Laboratories

Description of the Collection Negatives and contact prints of black and white images documenting scientists and research projects of Armour Research Foundation (later, IITRI). Negatives are 2¼" sq. and 4x5" and are housed in paper envelopes with numbers corresponding to the images in the index list below. Negatives also have an inventory number (3 or 4 digits) which is different from that on the envelope. This appears to be a earlier...

Description of the Collection

Photos (4x5" black & white contact prints; most mounted on index cards) of Armour Research Foundation and Illinois Institute of Technology activities primarily documenting research and laboratory experiments. Identifications are generally included. Negatives are available for most images.

Description of the Collection

35 mm slides (most in color) of various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) activities, ca. 1954–ca. 1973. Includes shots of faculty and students in classrooms and laboratories, campus buildings (including interiors), campus grounds, campus activities (limited in number), and academic programs.

See spreadsheet listed in External Documents for slide index.

Content Description From the Collection:

This collection includes drawings, plans, blueprints, and other materials stored in the East Map Case. These materials are not all from the same source, nor are they a coherent collection by any factor other than that they are all stored together. See folder listings for an inventory of the items in this collection.

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...

Description of the Collection Bulks with printed/published copies of professional literature reviews and articles authored by Max Jakob, Mechanical Engineering faculty member at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) and a research scientist at Armour Research Foundation. Note that much of the material is in German; the rest is in English. Folder listing as follows: Box 1/Folder 1/Biographical, 1942-1948. Box 1/Folder 2/Correspondence, 1921-1924. Box 1/Folder 3/Bibliography of Heat Transfer, 1924. Box 1/Folders...

Description of the Collection

Photographs and audiovisual materials created by or collected by the Illinois Institute of Technology Office of Communications and Marketing. See 2006.031/Series 2 for A-V materials.

Description of the Collection

16 mm film labeled "Scientists at laboratory equipment and computers." Film is B & W, silent, 4¾" diameter, ca. 10 min.