- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-4-20-1
- Documento
- 1967-1969
Correspondence re: women's dorm west of Loose Hall and a central dining facility east of Darby, 1967-1969. Never built. Correspondence, cost estimates, specifications, SOM fees.
Correspondence re: women's dorm west of Loose Hall and a central dining facility east of Darby, 1967-1969. Never built. Correspondence, cost estimates, specifications, SOM fees.
Papers concerning the estate, inventory of estate assets.
Arranged in reverse chronological order. Includes photos.
Bonds for financing construction of building. Correspondence, Arranged in reverse chronological order. Most deals with threatened litigation by bond holders over college's defaulting on payments on the 1924 bonds. Also, brochures, lists of bond holders, deeds of trust, statements of income and expenditures from the property.
Photographs of Dibble building construction, completed building, and environs.
Linn et. al. vs. Trustees of Iowa College
Bondholders' suit against Trustees for default in bond payments. Correspondence, legal papers, financial statements, lists of bondholders, other papers relating to the case.
Emmet County IA farm (near Estherville)
Arranged in reverse chronological order. Correspondence, primarily with farm manager, Arthur Pitcher, and with banks. Mentions government farm assistance programs; first trial of hybrid corn ("willing to put in ... 7 bu of corn...would like to see this corn tried out alongside seed ...saved for this year", "We have never had any experience with hybred [sic] corn, but are trying it out on half a dozen farms this year for the first time: May 6, 1937, Philps to farm manager); planting trees, Jan 19, 1937; embargo on trucks on farm roads due to mud, April 14, 1936; college's mortgage on the farm; dealing with army worms, June 25, 1932; "If the pheasant season hunting didn't get you down, will you please give us a report on the corn crop..." Nov. 25, 1935; "We have 27 farms under contract for the Corn-Hog Plan..." Phelps to Pitcher, Feb 18, 1935 1 photo Real Estate Register, p. 17 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)
Company managed several college farms. Correspondence between Phelps and the company; form field reports; information on improving farm practices sent by the company to their clients; discussion of political situation, Phelps and Claassen, president of Farmers National, May-June 1936.
Painter, Henry, farm. Algona, IA
Correspondence, much of it between Phelps and Henry Painter. Several letters between Phelps and Henry Fay, realter, deal with J. C. Penney Co. lease of store in Oelwein, March 1946.
Correspondence, much between Charles Kaufman, Property Manager, and members of the Proudfoot family. Legal papers, government farm program forms.
Correspondence
Consists of the 1905 lease between Charles Good and Simon Casady for 503-505 Walnut St., Des Moines (typed copy) and 1942 establishment of endowment by Benjamin, Lytton, and Rachel Younker (typed copy).