIT campus buildings; 16 mm; Color; Silent; 4" d.; ca. 8 min.; on reel "IITRI Buildings/Campus Roofs/IIT Sign"; perforated number 725728931.

Dates: 1970
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

John Crerar Library blueprint, 1961

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.19
Description of the Collection

Blueprint Sheet (31" x 47") by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of first floor (i.e., upper level) plan of The John Crerar Library (later the Paul V. Galvin Library). Job number 5763; drawing number A-2. Scale 1/8" = 1'-0".

Dates: 1961
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

L. R. Wilcox slides, 1938-1988

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.58
Description of the Collection This collection includes a slide program consisting of 58 slides and accompanying text. The program is entitled The Development of Illinois Institute of Technology Since its Formation in 1940 by L. R. Wilcox. The program was produced in 1977 and revised in 1988. The slide images date ca. 1938-1977. It primarily concerns buildings and locations on campus, lesser information on Professor S. I. Hayakawa's preservation effort for the Grand Theater and jazz lectures, and faculty development under...
Dates: 1938-1988
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Life Sciences Building blueprints, 1965

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.49
Description of the Collection Blueprints produced by the Browne-Morse Company of Muskegon, Michigan (outfitters of buildings with laboratory furniture and equipment of their own manufacture and design) of proposed work for the Life Sciences Building at the Illinois Institute of Technology (under dates September 16 through December 29 of 1965). Drawings bear numbers 61634 through 61803 (with some numbers covering multiple sheets), for 179 sheets total. The drawings include not only floor plans from the Life Sciences...
Dates: 1965
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Lohan Associates Main Campus Programming Study

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.07
Description of the Collection

Main Campus Programming Study, being the document presented by Lohan Associates to Illinois Institute of Technology concerning reorganization of space allocation on the university's main campus. This draft copy is dated May 17, 1996; ca. 250 pages. Table of contents chapter headings: Executive summary; Recommended relocation plan; Existing conditions; Relocation strategy; Space forecast; Appendix.

Dates: 1996
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Lohan Master Plan and McCormick Tribune Campus Center posters, 2002

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.05
Description of the Collection

Two color posters, (21 x 32") depicting early concept drawings of: 1) Lohan Master Plan with landscaping; 2) McCormick Tribune Campus Center.

Dates: 2002
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Lohan Master Plan collection, 1996-2003

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.10
Description of the Collection

Office files from Mies van der Rohe Society related to the Lohan Master Plan and related activities.

Dates: 1996-2003
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Lohan Master Plan records, 1993

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.52
Description of the Collection Office files of the project known as the Lohan Master Plan, being the program initiated by Illinois Institute of Technology ca. 1993 to re-develop the physical campus. Collection includes working files and documents related to the National Commission on IIT, Mesirow/Stein request for proposal, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation International Design Competition, the new Chicago Police Headquarters building located in Bronzeville, campus landscaping, and minor amounts of material on the...
Dates: 1993
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

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