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Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
Home Trust Company (Author)
Title
Carnegie Gifts and Grants to Monroe Female College, Georgia
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context
Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.4. Universities, Colleges, and Schools
Subjects
Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Women's colleges; Forsyth (Ga.); Monroe Female College (Forsyth, Ga.)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1886
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 78
Note (Status of gift)
Promised but lapsed
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Tift College was founded in 1849 as the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute. It was renamed Monroe College in 1857 and as Bessie Tift College in 1907 in honor of an alumna. In 1898, it became affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention. The name wa s shortened to Tift College in 1956. Tift College merged with Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1986" [SOURCE: "Tift College." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tift_College. Accessed 4 Sep. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-7ne1-p960