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Collection
Identifier: 035.01.01
Description of the Collection
Materials related to events run by IIT in collaboration with the neighborhood and/or city of Chicago. Includes the following folders: FOLDER 1: Program for The Stroll, Bronzeville's Musical Legacy , August 23, 2003; self-guided tour "Return to the Stroll: Chicago's Musical Main Street", 2003; Program Schedule for Concert, press release "The Stroll: Bronzeville's Musical Legacy Celebrates the Neighborhood's Rich Heritage As Part of Play On Chicago", 2003. FOLDER 2: program for 1996 Fifth...
Dates:
1991-2003; Majority of material found in 1991-2003
Collection
Identifier: 036.04.07
Description of the Collection
35 mm color and B&W slides of academic and campus development programs at Illinois Institute of Technology. Each title includes multiple slides. Titles were copied from the original containers.
Dates:
1954-1980
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.39
Description of the Collection
This collection includes slides and photographs of campus buildings taken by Edward Mochel and an autobiographical chapter covering his years at Illinois Institute of Technology. The collection includes twenty-six color (Kodachrome) 35mm slides dated 1957. The slides depict various academic and residence buildings on IIT's campus, including Main Building and Machinery Hall, Crown Hall, Carr Chapel, and Association of American Railroads, and Armour Research Foundation structures. They include...
Dates:
1950-1957
Collection
Identifier: 008.01.18
Abstract
Photographic works by F. Peter Weil.
Dates:
1952-1964
Collection
Identifier: 001.01.01
Description of the Collection
Later, typed copy of "First Twenty Years of Lewis Institute, 1896 to 1916" by George N. Carman, the First Director of the school. The 34 page text describes the Institute’s founding and other noteworthy events in the school’s history as well as Carman's educational philosophy.
Dates:
1935
Collection
Identifier: 002.05.04
Description of the Collection
The collection includes manuscripts, publications, and letters of Frank Gunsaulus, mostly related to personal life and not Armour Institute. Manuscripts and publications include his own poems, some signed, including the poem he composed for Eugene Field's funeral. Letters are to F.W. Jay and include a recommendation to the Surgeon General for position of army surgeon.
Dates:
1895-1920, and undated
Collection
Identifier: 032.02.21
Description of the Collection
The collection consists of booklets created as promotional and fund raising materials for distribution to businesses and entrepreneurs soliciting funds for the development of the new campus buildings and academic programs of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Beginning with a formal "program and plan" drawn up by the school's Board of Trustees, the booklets includes campus master plans, building designs, and projected costs which are revised in response to the United States' entry...
Dates:
1941-1950
Collection
Identifier: 037.08.19
Description of the Collection
Black and white photographs (3"x3") of Illinois Institute of Technology campus construction sites, including the removal of historical Bronzeville buildings on campus circa 1950-1959. The buildings under construction include Gunsaulus Hall, Carman Hall, Bailey Hall, Cunningham Hall, Fowler Hall, and the dorms which later came to be known as the McCormick Student Village. The buildings being razed include the Masser Hotel and Brown Hall. The collection also includes Student Independent 2:...
Dates:
1950-1959
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.40
Description of the Collection
Documents and photographs concerning Illinois Institute of Technology created or collected by Harold Bretz. Series 1, Manuscripts Correspondence (4 pages; 3/28/2000) from Bretz with reminiscences of Camp Armour, the Commons building, and Dean Clarence Deakins. Address given by Clarence Deakins, Dean of Students, (4 pages; April 1958) on the occasion of his departure from IIT after 12 years. Concerns the quality of educations at IIT. Series 2, Photographs 185 color slides (35mm) of campus...
Dates:
1957-2000; Majority of material found within 1957-1986
Collection
Identifier: 050.01.13
Description of the Collection
December 1950 issue of Harper's Magazine (vol. 201, no. 1207) containing an article (pp.86-97) titled "The Strangest Place in Chicago" by John Bartlow Martin which describes life in the Mecca apartment building at 34th and State streets.
Dates:
1950
