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Guide to the Ferdinand Kramer Papers 1886-2002

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Descriptive Summary

Title:

Kramer, Ferdinand. Papers

Dates:

1886-2002

Size:

17 linear feet (32 boxes)

Repository:

Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

Ferdinand Kramer (1901-2002), real estate developer, devoted much of his life to projects for urban renewal and housing integration on Chicago's South Side. The papers include correspondence and speeches on issues of urban development, as well as materials relating to his work as a member of Urban American Inc., and as a developer for the Dearborn Park development in Chicago's South Loop. The collection also includes an autograph collection, and a small amount of correspondence of Ferdinand Kramer's father, Adolf Kramer.

Information on Use

Access

The collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Kramer, Ferdinand. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Ferdinand (Ferd) Kramer was born on August 10, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, to Adolf and Ray Kramer. Kramer graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory School. He went on to attend West Point and graduate from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in 1922. He resided on Chicago's South Side for much of his life, and connected his real estate development work to his personal attachments to the South Side. In 1958, Kramer moved with his family into Prairie Shores, one of his best known housing developments on the South Side.

In 1922, Kramer began his long career in real estate when he joined his father's firm, Draper and Kramer, Inc. He became chairman of that firm in 1944, serving in that position until 1995. Kramer served as president of Chicago's Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council beginning in 1943. As a real estate developer, Kramer championed the Prairie Shores and the Lake Meadows housing complexes between the late 1940s and 1960s, and the Dearborn Park housing complex in the 1970s. Kramer saw new urban housing developments as a key way to keep middle income residents, particularly white families, in America's struggling cities. Kramer was also a proponent of managed integration, ensuring a racially diverse population within housing complexes through the use of racial quotas. Kramer's efforts at managed integration were frustrated when the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ruled that these practices were in violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

In addition to Kramer's work life, he also maintained strong ties to the University of Chicago, where he served a life trustee and was awarded the University Alumni Service Award in 1997. Kramer was also a passionate tennis player, continuing to play into his nineties. Between the 1970s and 1990s, he won twelve national seniors doubles titles from the United States Tennis Association. He also bred English Bull dogs, and was a two-time judge of the Westminster Dog Show.

Kramer married his first wife Stephanie Shambaugh Kramer (1909-1973) in 1933. A landscape architect, Stephanie Kramer designed the garden in the center of the University of Chicago Quadrangle.

Ferd Kramer died on July 16, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois. He was survived by his wife Julia Wood McDermott Kramer his children Douglas Kramer, Anthony Kramer and Barbara Kramer Bailey, and three step-children: John McDermott, Jeanne McDermott and Charles McDermott;

Scope Note

The Ferdinand Kramer papers are divided into ten series.

Series I consists of alphabetical items relating to Kramer's personal life, including correspondence, clippings and awards. This series includes several folders relating to Kramer's tennis career. Also included is Adolf Kramer's autograph collection. Series II includes the bulk of Kramer's professional correspondence from the years between 1939 and 2001.

Series III holds copies of speeches given by Kramer between the 1930s and the 1990s. Most of the speeches focus on issues of housing, urban renewal, and racial integration.

Series IV consists of alphabetical files relating to general housing issues. These files include clippings and reports, and focus on international housing development models, civil rights issues, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Series V consists of materials documenting Kramer's attempts to promote racial integration through the use of racial quotas in housing, and of HUD's rejection of these schemes. The series is made up primarily of correspondence, with smaller amounts of reports, legal documents, and clippings.

Series VI includes brochures, correspondence, and reports relating to Urban American, Inc., a non-profit devoted to making the public more aware of issues of urban planning. Founded in 1965 as the organizations American Planning and Civic Association and the ACTION Council for Better Cities

Series VII includes brochures, correspondence, memorandum, reports, photographs, and slides relating to Kramer's largest housing development project, Dearborn Park. Begun in the 1970s, Dearborn Park was one of the earliest attempts to revitalize Chicago's South Loop through residential development.

Series VIII consists of files relating to the University of Chicago, particularly Kramer's involvement with the University as a trustee. Series IX includes audio and video cassettes. Series X contains of oversized items, including advertising mock ups and pamphlets.

Series IX includes oversized material and a videotape. Series X contains materials collected for Lois Wille's, At Home in the Loop (1997), documenting the development of the South Loop, including recordings and transcripts of interviews.

