Contents
Collection Access
Richard J. Daley Library, 801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
Aldis Family papers
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
-
University of Illinois at Chicago,
801 S. MorganChicago, ILUSA
- Repository Number
- MSAldi67
- Creator
- Aldis & Company, Inc.
- Title
- Aldis Family papers
- Dates
- 1897-1953
- Quantity
- 11.75 linear feet.
- Abstract
- Arthur Taylor Aldis was a Wyoming rancher from 1885 to 1889 and a Chicago realtor from 1890 to 1935. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, proceedings, minutes, by-laws, questionnaires, petitions, speeches, clippings, and published material of Aldis and Company, specialists in the management, renting, and appraisal of central property and office buildings.
- Language of the Material
- English
Administrative Information
Biography/Profile
Arthur Taylor Aldis - Wyoming rancher from 1885 to 1889 and Chicago realtor from 1890 to 1935 was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1861. After graduating from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. Aldis studied at Harvard University from 1882-1882 as a special student, and then at the Harvard Law School. Arthur Taylor Aldis married Mary Reynolds of Chicago in 1892 and established their residence in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1895, a son Graham was born.
Arthur Aldis joined the firm of Aldis, Aldis and Northcote, which subsequently became Aldis and Company in 1880 with offices located in the Mondanock Block in downtown Chicago.
Aldis was also interested in the education of underprivileged boys; financing and promoting the work of talented artists and sculptors, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Chicago Urban League, the National Conservation Association, the American Red Cross, and World War I relief commissions.
Graham Aldis, son of Arthur Aldis was born in Chicago in 1895. He graduated from Harvard University in 1916 with a A.B. degree and in 1917 with an A. M. degree. From 1917 to 1919, Aldis fought in World War I as a first lieutenant, in the United States Army. Graham Aldis married Dorothy Keeley of Chicago in 1922. They resided in Lake Forest, Illinois with three daughters and a son.
In 1919, Graham joined the real estate firm of Aldis and Co., becoming a partner in 1922. He specialized in management, renting of central property and office buildings and appraisals. Graham Aldis was also active in the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Association of Building Managers, the Civic Federation of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Housing Council.
In 1941, Graham Aldis was called to active duty by the United States Army. During his absence, his partner, Bill Doughty succeeded him as trustee and voting director of various organizations. From 1941 to 1942, Aldis was the Army real estate director for Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Later, he served in Iceland and the United Kindom with the War Department, and on the General Staff Corps of the United States Army. He left the army in 1945 and returned to his real estate firm and to a participation in a number of civic organizations.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, proceedings, minutes, by-laws, questionnaires, petitions, speeches, clippings, and published material of Aldis and Company, specialists in the management, renting, and appraisal of central property and office buildings. The collection also includes material pertaining to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Civic Federation of Chicago, the Metropolitan Housing Council of Greater Chicago and Chicago Land Clearance Commission. The collection also contains material on federal housing programs, low-rent housing, the Noland Land Bill of 1919, relief of European Refugees and housing of African Americans.
Access Restrictions
Access restrictions -- Available without restriction.
Use/Re-use Restrictions
Use restrictions -- Available without restriction.
Preferred Citation
Aldis Family papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
Indexed Terms
- African Americans--Housing
- Europe
- Housing subsidies
- Real estate management
- Refugees--Services for
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Aldis & Company, Inc.
- Aldis family
- Aldis, Arthur Taylor, 1861-1933
- Aldis, Graham, 1895-1966
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
- Chicago Land Clearance Commission.
- Civic Federation of Chicago (Ill.).
- Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council (Chicago, Ill.).
