Book of the shanties, 1919-1950.

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Book of the shanties, 1919-1950.

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Volume listing names of University of Chicago alumni who were members of the Shanty Organization which celebrated a student restaurant that operated from 1893 to 1907.

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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...