Guide to the Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh, John Weber, Administrative Files, 1936-1956 UA.3.4.1A
Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title
Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh, John Weber, Administrative Files
Creator
University of Pittsburgh. Secretary
Collection Number
UA.3.4.1A
Extent
8.75 Linear Feet(16 boxes)
Date
1936-1956
Abstract
This collection contains the office files of the Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh, John Weber, from 1936-1956.
Language
English
.
Author
Marianne Kasica.
Publisher
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Address
University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives & Special Collections Website: library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Contact Us: www.library.pitt.edu/ask-archivist URL: http://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Acquisition Information
Transferred to the University Archives in 1968.
Copyright
All rights reserved. University of Pittsburgh.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject as it was in the Secretary's office. Some subjects, such as the construction projects, are subarranged. File 177 has been deleted.
Previous Citation
Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh, John Weber, Administrative Files, 1936-1956, UA.3.4.1A 1936-1956, University Archives, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Preferred Citation
Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh, John Weber, Administrative Files, 1936-1956, UA.3.4.1A 1936-1956, University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Processing Information
This collection was originally inventoried by Archives staff and updated in 2012 by Marianne Kasica.
Scope and Content Notes
John Weber was Secretary of the University of Pittsburgh from 1936-1956. These are the adminstrative files from his office arranged per the subject index provided by his office.
Subjects
Corporate Names
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh. Secretary
Stephen Collins Foster Memorial (University of Pittsburgh)
Heinz Memorial Chapel (University of Pittsburgh)
University of Pittsburgh -- Buildings -- Design and construction
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Personal Names
Weber, John
Genres
Correspondence
Other Subjects
Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Records and correspondence
Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Administration
University of Pittsburgh
Education
Container List
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box 10, folder 73-74
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box 10, folder 75
Scope and Content Notes
Inquiries; student requests; complaints
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box 10, folder 76
Scope and Content Notes
Erving, Carrie; Fisher, Nairne; Gentry, Frank G.; Goldsbury, Paul E.; Greenfield, Robert A.; Griffiths, David J.; Heinz, H.J.; Herlinger, H.V.; Horner, Alena; Hospital Specialties Co.; Hunt, Percival; Hurst-Anthony Insurance Co.; Holmes, A.G.; General Electric Co. in re meter register and Watthour meter; Schisano, Charles F.; McNulty Brothers-insurance; McSorley, John.
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box 10, folder 77
Scope and Content Notes
Mahoney, Regis C.; Marks, Harry – request for employment; Corbett, Frank J.; Smith, W.L.; rental agreement for a derrick, 1934; Ohmes, Gilbert Richard; Ohmes, Arthur K.; in re Choir Festival 1932; Peoples Natural Gas; Pittsburgh Railways Company; Donatelli, Antonio; report of Scalebuoys.
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box 10, folder 78
Scope and Content Notes
In re employment of Beam, C.H.; with universities – Chicago, Florida, Miami (equipment for chemistry labs, data on Miami freshmen), list of minimum equipment requirements for teaching biology – charts, slides, supplies, etc.
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box 10, folder 79
Scope and Content Notes
University of Toronto (Hart House); Montana; Westminster College.
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box 11, folder 80
Scope and Content Notes
Spaced needs for classes in the College, Engineering & Mines, Business Administration, Education for 1922-1923.
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box 11, folder 81
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box 11, folder 82
Scope and Content Notes
Contracts for service.
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box 11, folder 83
Scope and Content Notes
Contributions to Welfare Fund, Community Fund, 1932-1935; Allegheny County Emergency Workmen; Injury report; work records.
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box 11, folder 84
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box 11, folder 85
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box 11, folder 86
Scope and Content Notes
Contract and specifications for demolition of the old Faculty Club, 1931; specifications for faculty club lounge, carpet, kitchen and dining equipment; blueprint of equipment. Faculty housing correspondence; Women's Association.