Inventory
1
Arthur Taylor Aldis Papers
Box 1 - Folder 1
Container 1
- Title
- Addams, Jane - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 1 - Folder 2
Container 1
- Title
- Allendale Association - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 1 - Folder 3
Container 1
- Title
- Appui Aux Artistes - correspondence
- Dates
- 1918-1920
Box 1 - Folder 4
Container 1
- Title
- Art Institute of Chicago - correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1920
Box 1 - Folder 5
Container 1
- Title
- Artists and sculptors - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 1 - Folder 6
Container 1
- Title
- Chicago Urban League - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1917-1920
Box 1 - Folder 7
Container 1
- Title
- Citizens' Street Cleaning Bureau - correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1918
Box 1 - Folder 8
Container 1
- Title
- Community Service of Chicago, Illinois - correspondence
- Dates
- 1919-1920
Box 1 - Folder 9
Container 1
- Title
- Correspondence - miscellaneous
- Dates
- 1914-1920
Box 1 - Folder 10
Container 1
- Title
- Correspondence - miscellaneous
- Dates
- 1916-1919
Box 1 - Folder 11
Container 1
- Title
- Hankow Light and Power Company - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916
Box 1 - Folder 12
Container 1
- Title
- Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness - by-laws and correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 1 - Folder 13
Container 1
- Title
- League to Enforce Peace - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1919
Box 1 - Folder 14
Container 1
- Title
- League of Nations - correspondence and statement
- Dates
- 1920
Box 1 - Folder 15
Container 1
- Title
- Monroe, Harriet - editor of Poetry - correspondence and reports
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 1 - Folder 16
Container 1
- Title
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1919
Box 1 - Folder 17
Container 1
- Title
- National Association for the Prevention of Blindness - by-laws and correspondence
- Dates
- 1920
Box 1 - Folder 18
Container 1
- Title
- National Conservation Association - correspondence
- Dates
- 1919
Box 1 - Folder 19
Container 1
- Title
- Negroes - racial prejudice - correspondence
- Dates
- 1919-1920
Box 1 - Folder 20
Container 1
- Title
- Real Estate Tax Bill - Nolan Bill H.R. 12397 - correspondence
- Dates
- 1920
Box 1 - Folder 21
Container 1
- Title
- Red Cross - American - correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1919
Box 1 - Folder 22
Container 1
- Title
- Relief - ABFB Blind Relief Fund - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1916-1917
Box 1 - Folder 23
Container 1
- Title
- Relief - Belgium Relief Commission - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1917
Box 2 - Folder 24
Container 2
- Title
- Relief - correspondence - general
- Dates
- 1916-1919
Box 2 - Folder 25
Container 2
- Title
- Relief - French War Relief - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1920
Box 2 - Folder 26
Container 2
- Title
- Relief - Navy Relief Society - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1918
Box 2 - Folder 27
Container 2
- Title
- Relief - Russian Aid Committee - correspondence and report
- Dates
- 1916-1919
Box 2 - Folder 28
Container 2
- Title
- Relief - World War I - "Children of the Frontier"-correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1918
Box 2 - Folder 29
Container 2
- Title
- Roosevelt Memorial Association - correspondence
- Dates
- 1919-1920
Box 2 - Folder 30
Container 2
- Title
- State Council of Defense - correspondence
- Dates
- 1917-1918
Box 2 - Folder 31
Container 2
- Title
- Thompson, William Hale - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1919
Box 2 - Folder 32
Container 2
- Title
- War Relief Fund - Allied Bazaar - correspondence
- Dates
- 1916-1917
2
Graham Aldis Papers
Box 3 - Folder 33
Container 3
- Title
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - correspondence
- Dates
- 1926-1931
Box 3 - Folder 34
Container 3
- Title
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - correspondence
- Dates
- 1928-1950
Box 3 - Folder 35
Container 3
- Title
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - correspondence
- Dates
- 1929-1937
Box 3 - Folder 36
Container 3
- Title
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - correspondence
- Dates
- 1934
Box 3 - Folder 37
Container 3
- Title
- Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency - bulletins and correspondence
