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Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Annual reports

 Collection
Identifier: UR-03-013
Scope and content note

This collection consists of annual reports submitted to the president of Drexel by administrators and department heads. They are comprehensive narrative reports summarizing activities and progress made over the course of the fiscal year. Reports are arranged alphabetically within the collection and by year within series.

Dates: 1929-2013; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1989
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Annual reports

Founder's Day academic procession, 1917

 File — Box 3: Series Series II; Series Series III; Series Series IV, Folder: 22
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series includes photos of student dorms, student activities, and facilities on campus for students. Photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject/title.

Dates: 1917
Found in: Drexel University Archives / PC-00-003, Early photographs of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry / Student life photographs

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
Found in: Drexel University Archives / UR-01-005, Office of the President records

Hollis Godfrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-00-011
Overview Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936) 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, and he later taught at MIT and served as an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. The collection contains correspondence, including a series of letters between Godfrey and the poet Vachel Lindsay; Dr. Godfrey's publications, manuscripts, and speeches; administrative records from the Engineering...
Dates: 1915-1936
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Hollis Godfrey papers

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
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Office of the President records

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
Found in: Drexel University Archives / UR-01-005, Office of the President records

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
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Parke R. Kolbe administration records

Three unidenified people working in the Dean's Office, circa 1915

 Item
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The majority of photographs in this series are of the interior of the Main Building. The series also includes a photograph of the former home on the current site of the Main Building. Folders marked with the prefix "OV" are separated from letter-sized folders and are located at the bottom of the box.

Dates: circa 1915
Found in: Drexel University Archives / PC-00-003, Early photographs of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry / Buildings and facilities photographs / Dean’s Office, unidentified people working

Two unidenified women working in the Dean's Office, circa 1915

 Item
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The majority of photographs in this series are of the interior of the Main Building. The series also includes a photograph of the former home on the current site of the Main Building. Folders marked with the prefix "OV" are separated from letter-sized folders and are located at the bottom of the box.

Dates: circa 1915
Found in: Drexel University Archives / PC-00-003, Early photographs of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry / Buildings and facilities photographs / Dean’s Office, unidentified people working

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