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Subject Headings

INVENTORY

Series I: Personal

Box 1

Folder1: Autographs, Collected by Adolf Kramer, circa 1886-1894

Box 1

Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Box 1

Bissell, W.T.

Box 1

Blaine, James G.

Box 1

Carlisle, J.G.

Box 1

Cleveland, Grover

Box 1

Conkling, Roscoe

Box 1

Davis, Jefferson

Box 1

Davis, Richard Harding

Box 1

DuChaillu, Paul

Box 1

Gunter, Archibald C.

Box 1

Hayes, R.B.

Box 1

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Box 1

Landon, Melville D, (Eli Perkins)

Box 1

Lincoln, Robert T.

Box 1

Logan, John A.

Box 1

Lowell, J.R.

Box 1

McCullom

Box 1

Montefiore, Moses

Box 1

Oglesby, R.J.

Box 1

Porter, Fitz John

Box 1

Ridpath, John Clark

Box 1

Schofield, J.M.

Box 1

Sherman, W.T.

Box 1

Sherman, William

Box 1

Smith, Samuel Francis

Box 1

Stoddard, John L.

Box 1

Teller, William

Box 1

Waite, M.R.

Box 1   Folder 2

Awards and Certificates, 1940-1971

Box 1   Folder 3

Clippings and Articles, 1966-1997

Box 1   Folder 4

Clippings and Articles, 1997-1999

Box 1   Folder 5

Book, Julia Ward Kramer, This, Too, Is for the Best, 1989

Box 1   Folder 6

Jonathan Kleinbard, Remembrance of Kramer, 2002

Box 1   Folder 7

Obituaries and Memorials, 2002

Box 1   Folder 8

Pamphlets and Publications, 1967-1997

Box 1   Folder 9

Photographs and Memorabilia, undated

Box 1   Folder 10

Photographs, 1960s-1990s

Box 2   Folder 1

Tennis, 1990-1994

Box 2   Folder 2

Tennis, 1982-1987

Box 2   Folder 3

Tennis, 1980-1991

Box 2   Folder 4

Tennis, 1990

Box 2   Folder 5

Tennis, 1991-1997

Series II: Correspondence

Box 2   Folder 6

Correspondence, A, 1942-1997

  • Abboud, A. Robert
  • Altheimer, Alan J.
  • Aronson, H. W.
  • Ascher, Charles S.
  • Ayers, Thomas G.
Box 2   Folder 7

Correspondence, B, 1942-1997

  • Bach, Muriel
  • Bailey, H.E.
  • Bailey, Christopher
  • Baird, John W.
  • Beal, Mary Beth
  • Bermudez, C.
  • Beyer, Gordon R.
  • Bibas, Helen
  • Blandford, John B.
  • Blanton, [?]
  • Block, Leigh
  • Bowes, William A.
  • Bramlett, David A.
  • Brown, Frederic J.
  • Brown, Prentiss M.
  • Budge, Don
  • Burns, James E.
  • Burnside, Marie
  • Buttenwiesesr, Lawrence
Box 2   Folder 8

Correspondence, C, 1975-1997

  • Callaway, John D.
  • Campbell, O.W.
  • Carter, Jimmy
  • Catts, G.W.
  • Chaffee, Clarence C.
  • Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
  • Christopherson, Weston
  • Clark, Kenneth
  • Clark, Fred
  • Clarke, Malcolm
  • Cohn, Stephen G.
  • Coll, Dennis
  • Cook, Stanton R.
  • Conger, Clement E.
  • Conyers, K.C.
  • Copeland, Dean R.
  • Coplen, George
  • Crane, Jacob
  • Creighton, Robert
  • Crown, Lester
Box 2   Folder 9

Correspondence, D, 1942-1999

  • Daley, Richard J.
  • Daley, Richard M.
  • Dam, Kenneth
  • Davidson, Torry
  • Davies, William
  • Day, Willard
  • DeLong, Earl
  • Dennis, Samuel
  • Dirksen, Everett
  • Divers, William K.
  • Dobbs, John M.
  • Donnelly, Gaylord
  • Draper, E.S.
  • Douglas, Paul H.
Box 2   Folder 10

Correspondence, E-F, 1938-1997

  • Ebling and Plunkett
  • Edson, C.A.
  • Edy, John N.
  • Egan, John J.
  • Emmerich, Herbert
  • Eustis, David L.
  • Eybel, Carl E.
  • Fareed, Omar John
  • Farrier, Clarence
  • Faulkner, D.S.
  • Finch, Herman M.
  • Fuller, H. Laurance
Box 2   Folder 11