- Dates
- 1932-1935
Box 3 - Folder 38
Container 3
- Title
- Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency - bulletins and reports
- Dates
- 1933-1935
Box 4 - Folder 39
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency - bulletins and reports
- Dates
- 1933-1935
Box 4 - Folder 40
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency - correspondence and reports
- Dates
- 1938-1940
Box 4 - Folder 41
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency - bulletins and minutes
- Dates
- 1939-1940
Box 4 - Folder 42
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation - bulletins and minutes
- Dates
- 1940-1941
Box 4 - Folder 43
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1940-1941
Box 4 - Folder 44
Container 4
- Title
- Civic Federation - Executive Committee - memoranda
- Dates
- 1940-1941
Box 5 - Folder 45
Container 5
- Title
- Civic Organizations on Relief Committee - minutes and reports
- Dates
- 1936
Box 5 - Folder 46
Container 5
- Title
- Civic Organizations on Relief Committee - 1936
Box 5 - Folder 47
Container 5
- Title
- Committee on Public Expenditures - correspondence
- Dates
- 1932
Box 5 - Folder 48
Container 5
- Title
- Committee on Public Expenditures - minutes and statements
- Dates
- 1932-1934
Box 5 - Folder 49
Container 5
- Title
- Committee on Public Expenditures - correspondence and memoranda
- Dates
- 1934-1935
Box 5 - Folder 50
Container 5
- Title
- Committee on Public Expenditures - correspondence and statements
- Dates
- 1936-1938
Box 6 - Folder 51
Container 6
- Title
- Cook County Emergency Relief Fund - correspondence
- Dates
- 1930
Box 6 - Folder 52
Container 6
- Title
- Cook County Emergency Relief Fund - correspondence
- Dates
- 1930-1931
Box 6 - Folder 53
Container 6
- Title
- Cook County Emergency Relief Fund - correspondence
- Dates
- 1931-1934
Box 6 - Folder 54
Container 6
- Title
- Horner, Henry - gubernatorial campaign - correspondence
- Dates
- 1932
Box 6 - Folder 55
Container 6
- Title
- Housing - Chicago - General Advisory Board - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1936-1938
Box 6 - Folder 56
Container 6
- Title
- Housing - Chicago Housing Authority - correspondence
- Dates
- 1938-1950
Box 6 - Folder 57
Container 6
- Title
- Housing - Metropolitan Housing Council - minutes
- Dates
- 1934-1935
Box 7 - Folder 58
Container 7
- Title
- Housing - Metropolitan Housing Council - minutes and reports
- Dates
- 1935-1936
Box 7 - Folder 59
Container 7
- Title
- Housing - Metropolitan Housing Council - minutes and reports
- Dates
- 1936-1938
Box 7 - Folder 60
Container 7
- Title
- Housing - Metropolitan Housing Council - correspondence and reports
- Dates
- 193-1939
Box 7 - Folder 61
Container 7
- Title
- Housing - Metropolitan Housing Council - correspondence and reports
- Dates
- 1939-1945
Box 7 - Folder 62
Container 7
- Title
- Housing - national and federal - correspondence
- Dates
- 1933-1935
Box 8 - Folder 63
Container 8
- Title
- Housing - national and federal -- reports and statements
- Dates
- 1935-1937
Box 8 - Folder 64
Container 8
- Title
- Housing - national and federal - correspondence and reports
- Dates
- 1937-1938
Box 8 - Folder 65
Container 8
- Title
- Housing - national and federal - clippings and reports
- Dates
- 1939-1949
Box 8 - Folder 66
Container 8
- Title
- Housing Service Bureau - report
- Dates
- 1935
Box 8 - Folder 67
Container 8
- Title
- Illinois Emergency Relief Commission - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1931-1936
Box 8 - Folder 68
Container 8
- Title
- Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness - correspondence and minutes
- Dates
- 1915-1938
Box 8 - Folder 69
Container 8
- Title
- Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness - correspondence
- Dates
- 1939-1954
Box 8 - Folder 70
Container 8
- Title
- Illinois State Housing board - by-laws and statements
- Dates
- 1946-1952
Box 9 - Folder 71
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - memoranda and reports
- Dates
- 1949-1951
Box 9 - Folder 72
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - reports
- Dates
- 1951
Box 9 - Folder 73
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - correspondence and reprints
- Dates
- 1942-1950
Box 9 - Folder 74
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - reports
- Dates
- 1952-1953
Box 9 - Folder 75
Container 9
- Title
- Kelly, Edward J. - correspondence and resolutions
- Dates
- 1935-1942
Box 9 - Folder 76
Container 9
- Title
