University of Chicago Library/Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60637
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/
Title: Office of the President, Hutchins Administration Records, 1892-1951
Content: Julius Rosenwald, businessman and philanthropist. The papers of Julius Rosenwald contain correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and a 1963 Rosenwald family tree. The collection documents Rosenwald's deep sense of social responsibility and commitment to philanthropic and civic endeavors, in particular his support of rural schools for African Americans, higher education, Jewish charities, and medical care. The collection also includes reports and minutes of the Julius Rosenwald Fund (1928-1933) and sixteen scrapbooks containing correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia that reflect Rosenwald's progressive reform activities, including support for the Tuskegee Institute, Howard University, World War I relief efforts in Illinois, and early development of the NAACP. The Julius Rosenwald papers have been organized into five series: I. Subject Files, II. Notebooks, III. Addenda, IV. Scrapbooks, and V. Addenda II.
Dates: 1905-1963
Size: 44 linear feet, 69 boxes, 17 scrapbooks
Access: Unrestricted
Language: English
Selected inventory:
| Title Identifier | Box/Folder # | Item Description |
| Series I: Subject Files | Box 14, Folder 3, Frederick Douglass Center | Contains a 1912 letter form Celia Parker Woolley, President of the Frederick Douglass Center describing an issue where white nurses at Cook County refused to take practice classes with Black nurses |
| Series I: Subject Files | Box 31, Folder 7, Provident Hospital | Details information pertaining to the Provident Hospital Nurses’ Dance |
| Series I: Subject Files | Box 41, Folder 6, Visiting Nurses | Contains a 1927 letter from Edna Foley, Superintendent of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago to Alfred Stern of the Rosenwald Fund detailing information regarding the colored visiting nurses |