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Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Blueprints and architectural drawings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UR-03-017
Scope and content note This collection consists of approximately 5 c.f. of blueprints and other architectural drawings or surveys relating to the construction, renovation, or landscaping of various locations on Drexel University campus between 1930 and 2000.Most well represented are the construction of campus libraries (Hagerty Library and what is today the Korman Center) and dormitories (Van Rensselaer Hall, Kelly Hall, Calhoun Hall, Caneris Hall); the collection also includes plans of renovations to...
Dates: 1930-2000
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Blueprints and architectural drawings

Buildings and campus photographs

 File
Identifier: PC-00-005
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs of Drexel University campus locations and buildings.

Dates: 1891-2001
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Buildings and campus photographs

Buildings and campus reference collection

 Collection
Identifier: UR-10-003
Scope and content note

This collection consists of subject files on buildings, locales, physical structures, and development plans in, of, or related to Drexel University. Files may contain clippings, press releases, brochures, maps, floor plans, or other materials. This is an artificial collection assembled and maintained by Drexel University Archives staff.

Dates: 1883-2013; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2011
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Buildings and campus reference collection

Campus expansion program records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-10-011
Scope and content note

This collection contains building plans and proposals, booklets, memos, and newspaper articles on various Drexel University campus expansion and development programs from 1947 to 1983. Arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1947-1983
Found in: Drexel University Archives / Campus expansion program records

E. Lee Goldsborough photographs of Tidewater Granary fire

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: PC-00-016
Overview

In March 1956 the Tidewater Granary elevator shaft exploded, damaging four surounding buildings, including Drexel's Main building. This collection contains a series of photographs of the aftermath of the explosion taken by E. Lee Goldsborough, Jr. and his son Ted.

Dates: 1956
Found in: Drexel University Archives / E. Lee Goldsborough photographs of Tidewater Granary fire

James Creese administration records

 Collection — Box OV13, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: UR-01-007
Overview James Creese served as the president of the Drexel Institute from 1945 to 1963. His tenure began with a tremendous influx of students in the post-WWII years and continued to oversee tremendous growth of the Institute, both in the physical expansion of its campus and in the development of its academic programs, especially in engineering and cooperative education. Such extensive development required major capital investments, for which two major fundraising campaigns were undertaken during...
Dates: 1941-1967
Found in: Drexel University Archives / James Creese administration 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

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