Correspondence, G, 1942-1991

  • G., Martha
  • Gans, Leonard S.
  • Goldberg, Bertrand
  • Good, Sheldon F.
  • Goodwin, John C.
  • Greenebaum, Charles
  • Gross, David
  • Gore, Jerome S.
  • Gottlieb, Harry N.
  • Graham, Donald E.
  • Graham, Donald M.
  • Gray, Hanna Holborn
  • Greaves, J.S.
  • Gregory, J.
  • Gross, Theodore
  • Gruen, Laura M
  • Gutwillig, Victor
Box 2   Folder 12

Correspondence, H, 1938-1980

  • Hamilton, Charles
  • Harris, Irving B.
  • Haydock, Winters
  • Heil, Julius P.
  • Heiskell, Andrew
  • Hermann, [?]
  • Herring, Frank
  • Heymann, Roy A.
  • Hickman, J. William
  • Higgins, Leona
  • Highsaw, Jane
  • Hill, Lewis W.
  • Hills, Carla A.
  • Holgare, Randy L.
  • Horner, Henry
  • Howe, Jonathan T.
  • Hovde, B. J.
  • Hughes, Thomas C.
  • Humphrey, Hubert H.
  • Hungerford, Charles E.
  • Hunter, Joel D.
  • Hunter, David R.
  • Hyde, Henry J.
Box 3   Folder 1

Correspondence, I-J, 1938-1980

  • Igoe, Michael L.
  • Isaaks, Riginald
  • Jaicks, Frederick
  • Johnson, George .E.
  • Johnson, George W.
  • Johnson, John H.
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines
  • Johnson, Robert C.
  • Johnston, Arthur S.
  • Jones, Oliver H.
  • Jones, Sullivan W.
Box 3   Folder 2

Correspondence, K, 1942-1997

  • Kahler, William V.
  • Kennedy, Edward M.
  • Kennedy, John F.
  • Kennedy, T.E.
  • Kerner, Otto
  • Kinnard, Douglas
  • Kleinbard, Jonathan
  • Knudson, Ray
  • Kramer, Douglas
  • Kramer, Ferdinand
  • Kramer, Stephanie S.
  • Krane, Howard G.
Box 3   Folder 3

Correspondence, Philip M. Klutznick, 1942-1985

Box 3   Folder 4

Correspondence, L, 1942-1991

  • LaGuardia, F. H.
  • Lake, Charles W.
  • Land, Emory S.
  • Lapin, Raymond H.
  • Larkum, [?]
  • Lash, James E.
  • Leen, Walter V.
  • Leigon, Ralph A.
  • Lenker, Harry R.
  • Levi, Edward H.
  • Lifton, Robert B.
  • Lindquist, Warren T.
  • Litchman, Mark M.
Box 3   Folder 5

Correspondence, M, 1942-1988

  • McCarthy, Terence
  • McDermott, Charles
  • McDermott, Edward
  • MacLaury, B.K.
  • McDermott, Jeanne
  • McDermott, Charles
  • McDermott, John
  • McFarland, [?]
  • McIntyre, James
  • Macy, [?]
  • Magee, Francis J.
  • Maguire, Richard
  • Marovitz, Abraham Lincoln
  • Marquette, Bleecker
  • Martin, Brice
  • Martin, Louis
  • Merchant, H.J.
  • Metzenberg, Robert
  • Meyer, Charles A.
  • Milliken, William G.
  • Mitchell, George J.
  • Mitzner, Paul L.
  • Mobbs, Nigel
  • Morgan, Monroe Stieglitz
  • Morgan, Frank J.
  • Moore, Lyman
  • Moreall, B.
  • Morris, Charles K.
  • Motley, Archie
  • Murdock, John R.
  • Murphy, Edward
Box 3   Folder 6

Correspondence, N-O, 1942-1997

  • Naiman, Isadore
  • Najafi, Hassan
  • Nason, Phillip S.
  • Nath, Bernard
  • Nathanson, Nathaniel
  • Nelson, Herbert
  • Nelson, K.A.
  • Nelson, Otto L.
  • Newmann, Harold L.
  • Nielsen, Arthur C.
  • Nichols, J.C.
  • Norcross, F.T.
  • Northrop, A.K.
  • O'Connell, Charles D.
  • Odell, W.R.
  • Ogilvie, Richard B.
  • Osborne, Arthur
Box 3   Folder 7

