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Isaacs, Barbara

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 20th century-Present

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Letters; Bob Smith at Chicago's American, 1963 - 1965

 File — Box: 52, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.

Dates: 1963 - 1965

Posters; 1965 film, lecture series, "Curious World of Ken Isaacs", 1965

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains Isaacs’ early designs and promotional papers for Ken Isaacs Ltd, and records related to his temporally overlapping projects of building Microhouses at Groveland, Illinois, his tenure as contributing editor for Popular Science magazine (1967-1972), and the creation of his first book, Culture Breakers, Alternatives & Other Numbers (1970). The Groveland Subseries includes some press correspondence. The Popular Science Subseries includes article drafts and published copies, as well...
Dates: Other: 1965

Proposals; Matrix Research Project Film Unit MARFU , c. 1964

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains Isaacs’ early designs and promotional papers for Ken Isaacs Ltd, and records related to his temporally overlapping projects of building Microhouses at Groveland, Illinois, his tenure as contributing editor for Popular Science magazine (1967-1972), and the creation of his first book, Culture Breakers, Alternatives & Other Numbers (1970). The Groveland Subseries includes some press correspondence. The Popular Science Subseries includes article drafts and published copies, as well...
Dates: Other: c. 1964

Science fiction film props, "Negative Earth", 1971 - 1972

 File — Box: 32, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Documents work by Ken Isaacs that was done independent of UIC but completed during his time there. It includes exhibit proposals, contest entries and correspondence.

Dates: Other: 1971 - 1972

Subject; Reproductions. [Barbara Isaacs] Shivitz exhibit announcement , 1961

 File — Box: 45, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Combines Isaacs' reference and reading files from both his UIC and home office.

Dates: Other: 1961