Minutes : manuscript, 1897.

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Minutes : manuscript, 1897.

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Official typed copy of the minutes of the Monetary Commission, which was charged with preparing a complete financial plan for the currency and banking of the United States in order to uphold the gold standard.

1 v. ; 30 cm.

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Monetary Convention (1st : 1897 : Indianapolis). Monetary Commission.

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University of Chicago. (Codex Ms. 163.)

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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...