Correspondence, P, 1942-1997

  • Palmer, Dave R.
  • Parrett, Bronson
  • Percy, Charles H.
  • Perkins, Donald
  • Perlman, Harold L.
  • Peterson, W.J.
  • Petrie, Milton
  • Philipson, J. Bion
  • Pitts, John M.
  • Pitts, John W.
  • Podesta, Tony
  • Pollak, Stephen J.
  • Poterfield, Harry
  • Powell, Colin L.
  • Prentice, P.I.
Box 3   Folder 8

Correspondence, R., 1942-1997

  • Rammelkamp, Theodore C.
  • Ratcliffe, H.L.
  • Regan, Kenneth P.
  • Reinhold, Robert
  • Rielly, John E.
  • Riley, Earl
  • Robbie, Joseph
  • Rockefeller, John D. IV
  • Rogers, James H.
  • Romney, George
  • Rosenman, Samuel I.
  • Rostenkowski, Dan
  • Rouse, James W.
  • Rouse, Patricia T.
  • Rubel, Frederick H.
Box 3   Folder 9

Correspondence, S, 1942-1998

  • Sanders, William D.
  • Saxe, Dave
  • Schaaf, Charles E.
  • Schriesheim, Alan
  • Sharon, Frederic
  • Shelte, Carroll
  • Shoemaker, Whitney
  • Short, Jeffrey R.
  • Slayton, William L.
  • Smathers, [?]
  • Smith, C. Alphonso
  • Smith, Olcott
  • Sonnenschein, Hugo F.
  • Sprague, Charles A.
  • Steans, Harrison I.
  • Staats, Elmer
  • Stein, Edith Carol
  • Stein, Nancy L.
  • Stepan, Paul
  • Stevenson, Adlai
  • Stokey, Roger P.
  • Strong, [?]
  • Swenson, S.L.
  • Swett, Paul
  • Swift, Gustavus F.
Box 3   Folder 10

Correspondence, T, 1942-1997

  • Taft, Seth C.
  • Talbot, Jack and Katie
  • Taylor, Maxwell D.
  • Tompkins, Seth
  • Tucker, Sterling
  • Tunney, Gene
  • Twohy, James
Box 3   Folder 11

Correspondence, U-Z, 1942-1986

  • Waite, H.M.
  • Waht, Bertha
  • Walgreen, Charles
  • Walker, Dan
  • Ware, Mitchell
  • Weaver, Robert C.
  • Weisman, Norman L.
  • Westmoreland, W.C.
  • Weston, Eugene
  • Williams, Kale
  • Woods, W.W.
  • Woods, Donald
  • Wright, Preston
  • Whitney, Joseph
  • Williams, Lewis
  • Womer, John
  • Wragg, Francis
  • Wright, Preston
  • VanMeter, A.D.
  • Vrdolyak, Edward R.
  • Vickers, C.L.
  • Vigeant, Xavier
Box 3   Folder 12

Children's Letters to Kramer, 1997

Box 3   Folder 13

Adolf Kramer Letters, 1916-1928

  • Coolidge, Calvin
  • Davis, Abel
  • McCarron, John F.
  • McChord, Charles C.
  • Pershing, John J.
  • Roosevelt, Theodore
  • Rosenwald, Julius
  • Sherman, Lawrence Y.
  • Thompson, William Hale
Box 4   Folder 1

Correspondence, Presidency of the Housing Council, 1956

  • Arenberg, A.L.
  • Berland, Abel E.
  • Burch, A.T.
  • Crohn, Nathan
  • Dienner, John A.
  • Dovenmuehle, George
  • Greenbaum, Michael
  • Hargrave, E.E.
  • Heiskell, Andrew
  • Kennedy, Robert
  • Klein, Robert H.
  • McCollum, John P.
  • Marcus, Richard E.
  • Meyer, Pearl
  • Merriam, Robert E.
  • Millman, Harry
  • Shambaugh, George E.
  • Shlossman, Norman
  • Spacek, Leonard
  • Waters, Murray
  • Wertheimer, Rose

Series III: Speeches

Box 4   Folder 2

Speeches, 1930s

Box 4   Folder 3

Speeches, 1940s

Box 4   Folder 4

Speeches, 1950-1953

Box 4   Folder 5

Speeches, 1954-1959

Box 4   Folder 6

Speeches, 1960-1962

Box 4   Folder 7

Speeches, 1963-1965

Box 5   Folder 1

Speeches, 1963-1965

Box 5   Folder 2

Speeches, 1970s

Box 5   Folder 3

Speeches, 1980s

Box 5   Folder 4

Speeches, 1990s

Box 5   Folder 5

Speeches, undated

Series IV: Housing, General

Box 5   Folder 6

Advisory Council on Housing and Community Planning, 1958-1961

Box 5   Folder 7

American Society of Real Estate Counselors, 1965

Box 5   Folder 8

Brazil Housing, 1965

Box 5   Folder 9

Brazil Housing, 1964

Box 5   Folder 10

Brazil Housing, 1964-1965

Box 5   Folder 11

Brazil Housing, 1964-1965

Box 6   Folder 1

Civil Rights Bill, 1966

Box 6   Folder 2

Civil Rights Bill, 1966

Box 6   Folder 3

Clippings, 1930s

Box 6   Folder 4

Clippings, 1940s

Box 6   Folder 5

Clippings, 1950s

Box 6   Folder 6

Clippings, Federal Housing Administration Scandal, 1950s

Box 6   Folder 7

Clippings, Federal Housing Administration Scandal, 1950s

Box 6   Folder 8

Clippings, 1960s

Box 6   Folder 9

Clippings, 1960s-1970s

Box 6   Folder 10

Clippings, 1980s

Box 6   Folder 11

Clippings, 1990s

Box 6   Folder 12

Commercial Club Election, 1966

Box 6   Folder 13

Cuba, 1962

Box 6   Folder 14

Defense Housing, 1940s

Box 7   Folder 1

European Housing Tour, 1969

Box 7   Folder 2

Fair Housing Act, 1979-1981

Box 7   Folder 3

Fair Housing Act, 1980-1981

Box 7   Folder 4

Fair Housing, Clippings and Documents, 1974-1980

Box 7   Folder 5

Federal Housing Authority Investigation, 1954

Box 7   Folder 6

Harvard, 1962-1966

Box 7   Folder 7

Housing and Urban Development, 1965-1966

Box 7   Folder 8

Housing and Urban Development, 1966

Box 7   Folder 9

Housing and Urban Development, 1966

Box 8   Folder 1

Housing Pamphlets and Articles, 1945-1991

Box 8   Folder 2

Hyde Park Hilton, 1981

Box 8   Folder 3

Illinois Development, 1968

Box 8   Folder 4

Institute of Medicine, 1970

Box 8   Folder 5

Johnson-Humphrey Presidential Ticket, 1964

Box 8   Folder 6

Joint Negro Appeal, 1965

Box 8   Folder 7

Lyndon Bains Johnson Library, Ferd Kramer Materials, 1964-1968, 2001

Box 8   Folder 8

Metropolitan Housing Council, 1946-1951, 1999

Box 8   Folder 9

National Organization of Housing Officials, 1952

Box 8   Folder 10

National Organization of Housing Officials, 1952

Box 8   Folder 11

Panama Canal Treaty, 1977-1978

Box 8   Folder 12

Partee, 1973

Box 9   Folder 1

Presidential Commission on Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1964-1965

