Mortgages on Grinnell (town) properties
- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-7-6-3
- Bestanddeel
- 1947
Mortgages on Grinnell (town) properties
Training Unit Contract. STAR Unit-750
Sample of correspondence and billings. Samples in the folder indicate typical transactions between the College and the government. The remainder was discarded.
Cowles kitechen equipment from Albert Pick Co., Chicago.
Most letters deal with an 1893 fund raising campaign, directed to the alumni, for the YMCA-YWCA building. Most letters were addressed to W. M. Parsons, '87, Iowa College Financial Agent, 1893-?. Some of the correspondents include: E. E. Bartlett, J. F. Darby, Gershom Hill, J. H. Haines, James L. Hill, Henry Holsman (Architect), S. A. Merrill (comment on Herron, 1898), Clinton Nourse (architect), C. R. Shaatto (?) (comment on Herron, 1898), Emma Wolcott (comment on Herron, 1897).
G. W. Merrill (requiest to extend High St. from 8th to 10th Ave); H. M. Parker (his difficult financial straits).
Correspondence of the committee with alumni donors for the construction of ARH. Most corresondence was of a very routine nature and was discarded. Letters preserved are a selection to indicate exampoes of typical letters, those reflecting problmes fund-fraisers encountered, letters indicating the status of the campaign at a given time or progress on the construction, letters that indicate how the und-raising campaign wa organized. Some of the corrrespondents include: Gershom Hill, Harry Hopkins; S. A. Merrill re: E. H. Taylor as an architect; H. W. Magoun; Jesse Macy; Anne Norris; Merta Matlack.
Reports for 1924, 1925, 1930
The Hungate report on Grinnell College was a study of the funds, assets, and current deficits of the college. Hungate was Assistant to the President of the General Education Board, Trevor Arnett, and was later Auditor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He reorganized Grinnell's financial and accounting procedure in 1925.
Papers presented to General Education Board
Papers indicating fulfillment of conditions for $500,000 grant. Feb. 1930.
President Main's correspondence
Consists primarily of Pres. Main's correspondence in connection with the campaign (e.g. arranging appointments with potential N.Y. donors).
Deals with construction details for dorms #1-5; also construction of rail spur (M. & St. L., Nov. 1916); strike notice poster, Bailey-Marsh financial problems.
Correspondence and photograph of ground breaking. Blueprints are in Oversize file (RG-T ser. 4.9)