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Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Department collection, 1958-1974
Collection
Identifier: 004.06.01
Description of the Collection
Items from the Department of Fire and Safety Engineering, including Safety Engineering Newsletter, 1958- 1960 and a brochure for Protection Engineering, c.1974
Dates:
1958-1974
Firefighting films, ca. 1944-1989
Collection
Identifier: 000.01.12
Description of the Collection
Three reel-to-reel films identified as follows:
- "Fire Fighting ! #1," 16 mm 3½" d., color, silent, ca. 5 min., perforated number 725728931
- "Fire fighting # 2," 16 mm 3½" d., ca. 5 min., perforated number 725728931
- "Fire Fighting ?," 16 mm 3½" d., ca. 5 min., perforated number 725728931
Dates:
1944-1989
Institutional chronologies collection, 1963-1993
Collection
Identifier: 039.01.67
Description of the Collection
Six typed chronologies containing timelines of institutional histories of Armour Institute of Technology (1892 - 1940), Lewis Institute (1896-1940) and Illinois Institute of Technology (1940 - present).
Each covers a different time range and each was apparently compiled from different sources, though much of the information is repeated and consistent from one chronology to the next. While many of the events concerning IIT and its predecessors and affiliates listed in these...
Dates:
1963-1993
Joseph Finnegan papers, 1924-1947
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.05
Description of the Collection
Correspondence, memos and files of Joseph Finnegan, professor of Fire Protection Engineering and staff member of Underwriters' Laboratories.
Dates:
1924-1947; Majority of material found within 1932-1947
Miscellaneous Historical Files collection, 1945-1972
Collection
Identifier: 039.01.62
Description of the Collection
Miscellaneous materials found in IIT Archives. Their original creator/compiler is unknown and the materials may not all be from the same source. Some may be from the offices of Preseidents Heald and Rettaliata. Others materials appear to have come from the university's public relations office. Some folder titles were found on the folders and others were supplied or supplemented by the processor.
Dates:
1945 -1972
W. Ronald Johnson photographs, 1955
Collection
Identifier: 004.06.12
Description of the Collection
Black and white photographs of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) students on field trips to Ansul Chemical Corp. facilities in Marionette, Wis. and Underwriters Laboratories Inc. in Northbrook, Ill. circa 1955. The photos were taken by James A. McBeth who was in the FPE program. Per the donor, W. Ronald Johnson, a member of the 1955 graduating class, Ansul Chemical Corp. invited all senior FPE's to their test facilities for a week to fight simulated fires of all sorts. FPE students had a...
Dates:
1955