Preliminary Inventory to the Grace and Harry Ulrey Alumni Collection circa 1910-1921


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• Descriptive Summary
• Information on Use
• Access
• Citation
• Biographical Note
• INVENTORY

Descriptive Summary

Information on Use

Access

This collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Ulrey, Grace and Harry. Alumni Collection, Acc #, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Grace Margaret Ulrey (née Walter) was born in 1890 in Rossville Indiana. She graduated from Rossville High School. Walter moved to Chicago where she worked at a small newspaper as a society editor. She returned to Indiana and earned a graduate certificate in teaching from Indiana University. Between 1910 and 1932, she worked in the Clinton and Carroll County schools. She was active in the Woman’s Suffrage and Prohibition movements, as well as the local Republican Party. In 1917, Walter married Harry Floyd Ulrey. Harry Ulrey was born in 1892 in Carroll County, Indiana and raised on a farm. He was drafted into WWI in 1917 and worked as a carpenter at Camp Funston in Kansas. He went on to study engineering and made his career as a construction engineer for industrial building in Chicago. Ulrey published trade articles for the construction industry.

The collection consists of a scrapbook of Grace and Harry’s drawings, with an introduction by their grandson, Michael S. Humnicky. The majority of the scrapbook consists of drawings Grace completed during a summer course at the University of Chicago circa 1910-1912. The remainder of the scrapbook is comprised of drawings from an architectural drawing course Harry completed circa 1921.

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