- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-3-6-4
- n.d.
ca. 1860
ca. 1860
Iowa College Rebuilding Fund account book
Consists of papers dealing with the construction of campus buildings between 1914 and 1975. Many papers on financing of earlier buildings (pre ca. 1940) are in series 6 (Grinnell College foundation), those on financing of the Physical Eduation Complex and Norris are in this series.
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)
Robinson & Parnham (Des Moines) correspondence.
Correspondence re: landscaping and storm sewers. Blueprints located in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.11)
Rougher Rich & Woodburn, Des Moines, architects, correspondence, blueprint, and sketch.
North campus furniture inventory
Large binder, equipment ledger, with 4.5" x 10" card for each item. Gives description of item, value, vendor from whom purchased. Arranged by dorm, then by area (lounge, hostess suite, student rooms, also Cowles dining room).
1970 bond. Hew, Education & Welfare grant, 1967 Correspondence, forms, floor plans Also, Skidmore Owings Merrill correspondence re: various projects, 1967-1969
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.
Note Phelps' description of difficult financial condition of the college, April, 1921.