Description of the Collection

Composite photograph of the members of the graduating class of 1936, Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago).

Description of the Collection Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago) Grade Reports, about 500 entires in total, primarily for 1898-1899, but with notes in some cases as to student's date of entry to AIT, date left, and if they graduated later. Grade reports are for students in the engineering and architecture curricula. Entries are in order by date of student's enrollment in the school; an alphabetical index cross-referencing student name to appropriate page number has been created; iventory....

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.

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;...