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Julius Rosenwald

(Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932)

Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions in matching funds to promote vocational or technical education. In 1919 he was appointed to the Chicago Commission on Race Relations. He was also the principal founder and backer for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, to which he gave more than $5 million and served as president from 1927 to 1932. (From Wikipedia)

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Investment in People: The Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund (New York: Harper and Bros., c1949), by Edwin R. Embree and Julia Waxman (page images at HathiTrust)

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Life on the Negro frontier; a study of the objectives and the success of the activities promoted in the Young men's Christian associations operating in "Rosenwald" buildings. (Association press, 1934), by George Robert Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
Julius Rosenwald, 1862-1932. ([Chicago, 1962), by Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of Ham (Elizabeth City, N.C. : The Independent, c1924., 1924), by W. O. Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)

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Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932: Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839. (Harper & brothers, 1863), also by Fanny Kemble, N. W. Perkins, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932: Methods of preparing and administering the budget of Cook County, Illnois. Report submitted to the commissioners of Cook County, January, 1911 (Barnard & Miller, 1911), also by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency (page images at HathiTrust)
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932: The office of county treasurer of Cook County, Illinois. An inquiry into the administration of its finances with special reference to the question of interest on public funds. ([Chicago, 1913), also by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency (page images at HathiTrust)

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