Guide to the University of Chicago Scrapbooks Collection 1885-1990


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Table of Contents

• Descriptive Summary
• Information on Use
• Access
• Citation
• Scope Note
• Related Resources
• Subject Headings
• INVENTORY
• Series I: News Clippings
• Series II: Campus Life
• Series III: Students

Descriptive Summary

Information on Use

Access

The collection is open for research.

Citation

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

Scope Note

This is an artificial collection containing scrapbooks compiled and donated by University of Chicago--affiliated individuals and offices. The collection is divided into three series.

The scrapbooks in Series I, New Clippings, contain articles about the university, including its founding and initial funding. Later books contain articles about the death of President Harper, the building of Harper Memorial Library and Rockefeller Chapel, and about the University's early 20th-century scientific discoveries and achievements.

Series II, Campus Life, contains scrapbooks of event programs, tickets, official bulletins and announcements, and other ephemera.

Series III, Students, contains scrapbooks and scrapbook pages compiled by university students. Volume grouping indicates scrapbooks believed to be compiled by the same entity, relating to the same subject, and/or received by the library at the same time. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically within each series, with the exception of Scrapbooks 41 and 42, late additions to the collection.

Related Resources

The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:

University News Office. Records

University of Chicago. Office of the President. Scrapbooks

Subject Headings

• University of Chicago -- Office of the President
• University of Chicago -- History
• University of Chicago -- Students

INVENTORY

This series contains scrapbooks of news clippings documenting the University's founding, the hiring of the first faculty members, and the death of President Harper. There are a number of articles about John D. Rockefeller and the University's initial funding. Of particular interest is a book of political cartoons dealing with the relation between John D. Rockefeller and William Rainey Harper, and a large collection of articles about women voters in the 1924 election. The scrapbooks also cover important events in the life of the University, such as the building of Harper Memorial Library, Yerkes Observatory, and Rockefeller Chapel, and the scientific discoveries and scholarly findings of University faculty. There are three scrapbooks of clippings dealing with University athletics, including the end of the football program in 1938.

This series contains scrapbooks of materials relating to campus events and student life. There are invitations to and programs for campus events, university bulletins and reports, and internal memos. Among the other ephemera in the books are tickets, picture postcards, registration cards, and newspaper clippings. Books of clippings exclusively related to athletics or campus groups are included in this series, rather than Series I.

This series contains scrapbooks (and excerpts from scrapbooks) compiled by University of Chicago students. Two contain event programs, photographs, clippings, and other ephemera. Scrapbook 39 documents the Student Lecture Service, with information about the speakers brought to campus and lecture-related ephemera.