Descriptive inventory for the Jerome A. Gross papers, ca. 1940-1995

Provenance statement:

Gift of Jerome A. Gross by will (accession #: 1997.0167).

Terms governing use:

Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

Restriction(s):

This collection is open for research use.

Please cite this collection as:

Jerome A. Gross papers, ca. 1940-1995 (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.

Journals (1953-1994), correspondence (1957-1991), photographs, and other papers of Jerome A. Gross, who was a veteran, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and a gay man who died from complications resulting from HIV in 1995. The bulk of the collection is comprised of journals and correspondence that document the daily activities of Gross, mostly in Chicago, and begin when he was a college student. Some correspondence relates to the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington (D.C.), where he worked for a while, and to the Boston chapter of the Association of Hungarian Students of North America (Északamerikai Magyar Egyetemisták és Főiskolások Egyesületeinek Szövetsége). The photographs are mostly black and white images of various locations and people (ca. 1940-1970).

Jerome A. Gross worked for the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., and for the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse.