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Title: Armour Mission, Chicago, Illinois, ca. early 1900s
Date: 1900-1930
Description: Photograph of the Armour Mission building. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Edwin Lewis and Lee de Forest, 1937
Date: 1937
Description: Photography of Edwin Lewis (left) and Lee de Forest (right). Lewis was a faculty member at the Lewis Institute and held various administrative...
Show morePhotography of Edwin Lewis (left) and Lee de Forest (right). Lewis was a faculty member at the Lewis Institute and held various administrative posts. De Forest, a pioneer of wireless communication, served as a faculty member at Lewis Institute during the turn of the twentieth century. During that time he conducted his first long-distance broadcasts from the roof of Main Building at the Armour Institute of Technology. De Forest also invented of the Audion three-element vacuum tube and patented a method of recording sound on film that the movie industry would later adopt. Photographer uknown.
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Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Lewis Institute office personnel, 1941-1942
Date: 1941-1942
Description: Photograph of office personnel of the Lewis Institute. Rear of photograph identifies the subjects as (standing) Stanley Stelzer(?), Prue...
Show morePhotograph of office personnel of the Lewis Institute. Rear of photograph identifies the subjects as (standing) Stanley Stelzer(?), Prue Nelson(?), Elizabeth Cadigan (switchboard operator and "Voice of the Lewis Institute") and (seated) Johnson and Givens. Date unknown. Date range provided is estimated. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Ethel Andrus, ca. 1927
Date: 1927
Description: Photograph of Ethel Andus. Date and photographer unknown. Image appeared in the 1927 Lewis Annual yearbook.
Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Bed race, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980
Date: 1980
Description: Photograph of Illinois Tech fraternity and sorority members in a bed race during Greek Week. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Tech fraternity and sorority members in a bed race during Greek Week. 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: New Bauhaus scrapbook, 1936-1938
Date: 1936-1938
Description: Thirty-seven page scrapbook with hand made fabric covered box with lower case letter b (for Bauhaus) on font in silver metal. Scrapbook (16 x...
Show moreThirty-seven page scrapbook with hand made fabric covered box with lower case letter b (for Bauhaus) on font in silver metal. Scrapbook (16 x 16”) has black plastic covers, spiral bound with manila card stock pages. Includes news clippings and tear sheets from periodicals about the opening of The New Bauhaus as well as the academic catalogue and program announcements, and a letter from Walter Gropius (5/18/1937) recommending Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as director. Creator unknown, assumed to be affiliated with the New Bauhaus.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962