Box 9   Folder 2

Real Estate Research Report and Fellowship, 1973-1980

Box 9   Folder 3

Real Estate Research Report and Fellowship, 1971-1977

Box 9   Folder 4

Michael Reese Hospital, undated

Series V: Racial Integration in Housing

Box 10   Folder 1

Committee on Financing Minority Housing Report, 1955

Box 10   Folder 2

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1962

Box 10   Folder 3

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1963

Box 10   Folder 4

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1963

Box 10   Folder 5

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1964

Box 10   Folder 6

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1965

Box 10   Folder 7

Equal Opportunity in Housing Reports, 1965

Box 10   Folder 8

Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1967

Box 10   Folder 9

Equal Opportunity in Housing Pamphlets, 1964

Box 10   Folder 10

Integration File, 1958-1969

Box 10   Folder 11

Integration File, 1969-1970

Box 10   Folder 12

Integration File, 1970

Box 10   Folder 13

Integration File, 1970

Box 10   Folder 14

Quotas for Integration, Memorandum of Law, 1970

Box 11   Folder 1

Integration File, 1971

Box 11   Folder 2

Integration File, 1972

Box 11   Folder 3

Integration File, 1972

Box 11   Folder 4

Integration File, 1972

Box 11   Folder 5

Integration File, 1973

Box 11   Folder 6

Integration File, 1974

Box 11   Folder 7

Integration File, 1975

Box 11   Folder 8

Integration File, 1975

Box 11   Folder 9

Integration File, 1976

Box 11   Folder 10

Integration File, 1977-1978

Box 11   Folder 11

Integration File, Prairie Shores, 1978

Box 12   Folder 1

Integration File, 1979

Box 12   Folder 2

Integration File, 1979

Box 12   Folder 3

Integration File, 1980-1981

Box 12   Folder 4

Integration File, 1982

Box 12   Folder 5

Integration File, 1983

Box 12   Folder 6

Integration File, 1984

Box 12   Folder 7

Integration File, 1985-1986

Box 12   Folder 8

Integration File, 1986-1988

Box 12   Folder 9

Integration Speeches, 1965-1971

Series VI: Urban America, Inc.

Box 13   Folder 1

Architectural Forum, 1969

Box 13   Folder 2

Brochures, 1968

Box 13   Folder 3

Brochures, 1965-1968

Box 13   Folder 4

Budget, 1968-1969

Box 13   Folder 5

Chamber of Commerce, 1957-1964

Box 13   Folder 6

Conference on Development Funds, 1967

Box 13   Folder 7

Contributions, 1966-1970

Box 13   Folder 8

Correspondence, A-D, 1966-1969

  • Adams, Mary Alyce
  • Alexander, Cecil
  • Baron, Irwin
  • Boucher, William
  • Brownstein, P.N.
  • Boyd, Alan
  • Christner, Alan
  • Cole, Albert
  • Currier, Stephen R.
  • Cheverton, Rosemary
  • Conway, Jack T.
  • Coogan, Thomas P.
  • Crown, Lester
  • Currier, Stephen R.
  • Dempsey, William M.
  • Folder 9: Correspondence, E-H, 1966-1967
  • Eddy, Jane Lee
  • Gallagher, John R.
  • Geckeler, Chris
  • Gottlieb, Harry N.
  • Hecht, Fred
  • Heiskell, Andrew
  • Hirshon, William R.
  • Jones, Robert N.
Box 13   Folder 10

Correspondence, K, 1966-1968

  • Keenan, Joseph D.
  • Kemp, William D
  • Kise, James Nelson
  • Kitchen, Lewis
  • Klutznick, Philip
  • Katzenmeyer, Robert G.
  • Krum, Margaret
Box 14   Folder 1

Lash, James E., 1964-1966

Box 14   Folder 2

Correspondence, M, 1964-1966

  • McGrath, Joseph B., 1964-1966
  • Marks, F. Raymond
  • Mills, Alfred
  • Moore, Donald E.
  • Moses, Stephen D.
Box 14   Folder 3

Correspondence N, , 1966-1968

  • Nielsen, Aksel
  • Norton, C. McKim
Box 14   Folder 4

Correspondence P-S, 1965-1970

  • Pease, Robert B
  • Redding, William
  • Rosenberg, Sidney
  • Rouse, James W.
  • Sanford, Terry
  • Semer, Milton
  • Shelly, Joseph B.
  • Slayton, William
  • Sutherland, D. Claire
Box 14   Folder 5

Correspondence, T-Y, 1964-1968

  • Taft, Seth
  • Twomey, James P.
  • Webster, Milton P.
  • Whatley, Brown L.
  • Woodward, G.H. Jack
  • Ylvisaker, Paul N.
Box 14   Folder 6

