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University of Chicago Library

Preliminary Inventory to the Dr. James W. Winkelman Alumni Collection 1929-2008

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Descriptive Summary

Title:

Winkelman, Dr. James W. Alumni Collection

Dates:

1929-2008

Accession Number:

2020-010

Size:

6 linear feet (4 boxes)

Repository:

Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

James W. Winkelman (1935-2023) attended the University of Chicago in the early 1950s. This collection contains materials related to student life.

Information on Use

Access

This collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Winkelman, Dr. James W. Alumni Collection, Accession #, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

James W. Winkelman (1935-2023) completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1955. He went on to receive his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1959, and worked as a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School from 1986 to 2002. Winkelman patented over 20 medical technologies and published hundreds of journal articles over the course of his career. This collection contains coursebooks, student publications, and other tokens of Winkelman’s time in Chicago, including literature from the Communist Party headquarters in Chicago and an anti-McCarthy protest pin.

INVENTORY

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, History of Western Civilization, Topics II and III, 1953

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, History of Western Civilization, Topics IV and VI, 1953-1954

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Social Sciences 3, Volume II, 1953

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Social Sciences 3, Volume III, 1954

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Humanities 1 Handbook, 4th Edition, 1950

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Humanities 2, 1951

Box 1

William McNeill, History Handbook, University of Chicago Coursebooks, 1953

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Methods of the Sciences, Selected Readings and Syllabus, Part II, 1955

Box 1

University of Chicago Coursebooks in the Natural and Physical Sciences, 1950-1952

Box 1

Books by Robert Maynard Hutchins on Education, 1936

Box 1

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1952

Box 2

Writings of Vladimir Lenin, 1929-1955

Box 2

Writings of Joseph Stalin, 1952-1954

Box 2

Writings of S.I. Vavilov and Leon Trotsky, 1947-1953

Box 2

Congressional Documents on Communism and the Soviet Union, 1946-1953

Box 2

Congressional Documents on Communism and the Soviet Union, 1948-1953

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, History of Western Civilization, Topics I and V, 1953

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, History of Western Civilization, Topics VII and VIII, 1954

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Social Sciences 2, Volumes I-III, 1952-1953

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Social Sciences 3, Volume I, 1953

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Humanities 3, Selected Readings, 1952

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, General Course in Language (Language 1), Selected Readings, 1952

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks, Organizations of the Sciences, Selected Readings, 1946

Box 2

University of Chicago Coursebooks in the Sciences: Methods and the Nature of Matter, 1953

Box 3

The Little Library of Liberal Arts, Associated Publications, 1949-1954

Box 3

Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time, 2008

Box 3

Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, 1947

Box 3

George Wolf, Chemical Induction of Cancer, 1952

Box 3

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class, 1934

Box 3

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, n.d.

Box 3

Sophocles, Antigone, translated by F. Kinchin Smith, 1951

Box 3

Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, Report to the President and Congress, 1954

Box 3

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, n.d.

Box 3

University of Chicago Round Table, Number 734, 1952

Box 3

University of Chicago, Class of 1955, 35th Reunion Directory, 1989

Box 3

Chicago Maroon, Special Edition: Famous Front Pages, 1956

Box 3

James Winkelman, Undergraduate Thesis, “Valuation: A Theory and a Science,” University of Chicago, 1955

Box 3

James Winkelman Correspondence with Carl Sagan and Carl Sagan Obituary, 1996-1997

Box 4

James Winkelman, Varsity Letter, Tennis, University of Chicago, 1955

Box 4

University of Chicago Emeritus Club Pin, n.d.

Box 4

University of Chicago, “A Free University in a Free Society” Pin, Anti-McCarthy Demonstration, 1953