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box 11, folder 87
Scope and Content Notes
Bid for furnishings.
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box 11, folder 88
Scope and Content Notes
General Bid Specifications.
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box 11, folder 89
Scope and Content Notes
Care and maintenance for State, Thaw, Medical and Alumni Halls
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box 12, folder 90
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box 12, folder 91
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box 12, folder 92
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box 12, folder 93
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box 12, folder 94
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box 12, folder 95
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box 12, folder 96
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box 12, folder 97
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box 12, folder 98
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box 12, folder 99
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box 12, folder 100
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box 12, folder 101
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box 12, folder 102-103
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box 12, folder 104
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box 12, folder 105
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box 12, folder 106-107
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box 13, folder 108
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box 13, folder 109
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box 13, folder 110
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box 13, folder 111
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box 13, folder 112
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box 13, folder 113
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box 13, folder 114
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box 13, folder 115
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box 13, folder 116
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box 13, folder 117
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box 14, folder 118
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box 14, folder 119
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box 14, folder 120
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box 14, folder 121
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box 14, folder 122-123
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box 14, folder 124
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box 15, folder 125
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box 15, folder 126
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box 15, folder 127-128
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box 15, folder 129-133
Scope and Content Notes
Automatic temperature control. tests, graphs; Bellefield steam distributing system, correspondence, June 1934-June 1936; Construction, specifications: Edgar Station masonry work 5/1/1928; Walpole Ring Substation, 10/20/1926; Daily reports on heating systems, October 4, 1935-June 1, 1936.
Containers
box 16, folder 134-137
Scope and Content Notes
Daily reports, continued; Degree day yearly data sheets, data; graphs, 1924-1934;
Burners, Articles concerning gas and oil burners: "Design and performance of domestic oil burners", Journal of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers: American Gas Association Monthly, June 1929; Natural Gas, July 1929; correspondence; coal consumption data, April-May 1929; memo on heat supply for university buildings, November 1928; heating system, costs, etc. for Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Temperature charts; automatic temperature control; graphs; thermostat settings at various buildings; Steam consumption by building, 1933-1935; Chemistry laboratories: temperature charts and graphs, May 1936.
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box 16, folder 138
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box 16, folder 139
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box 16, folder 140
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box 17, folder 141
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box 17, folder 142
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box 17, folder 143
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box 17, folder 144
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box 17, folder 145
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box 17, folder 146
Scope and Content Notes
Course notes, no. 201 and 202.
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box 17, folder 147
Scope and Content Notes
Presbyterian University Hospital, Plumbing specifications; Eye and Ear Hospital, Plumbing specifications, 1932
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box 17, folder 148
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box 17, folder 149
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence: Mr. Klimcheck with Mr. Gustav Kettere, Mr. H.J. Syran (Remington-Rand, Inc.), etc.
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box 18, folder 150
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence concerning employment of Conboy and Zizmor; Use of a university-owned house (1928); Sidewalk improvements in cemetery area, 1927; Drainage on Terrace Street, 1926; Steps near Dental Building; School of Education and Teachers' Bureau office supplies budget.
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box 18, folder 151
Scope and Content Notes
Heating, Facilities and Specifications.
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box 18, folder 152
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box 18, folder 228
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box 18, folder 153
Scope and Content Notes
National Association of Building Owners and Managers – Codes; Printing Industry Code; President's Re-employment Program, July 27, 1933; Agreement Restaurant Industry; University employment code; hours and working conditions for employees including elevator operators, Falk Clinic personnel; custodians, watchmen, 1933. Newspaper clippings
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box 18, folder 154
Scope and Content Notes
Includes brochures on office furnishings
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box 18, folder 155
Scope and Content Notes
Installation of Hollerith Calculating Machines (IBM)
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box 18, folder 156
Scope and Content Notes
some specifications for paint, Cathedral and other
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box 18, folder 157
Scope and Content Notes
Bids and Schedules
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box 18, folder 158
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box 18, folder 159
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box 18, folder 160
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box 18, folder 161-162
Scope and Content Notes
For room use; fire inspection, etc; Authorization for Charles Hepner to take samples of plants growing on campus, 1932; Visiting hours, tours, permissions for visiting the Cathedral of Learning.
