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).
Correspondence with vendors on stokers, boilers and other equipment; building construction; law suit with lumber company over nonpayment of bills. correspondence with Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson, Des Moines, architects
Real estate contracts and miscellaneous
Record of 65 off-campus properties, both within and outside Grinnell, which the college acquired between ca. 1876 and 1927. One page per property. Information includes locationn, date obtained, from whom ogtained, cost, legal description, remarks, plat map. Arranged more or less by date of acquisition. Bounc vol. 16" x 11.5"
1 archive box containing 5" x 8" cards, one card for each investment. Records of interest paid. Arranged by scholarship then by investment. Scholarships include: Art Center, Blossom, Dibble, Hill annuity, Julia Ford Hill, Loose, Maytag, Rieckhoff, and a general unlabeled section. (Provenance unknown)
Correspondence, contracts, specifications.
Skidmore Owings & Merrill: dormitory and central dining hall
Vol. 1: Various funds, arranged by fund then alphabetically by student. 1922-1941 Vol. 2: Johnson Loan fund 1926-1940. Arranged alphabetically by student Vol. 3: Maltese Cross Loans. ca. 1926-1942. Arranged alphabetically by student.
One bound volume
Papers are in reverse chronological order. L.V. Phelps correspondence with government agencies and Weitz Co., and application forms.