University Archives
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For information about accessing the University Archives, please contact the  University Archivist, Laura Mills by phone at (312) 341-2280, (312)341-2275 or the Archives Specialist, Michael Gabriel, by phone (312) 341-3645.

To search University Archives' online "Guide to the Archives", click here.

Highlights of the Archives’ holdings:

• The Auditorium Building Collection—architectural drawings of the Auditorium Building (erected in 1889), blueprints from the 1909 Marshall Fox renovation, black and white photographs of the Auditorium Building from the time of construction to the present, and articles written about the building.
   
• The Chicago Auditorium Association Collection—the surviving documents and paperwork from the building’s original days as a nineteenth-century hotel, the charter of the building, executive committee minutes from the early history of the building, stock certificates of ownership in the building, and original wallpaper samples.
   
• The University Collection—records of the University since its establishment in 1945, including biographical and photographic records of Roosevelt University founders, faculty members, trustees, and friends.
   
• The Photographic Collection—photographs of University events from 1945 to the present.
   
• The Speeches Collection—speeches and photographs of eminent individuals who spoke at the University, including Ralph Bellamy, Hugo Black, Niels Bohr, Henry S. Commager, Richard Daley, William O. Douglas, Milton Friedman, Averell Harriman, Coretta Scott King, Harold Laski, Thomas Mann, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nelson Rockefeller, Carl Rodgers, Jonas Salk, Albert Schweitzer, St. Clair Drake, U Thant, Margaret Thatcher, and Harold Washington.
   
• The Center for New Deal Studies Collection—ephemera about and owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
   
• The Music Archive—historical documents, publications, student theses, and recordings of the Music Conservatory, some dating to the early days of the Conservatory’s predecessor, the Chicago Musical College (est. 1867). 
   
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Letters—40 letters written by the late First Lady and namesake of the University.
   
• The Student Newspaper Collection—paper copies of the newspaper since 1946, and its predecessor, The Central YMCA News (1935-1938). 

 

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