Goetz, Rachel Marshall. Papers

Series I contains much of Goetz’s early work on the use of new media by state and local governments. Included here are her two presentation binders on the use of visual aids, "Untapped Potential" and "Visual Aids and State Governments," as well as her book, Visual Aids for the Public Service, published in English and in a Vietnamese translation. Materials relating to Goetz’s 1954-1955 University of Chicago course on public television, Communications 311, The Communication of Ideas by Television, are also contained here. Additionally, Series I holds photocopies of book reviews written by Goetz for the United States Information Agency between 1959 and 1976. A box of slides relating to "Visual Aids and State Governments" is housed in Series VI.

Series II houses materials relating to Goetz’s work in national politics in the 1950s. The majority of the series contains documents from Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 presidential campaign, including drafts of speeches, memoranda, position papers, and correspondence. Additionally, the series holds drafts, correspondence, and a final manuscript of the 1958 book Goetz co-authored with Chicago politician Robert Merriam, Going Into Politics.

Series III contains papers relating to Goetz’s work on the Hyde Park-Kenwood urban renewal project of the 1950s and 1960s and her general research and writing on urban renewal in the wake of Hyde Park’s success. Included here are Goetz’s subject folders on the Hyde Park-Kenwood project, holding newspapers clippings, correspondence, and meeting minutes. The series also contains drafts and manuscripts of her three books on urban renewal, The Hidden Price of Urban Renewal, Middle-Income Housing, and her significant revision of Peter Rossi and Robert Dentler’s The Politics of Urban Renewal. An oversized map of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Project is also held in Series VI.

Series IV holds personal information on Goetz and her family. A significant portion of the series relates to Goetz’s egg art, a project to which she dedicated herself from the mid-1970s until her death in 1994. Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and many photographs of her decorated eggs are included here. The series also holds a small amount of Goetz’s work with Midway Editorial Research, a Chicago-based research firm which she co-founded in the mid-1960s. Additionally, materials relating to Goetz’s father, Leon Carroll Marshall, are housed in this series. These documents include newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence regarding Marshall’s life and Goetz’s work to establish a University of Chicago business school scholarship in his name.

Series V contains reel-to-reel and cassette tapes with a variety of content. Most of the reel-to-reel tapes are unidentified. The cassette tapes include a series of oral history interviews conducted with Goetz by Mary Alzina Stone Dale, daughter of Goetz’s close friend, Ursula Batchelder Stone.

Series V: Audio Material

Series VI contains oversize material and artifacts transferred from previous series. Included here are Goetz’s collection of campaign pins from Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 presidential campaign and a box of slides containing supporting material for her early-1950s work, "Visual Aids and State Governments." Also housed in this series are two large photographs of Goetz from 1930, an oversized map of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Project dated 1960, and a poster voicing the Hyde Park League of Women Voters’ support for the 1945 United Nations World Security Conference.