Scope and Contents note From the Series: F. Peter Weil (German-American) was born in Germany in 1913 and came to the United States in 1938. Having started in photography as a hobby, he studied under Aaron Siskind and Art Sinsabaugh at the Institute of Design in Chicago on a part time basis (1952-1954). After working for photographers in Chicago and free-lancing for the Hyde Park Herald, Weil came to the Newberry Library in 1969 as the supervisor of the Photoduplication Department. While at the Newberry, he recorded all of the...