Records, 1972-1974.

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Records, 1972-1974.

Consists of the files of Albert P. Weisman, Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs and Director of the Office of Public Information at the University of Chicago. Contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports. Correspondents incude Richard J. Daley, Fairfax Cone, and D.J.R. Bruckner.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7649407

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976

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Bruckner, D.J.R.

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A monument to the Swedish biologist Carl von Linné (1707-1778), a replica of a work by Johan Dyfverman, was given to the City of Chicago by the area's Swedish-American community in 1891. The monument stood for most of the twentieth century at the corner of Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park. Beginning in the fifties, Swedish-American organizations in the Chicago area began seeking out a potential new location for the monument. In 1975, George Beadle, President Emeritu...

University of Chicago. Office of Public Information.

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University of Chicago. Office of Public Relations.

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Weisman, Albert

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Cone, Fairfax M., 1903-

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Advertising executive. Born 1903. A.B., University of California, 1926. Executive vice president, Lord & Thomas. Founder-Chairman, Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising Agency. Trustee, University of Chicago, 1950-1970; Chairman of the Board, 1963-1970; Chairman, Council of the Graduate School of Business; Chairman, Council on Medical and Biological Research; member, Visiting Committee on the Humanities. Died 1977. From the description of Papers, 1945-1971 (inclusive). (Universit...