PRESERVING THE PHOTOFILES: DIGITIZING IMAGES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 09/2002 – 01/2003
ALCOVE CASE 1 1. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, a founder of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, n. d.
2. Philanthropist and businessman Julius Rosenwald with his wife Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, n. d.
3. “Nuclear Energy” before installation, 1968, autographed by Henry Moore Gift of Mrs. Abraham S. Freiler
4. Technology reading room of the John Crerar Library located in the Marshall Field store at Wabash and Washington, circa 1900’s
5. A University of Chicago convocation, July 2, 1894
6. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at the University of Chicago, July 1959, photograph by the Chicago American
7. Student strike against compulsory participation in the R.O.T.C., 1935
8. A woodworking class of the University High School, n. d.
9. The 100-yard dash during a conference track meet, 1903
10. Jay Berwanger, the 1935 Heisman trophy winner, in uniform, n. d.
ALCOVE CASE 2 1. Douglas Hall of the Old University of Chicago, n. d., carte-de-visite
2. Interior of a student’s room in Beecher Hall, 1900, cyanotype
3. The Class of 1898 drinking fountain, n. d., cyanotype
4. Baptist Union Theological Seminary, n. d., engraving
5. Anemones, n. d., lantern slide University of Chicago Department of Botany Photograph Collection
6. Beaver Island, Michigan group, n. d., dry plate negative
7. Harriet Moody’s business, the Home Delicacies Association, was headquartered at her Ellis Avenue home, n. d., photograph album page Harriet Brainard Moody Papers
8. “The University of Chicago Press Views,” November, 1935, photograph album
9. The University of Chicago freshman football squad, October, 1921, panorama, photograph by Blakemore and Cleveland
10. High jump at a Western Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association meet, 1899, photograph by Charles L. Bliss
11. Portraits of unidentified individuals, mid-1860s, album of tintypes
ALCOVE CASE 3 1. J. Ronald Engel. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983 Archival Reference Collection
2. “An Advance of Dunes Inland, Dune Park, Wilson, Indiana,” 1901, Dry plate negative. Photographed by Ira Benton Meyers University of Chicago Department of Botany Photograph Collection
3. Linda O. McMurry. To Keep the Waters Troubled: the Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 Archival Reference Collection
4. “Against All Odds.” Smithsonian 33 (July 2002): 70-77
5. Ida B. Wells with the family of Thomas Moss, a postman and grocery store owner who was lynched in Memphis, Tennessee on March 9, 1892. The photograph was taken in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Mrs. Moss relocated after her husband’s murder. From left, Ida B. Wells, Maurine Moss, Betty Moss, and Thomas Moss, Jr., c.1894. Ida B. Wells Collection
6. “ A Chemist’s Job on the Manhattan Project: A Chemical Reminiscence.” Chemical Heritage 20 (Summer 2002): 12-13, 29-31
7. United States Postal Service. First Day Issue Ceremony Program, September 29, 2001. The commemorative stamp program was held in conjunction with the Fermi Remembered Symposium
8. Physicist Enrico Fermi, n. d.
9. Max Grinnell. Hyde Park, Illinois. Chicago: Arcadia, 2001 Archival Reference Collection
10. University of Chicago Maroons, the Big Ten conference championship team of 1924
11. American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936. Images from the University of Chicago Library. (http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html) A winner of the 1996-2997 National Digital Library Competition sponsored by the Library of Congress and Ameritech. Selected as a teaching tool of excellence by the SciLinks program, a service of National Science Teachers Association 5. United States Postal Service. “Hawaiian Missionaries,” an American Commemorative Panel being made in conjunction with the 2002 issuance of the Hawaiian Missionaries stamp pane.
6. “A beach in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii,” February, 1936, lantern slide Photographed by Ezra J. Kraus