Samuel Harper (1823-1905)The Samuel Harper Papers consist primarily of Harper’s diaries written between the years 1864 and 1903. Also included in the collection is an expense book for the year 1862 and a diary written by Harper’s son and namesake, Samuel Harper.

Dena Epstein is the former Assistant Music Librarian at the University of Chicago. This collection consists of Epstein’s materials from a class taken at the University of Chicago with Professor Samuel N. Harper, “Russia since 1900” (History 340) in 1937-38.

The Samuel J. Barrows papers contain materials from the years 1897 to 1910. The papers deal with Barrows' career as International Prison Commissioner. They include general correspondence, correspondence in regard to the 1910 appropriation from Congress, and correspondence concerning efforts to receive a $50,000 appropriation for the 1910 International ...

The Society of Medical History of Chicago was founded in 1909 "to secure and preserve matters pertaining to the history of medical institutions, organizations and individuals particularly of Chicago and the adjacent country; and to stimulate interest in medical history in general." Original members of the society's council included George ...

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.

Dr. Samuel Schwartz (1916-1997) was a renowned expert on porphyrins and heme metabolism, pioneering research into the biological effects of radiation, starting when he joined the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. This collection consists of 4.5 linear feet of his research materials, political activist writings, his concerns about ...

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago and 1938 Nobel Prize winner in physics, is best known to the general public for having produced the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction. This experiment, which was carried out at the University of ...

Holograph treatise in Latin, on the anatomy of the eye. Illustrated with twenty-four sheets of anatomical drawings, in pen & ink, ink and wash, and colored ink and wash. On title page, identified: "Picturae Johanne [Jesse] et scriptum Josepho Ablett Jesse." Purchased on Henry Gradle Memorial Fund. ...

Scrapbook of extracts copied in several hands, with notes, clippings, and printed pamphlets in English and French, related to the development of the printing press.

Samuel Northrup Harper (1882 -1943), professor of Russian Language and Institutions at the University of Chicago, was the first American to devote an academic career to the study of Russia. As the foremost American expert during the Revolution of 1919 and the early years of the Soviet regime played a ...