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Title: Exterior of Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Date: 1920-1940
Description: Colorized photograph of the exterior of Lewis Institute. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Barbara Jeanmire at School of Design in Chicago Camouflage Course exhibit, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1942
Date: 1942
Description: Text from attached caption: "Barbara Jeanmire, a student of the School of Designin [sic] Chicago, 247 E Ontario St. studies exhibit set up by...
Show moreText from attached caption: "Barbara Jeanmire, a student of the School of Designin [sic] Chicago, 247 E Ontario St. studies exhibit set up by students of the Camouflage Course. The school graduated over 100 students in Camouflage. Camouflage of tanks, trucks, airplanes, factories, etc., were executed." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate, based on date of student work in photograph.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: School of Design in Chicago Exhibit B, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1941-1943
Date: 1941-1943
Description: Photograph of a School of Design in Chicago exhibit identified only as "Exhibit B," likely held at the school's 247 East Ontario Street...
Show morePhotograph of a School of Design in Chicago exhibit identified only as "Exhibit B," likely held at the school's 247 East Ontario Street location. The photograph shows what appear to be camouflage experiments or exercises by students and an object labeled "texture chart" at right. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Experiments in camouflage, School of Design in Chicago Exhibit B, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1941-1943
Date: 1941-1943
Description: Photograph of a School of Design in Chicago exhibit identified only as "Exhibit B," likely held at the school's 247 East Ontario Street...
Show morePhotograph of a School of Design in Chicago exhibit identified only as "Exhibit B," likely held at the school's 247 East Ontario Street location. Text from attached caption: "Experiments in camouflage. A special course given during World War II by the Institute in collaboration with the Office of Civilian Defense." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Northeast corner of 35th Street and State Street, Chicago, Illinois, January 24, 1954
Date: 1954-01-24
Description: Color slide depicting the intersection of 35th Street and South State Street, looking northeast. Photographer unknown, possibly a member of...
Show moreColor slide depicting the intersection of 35th Street and South State Street, looking northeast. Photographer unknown, possibly a member of the university's Department of Public Relations.
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Collection: Dan Ryan collection, 1954-1980

Title: László Moholy-Nagy with hand sculptures, ca. 1945
Date: 1945
Description: Photograph of László Moholy-Nagy with hand sculptures. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate, based on...
Show morePhotograph of László Moholy-Nagy with hand sculptures. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate, based on notation found adjacent to photograph.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: László Moholy-Nagy
Description: Photograph of László Moholy-Nagy in profile. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Student with sculpture, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1940s
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Photograph of an unidentified Chicago School of Design or Institute of Design student applying what appears to be plaster to a constructed...
Show morePhotograph of an unidentified Chicago School of Design or Institute of Design student applying what appears to be plaster to a constructed form. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Gunsaulus Hall flyer, 1952
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: 1952-05
Description: Flyer advertising available leases for Gunsaulus Hall apartments, posted in May 1952. Gunsaulus Hall was designed by Skidmore, Owings &...
Show moreFlyer advertising available leases for Gunsaulus Hall apartments, posted in May 1952. Gunsaulus Hall was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and was constructed in 1949-1950.
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Collection: Student Housing brochures, 1948-1970

Title: Apartment Living at Technology Center
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: 1955
Description: Booklet detailing apartment/dormitory housing options available to Illinois Tech students, faculty, and staff. Published soon after the...
Show moreBooklet detailing apartment/dormitory housing options available to Illinois Tech students, faculty, and staff. Published soon after the construction of Cunningham Hall and Bailey Hall (later George J. Kacek Hall), the booklet includes descriptions of different apartment layouts and floor plans for each building. Date unknown. Date listed is approximate, based on campus layout depicted in booklet and mention of Mies van der Rohe as current director of the Department of Architecture.
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Collection: Student Housing brochures, 1948-1970

Title: Buckminster Fuller, 1948
Date: 1948
Description: Photomontage portrait of Buckminster Fuller, 1948. Fuller, then an instructor at Black Mountain College, spent the winter of 1948 teaching at...
Show morePhotomontage portrait of Buckminster Fuller, 1948. Fuller, then an instructor at Black Mountain College, spent the winter of 1948 teaching at the Institute of Design, when this portrait was likely produced. Photographer/creator unknown.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California
Description: Photograph of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, featuring two mosiac murals by Mary Henry on either side of the...
Show morePhotograph of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, featuring two mosiac murals by Mary Henry on either side of the building entryway. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Heny with an unidentified mural, 1956
Date: 1956
Description: Photograph of artist Mary Dill Henry with an in-progress mural. Content description from Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art checklist for exhibition at...
Show morePhotograph of artist Mary Dill Henry with an in-progress mural. Content description from Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art checklist for exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Institute: "Archival photograph of Mary working on mural - 1956 - Between 1955 and 1962, Mary worked at numerous and highly miscellaneous free-lance assignments, from painting a billboard for a poodle kennel to choosing paints and wallpapers for an expensive subdivision. - For Maxwell's Coffee House restaurant in Los Angeles, she painted a series of small murals showing the coffee-growing process; a large mural for the Santa Clara County Courthouse depicted episodes from local history. - Toward the end of this period, her work grew more abstract, culminating in her large-scale mosaics for the entrance to the new Hewlett-Packard plant in Los Alto Hills, which is still exquisite and intact to this day." Title of mural unknown. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, 1938
Date: 1938
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of...
Show morePhotograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts (then called the California School of Arts and Crafts). Inscription on verso reads "Mary Dill - 1938 C.C.A.C. Oakland." Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, 1938
Date: 1938
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of...
Show morePhotograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts (then called the California School of Arts and Crafts). Henry's inscription on verso reads "Graduation from Calif. College of Arts + Crafts in June 1938. Oakland. Mary Henry - or Dill, as my name was then." Photographer unknown, stamp on recto reads "McCullagh."
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Design Direction, Book 1
Creator: Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
Date: 1946
Description: Design Direction was Mary Henry's 1946 thesis for her graduate degree at the Institute of Design. The project, completed in collaboration with...
Show moreDesign Direction was Mary Henry's 1946 thesis for her graduate degree at the Institute of Design. The project, completed in collaboration with Emerson Woelffer, was based on a class for beginning students taught by Woelffer at ID. The course consisted of 18 exercises exploring the basic elements of design, each of which is represented in Henry's Design Directions. Book 1 consists of the design exercises themselves, Book 2 contains the textual component of the project.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry and Emerson Woelffer, Chicago, Illinois, 1945
Date: 1945
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design student Mary Henry with instructor Emerson Woelffer. Inscriptions on verso read "1945 Woelffer Mary Henry...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design student Mary Henry with instructor Emerson Woelffer. Inscriptions on verso read "1945 Woelffer Mary Henry Chicago" and "Remember? I always thought you were terrific! Wow!" Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

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