The copy of minutes from the Trustees' Committee on Press and Extension from 1903 to 1917 in Box 19, folders 5-6, was evidently preserved from Newman Miller's office, for there are notes in his handwriting and some letters included with its pages. Two useful compilations are the list of out-of-print titles, 1891-1958, and an account of all the journals published by the Press up through 1965, Box 18, folders 5 and 6, respectively. Various unbound seasonal catalogs are in Box 16, folders 9-12, through Box 17, folder 2, and miscellaneous general, or annual, catalogs are in Box 17, folders 3-6, and Box 18, folders 1-4. Bean's bound "Report on American Scholarly Publishing, 1929" (folder 5), written at the behest of the Rockefeller Foundation, is the first survey of university press publishing in the United States, and the only one until ale University Press director Chester Kerr's 1949 A Report on American University Presses, also funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.Ī sampling of advertising brochures, publications, and lists will be found in Box 15, folders 7-14, through Box 16, folder 7. Donald Bean's miscellaneous memorabilia in Box 13 throw more light on this period.
Information about the Press staff and their activities in the 1920s may be found in box 6, folder 5, and in Boxes 8 and 9, especially the volumes of Press Impressions. Some information on grants and departmental publication funds may be found in box 14, folders 1-12. Financial reports of the publication department for fiscal years 1935-1936 through 1950-1951 are in bound volumes in Boxes10 and 11, and financial information for the years 1950-1958 is bound in a large volume in box 12. Newman Miller's annual reports submitted to the President for the fiscal years 1899-1900 through 1917-1918 are in twenty legal size bound volumes in box 3, folders 2-7, through box 6, folders 1-4. Heath), folder 5 (Ned Arden Flood), and folder 8 (Newman Miller). Some correspondence of early directors with President Harper, who took a personal interest in and responsibility for the Press, is in box 1, folders 1-2 (D. 0) in box 3, folder 1, along with other early documents.
The document of incorporation, signed and sealed, is bound in a legal size volume (marked Vol. Boxes1-6 contain valuable material on the earliest years. Listings for the folders containing the miscellaneous material included in this section are self-explanatory, but some indication of what seems important to the history of the Press might be useful. Records,, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Scope Note This collection, the preferred citation is: University of Chicago Press. The largest part of the collection consists of files on books published by the Press during these years. The Records of the University of Chicago Press contain correspondence, minutes and other administrative material dating from 1892-1965. Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center © 2006 University of Chicago Library Descriptive Summary Title:
University of Chicago Library Guide to the University of Chicago Press Records 1892-1965
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