Records of development campaigns and anniversaries, 1896-1941 (inclusive).

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Records of development campaigns and anniversaries, 1896-1941 (inclusive).

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Contains minutes, programs, schedules, and other memorabilia from the fifth (1896), tenth (1901), and 25th (1916) anniversaries. Contains records of the 1924-1926 campaign including minutes and reports of the Executive Committee on Development, Alumni Committee correspondence, donor lists, speeches and articles, promotional pamphlets, and assessments of the University by the John Price Jones Corporation. Records from the 50th anniversary (1941) and development campaign include correspondence, minutes, reports, Alumni Foundation material, and texts or abridged versions of papers delivered at the Fiftieth Anniversary Symposia.

7.5 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago. Office of Development.

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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...