Jerome A. Gross papers, ca. 1940-1995.

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Jerome A. Gross papers, ca. 1940-1995.

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Journals (1953-1994), correspondence (1957-1991), photographs, and other papers of Jerome A. Gross, who was a veteran, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and a gay man who died from complications resulting from HIV in 1995. The bulk of the collection is comprised of journals and correspondence that document the daily activities of Gross, mostly in Chicago, and begin when he was a college student. Some correspondence relates to the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington (D.C.), where he worked for a while, and to the Boston Association of Hungarian Students. The photographs are mostly black and white images of various locations and people (ca. 1940-1970).

6 linear ft. (15 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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Gross, Jerome A., ca. 1927-1995.

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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...