Records, [1923?]-[1956?].

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Records, [1923?]-[1956?].

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Contains correspondence, minutes, questionnaires, financial records, reports, contracts, programs, and drafts of lectures. Material relates primarily to the annual Harris Institute which sponsored conferences and public lectures on international affairs. Also includes documents relating to the establishment of the Foundation.

11.5 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago.

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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...

Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation

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The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation is a trust fund, given to the University of Chicago in 1923, for the promotion of knowledge of an interest in international affairs. The original grant was given by Harris' children, Albert W., Normal Dwight, Hayden B., Stanley G., and Pearl Harris Maclean, through the bequest of his widow, Emma Gale Harris. A standing Committee of the Harris Foundation was set up to apply the provisions of the trust. The two main projects laid out by the trust were the...