- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-4-3-2
- Bestanddeel
- 1916-1917
Mostly between Phelps and Proudfoot Bird & Rawson, architects, and Bailey-Marsh
Mostly between Phelps and Proudfoot Bird & Rawson, architects, and Bailey-Marsh
Includes correspondece with Proudfott Rawson and correspondence re: dining hall roof crack and reconstruction, 1945.
Draining and soil tests, 1970. Gilbert Builders. Correspondence, construction schedule for the entire project, 1971
Beadle County, SD. D. W. Norris farm
Bowen, A. B. Rock Valley, IA, farm
Chattel Mortgages, Lonnie Trees
Primarly correspondence with some legal papers. 1 photo.
Contracts, deeds, correspondence
Details of financing
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 between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer and manager of several college-owned farms in the area: financial hard times, difficulty of paying taxes ("talk of burning corn at the Court house" "We have got to get back to the old times, eat fried mush and milk, which my wife and I lived on many a day and can do it again if I have to: Oct. 3, 1932. Re: a farmer who netted only $51 for his entire crop "...how is a farmer going to make ends meet at our present prices, prices have got to change to make the manufactories roll or Our good Country is gone. We can live on mush and milk again if we have to" Dec. 20, 1932. "I never thought I would ever get hard up again as I was from 1891 to 1896..." Oct. 31, 1932). Correspondence discusses many details of farming in the early 1930s: seed purchases, crop yeilds and prices, shipping to market, farm repairs, petition to extend time of drainage assessment payments. Correspondence regarding college mortgage on the farm; correspondence with Dwifht McCarty, '01, Emmetsburg attorney, on legal matters. List of farms and of city properties college owned on January 1930 (last sheet in folder). Real Estate Register p. 1 (RG-T Ser. 5.2). Also pamphlet on Felt farm in 02.334/p3
Correspondence, contract, plat map.
Painter, Henry, farm, Algona, IA
Correspondence, much between Charles Kaufman and Painter. Financial statements, legal papers.
Evaluations of the properties by various consultants to guide decision to acquire or not acquire the farms (ditto copies).