William Benton (1900-1973) Advertising executive, publisher, university administrator, U.S. senator and diplomat. Contains personal and professional correspondence, reports, legal documents, account books, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, research notes, transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, awards, and mementos. Papers highlight Benton's business and investment successes as well as his contributions to education and public affairs. Includes material relating to Encyclopaedia Britannica (1941-1973); Encyclopaedia Britannica Films (1939-1973); America First Committee; the Committee for Economic Development (1942-1973); Muzak (1941-1973); Benton & Bowles (1925-1973); the U.S. State Department (1941-1973); UNESCO (1946-1973); the McCarthy era; the establishment of Voice of America; the University of Chicago Board of Trustees; the Benton Foundation (1958-1973) commitments to Brandeis University, the University of Bridgeport, the University of Connecticut, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and the American Shakespeare Festival; and Connecticut and national politics (1948-1973).
James Blair, correspondent for Philadelphia mercantile house, Stewart, Nesbitt & Co., operating primarily out of the Caribbean island of Dominica in the late 18th century. This collection contains letters written Blair from 1781 to 1792. Also included in the collection is a letter from William Lawrence to Alexander Nesbitt.
Walter J. Blum (1918-1994), A.B.'39, J.D.'41 University of Chicago, spent the bulk of his career at the University of Chicago Law School. He was appointed assistant professor in 1946. A well-respected and widely published expert in the fields of tax law, insurance, bankruptcy, and corporate reorganization, Blum often lent his expertise to both the United States government and private organizations. The Papers cover many different aspects of Blum's professional career: scholarly writings and research, teaching materials, extensive correspondence, and materials related to his recurring role as a consultant to both public and private organizations.
David Chandler (fl. 1838-1857) was a shopkeeper in Newburgh, New York in the mid-1800s. This collection contains a number of account books and journals kept between 1838 and 1857.
Ronald H. Coase (1910-2013) was an influential economist and one of the founders of the field of law and economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1991 in recognition of his work on transaction costs, firms, property rights, and institutional economics. Coase held positions at the London School of Economics, the University of Buffalo, and the University of Virginia before finishing his career at the University of Chicago Law School. His work covered a wide range of topics, including public utilities, the post office, broadcasting, lighthouses, and the economic development of China. This collection primarily documents Coase's research, writing, and correspondence with colleagues. It includes drafts, typescripts, reprints, text of lectures, notes, reports, letters, and research files. Also included are photographs, clippings, personal ephemera, artifacts, and copies of academic journal articles. The collection ranges in date from 1805-2013, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950-2010.
Donald J. Dewey (1923-2002) was a professor of economics at Duke University and Columbia University. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago in 1943. The materials in this collection were gathered by Dewey in preparation for an article he wrote on economist Frank H. Knight: "Frank Knight before Cornell: some light on the dark years," Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology 8 (1990): 1-38.
Aaron Director was a professor in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1965. His papers include correspondence, notes, and drafts of essays, lectures, and policy statements spanning the years 1932 to 1994. Much of the correspondence focuses on American monetary policy and administrative matters regarding the Journal of Law and Economics. The series covering Director's research and writing includes a broad range of notes, drafts, annotations, and academic materials. Additionally, the Aaron Director Papers include a series devoted to materials attributed to the economist and Nobel Laureate George J. Stigler. Director and Stigler frequently collaborated on works of economic theory, and Director preserved a significant collection of Stigler's papers. These materials include notes, drafts, and publications produced over the length of Stigler's tenure at the University of Chicago.
Paul H. Douglas, economist, author, professor, senator. The Paul H. Douglas Papers consist of letters from Douglas to Gregg and Julia Lewis (1938-1946), reprints of his articles, and a miscellaneous collection of photographs, notes, and other materials relating to Douglas.
The French Currency Collection contains monetary notes and short manuscripts on the history of French Revolutionary paper moneys. This collection includes assignats, promesses de mandats, and billets de confiance. The French Currency Collection dates from 1791 to 1796.
Earl J. Hamilton, professor, economist, writer. The Earl J. Hamilton Papers consist of correspondence (1953-1957), corrected page proofs for War and Prices in Spain (1927) and Money, Prices, and Wages in Valencia, Aragon, and Navarre, 1350-1500 (1935), typescripts, reprints, and memorabilia.
Bert F. Hoselitz (1913-1995), economist, researched and taught at the University of Chicago from 1945 until 1978. An interdisciplinary pioneer, his research focused principally on cultural and sociological factors in economic development. The Papers contain materials related to research projects, professional correspondence, teaching materials as well as documents, correspondence and manuscripts related to his involvement in the Norman Wait Harris Foundation, the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change and the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Norman Maurice Kaplan, economist, professor. The Norman Maurice Kaplan Papers consist of course notes, syllabi, and miscellaneous papers in economics collected during Kaplan's graduate years at the University of Chicago. The papers also contain notes from courses at Stanford University and the Graduate School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Philip M. Klutznick, businessman, philanthropist, diplomat, government official and Jewish leader. The Philip M. Klutznick Papers comprise 175.5 linear feet and include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, published materials, photographs, scrapbooks, architectural plans, awards and mementos and audio and video recordings. The papers document Klutznick's career as a real estate developer, philanthropist, United Nations representative in the 1950s and 1960s, President of B'nai B'rith, 1953-59 and the World Jewish Congress, 1977-1979, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1979-1981 and leader of the American and international Jewish community.
Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972) was an economist, professor, social philosopher, and author. The collection includes biographical material and documents pertaining to Knight's education; correspondence; copies of his publications; drafts of published and unpublished essays and articles, public lectures, and criticism; course lecture notes and classroom materials; and writings by others collected by Knight. The papers primarily document Knight's writing, lecturing, and career as a professor of political economics and related social sciences at the University of Chicago, as well as his role as one of the founders of the "Chicago school" of economics.
Ferdinand Kramer (1901-2002), real estate developer, devoted much of his life to projects for urban renewal and housing integration on Chicago's South Side. The papers include correspondence and speeches on issues of urban development, as well as materials relating to his work as a member of Urban American Inc., and as a developer for the Dearborn Park development in Chicago's South Loop. The collection also includes an autograph collection, and a small amount of correspondence of Ferdinand Kramer's father, Adolf Kramer.
Four autograph letters, signed, from Fr. V. Krug, Philadelphia, to Samuel Williston, button manufacturer, East Hampton, Massachusetts. Topic of letters relates to the button trade.
J. Laurence Laughlin (1850-933), Professor of Political Economy, editor of the Journal of Political Economy. The J. Laurence Laughlin Papers consist of a small collection of writings, correspondence, lectures notes and miscellany. The primary focus of the collection centers on two economic controversies in which Laughlin was involved concerning U. S. silver monetary policy and the legality and benefits of labor unions.
Stephan Butler Leacock (1869-1944), economist and humorist. This collection contains a humorous essay on the University of Chicago, a paper on Prussian taxation, notes from a course in U. S. financial history, and a thesis on the subject of laissez-faire.
James Lorie, professor of business administration. The James Lorie Papers consist of correspondence, articles, two course syllabi, and an elaborately designed tribute booklet.
Typescript report with handwritten annotations on the prevalence and control of industrial smoke. Presented at the Manufacturers of Toledo meeting, 1892 Dec. 12. Includes clipping from The Chicago Tribune, "Year's Smoke War," 1892 Dec. 17.
Richmond Mayo-Smith, 1854-1901, was a professor of political economy at Columbia University, and author of Emigration and Immigration, 1890; Statistics and Sociology, 1895; and Statistics and Economics, 1899. The collection, mainly transcripts, includes general correspondence, letters to his parents and wife, miscellaneous personal documents, newspaper reviews, obituaries and letters of condolence to Mrs. Mayo-Smith.
This collection contains the papers of Soia Mentschikoff, law professor at the University of Chicago, Dean of the Law School at the University of Miami, and one of the chief drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code. The collection includes correspondence, articles, legal documents, teaching materials, and drafts and revisions of the Code. Material in the collection dates from 1913-1987, with the bulk dating from 1950-1984.
Lloyd Appleton Metzler (1913-1980) was an economist, professor, and author. He was a faculty member of the University of Chicago from 1947 until his death. The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts, and notes for unidentified books; a draft of his Harvard thesis; and reprints of Metzler's articles for The Review of Economic Statistics and Econometrica. The materials date approximately from the 1940s to the 1950s.
The Walter P. Paepcke Papers consist of 72 linear feet and include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, financial documents, publications, scrapbooks, ledgers, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The collection also includes information pertaining to the Container Corporation of America, a business founded by Walter Paepcke in 1926. In addition to materials that refer to Paepcke's paperboard container business, the papers also document some of his philanthropic, cultural, and educational interests. Included among them is the Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, which organized a festival in 1949 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Included among Paepcke's other cultural and educational activities are materials relating to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The AIHS, founded in 1950, became an intellectual and cultural center of continuing education that provided seminars, lectures, and forums conducted by leaders in commerce, industry, science, education, religion, and government.
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767 –1832) French economist. Best known for Say's Law, he was a strong voice in the liberal tradition, arguing in favor of competition, free trade, and deregulation. The collection contains a series of correspondence between Say and a number of influential French writers of the time. The letters are mostly undated, though the dates available show the letters date from 1794 to 1821.
Advertising executive Arthur W. Schultz (A.B. 1967) joined the staff of Foote, Cone & Belding Communications as an account management trainee in 1948, working his way up to chief executive officer of the company in 1970. The speeches, correspondence, business records, and other material in this collection document Arthur W. Schultz's career as an advertising executive, and also includes material broadly related to Foote, Cone & Belding, and founder Fairfax M. Cone.
Elizabeth J. Slotkin, labor economist and statistician. The collection consists of one folder of material, dating from the period 1957-1959. It consists of a paper written by Elizabeth J. Slotkin on new industrial employees and correspondence relating to that paper.
Ernest W. Stirn received an MA in history from the University of Chicago in 1922 and later worked as a statistical consultant for businesses and the government. From 1931 to 1943 he was involved with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Bankruptcy Reorganization. The University of Chicago Press published a bibliography he had prepared on Robert LaFollette (1937). Among the papers are letters written to and by his father, Henry J. Stirn, printer and expert on the collecting of old violins and stamps.
Contains alphabetical subject files of Leon C. Marshall (1912-1929), qualifying examinations (1947-1952), comprehensive examinations (1934-1947), and files of Theodore W. Schultz (1930-1962).
The Wilson family was a prominent Chicago business family in the early half of the 20th century. Wilson & Co. meatpacking business was founded by Thomas Edward Wilson and evolved over the years to include the manufacture of sporting goods, pharmaceuticals, and industry chemicals. The majority of the collection contains biographical information, personal ephemera, correspondence, and photographs belonging to two generations of the Wilson family. The collection also includes a small amount of company records for Wilson & Co. and its subsidiary, Wilson Sporting Goods. Materials date between circa 1850 and 2005, with the bulk of the material dating between 1900 and 1950.