Director's Bulletin with Photograph, undated

Box 14   Folder 7

Elder Housing, undated

Box 14   Folder 8

Five Year Plan, 1967

Box 14   Folder 9

Ford Foundation, 1965-1967

Box 14   Folder 10

Ford Foundation, 1968

Box 15   Folder 1

Ford Foundation, 1965

Box 15   Folder 2

Ford Foundation, 1966

Box 15   Folder 3

Heiskell Award, 1961-1965

Box 15   Folder 4

Local Development, 1966

Box 15   Folder 5

Management Committee, 1968

Box 15   Folder 6

Memos, 1966-1968

Box 15   Folder 7

National Symposium, 1963-1965

Box 15   Folder 8

Newark Conference, 1959

Box 15   Folder 9

Notes, 1965-1966

Box 15   Folder 10

Reports, 1966-1968

Box 15   Folder 11

Reports, 1966

Box 16   Folder 1

Reports, 1966-1967

Box 16   Folder 2

Stern Family Fund, 1965-1974

Box 16   Folder 3

Stern Family Fund, 1966, 1981

Box 16   Folder 4

Stern Family Fund, 1964-1965

Box 16   Folder 5

Solicitation, Mortgage Bankers, 1967-1968

Box 16   Folder 6

Urban Coalition Meeting, 1967-1969

Series VII: Dearborn Park

Box 17   Folder 1

Brochures, 1976-1993

Box 17   Folder 2

Brochures, 1974-1992

Box 17   Folder 3

Chicago 21 Corporation, Minutes, 1974-1977

Box 17   Folder 4

Chicago 21 Corporation, Board of Directors, 1973-1976

Box 17   Folder 5

Chicago 21 Corporation, Sales and Marketing, 1976-1977

Box 17   Folder 6

Chicago 21, Stockholders, 1972-1974

Box 17   Folder 7

Chicago 21, Planning, 1976-1977

Box 17   Folder 8

Chicago 21, Development Plan and South Loop Guidelines

Box 17   Folder 9

Chicago 21, 1977

Box 18   Folder 1

Dearborn Park, Board of Directors, Minutes, 1977-1994

Box 18   Folder 2

Dearborn Park, Executive Committee, Minutes, 1977-1994

Box 18   Folder 3

Dearborn Park, Executive Committee, Minutes, 1977-1994

Box 18   Folder 4

Dearborn Park, Shareholder Meeting, 1977-1994

Box 18   Folder 5

Correspondence, A-H, 1986-1990

  • Ayers, Thomas G.
  • Bailey, Forrest
  • Biesen, Carolyn
  • Bishop, Virginia
  • Bloom, Mary
  • Booth, Laurence
  • Bruce, Eugene J.
  • Carlson, Stephen C.
  • City Tavern
  • Coston, James E.
  • Coulter, Thomas
  • Davey, John P.
  • Dean, Helen
  • Dee, Ivan
  • Earle, William C.
  • Epstein, Daniel N.
  • Ferrera, Salvatore
  • Foody, Jan
  • Ford, Frederick
  • Furda, Gregory
  • Gaunaurd, Henry
  • Goluska, Kim
  • Grip, Jeffrey C.
  • Hall, Lorie
  • Hardaway, James
  • Heilbrunn, Jerry
Box 18   Folder 6

Correspondence, K-Z, 1986-1989

  • Kantoff, Sheldon Lee
  • Klutznick, Phillip M.
  • Kramer, Anthony F.
  • Kramer, Douglas
  • Kramer, Ferdinand
  • Kyle, [?]
  • Levin, Daniel
  • Licata, Anthony
  • Livingston, Frank H.
  • Ludgin, Mary
  • Matalon, Liz
  • Nugent, Michael D.
  • Netzky, Theodore
  • Odower, Mark
  • Pittman, Carolyn
  • Schmidt, Shirley J.
  • Smith, Marjorie
  • Stephens, Lynn
  • Stone, Donald C.
  • Tigerman, Stanley
  • Tinerella, Margie
  • Thomas, Richard L.
  • Vaughan, Marie Emily
  • Yiehiuska, Stefania
Box 18   Folder 7

