Collections
OpenAccess Collections
6 objects
- OpenAccess Collection
Chicago Photographic Collection
3 objects
- The Chicago Photographic Collection is comprised of photographic archives of several well-known photographic firms operating in Chicago in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries.
Charles Harrison papers
24 objects
- Charles Harrison was a product designer and executive who worked for Sears, Roebuck and Co. for nearly 30 years, from 1961 to 1993. He was the first African-American executive to work at that company. The collection includes examples of Charles Harrison's work from his time at Sears.
Walter Netsch papers
1 objects
Undergraduate Catalogs
2 objects
- Undergraduate course catalogs from 1966 through the 2023 academic year. Catalogs contain course and program descriptions.
Comer Archive of the City of Chicago in the Year 2000
3 objects
- The Chicago in the Year 2000, or CITY2000 collection was conceived by Lands End founder Gary Comer as a way to capture the city and its citizens on the cusp of a new millennium. The collection represents the work of over 200 photographers, videographers, and journalists documenting the year across all of Chicago's 50 wards.
Lea Demarest Taylor Papers
7 objects
- Lea Demarest Taylor (1883-1975) was active in Chicago's social settlement movement. The collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and photographs. pertaining to operation and activities of Chicago Commons settlement house, the Chicago Federation of Settlements and the National Federation of Settlements. The collection also includes writing and publications by Graham Taylor, founder of Chicago Commons.
Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
12 objects
- This collection contains sound files and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with former Art and Architecture faculty members. The collection was created by Eileen Broido, working on a celebration of the history of the College in 2007. It also contains some biographical information compiled by Broido.
2023 Testing Collection
7 objects
- This is a testing collection
Queer Asian American collection
0 objects
- The Queer Asian American collection is a compilation of correspondence, reports, student papers, zines, fliers, programs, scripts, photographs, press releases, new articles and posters of four Chicago based Asian American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) organizations: Invisible-to-Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago (i2i), Mango Tribe, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) and Trikone Chicago. It also contains collected poems by Narinda Heng and Sarwat Rumi and materials regarding the Gay Asian and Pacific Islanders of Chicago (G.A.P.I.C.) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.