- Miscellaneous File - brochures and leaflets
- Dates
- 1935-1938
3
Graham Aldis - Subject Files
Box 9 - Folder 77
Container 9
- Title
- Housing Authority - Atlanta - annual report
- Dates
- 1940
Box 9 - Folder 78
Container 9
- Title
- Housing Authority - Chicago - annual reports
- Dates
- 1948-1952
Box 9 - Folder 79
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness - annual reports
- Dates
- 1929-1937
Box 9 - Folder 80
Container 9
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - annual report
- Dates
- 1950-1951
Box 9 - Folder 81
Container 9
- Title
- Chicago General Advisory Board on Housing - bulletins
- Dates
- 1936-1937
Box 9 - Folder 82
Container 9
- Title
- Citizen's Association - bulletin
- Dates
- 1936-1937
Box 9 - Folder 83
Container 9
- Title
- Cook County Emergency Relief Campaign - bulletins
- Dates
- 1930
Box 10 - Folder 84
Container 10
- Title
- Cook County Emergency Relief Campaign - bulletins
- Dates
- 1931
Box 10 - Folder 85
Container 10
- Title
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works - Housing Division - bulletins
- Dates
- 1935-1937
Box 10 - Folder 86
Container 10
- Title
- Federal Home Loan Bank Board - bulletins
- Dates
- 1936
Box 10 - Folder 87
Container 10
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - bulletins
- Dates
- 1935-1938
Box 10 - Folder 88
Container 10
- Title
- Housing Authority - Chicago - bulletins
- Dates
- 1941-1942
Box 10 - Folder 89
Container 10
- Title
- The Legislative Voters League of Illinois - bulletins
- Dates
- 1932
Box 11 - Folder 90
Container 11
- Title
- National Association of Housing Officials - bulletins
- Dates
- 1935-1936
Box 11 - Folder 91
Container 11
- Title
- National Association of Housing Officials - bulletins
- Dates
- 1936-1938
Box 11 - Folder 92
Container 11
- Title
- National Public Housing Conference - bulletin
- Dates
- 1935-1938
Box 11 - Folder 93
Container 11
- Title
- Political and Economic Problems of the South - bulletin
- Dates
- 1935
Box 11 - Folder 94
Container 11
- Title
- United States Department of the Interior - Division of Subsistence Homesteads - bulletin
- Dates
- 1935
Box 11 - Folder 95
Container 11
- Title
- Welfare Council of New York City - Housing Information Bureau - bulletin
- Dates
- 1935
Box 11 - Folder 96
Container 11
- Title
- Parents' Public School Association - Chicago - leaflet
- Dates
- undated
Box 11 - Folder 97
Container 11
- Title
- Metropolitan Housing Council - newsletters
- Dates
- 1934-1942
Box 11 - Folder 98
Container 11
- Title
- National Association of Housing Officials - newsletters
- Dates
- 1938-1939
Box 11 - Folder 99
Container 11
- Title
- American Savings and Loan Institute - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1940
Box 11 - Folder 100
Container 11
- Title
- Architectural Record - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1935
Box 11 - Folder 101
Container 11
- Title
- Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry - Commerce - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1952
Box 11 - Folder 102
Container 11
- Title
- Chicago Housing Authority - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1941
Box 12 - Folder 103
Container 12
- Title
- Chicago Title and Trust Company - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1938
Box 12 - Folder 104
Container 12
- Title
- Committee for Industrial Organization - Housing Committee - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1938
Box 12 - Folder 105
Container 12
- Title
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works - Housing Division - pamphlets
- Dates
- undated
Box 12 - Folder 106
Container 12
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration of Public Works - Housing Division - pamphlet
- Dates
- undated
Box 12 - Folder 107
Container 12
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - Modernize for Profit - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1935-1936
Box 12 - Folder 108
Container 12
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - Portfolio - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1936-1937
Box 12 - Folder 109
Container 12
- Title
- Housing Authority - New York City - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1936
Box 12 - Folder 110
Container 12
- Title
- Housing Problem - pamphlet
- Dates
- undated
Box 12 - Folder 111
Container 12
- Title
- Housing and Redevelopment Coordinator - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1953
Box 12 - Folder 112
Container 12
- Title