Developments, 12th and State, 1984

Box 18   Folder 8

Developments, #169, 1988

Box 19   Folder 1

Developments, Dearborn Station, 1987-1990

Box 19   Folder 2

Developments, 899 S. Plymouth Court, 1985-1987

Box 19   Folder 3

Developments, The Oaks, 1983-1992

Box 19   Folder 4

Developer Response to Environmental Security Report, 1985

Box 19   Folder 5

Food Stores, 1979-1980

Box 19   Folder 6

Index, 1978-1985

Box 19   Folder 7

Marketing, Sales, and Rentals, 1985-1986

Box 19   Folder 8

Mortgage Information, 1981-1989

Box 19   Folder 9

Mortgage, 1986-1987

Box 19   Folder 10

Public Hearing Notice, 1986-1987

Box 19   Folder 11

Publicity

Box 19   Folder 12

Publicity

Box 20   Folder 1

Reports, South Loop, 1974

Box 20   Folder 2

Reports, Dearborn Park, 1976

Box 20   Folder 3

Report, Dearborn Park Market Survey, 1976

Box 20   Folder 4

Report, Planned Unit Development, 1977

Box 20   Folder 5

Report, Economic Development in Chicago, 1981

Box 20   Folder 6

Report, Chicago 21 Plan and Central Area Plan

Box 20   Folder 7

Report, Central Area Plan, 1983

Box 20   Folder 8

Report, Near South Development, TIF, 1994

Box 20   Folder 9

School at Dearborn Park, Articles, 1987-1991

Box 20   Folder 10

School at Dearborn Park, 1984-1990

Box 21   Folder 1

School at Dearborn Park, 1984-1990

Box 21   Folder 2

School at Dearborn Park, Community School Downtown Report, 1974

Box 21   Folder 3

Street Names, 1978-1979

Box 21   Folder 4

Visual, Photographs, undated

Box 21   Folder 5

Visual, Photographs and Film, undated

Box 21   Folder 6

Visual, Photographs for Lois Wille, At Home in the Loop, undated

Box 21   Folder 7

Visual, Ariel Views, undated

Box 21   Folder 8

Visual, Negatives, undated

Box 21   Folder 9

Visual, Photographs by Kramer, undated

Box 21   Folder 10

Visual, Slides by Kramer, undated

Box 22   Folder 1

Visual, Slides, undated

Box 22   Folder 2

Visual, Slides, undated

Box 22   Folder 3

Visual, Slides, undated

Box 22   Folder 4

Documents from Philip Klutznick, 1972-1974

Box 23   Folder 1

Documents from Philip Klutznick, 1974

Box 23   Folder 2

Documents from Philip Klutznick, 1974-1976

Box 23   Folder 3

Documents from Philip Klutznick, 1977-1978

Series VIII: University of Chicago

Box 23   Folder 4

Development, 1979-1984

Box 23   Folder 5

Development, 1979-198

Box 24   Folder 1

Fundraising, 1992-1994

Box 24   Folder 2

Investment Committee, 1969-1971

Box 24   Folder 3

Investment, 1973

Box 24   Folder 4

Investment, 1973-1974

Box 24   Folder 5

Investment, 1975-1976

Box 24   Folder 6

Investment, 1977-1980

Box 24   Folder 7

Investment Committee, Heizer, 1969-1976

Box 24   Folder 8

Investment Committee, Treasurer Search, 1968-1981

Box 24   Folder 9

Investment, Report, undated

Box 24   Folder 10

Lisle Letters, undated

Box 24   Folder 11

Planning, 1979

Box 25   Folder 1

Policy, 1979

Box 25   Folder 2

President's Fund, 25th Anniversary, 1989

Box 25   Folder 3

President's Fund, Development Committee, 1974-1979

Box 25   Folder 4

President's Fund, Petrie, 1958, 1973-1979

Box 25   Folder 5

Protests, 1969

Box 25   Folder 6

Real Estate, 1972-1977

Box 25   Folder 7

Real Estate, 1972

Box 25   Folder 8

Reports, General, 1982

Box 25   Folder 9

University Alumni Service Award, 1997

Box 25   Folder 10

University of Chicago Magazine, 1969

Box 25   Folder 11

University Planning Publications, 1979-1985

Box 25   Folder 12

Windemere Redevelopment, 1977-1979

Series IX: Audio Visual and Oversized Items

Box 26

Video Tapes

Box 27

Urban American Ad Campaign Mock Ups, 1968

Box 27

Chicago Central Area Committee, Progress Report, 1993

Box 27

Chicago 21: A Plan for the Central Area Communities, 1973

Box 27

Draper and Kramer, 1943

Box 27

"There are no little plans: Aging Kramer pushes Kenwood rebirth," Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1988, color reproduction (2)

Series X: Lois Wille, At Home in the Loop, Interviews and Research Materials

Box 28   Folder 1

Documents, 1972-1974

Box 28   Folder 2

Documents, 1975-1976

Box 28   Folder 3

Documents, 1977

Box 28   Folder 4

Documents, 1978-1979

Box 28   Folder 5

Documents, 1980-1982

Box 28   Folder 6

Documents, 1983-1984

Box 28   Folder 7

Documents, 1985-1989

Box 28   Folder 8

Excerpts from Taped Interviews, 1994-1996

Box 28   Folder 9

Excerpts from Taped Interviews, 1994-1996

Box 28   Folder 10

Excerpts from Taped Interviews, 1994-1996

Box 29   Folder 1

Excerpts from Taped Interviews, 1994-1996

Box 29   Folder 2

Excerpts from Taped Interviews, 1994-1996

Box 30

Cassette tapes of interviews

Box 31

Cassette tapes of interviews

Box 32

Cassette tapes of interviews