Institute of Design

The Institute of Design collections held by the University Archives and Special Collections contain a variety of materials which reflect the history of the school since its founding as the New Bauhaus of Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy in 1937. They include academic catalogs, class and school activities announcements, biographical materials, student work, exhibit catalogs, announcements of student and alumni professional activities, essays, speeches, periodical articles, photographs, scrapbooks and news clippings by and about the school and its members. Materials found within the Institute of Design collections pertain to institutional history; with few exceptions, University Archives and Special Collections does not hold the personal papers or creative output of former faculty of the Institute of Design or its predecessor schools.

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Title: Institute of Design student Stanley Peters working in the wood workshop, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1945-1949
Creator: Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
Date: 1945-1949
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design student Stanley Peters using a chisel to sculpt wood in the wood workshop. Date of photograph unknown. Date...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design student Stanley Peters using a chisel to sculpt wood in the wood workshop. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Moholy-Nagy Scholarship auction postcard, 1954
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. Institute of Design
Date: 1954
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Evening Lectures, 1939 - 1940
Creator: Chicago School of Design
Date: 1939
Description: Flyer announcement of a portion of the 1939-1940 Evening Lecture series at the School of Design in Chicago, later to become the Institute of...
Show moreFlyer announcement of a portion of the 1939-1940 Evening Lecture series at the School of Design in Chicago, later to become the Institute of Design.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Institute of Design Summer Session 1949 brochure
Creator: Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
Date: 1949
Description: Unfolded brochure for the 1949 summer session of the Institute of Design, an intensive six-week seminar intended to train teachers and artists...
Show moreUnfolded brochure for the 1949 summer session of the Institute of Design, an intensive six-week seminar intended to train teachers and artists to teach the Institute of Design's Foundations Course to secondary and college students.
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Collection: Jay Doblin papers, 1946-1988

Title: Visual Marketing - A New Field Of Study
Creator: Institute of Design. Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: 1960
Description: Flyer announcing the new Visual Marketing curriculum at the Institute of Design. A September 1960 press release announcing the course expands...
Show moreFlyer announcing the new Visual Marketing curriculum at the Institute of Design. A September 1960 press release announcing the course expands its title to "Visual Marketing -- Mass Marketing for a Mass Production Economy." The non-credit course was intended to instruct marketing professionals in modern theory and practice related to marketing and advertising, and included lecturers from other universities and businesses around Chicago. The first semester of the Visual Marketing course began in October 1960.
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Collection: James S. Montague papers, 1948-1994

Title: Sunday Morning in New York
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1943
Description: Photograph includes signed inscription (dated 12/24/1991) from Nathan Lerner to Kiyoko Lerner on verso. Numbered #44.4.3.The date for this...
Show morePhotograph includes signed inscription (dated 12/24/1991) from Nathan Lerner to Kiyoko Lerner on verso. Numbered #44.4.3.The date for this photograph is often listed as 1944 in other sources, the date above was taken from the artist's inscription on the verso of the photo.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Light Drawing - Head
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1939
Description: Light drawing photograph made by moving a light source during a long exposure. Title, date inscribed on verso. Numbered B-21. Mounting...
Show moreLight drawing photograph made by moving a light source during a long exposure. Title, date inscribed on verso. Numbered B-21. Mounting inscribed with title, date and numbered 100, B-21, INV3637, #44
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Eye on Nails
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1940
Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Optimo
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1935
Description: Photograph of a cigar store on a Chicago street corner. Unsigned. Numbered 23 on verso.
Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Wire Eyes
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1937-1941
Description: Photograph of what appears to be decorative metalwork in recto of a gravestone or other memorial. Location of photograph unknown. Print...
Show morePhotograph of what appears to be decorative metalwork in recto of a gravestone or other memorial. Location of photograph unknown. Print mounted on cardstock. Signature and date (1941) on recto of cardstock, title and date (1937) on verso. Exact date of photograph unknown. Numbered 759 and 3565 on verso.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: City Light Box Study
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1944
Description: Photograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock. Title found in New Bauhaus Chicago (Bauhaus Arkiv, 2017)....
Show morePhotograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock. Title found in New Bauhaus Chicago (Bauhaus Arkiv, 2017). Photograph numbered 050 and INV3081 on verso of cardstock.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Roundhouse
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1936
Description: Photograph of two men in a railway roundhouse in Chicago, Illinois. Unsigned, no inscription.
Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Focused view for camera: Catalogue
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1940
Description: Photograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock. Title not found on object, taken from the catalog for...
Show morePhotograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock. Title not found on object, taken from the catalog for Nathan Lerner: Photographs 1935-1945 at Allan Frumkin Gallery. Photograph is sometimes titled New Bauhaus in other sources. Photograph is numbered 4006 and INV2710 on verso of cardstock.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Swimmers
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1935
Description: Photograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title notated on verso of cardstock. Photo is titled The...
Show morePhotograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title notated on verso of cardstock. Photo is titled The Swimmer in most sources. Some sources date this photograph from 1934. The 1935 date above was taken directly from the photograph and the exhibition catalog Nathan Lerner: Fifty Years of Photographic Inquiry. Photograph numbered 3564 and 766 on verso of cardstock.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Planets
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1939
Description: Photograph is mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph is...
Show morePhotograph is mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph is numbered 3560 and 755 on verso.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Closed Eye
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1940
Description: Photograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph numbered 3557...
Show morePhotograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph numbered 3557 and 758 on verso. This photograph is sometimes titled Eye and Finger in other sources.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Plaster Hand and Screen
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1940
Description: Photograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph is numbered...
Show morePhotograph mounted on cardstock. Signature and date inscribed on recto of cardstock, title and date notated on verso. Photograph is numbered 3562 and 754 on verso. Photograph is sometimes titled Screen and Hand or Hand and Screen in other sources.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Focused view for camera: Brown's Face (detail)
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: ca. 1939
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Untitled
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1937-1938
Description: Untitled photograph by Nathan Lerner, with notation on verso indicating that it is from his second semester at the New Bauhaus. Date of...
Show moreUntitled photograph by Nathan Lerner, with notation on verso indicating that it is from his second semester at the New Bauhaus. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

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

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