Illinois Tech History

Illinois Tech was created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute and Lewis Institute. Located on the west side of Chicago, Lewis Institute, established in 1895 by the estate of hardware merchant and investor Allen C. Lewis, offered liberal arts as well as science and engineering courses for both men and women. At separate meetings held by their respective boards on Oct. 26, 1939, the trustees of Armour and Lewis voted to merge the two colleges. A Cook County circuit court decision on April 23, 1940 solidified the merger.

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Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four...
Show morePhotograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Gunsaulus Hall flyer, 1952
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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Student Housing brochures, 1948-1970
Apartment Living at Technology Center
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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Student Housing brochures, 1948-1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with President John T. Rettaliata regarding...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with President John T. Rettaliata regarding student protests that occurred on IIT's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four...
Show morePhotograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four...
Show morePhotograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of...
Show morePhotograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. Student protests took place following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of...
Show morePhotograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. Student protests took place following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Benny Goodman receiving the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque from IIT Provost Sidney Guralnick, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980
Title
Benny Goodman receiving the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque from IIT Provost Sidney Guralnick, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980
Date
1980
Description
Photograph of Provost Sidney Guralnick presenting the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque to Benny Goodman. Goodman attended Lewis Institute in...
Show morePhotograph of Provost Sidney Guralnick presenting the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque to Benny Goodman. Goodman attended Lewis Institute in 1923 as a high school sophomore while also playing the clarinet in a dance hall band. The legendary orchestra conductor and jazz musician received an honorary LL.D. degree from IIT in 1968. Photographer unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection
Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four...
Show morePhotograph of student protests outside of Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding student protests that occurred on IIT's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding student protests that occurred on IIT's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
School of Architecture and Planning Faculty Meeting, April 10 and 16, 1970
Title
School of Architecture and Planning Faculty Meeting, April 10 and 16, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology. College of Architecture
Date
1970-04
Description
Digitized 7" open reel-to-reel tape recording of the Illinois Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and Planning faculty meeting,...
Show moreDigitized 7" open reel-to-reel tape recording of the Illinois Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and Planning faculty meeting, 1970. The meeting was opened with an unidentified person (possibly George Danforth, chairman of Architecture or Dr. Antonis Tritsis) reading the statement by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (as director of the Armour Institute of Technology department of architecture) published in the 1939-1940 AIT Bulletin (academic catalog) identifying the philosophy and content of the 5-year architecture course. The IIT architecture curriculum is discussed before meeting begins.
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Collection
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Memorial collection, 1969-1970
Henry Heald, 1937
Title
Henry Heald, 1937
Date
1937
Description
Portrait of Dean Henry T. Heald taken the year he was named as Acting President of Armour Institute of Technology after the resignation of Dr....
Show morePortrait of Dean Henry T. Heald taken the year he was named as Acting President of Armour Institute of Technology after the resignation of Dr. Willard E. Hotchkiss. Heald would be named President of Armour Tech shortly after, and remained President of Armour Tech and, later, Illinois Institute of Technology, until 1952. Photograpger unknown.
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Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of...
Show morePhotograph of student protesters gathered outside of President John T. Rettaliata's office in Perlstein Hall on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. Student protests took place following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding student protests that occurred on IIT's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Title
Student protest at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1970
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty and students attending an open meeting with IIT President John Rettaliata regarding student protests that occurred on IIT's campus following the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
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Collection
John T. Rettaliata student protest photographs, 1970
Egon Weiner art exhibit, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1949
Title
Egon Weiner art exhibit, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1949
Creator
Joseph J. Lucas, Jr.
Date
1949
Description
Photograph of an exhibit of sculptures from Chicago artist Egon Weiner inside and in front of the Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering...
Show morePhotograph of an exhibit of sculptures from Chicago artist Egon Weiner inside and in front of the Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering Building (now Perlstein Hall) on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The attached caption reads: "The sculpture of Egon Weiner, well-known Chicago artist, on display November 28 through December 10 (1949) in the first floor lobby of the Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering building. This is the first of a series of six art exhibits sponsored by the Institute during 1949-50." The caption is dated January 6, 1950, though the caption's text indicates that the show was on display through December 10, so it is likely that the photograph was taken in late November or December 1949, rather than the January 1950 date included with the caption.
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Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
President Thomas L. Martin, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Title
President Thomas L. Martin, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Date
1974-1987
Description
Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Thomas L. Martin, who served as President from 1974 to 1987. Photographer unknown....
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Thomas L. Martin, who served as President from 1974 to 1987. 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
Technology Center of Tomorrow in the Making Today
Title
Technology Center of Tomorrow in the Making Today
Creator
Illinois Institute of Technology
Date
1947
Description
Insert included with Technology Center Today and Tomorrow (see http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1011681), a fundraising booklet for...
Show moreInsert included with Technology Center Today and Tomorrow (see http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1011681), a fundraising booklet for distribution to businesses and entrepreneurs soliciting funds for the development of the new campus buildings and academic programs of Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Fund Raising Brochures collection, 1941-1950

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