Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

This organization has contributed to the following objects in the Encyclopedia.

The aesthetic found in Walter Paepcke’s office reflected a company-wide commitment to modernist design.

Aspen Mountain as Walter Paepcke first would have seen it.

Gaertner single-screw machine owned by Yerkes Observatory. This piece of equipment was used for parallax plates to make precise measurements…

A committee would field “Great Ideas” suggestions from scholars and business executives. Once an idea was approved it would go…

Walter Paepcke speaks to a large crowd in Florida during a celebration of the opening of his firm’s new plant.

Recognized as both a leader in the paperboard industry and as an innovative marketer in the larger corporate world, Paepcke…

The unprecedented direction CCA’s advertising would move toward required Paepcke to have explanations and justifications at the ready.

Walter Paepcke’s Latin School yearbook page shows a precocious young man

Walter Paepcke’s United States Navy duty release orders

In 1908, Julius Rosenwald visited Germany with his family and posed for this group portrait. He sits in the center…

Julius Rosenwald's father, Samuel, had come to the United States from Bünde in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1854.

In 1904, Julius Rosenwald and Richard Sears built this state of the art plant for their rapidly expanding company.

Walter Paepcke helped get his sister and brother-in-law to Switzerland, but he was unsuccessful in helping them obtain visas to…

In 1911, Rosenwald met Booker T. Washington, at the time the best known black man in America.For the next four…

The Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, photographed between 1928 and 1932.