- Housing and Redevelopment Coordinator - Illinois - pamphlet
- Dates
- undated
Box 12 - Folder 113
Container 12
- Title
- Illinois League of Women Voters - The Illinois Voter - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1932
Box 12 - Folder 114
Container 12
- Title
- Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1927-1938
Box 12 - Folder 115
Container 12
- Title
- Merchants' Association of New York - Special Housing Committee - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1939
Box 12 - Folder 116
Container 12
- Title
- Metropolitan Housing Council - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1936
Box 12 - Folder 117
Container 12
- Title
- National Association of Housing Officials - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1934-1935
Box 12 - Folder 118
Container 12
- Title
- New York Building Congress - Land Utilization Committee - Land Usage - pamphlets
- Dates
- 1936
Box 12 - Folder 119
Container 12
- Title
- Public Affairs Committee - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1936
Box 12 - Folder 120
Container 12
- Title
- Resettlement Administration - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1936
Box 13 - Folder 121
Container 13
- Title
- Federal Emergency Administration - pamphlet
- Dates
- 1936
Box 13 - Folder 122
Container 13
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - press releases
- Dates
- 1935
Box 13 - Folder 123
Container 13
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - press releases
- Dates
- 1935
Box 13 - Folder 124
Container 13
- Title
- Chicago Building Congress - report
- Dates
- 1948
Box 13 - Folder 125
Container 13
- Title
- Chicago Committee on Public Expenditures - reports
- Dates
- 1932-1934
Box 13 - Folder 126
Container 13
- Title
- Federal Housing Administration - report
- Dates
- 1936
Box 13 - Folder 127
Container 13
- Title
- Chicago Housing Authority - reports
- Dates
- 1948-1950
Box 13 - Folder 128
Container 13
- Title
- Chicago Housing Authority - reports
- Dates
- 1952-1954
Box 14 - Folder 129
Container 14
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - reports
- Dates
- 1935-1938
Box 14 - Folder 130
Container 14
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - reports
- Dates
- 1950-1951
Box 14 - Folder 131
Container 14
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - report
- Dates
- 1950-1952
Box 14 - Folder 132
Container 14
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - reports
- Dates
- 1951
Box 14 - Folder 133
Container 14
- Title
- Illinois State Housing Board - Chicago Land Clearance Commission - reports
- Dates
- 1952-1953
Box 14 - Folder 134
Container 14
- Title
- Metropolitan Housing Council - reports
- Dates
- 1946-1947
Box 14 - Folder 135
Container 14
- Title
- Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments Building Corporation - reports
- Dates
- 1935-1937
Box 14 - Folder 136
Container 14
- Title
- United States Building and Loan League - report
- Dates
- 1936-1937
Box 14 - Folder 137
Container 14
- Title
- American Architect - reprint
- Dates
- 1935
Box 14 - Folder 138
Container 14
- Title
- American City Magazine - reprint
- Dates
- 1935
Box 14 - Folder 139
Container 14
- Title
- Atlantic - reprint
- Dates
- 1939
Box 14 - Folder 140
Container 14
- Title
- Austinite - reprint
- Dates
- 1933
Box 14 - Folder 141
Container 14
- Title
- Chicago Association of Better Housing Committee - reprints
- Dates
- 1935
Box 14 - Folder 142
Container 14
- Title
- Federal Home Loan Bank Review - reprint
- Dates
- 1935
Box 14 - Folder 143
Container 14
- Title
- Harper's Magazine - reprint
- Dates
- 1937
Box 14 - Folder 144
Container 14
- Title
- Kentucky Law Journal - reprint
- Dates
- 1951
Box 14 - Folder 145
Container 14
- Title
- National Association of Housing Officials - reprint
- Dates
- 1935
Box 14 - Folder 146
Container 14
- Title
- Survey Graphic - reprint
- Dates
- 1936
Box 14 - Folder 147
Container 14
- Title
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works - Housing Division
- Dates
- 1934-1936
Box 14 - Folder 148
Container 14
- Title
- Public Service Building Corporation - speech
- Dates
- 1938
Box 14 - Folder 149
Container 14
- Title
- The House Beautiful: A Monthy Magazine of Art and Artisanship v.2 no.1
- Dates
- June 15, 1897
- Language of the Material
- English
4
Supplement One
Oversize Folder 1-SI
Quadrennial Real Estate Assessment of Cook County, IL
1933-1933
English
Oversize Folder 2-SI
Real Estate Assessment Tax Maps
1905-1928
English