Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Charles R. Barker student scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MC-00-090
Scope and content note
Charles R. Barker compiled this scrapbook while a student. The scrapbook contains a circular on general information of the Drexel Institute, as well as pamphlet circulars on: the Department of Mechanic Arts, Science Departments – Physics, Chemistry – Business Department, Technical Departments – Cooking, Millinery, Dress Making – and the Department of Physical Culture. Also included are programs for organ recitals and free lectures, invitations to memorial services for A.J. Drexel and G.W....
Dates:
1892-1899
Edward H. Monefeldt collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-058
Scope and content note
The Edward H. Monefeldt collection gives a concise, yet interesting glimpse of the alumnus and professor’s adult life from 1925 until 2005. However, most of the collection’s items date from approximately 1925 until the late 1930s. Most comprehensively represented are his years as a student at the former Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, as well as his time in the 103rd Engineer Regiment of the American National Guard. The collection is largely composed of black and white...
Dates:
1925-2005; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1940
General Correspondence, 1891-1958, bulk: 1920 - 1945
Series
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and content note
Series 8: General Correspondence, 65 foldersThis series includes folders which were from the Office of the President generally without reference to a specific President and those folders which included the papers of multiple Presidents of Drexel. A large section of this series is those folders which were marked “miscellaneous”. These often included a page or two on a specific topic and this had been combined with a few other unrelated items. This series varies greatly but...
Dates:
1891-1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Hollis Godfrey administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-002
Overview
Hollis Godfrey (1987-1936) served as president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1913 to 1921. He was educated as an engineer at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, where he also taught. While living in Boston he was an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. He came to Drexel in 1913 and was the President until 1921. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, and research done on Godfrey in 1959. There is also a functionalization chart on the...
Dates:
1913-1961; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1922
Joseph Nelson Hicks photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-00-006
Overview
This collection consists of Mr. Hicks's diploma from Drexel, dated 1927; a black-and-white photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, dated Christmas 1937, which accompanied the diploma; and a photo album containing black-and-white photos of the construction of St. Johns Bridge.
Dates:
1927-1931
Kenneth G. Matheson administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-003
Overview
This collection contains the files of Kenneth G. Matheson, president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1922 to 1931. As he took office, Matheson and the Institute faced many challenges, including financial difficulties, decreasing enrollments, outdated facilities, and a generally dissatisfied university community. The files contain correspondence with faculty, parents and students which documents the numerous, positive changes Matheson helped to initiate during his...
Dates:
1921-1932
Office of the President records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-005
Overview
This collection consists of subject files created by the Office of the President during the tenures of the first six presidents of the Drexel Institute: James MacAlister (1840-1913, president 1891-1913), Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936, president 1914-1921), Kenneth Matheson (1864-1931, president 1921-1932), Parke R. Kolbe (1881-1942, president 1932-1942), George P. Rea (1894-1978, president 1942-1944), and James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), as well as during the interim presidency of...
Dates:
1891-1965; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1954
Parke R. Kolbe, 1899-1942, bulk: 1932 - 1942
Series
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and content note
Series 4: Kolbe, Parke R. 200 Folders This is the largest series in the collection. There is material on the Athletic Departments of Drexel during Kolbe’s tenure including budgets, data from local colleges athletic departments during the 1930’s, and a study from 1931 on athletic departments within the Middle Atlantic region correspondence with the Board of Trustee Committee on Athletics, reports on the responsibilities for the Athletic Departments of various universities, correspondence and...
Dates:
1899-1942; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1942
Parke R. Kolbe administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract
Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1931-1941