University of Chicago Board of Trustees Correspondence of the Secretary records 1890-1960 (inclusive).

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University of Chicago Board of Trustees Correspondence of the Secretary records 1890-1960 (inclusive).

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The collection includes letters relating to the administrative and financial actions of the Board of Trustees and its committees; acknowledgments of endowments and other gifts to the University; communications regarding fund-raising and development programs; and official notices of all appointments, promotions, and salaries of University faculty and staff. Partial indexes for the correspondence through 1948 are available.

28 linear feet (6 boxes and 75 volumes)

University of Chicago Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7789211

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...

University of Chicago. Board of Trustees

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Secretaries of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees included Thomas W. Goodspeed (1891-1912), J. Spencer Dickerson (1913-1926), John F. Moulds (1927-1944), Wilbur C. Munnecke (1945-1948), Lyndon H. Lesch, (acting, 1948), R. W. Harrison (acting, 1949), and Howard H. Moore (1950-1962). From the description of University of Chicago Board of Trustees Correspondence of the Secretary records 1890-1960 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 608326494 ...