Book

The Kresge Foundation Fifty Years 1924-1974

Book-format report from the Kresge Foundation containing a list of their grants listed by state, along with a brief introduction, financial information, and several photographs. The book is bound in a mustard-colored cover with a black and white photograph of hands laying down a rough brick on the front. The first page has been signed by Stanley S. Kresge, with an inscription to Steve Spilos, dated October 22, 1974, and a more length message has been handwritten by Kresge on the last page:

The family is greater than love itself, for it includes, enables, makes permanent all that is best in love. The pain of life is hallowed by it; The drudgery is sweetened, its pleasures consecrated. It is the great trysting-place of the generations; where past and future flash into the reality of the present. And it is the great discipline through which each generation learns anew that no man can live for himself alone. (SSK's office)