Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students

Abstract The series is comprised of photographic prints and negatives relating to the activities, officers, staff, and command of Northwestern University's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Most of the photographs are snapshots of award and commissioning ceremonies, inspections, and training exercises although individual and group portraits of NROTC midshipmen are included as well. The bulk of the photographs are black and white. Prints are arranged in folders according to topical headings and...

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This scrapbook, containing mainly news clippings and photographs, was compiled by Nancy Ann Meyers Nemeth, wife of Edward Nemeth (left guard on Northwestern's football team), and documents Northwestern's winning participation in the 1949 Rose Bowl football game.

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Collection consists of records of the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association (NUBAA), dating from circa 1968 to 2018, including approximately 1.6 linear feet (4 boxes) and 36.3 gigabytes of born-digital files of organization records, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and artifacts.

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The Northwestern Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Collection includes plaques, All-American certificates, programs, academic certificates, correspondence, photographs, record logs, and scrapbooks.

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The materials in the Helen Paddock scrapbook date between 1910 and 1915 and document her social, academic, and family life at Northwestern University. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, dance cards, and other memorabilia.

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Eva Jefferson Paterson (1949- ), a graduate of Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Science class of 1971, is a civil rights attorney. Her collection spans the years 1970-2013 and contains biographical materials, correspondence, interviews, publications, and awards.

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Gaspar Perricone played a key role on Northwestern’s winning 1949 Rose Bowl-winning team. The Papers document his football career at Northwestern, with an emphasis on the 1949 Rose Bowl.

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Sociologist, educator, and university dean and vice president, James P. Pitts (1944- ) received his B.A. in Political Science and M.A., and Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. His papers fill 7 boxes, and span the years 1961 to 2013. Composed of newspaper clippings, press releases, curricula vitae, correspondences, and published work, the papers contain Pitts' writings, awards, and a scrapbook and jersey from his time at Northwestern.

Abstract The Karl F. Putnam scrapbook contains newspaper clippings dating between 1899 and 1903, documenting social, academic, and family events, as well as news and information about Northwestern University. Clippings come from many papers, including the Evanston Index, The Inter Ocean, The American, Mt. Carmel Register, Evening Post, Chicago American, Evanston Press, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Examiner, and the ...

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The Records of Rainbow Alliance comprise 7 boxes and include event planning, financial, administrative, promotional, educational files and materials, and 218 megabytes of born-digital video.

Abstract Eva Reynolds' scrapbook is creatively crafted. Rather than filling the blank pages of a commercially produced scrapbook, she used a book of printed photographs entitled An Art Souvenir: Northwestern University (published by A. L. Swift & Co., Chicago, 1897) as the base for her scrapbook. Photographs and other items representing her experiences and activities at Northwestern are pasted on to pictures printed in the book. Many pages and photographs are...

Abstract The Irwin "Trip" Rothschild III Papers includes materials related to Rothschild's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern University from 1968 to 1972. While a student at Northwestern, Rothschild was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and created the Student Organized Seminar program. Items of note in the collection include around 96 letters from Rothschild to his family from September 1968 to June 1972. These letters focus on Rothschild’s life at Northwestern and describe the...

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Mary Scriver attended Northwestern University from 1958-1961 and was a student of Alvina Krause, Associate Professor of Dramatic Production, 1957-1961. Her papers are directly related to her experience as a student of Krause, consisting of class notes and writings, and later, correspondence with classmates and friends associated with Krause. The Mary Scriver Papers fill five boxes and span the years from 1950-2012.

Abstract This series consists of seventeen volumes of student aid records for Northwestern University students, for the academic years 1933/34 to 1949/50. The information entered on each page is essentially the same for all volumes, although the arrangement of the volumes varies: the name of the aid source, the assigned university account number, name and school of each individual receiving aid from a particular source, the amount awarded or loaned for each term, and the total for the year. As...

Abstract This collection consists of some of the images used in three volumes of the Northwestern Syllabus yearbook. Most of these images were used in the 1999 (vol. 115) and 2000 (vol. 116) yearbooks; one folder contains five images used in the 2001 yearbook (vol. 117). The majority are 8"x10" black and white prints; a few are smaller prints or in color. Most of the photographs depict events, activities (including theatrical productions), and organizations...

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This series consists of copies of photographs that were taken for publication in the 1979 Northwestern University annual, the Syllabus (Volume 95). Although most of the photographs appeared in the Syllabus, a few unpublished photographs are included in the series. The series does not contain photographs from pages 1-48, color photographs, and most of the senior portraits.

Abstract This series comprises individual copies of photographs that appeared in the 1981 Northwestern University annual, the Syllabus (Volume 97). The series includes all the photographs that appeared in Volume 97 excepting color photographs and senior class portraits. (The University Archives holds a complete set of 1981 senior portraits as they appeared in the Syllabus: see Series 75/30/3.) In addition, a few photographs taken by 1981 ...

Abstract This series consists of individual copies of photographs that appeared in the 1982 Northwestern University annual, the Syllabus (Volume 98). The series includes only some of the photographs that appeared in Volume 98. It does not include photographs appearing on pages before 190 (Academic, Shoot Yourself, and Entertainment sections), senior class portraits (pages 366-417), photographs appearing on pages after 417 (Excess section), and all color...

Abstract This series is comprised of individual copies of photographs that appeared in the 1983 Northwestern University annual, the Syllabus (Volume 99). The series includes most of the photographs which appeared in Volume 99, but does not include senior class protraits which appear on pages 306–359 of the book. The photographs are printed mainly on eight inch–by–ten inch photographic paper, but the dimensions of the actual images vary. The published forms of these images...

Abstract This series consists of individual copies of photographs that appeared in the 1984 Centennial issue of the Northwestern University annual, the Syllabus (Volume 100). The series contains both the general subject photographs which appeared in volume 100 and the class of 1984 portraits. The special Centennial issue of the Syllabus included a pictorial history of the university, reproducing photographs from the University...