Harold Haydon papers, 1918-1988.

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Harold Haydon papers, 1918-1988.

Personal and professional correspondence, copies of articles by Harold Haydon, press releases, topical files, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning Haydon's career as a professor at the University of Chicago, George Williams College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Indiana University Northwest; as an art critic for the Chicago Sun-Times; as an artist; and as a member and supporter of various artists' advocacy organizations.

125.25 linear ft. (257 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8081951

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago sun-times

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Indiana university Northwest

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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...

George Williams College (Downers Grove, Ill.)

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The origins of George Williams College date back to the 1880s, when the YMCA established a series of week-long institutes to train men going into YMCA work. By that time Robert Weidensall, a YMCA leader who had been commissioned to develop the YMCA movement in the western sector of the United States had for several years been pressing for the idea of a permanent training institute that he envisioned would one day play the same role for YMCA professionals that law school played for t...

Haydon, Harold

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Harold Haydon (1909-) is an art critic and painter from, Chicago, Ill. From the description of Oral history interview with Harold Haydon, 1988 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646396953 Harold Haydon (1909-1994) was an artist, professor, and art critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. From the description of Harold Haydon papers, 1918-1988. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713342004 b. 1909; d. 1994. From the description of Arti...

Art Institute of Chicago. School

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