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Allen Porter recording, 1947

 Collection
Identifier: 008.05.07
Abstract

According to the donor, the original recordings were made on an early recording cutting machine which one of the students brought to the class. The poems were written by passing a pad of paper around the room with each student writing one line of poetry on a given topic. Each student would fold the page after writing his/her line so the next writer would not see what was already written.

Dates: 1947

Bloo collection,1993-1995

 Collection
Identifier: 009.01.03
Description of the Collection

Three issues (complete run) of IIT student poetry magazine, Bloo, published by the Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology; issues dated May 1993; 1994; 1995. Soft cover, literary magazine, published for three years only, with poetry, fiction, and images by IIT students and faculty.

Dates: 1993-1995

Frank W. Gunsaulus papers, 1895-1920

 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

Harry E. Biedinger papers, 1957

 Collection
Identifier: 000.01.04
Description of the Collection

Original poetry by Harry E. Biedinger (d. 1958).

Dates: 1957

Institute of Design recordings, 1920-1944

 Collection
Identifier: 008.10.04
Abstract Comments by Hattula Moholy-Nagy in 2007 regarding these recordings describes them as being "of considerable importance and interest to scholars of the Institute of Design and Moholy's cinematic works. Numbers 1, 2, and 4 were used in teaching. Moholy's integration of 'new' literature into the ID curriculum is set forth in Vision in Motion, pp. 292-357. Number 3 is especially informative, because it proves that Moholy showed his most famous film, Ein Lichtspiel schwarz...
Dates: 1920-1944

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

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