Eugene Winslow papers, 1885-1993

  • IdentificationMSWins92
  • TitleEugene Winslow papers MSWins92
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description2.5 linear ft.
  • Date1885-1993
  • AbstractEugene Winslow enjoyed a successful professional career that included work as a graphic designer, cartoonist, publisher, executive, and pilot in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He served as Vice President of the African American Publishing Company and as Treasurer of the Air Purification Company of America. Eugene Winslow wrote Afro-Americans '76: Black Americans in the Founding of Our Nation and contributed to several works about African-American history including multiple editions of Great Negroes Past and Present. The Eugene Winslow Papers include correspondence, memoranda, notes, clippings, certificates, programs, photographs, brochures, sketches, graphic designs, schematics, and published works.
  • OriginationWinslow, Eugene

Old Resource ID was EWinslow

Eugene Winslow was born on Nov. 17, 1919. He attended Froebel High School in Gary, Indiana and received a B.A. degree from Dillard University in New Orleans in 1943. Winslow graduated from the TAAF School in Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II attaining the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He later served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant before leaving the Reserve in 1957. Winslow's lifelong interest in art drew him to the Institute of Design in Chicago where he studied from 1948 to 1951. Eugene Winslow enjoyed a successful professional career that included work as a graphic designer, cartoonist, publisher and executive. He served as Vice President of the African American Publishing Company and as Treasurer of the Air Purification Company of America. Eugene Winslow wrote Afro-Americans '76: Black Americans in the Founding of Our Nation and contributed to several works about African-American history including multiple editions of Great Negroes Past and Present.

The Eugene Winslow Papers include correspondence, notes, memoranda, clippings, certificates, programs, photographs, brochures, sketches, graphic designs, schematics, and published works. Notable materials include early sketches drawn in high school, memorabilia from his time at the TAAF School in Tuskegee, Alabama, brochures and design proofs from his advertising work, and original artwork for multiple editions of Great Negroes Past and Present. His association with African-American inventor Rufus Stokes and their attempt to develop an independent Air Purification Company are also represented herein. These papers are arranged in chronological order with the exception of oversize material.

Eugene Winslow donated these materials to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992 and 1994.

Eugene Winslow papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Subject
    • Chicago African American History.
    • Chicago Design History.
    • Publishers and publishing.
  • Geographic CoverageIllinois--Chicago.