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Title: Stanley Cohn and radar apparatus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1950s
Date: 1950-1959
Description: From the attached press release: "Stanley I. Cohn, supervisor of communications and radio frequency applications at Armour Research Foundation...
Show moreFrom the attached press release: "Stanley I. Cohn, supervisor of communications and radio frequency applications at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, evaluates portion of a transmitter for a specialized radar apparatus." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Grant Wantling and the M39 cannon, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1950s
Date: 1951-1959
Description: From the attached press release: "Fastest-firing single-barrel cannon, the M39 revolver-type weapon, is fed a ribbon of 20 mm ammunition by...
Show moreFrom the attached press release: "Fastest-firing single-barrel cannon, the M39 revolver-type weapon, is fed a ribbon of 20 mm ammunition by Grant Wantling, associate engineer at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology. The cannon, currently used on jet warplanes, is the result of eight years intensive research by ARF, the government, and industrial concerns." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Dr. Stanley Katz and the Aerosoloscope, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1955
Date: 1955
Description: From the attached press release: "Dr. Sidney Katz, senior chemist at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, records...
Show moreFrom the attached press release: "Dr. Sidney Katz, senior chemist at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, records data from the "Aerosoloscope," an electronic instrument he helped develop. The device, which measures and counts airborne particles, may be the forerunner of a detector against biological warfare." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Armour Research Foundation ceramics engineer using optical pyrometer, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1940s
Date: 1940-1949
Description: From the attached press release: "Optical Pyrometer is used by a ceramics engineer at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of...
Show moreFrom the attached press release: "Optical Pyrometer is used by a ceramics engineer at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology to check temperature of pot furnace. Furnace converts carbonates to oxides following completion of ore dressing processes." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Ogden Bog gag photograph, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1955
Date: 1955
Description: Staged photograph of two rowers in a boat and a "swimmer" in Ogden Field. The field, which was derisively nicknamed "Ogden Bog" by the...
Show moreStaged photograph of two rowers in a boat and a "swimmer" in Ogden Field. The field, which was derisively nicknamed "Ogden Bog" by the students, was the home of the Armour Institute and Illinois Tech track and football field. Hermann Hall was built on the site of Ogden Field, and The Bog, Illinois Tech's student recreation and dining center, was named after the former athletic venue. This photograph was printed in the 1955 installment of The Integral, Illinois Tech's yearbook. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Howard Monroe Raymond
Date: 1895-1932
Description: Photograph of Howard Monroe Raymond, President of Armour Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1932. Following the death of Frank Gunsaulus in...
Show morePhotograph of Howard Monroe Raymond, President of Armour Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1932. Following the death of Frank Gunsaulus in 1921, Howard Monroe Raymond was appointed acting president. He accepted the permanent role 14 months later and became Armour Institute's second president. Raymond was an instructor and professor in the Physics department, having arrived on campus in 1895, and he served as Dean of Engineering for 19 years before becoming president - a role he continued while president until 1927. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: IBM 650 computer, Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, ca. 1954-59
Date: 1954-1959
Description: Photograph of two men operating the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine at Armour Research Foundation. Photographer unknown. Date of...
Show morePhotograph of two men operating the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine at Armour Research Foundation. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: IITRI Eclipse Expedition, ca. 1965-1966
Date: 1965-1966
Description: Photograph of IIT Research Institute personnel and a Chevrolet Corvair 95 van on (or on their way to) a so-called Eclipse Expedition, likely...
Show morePhotograph of IIT Research Institute personnel and a Chevrolet Corvair 95 van on (or on their way to) a so-called Eclipse Expedition, likely either in the Cook Islands in 1965 or near Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1966. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Orchestra performance at American Power Conferences All Engineers Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, 1952
Date: 1952
Description: Photograph of O. Gordon Erickson conducting the Illinois Tech orchestra at the American Power Conference's All Engineers Dinner in 1952. The...
Show morePhotograph of O. Gordon Erickson conducting the Illinois Tech orchestra at the American Power Conference's All Engineers Dinner in 1952. The university's glee club also performed. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Trudy Cheskis using microscope, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1947
Creator: Lucas, Joseph J., Jr.
Date: 1947-11
Description: Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology Biology student Trudy Cheskis using a microscope.
Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Civil Engineering student and Professor John Cornelius Penn at Camp Armour, Vilas County, Wisconsin, 1942
Creator: Anderson, Robert
Date: 1942-
Description: Photograph of an unidentified student and Civil Engineering professor John Cornelius Penn fishing at Camp Armour on Upper Trout Lake near...
Show morePhotograph of an unidentified student and Civil Engineering professor John Cornelius Penn fishing at Camp Armour on Upper Trout Lake near Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. Camp Armour was the site of a six-week fieldwork course for Civil Engineering students.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Interior of the Armour Research Foundation library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1947-1949
Date: 1947-1949
Description: From caption in ARF News: "Overall scene of the ARF library, located on the second floor at the south end of the Engineering building. In...
