- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-5-1-4-2
- Bestanddeel
- 1916-192, 1938
Note Phelps' description of difficult financial condition of the college, April, 1921.
Note Phelps' description of difficult financial condition of the college, April, 1921.
Concerning law suits over Bailey-Marsh's non-payment of bills to sub-contractors, financial disputes.
Frank Almy; E. Adams on selection of Bradley as president, 1902; Dan Dradley; S. F. Cooper; S. A. Cravath on selection of Bradley as president; Frisbie; Henry Holsman (architect; building on W. Ohio, Chicago); Gershom Hill; Sh. H. Herrick on investments; James L. Hill; S. H. Herrick.
Samuel Cooper on Chapel.
Correspondence and legal documents
Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer, deals with daily activities, problems and trials of farming at the time: planting walnut ttrees as a windbreak, Dec. 3, 1936; building repairs; marketing crops; list of grains to be planted, cost of seed, roads closed because of mud, March 1936; description of an "old timer" snowstorm and reminiscences of "the old days" ("oldest child was born in the barn, done it ourselves, had no $5 to get a Doctor, second child was born in a machine shed...:" "...walked 8 miles to and from work every morning and night and got $1.50 for 10 hours work...did not have time them days to smoke cigarettes..." Feb. 11, 1936 Correspondence and legal papers related to the college mortgage on the farm. Arranged more or less in reverse chronological order, as they came to the archives.
Correspondence and photograph of ground breaking. Blueprints are in Oversize file (RG-T ser. 4.9)
T. McClelland, president of Knox College, comments on pensions under the "new Carnegie figt for college professors" (June 1905); Paul Peck on election to Chair of History; Albert Shaw to Pres. Bradley on soliciting money from Rockefeller and Carnegie (1902 and 1905); Eugene Taylor (of Josselyn & Taylor, Cedar Rapids) applying to become college architect; Pres. Winchell on construction of railroad depot; Zitterell, contractor for Chapel and YM-YW building.
Henry Matlack on power and installation of new organ; L. F. Parker on Gates, Herron and fund raising; Trustee John Meyer.
Correspondence of L. V. Phelps
Includes correspondence with various banks and lawyers. Covers court case by family contesting the will, sales of parts of the estate, some newspaper clippings.
Cowles kitechen equipment from Albert Pick Co., Chicago.
Danforth, Joseph, patent agreement
Davis, May estate. Sioux City, IA
Correspondence, will, inventories of properties, other papers. Real Estate Register, pgs. 28-33 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)