Library Building Appeal

A donation from the Rockefeller Foundation was provided for a new library building on the condition their donation of $250,000 was matched by $50,000 from other funding sources by June 1962. To raise the amount stipulated by the Rockefeller Foundation, SOAS established a Library Building Appeal. Mat...

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Date(s) of creation: c1959-Sep 1973
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id SOAS.EST.01.03.01.06.02
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber SOAS/EST/01/03/01/06/02
callnumber_txt SOAS/EST/01/03/01/06/02
callnumber-sort SOAS/EST/01/03/01/06/02
prefix_number 02
title Library Building Appeal
scb_date_creation c1959-Sep 1973
scb_level Sub-series
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 8 folders
format Archive
description A donation from the Rockefeller Foundation was provided for a new library building on the condition their donation of $250,000 was matched by $50,000 from other funding sources by June 1962. To raise the amount stipulated by the Rockefeller Foundation, SOAS established a Library Building Appeal. Material in this file relates to the Rockefeller Foundation donation and donations raised through the Building Appeal, which was managed by an Appeal Committee, chaired by Sir Neville Gass. See also: New Building Appeal Committee minutes and papers (Ref: SOAS/COM/05/01/03/01/02) and press cuttings (Ref: SOAS/EST/01/03/01/17/02).
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
hierarchy_top_id_raw SOAS
hierarchy_sequence SOAS.00EST.0001.0003.0001.0006.0002