Jean F. Block papers, 1980's (inclusive)
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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...
Block, Jean F.
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Jean Friedberg Block was a University of Chicago expert and a renowned scholar of the architecture and peopling of Hyde Park and the University. Block's papers include general information about the University from the early-to-mid 20th century. Series I contains general correspondence and other information about the University's development. Series II contains material pertinent to "The Uses of Gothic," a 1985 exhibit in the Special Collections Resource Center, which was largely authored and coo...
