Irving B. Harris papers, 1958-1986.

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Irving B. Harris papers, 1958-1986.

Correspondence, meeting minutes, and other personal papers of Irving B. Harris relative to his service as an officer, board member, fund-raiser, and philanthropist for the Chicago Educational Television Association, Erikson Institute, Family Focus, The Institute for Pschoanalysis, National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Ounce of Prevention Fund, Pittway Corporation Charitable Foundation, Kids Pepp, Parents Too Soon Tracking System, Prime Time School TV, and the University of Chicago; and to Mr. Harris' other activities related to his efforts to alleviate child abuse and neglect and other social concerns.

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American Jewish Committee

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Founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution or disaster affecting them at home or abroad. ...

Harris, Irving B. (Irving Brooks), 1910-2004

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Business executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Irving Brooks Harris : oral history, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597823 Mr. Harris was a successful Minnesota businessman who moved to Chicago in 1948 and in 1962 with his brother Neison gained controlling interest of the Pittway Corporation in 1962. In addition to his business interests, he became a major philanthropist, especially in the areas of child development, ...

Family Focus, inc.

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Prime Time School TV.

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Pittway Corporation Charitable Foundation.

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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...

Erikson Institute.

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National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (U.S.)

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Chicago Educational Television Association

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Ounce of Prevention Fund (Chicago, Ill.)

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Institute for Psychoanalysis

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