University of Chicago. Department of History. Records 1910-1963

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University of Chicago. Department of History. Records 1910-1963

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The Department of History Records contain correspondence, memoranda, minutes, letters of recommendation, examinations, reports, proposals, student lists and student grades.

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Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...