1 folder of material relating to the Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art, including yearbooks for 1915 and 1925; a 1977 letter from a librarian at the Art Institute of Chicago regarding folders of material relating to the Commission in the registrar’s office at the Art Institute and accompanied by a brief handwritten list of key dates in the Commission’s history; a 1945 list of works purchased by the Commission, their locations, and their cost; a typescript “Preliminary Report on the Status of Research into the Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art 1914–1947,” dated 1978, which includes a detailed history of the Commission and the results of a search for the artworks; and miscellaneous correspondence, including copy of a 1985 finding aid for the Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art Records, 1914–1945, Art Institute of Chicago Institutional Archives.