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We have been busy arranging and describing archival collections! Here are a few recently processed collections that now have online finding aids for your researching pleasure.

Roger Isaacs Collection of Bud Freeman Papers 

Lawrence “Bud” Freeman (b. April 13th, 1906, d. March 15th, 1991) was a jazz tenor saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois, who lived and played all over the world, including New York City, London, Paris, Chile, and Japan. Freeman was a leader of the “Chicago style” of jazz, inspired by musicians like Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jimmie Noone, Bessie Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke as well as the New Orleans jazz scene.

Walter Baily Papers

Walter Lewis Baily Jr. (1930-2013) was a mathematician and professor at The University of Chicago. During his career, Baily made numerous contributions to algebraic geometry, the most important of which is known as the Baily-Borel Compactification. 

Noah S. Brannen Papers

Noah Samuel Brannen (1924- 2013) was an ordained minister, missionary, translator, and professor. The collection contains correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, and publications pertaining to Brannen's translations of and writings on the works of various Japanese authors, especially Rinzo Shiina (a post-WWII Japanese Christian author).

Charles A. Bill Collection of Yousuf Karsh Photographs

This collection contains photographs by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), collected by Charles Anton Bill. Yousuf Karsh, a Turkish and Canadian photographer, is best known for his portrait photographs of significant cultural and political figures. This collection contains Karsh's silver gelatin prints of Winston Churchill, Pope John XXIII, and John F. Kennedy. 

Karen Landahl Papers

Karen Landahl (1951-2003) was a linguist who taught at the University of Chicago, in the Department of Linguistics, from 1982 to 2003. She was one of the first people to show that children have different styles of acquiring language. At the University of Chicago she worked on the connections between phonetics, computers, and language learning. She was an early adopter of computers in her field. Landahl had a wide variety of other linguistic interests, including Crouzon and Apert syndromes, the study of linguistic "others" such as feral children, sign-language using chimps and humans without tongues or with cleft palates, and the origins of human language. Tragically, she was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and her illness rendered her unable to speak. As a result, she moved from classroom teaching to spearhead a program in educational technology as Associate Dean for Computing and Language Technologies. Here she used her knowledge of speech perception and production to become a leader in the use of computers in language teaching. 

University of Chicago Language Laboratories and Archives Records

The Language Laboratories and Archives at the University of Chicago, and its current iteration, the Center for the Study of Language, provide language learning services and facilities for both faculty and students. This collection contains records of the various iterations of the lab, from 1952 to 2004. The collection may be of interest to those interested in the development of language technologies, or in the history of language learning at the University of Chicago.

Irene Tufts Mead Collection of Alice Boughton Photographs

The Irene Tufts Mead Collection contains five portrait photographs by Alice Boughton (1865-1943), a member of the Photo-Secession Movement. All of the images date to 1904. Subjects include George Herbert Mead and members of the Dewey family. George Herbert Mead was Irene Tufts Mead's father-in-law.

Roman Weil Collection of Boris Artzybasheff

This collection contains illustrations by the Russian-American artist Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) produced from 1929 to 1965, and collected by Roman Weil (b. 1940), an emeritus professor at the Booth School of Business. The material in the collection ranges from magazine covers, industrial advertisements, a map, large advertising poster prints, and a woodblock print.

Ruby K. Worner Papers

Ruby Kathryn Worner (1900-1995) was a chemist who specialized in the textile industry. Worner studied at the University of Chicago where she earned her Bachelor’s, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry (1921, 1922, and 1925). Worner was a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt, and worked for the United States Bureau of Home Economics as well as Southern Regional Laboratories, making numerous advancements in textile production.

Camp Farr Collection

Camp Farr was a fresh-air children's summer camp near Chesterton, Indiana, established by the University of Chicago Settlement League. The League was founded in 1895 as a philanthropic organization, and Shirley Farr, a University of Chicago alumna, donated $3000 in 1923 for the purchase of land that would become Camp Farr. The photo album that makes up this collection belonged to Alfred Kamm, the Director of Physical Education at the camp. The album contains images of camp grounds and facilities as well as group portraits of the campers. Photographs date from 1930 to 1931.

Images credits (Top to bottom):

1. Portrait of Bud Freeman and Marty Marsala, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, N.Y., William P. Gottlieb collection at the Library of Congress. 

2. Walter Baily, UChicago News.

3. Yousuf Karsh, 1938. Library and Archives Canada 

4. Margot Browning, Paul Hunter, and Karen Landahl. The University of Chicago Chronicle, January 7, 1999.

5. UChicago Language Lab in 1982.

6. Evelyn Dewey, 1904. Alice Boughton Photograph Collection.

7. “He Brings Machines to Life,” Mechanix Illustrated, Oct, 1954.

8. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

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