Jerome A. Gross papers

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Chicago History Museum

Research Center

1601 North Clark Street

Chicago, IL 60614-6038
Creator: Jerome A. Gross
Bib number: 00145528
Title: Jerome A. Gross papers
Dates: 1940-1995
Quantity: 6 linear ft. (15 boxes)
Call number: MSS Lot G
Language: English

Restriction(s)

This collection is open for research use.

Terms governing use

Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance statement

Gift of Jerome A. Gross by will (accession #: 1997.0167).

Preferred Citation

Jerome A. Gross papers, ca. 1940-1995 (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.

Collection Summary

Journals (1953-1994), correspondence (1957-1991), photographs, and other papers of Jerome A. Gross, who was a veteran, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and a gay man who died from complications resulting from HIV in 1995. The bulk of the collection is comprised of journals and correspondence that document the daily activities of Gross, mostly in Chicago, and begin when he was a college student. Some correspondence relates to the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington (D.C.), where he worked for a while, and to the Boston chapter of the Association of Hungarian Students of North America (Északamerikai Magyar Egyetemisták és Főiskolások Egyesületeinek Szövetsége). The photographs are mostly black and white images of various locations and people (ca. 1940-1970).

Biographical/historical note

Jerome A. Gross worked for the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., and for the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse.

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Indexed Terms

Organization and Arrangement of Collection

The collection is arranged in three series.

Series 1. Correspondence, 1957-1991 (box 1-7)

Series 1 consists of correspondence between Jerome A. Gross and his friends and family. Also included is correspondence with the Office of Secretary of Defense and the Boston Association of Hungarian Students, which Gross led in the early 1950s.

Series 2. Journals, 1953-1995 (box 8-14)

Series 2 consists of typed personal journals with daily entries that discuss Gross's interests, conversations, and activities. The journals begin when Gross was attending the University of Chicago and continue almost until his death in 1995.

Series 3. Photographs, ca.1940-1970 (box 15)

Series 3 consists of an assortment of black and white photographs of people and locations including a photograph of army recruits (ca. 1944).

Detailed list of contents of the collection

Series 1: Correspondence

1957-1991

Box 1

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1957-1961

Box 2

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1961-1968

Box 3

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1969-1971

Box 4

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1972-1975

Box 5

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1975-1977

Box 6

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1978-1982

Box 7

Title: Correspondence
Dates: 1982-1991

Series 2: Journals

1953-1995

Box 8

Title: Journals
Dates: 1953-1958

Box 9

Title: Journals
Dates: 1958-1965

Box 10

Title: Journals
Dates: 1965-1973

Box 11

Title: Journals
Dates: 1973-1979

Box 12

Title: Journals
Dates: 1980-1985

Box 13

Title: Journals
Dates: 1986-1990

Box 14

Title: Journals
Dates: 1990-1995

Series 3: Photographs

1940-1970

Box 15

Title: Photographs
Dates: 1940-1970

Contents

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