Show moreFrom caption in ARF News: "Overall scene of the ARF library, located on the second floor at the south end of the Engineering building. In background, rack of periodicals, and in right background, shelves of chemical abstracts." Librarian Marilynn Collins is in the center of the photograph and Assistant Librarian Carolynn Leroy is to the right. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Women's volleyball team in front of Keating Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1983
Date: 1983
Description: Photograph of the Illinois Tech women's volleyball team in front of Keating Hall ca. 1986. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown...
Show morePhotograph of the Illinois Tech women's volleyball team in front of Keating Hall ca. 1986. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Professor John Cornelius Penn at Camp Armour, Vilas County, Wisconsin, 1942
Creator: Anderson, Robert
Date: 1942
Description: Photograph of Civil Engineering professor John Cornelius Penn at Camp Armour on Upper Trout Lake near Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. From...
Show morePhotograph of Civil Engineering professor John Cornelius Penn at Camp Armour on Upper Trout Lake near Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. From attached caption: "Presiding genius of Camp Armour, which has always bene regarded by undergraduates of Armour College of Engineering as something like Illinois Tech's spiritual capitol, is tall, solid, serene John Cornelius Penn, 10120 Lafayette Avenue, professor of civil engineering, a graduate of Armour in '05. A famous surveyor, Professor Penn is here shown sharpening his axe preparatory to leading a troupe of his students of surveying into the woods for a day of work in the field. The late Alfred E. Phillips, whose name is memorialized by the hall named for him, founded Camp Armour."
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Caldwell Twins, Pan-Hellenic tea, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1941
Creator: Foto-Ad
Date: 1941
Description: Photograph of identical twins Jacqueline and Louise Cadwell shooting bows and arrows at a Pan-Hellenic tea in 1941. The Cadwell sisters both...
Show morePhotograph of identical twins Jacqueline and Louise Cadwell shooting bows and arrows at a Pan-Hellenic tea in 1941. The Cadwell sisters both graduated in 1944, two of eleven female graduates that year.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Admiral Richard Byrd, Thomas Poulter, and the Snow Cruiser crew, 1939
Date: 1939
Description: Photograph of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser crew (Left to right: Sargent Felix Ferranto, Dr. F. Alton Wade, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, CPO Charls...
Show morePhotograph of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser crew (Left to right: Sargent Felix Ferranto, Dr. F. Alton Wade, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, CPO Charls Meyer, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter) in front of one of the Snow Cruiser's ten-foot-tall Goodyear tires. The Snow Cruiser was designed by Armor Research Foundation Scientific Director Thomas C. Poulter, constructed by ARF, and taken on Richard Byrd's third Antarctic expedition. This photograph originally appeared in the December 1939 issue of the Armor Engineer and Alumnus. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Ogden Field, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1910-1914
Date: 1910-1914
Description: Photograph of a baseball game at Ogden Field on the Armour Institute of Technology campus, likely taken from the Armour Mission or Main...
Show morePhotograph of a baseball game at Ogden Field on the Armour Institute of Technology campus, likely taken from the Armour Mission or Main Building at the corner of 33rd and Federal Streets. The building to the north of the field, a former residence, served as a cafeteria in the early 20th century before being converted to a fieldhouse in 1933, then an Armour Research Foundation magnetic recording laboratory in 1947. The building was demolished in 1956. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1901-1919
Date: 1901-1919
Description: Photograph of the Armour Institute of Technology campus, including Main Building, Machinery Hall, Armour Mission, Armour Flats, and Ogden...
Show morePhotograph of the Armour Institute of Technology campus, including Main Building, Machinery Hall, Armour Mission, Armour Flats, and Ogden Field. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Benjamin de Brie Taylor with banner in Hermann Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, ca. 1987
Date: 1987
Description: Photograph of Benjamin de Brie Taylor in front of a banner he designed hung in Hermann Hall. Taylor was Director of the Institute of Design at...
Show morePhotograph of Benjamin de Brie Taylor in front of a banner he designed hung in Hermann Hall. Taylor was Director of the Institute of Design at IIT from 1973 to 1975, and remained on the faculty at ID until 1987. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: The Snow Cruiser, 1939
Date: 1939
Description: Photograph of the Armor Research Foundation's Antarctic Snow Cruiser on a crowded street (location unknown) during the trip between Chicago...
Show morePhotograph of the Armor Research Foundation's Antarctic Snow Cruiser on a crowded street (location unknown) during the trip between Chicago and the Boston Army Wharf, the Snow Cruiser's departure point for Antarctica. The Snow Cruiser was designed by Armor Research Foundation Scientific Director Thomas C. Poulter, constructed by ARF, and taken on Richard Byrd's third Antarctic expedition. This photograph originally appeared in the December 1939 issue of the Armor Engineer and Alumnus. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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