American Indian Scholarship Fund (Elise Lenning Macauley)
- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-7-4-1
- Unidad documental compuesta
- 1956
American Indian Scholarship Fund (Elise Lenning Macauley)
Information about the college submitted to Andrew Carnegie; Statement about Iowa College to be sent to potential donors; Report on college assets as of Oct. 1906; lists of leading alumni and potential donors.
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.
Henry Holsman (Chicago) to President Main and to W. Brainerd (Boston)
Blueprints in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.13)
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). Minutes of meetings re: PEC. Grinnell College, SOM, Gilbert Builders, and various sub-contractors.
Real Estate Register, p. 58 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)
Davis, May estate. Sioux City, IA
Correspondence, will, inventories of properties, other papers. Real Estate Register, pgs. 28-33 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)
Younker Endowment. Income and expenses
Correspondence, financial summaries, Younker Scholarship recipients lists and bbiographies, photo of the buildings.
Includes report of endowment campaign annuity division, 1930.
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).