Containers
box 19, folder 163-164
Scope and Content Notes
Office hours; memos of Cathedral of Learning construction; insurance; ODK events; invitations; bills; miscellaneous; Organizations; his property; bills; son's compositions; university cafeteria profit and loss, 1928; ODK program 1929; ODK catalog and handbook, 1927; Torch Clubs – charter members list; Good Teaching, V.3 no. 9, V.3 no. 11; Klauder Christmas card; gas, water, alcohol, coal consumption charts for several buildings; personal post cards; tax receipts; "Franconia" cruise reports.
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box 19, folder 165
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box 19, folder 166
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box 19, folder 167
Scope and Content Notes
Equipment and correspondence about the production of films about Natural History; sale of said to Eastman Kodak.
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box 19, folder 168
Scope and Content Notes
Requirements; remodeling of some facilities; summary of reports of the department including numbers of students enrolled, teacher loads, recommendations, etc., 1922-1926; improvements to Trees Gym and Field; plans for tennis courts; water and gas consumption; official rules for diving, 1929
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box 19, folder 169
Scope and Content Notes
Seismograph location (see also FF 158); costs; location of Physics in new Cathedral of Learning; equipment; floor space; pamphlet – New physics laboratories of Columbia University; Cathedral of Learning first floor plan.
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box 19, folder 170-171
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box 20, folder 172
Scope and Content Notes
Data relative to conversion of Carnegie Institute power plant into a central heating station; A study to determine the advisability of discontinuing the use of the Thaw Hall power plant1923; Specifications for lighting…1926; pamphlet of boiler tests of 1927; correspondence concerning heating fuel; concerning pumps.
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box 20, folder 173
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence concerning compliance with Graphic Arts Code (National Recovery Administration); back wages due; printing orders; equipment; profit and loss statement 1929; balance sheet 1928-1929; letter concerning printing of Mammals of Pennsylvania by Samuel H. Williams; letters concerning print of bulletins, 1927; Graphic Arts Code; Bulletin about "Life at the University of Pittsburgh" 1928
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box 20, folder 174
Scope and Content Notes
Numbers of Pharmacy graduates 1886-1923; chart of number of physicians supplied by University of Pittsburgh; chart of relation of instruction costs, salaries, etc., 1920-1923; correspondence concerning dentists in proportion to population, 1923; professional graduates practicing in Pittsburgh; memo concerning supply of college-trained workers; growth trends; survival percentages for entering students; numbers of physicians in Pennsylvania counties; population of Western Pennsylvania counties; dentists in Western Pennsylvania; engineering alumni in Western Pennsylvania; medical school graduates 1887-1923; teachers in Western Pennsylvania counties; attorneys in Pennsylvania counties; chart of Cleveland's occupational needs; teacher certification booklet, 1924
Containers
box 20, folder 175
Scope and Content Notes
For equipment, building materials and work, etc., for Alumni Hall; Falk Clinic; fences; stadium; Medical School; State Hall; Falk School; Trees Gym, etc.
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box 20, folder 176
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box 20, folder 178-179
Scope and Content Notes
Room assignments; registration schedules; bell times; course changes, January 1930; registration statistics 1930; scheduling of military science; admissions September 1929; grade registers; pre-registration statistics 1927-1929; University handbooks contents; distribution of credits, first semester, 1927-28; comparison of registration 1926 and 1927; statistics, 1925-35
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box 20, folder 180
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence concerning rental property owned by the University; Correspondence with A.J. Kelly, Jr., of Commonwealth Real Estate Company concerning Cathedral of Learning, Stadium Road, various other properties
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box 21, folder 181
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence concerning repair work, deposits for chemistry lockers, ROTC uniforms, complaints; buildings & grds work, 1926; room changes; remodeling; fire hazards. Also a reference to heating the drawing room in Frick Acres; resolution was to do nothing since the building was in the proposed Cathedral space.
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box 21, folder 182
Scope and Content Notes
Engineering education. Printed reports by Committee on Admissions and Eliminations. June 1925; National Industrial Conference Board, 1923; Address by A.A. Potter, June 1925.
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box 21, folder 183
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box 21, folder 184
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence; space and equipment requests; insurance plans.
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box 21, folder 185
Scope and Content Notes
Offprints – "Study of Unit Costs at the University of Pittsburgh;" surveys; unit cost studies; questionnaires; faculty purchasing plan 1929; Fiscal Study of Freshman Failures 1928-29.
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box 21, folder 186
Scope and Content Notes
Calendar 1934-35; mail schedule 1933; summer commencement 1922.
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box 21, folder 187
Scope and Content Notes
Report of an analysis of the high school class rating of incoming freshmen and their sucess into the sophmore year plus a response by A.G. Worthing (Physics)
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box 21, folder 188
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence 1933-36; blueprint of seismometer pier in the Cathedral; requisitions; reports; clippings. (see also FF 169)
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box 21, folder 189
Scope and Content Notes
Specifications and blueprints
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box 21, folder 190
Scope and Content Notes
Requisitions, bids and correspondence
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box 21, folder 191
Scope and Content Notes
Violation notices 1929-33; correspondence; data on draft at Thaw Hall.
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box 21, folder 192
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence with Alumni Association about Pittsburgh Songbook.
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box 22, folder 193
Scope and Content Notes
Special study of growth and building requirements, 1922-23; Charts; statistics; estimates
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box 22, folder 196
Scope and Content Notes
Specifications for alterations to heating equipment
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box 22, folder 197
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence regarding Cathedral construction
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box 22, folder 198
Scope and Content Notes
Trees Gymnasium Pool, correspondence; permit; reports of tests of water; water rent; handbook of ammonia-chlorine process
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box 23, folder 199
Scope and Content Notes
Western Union rates and services for the University
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box 23, folder 200-201
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box 23, folder 202
Scope and Content Notes
Summary; blueprint; estimated costs; list of contributors to building fund
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box 23, folder 203
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box 23, folder 204
Scope and Content Notes
Clocks and bells in Cathedral; electric scoreboard; athletic field clocks; blueprints of control cabinet for athletic events timer.
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box 23, folder 205
Scope and Content Notes
Damage and replacement lists
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box 23, folder 206
Scope and Content Notes
Repairs to roof, floor, brickwork, caulking; Correspondence; wiring diagram
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box 23, folder 207
Scope and Content Notes
Correspondence, 1928; blueprint, foundation and assembly plans for truck scale.
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box 23, folder 208
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box 23, folder 209
Scope and Content Notes
Divisions of Research in Higher Education, Reports
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box 23, folder 210
Scope and Content Notes
Minutes 1928-30; elimination of the minimum age for freshmen
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box 23, folder 211
Scope and Content Notes
About catalogs and bulletins
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box 23, folder 212
Scope and Content Notes
Perhaps lecture notes.
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box 24, folder 213
Scope and Content Notes
U.S. Steel Corp. Correspondence re subscription toward construction of Cathedral of Learning, 1925; Report summary – "Work of the University of Pittsburgh affecting the steel industry…"; contributions of the Medical School; report on extramural classes; "Summary of data showing relation of the University to U.S. "Researches of Mellon Institute of benefit to U.S. Steel;" population of Western Pennsylvania towns and numbers of students; "Memorandum of additional service…" – includes lists of students at Pitt from various U.S. Steel towns; teachers, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, USS office workers taking evening courses, former students employed by U.S. Steel. Some information relating to Westinghouse