Guide to Amherst College Financial Records, ca. 1830-1952 (bulk: ca. 1860-1921)

Amherst College Financial Records , ca. 1830-1952 (Bulk: ca. 1860-1921)

(13.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

Ledgers, account books, correspondence and other financial records relating to Amherst College scholarships, loans, tuition payments, special funds, and investments, dating chiefly from ca. 1830-1900.

Terms of Access and Use:

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Volumes were opened for research use in November, 1991, after review by Peter Shea, Comptroller; Gerry Mager, Secretary for the Board of Trustees; and Kent Faerber, Secretary for Alumni Relations and Development.

Restrictions on use:

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archivist of the College.

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Most items in the collection are single volumes devoted to a single topic. Some volumes, however, include more than one record or account. In such cases, all records in a volume are listed and clustered.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

Restrictions on use:

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archivist of the College.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Amherst College Financial Records [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

History of the Collection

Processing Information

Additional Information

Contact Information

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Phone: (413) 542-2299
Fax: (413) 542-2692

Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/info/askus.html
URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Language

English.

Contents List

Amherst College Financial Records
Term Bill Ledger F	1897 Oct-1901 Jun	Box 1: folder 1
Term Bill Journal A	1836 Oct-1861 Jul	Box 1: folder 2
Term Bill Journal B	1861 Nov-1877 Jun	Box 1: folder 3
Term Bill Journal C	1878 Jun-1895 Jun	Box 1: folder 4
Term Bill Journal D	1896 Jun-1911	Box 1: folder 5
Student Accounts	1828-1873	Box 1: folder 6
Principal and Interest of Charity Fund	1839-1866	Box 1: folder 7
Record of Accounts	1865 Jul-1883 Sep	Box 1: folder 8
Charitable Fund Cash A	1865 Jul-1898 Aug	Box 1: folder 9
Charitable Fund Cash B	1899 Jul-1921 Aug	Box 1: folder 10
Journal A	1874 Aug-1884 Nov	Box 1: folder 11
Journal B	1867 Aug-1870 Aug	Box 1: folder 12
Cash balance sheet, term bills (scholarship receipts)	1865 Jul-1883 Sep	Box 1: folder 13
Accounts of the College Bookstore	1872 Apr-Nov	Box 1: folder 14
Accounts of the College Bookstore	1873	Box 1: folder 15
Term Bills and "Cash book"	1884-1896	Box 1: folder 16
Real estate	1892-1896	Box 1: folder 17
Investments	1892-1897	Box 1
Collections, furnishings, books, etc.	1892-1897	Box 1
Edward B. Marsh account book	[1884-89]	Box 1: folder 18
Catalogue of Apparatus in the Cabinet of Natural Philosophy	1895	Box 1: folder 19
Note: See also inventory of Shep tools Sept. 16, 1895
Term bills and Charitable Fund	1896-1898	Box 1: folder 20
Trial Balance	1897-1902	Box 1: folder 21
Scholarship Payments and Term Bills	1896-1901	Box 1: folder 22
Cash	1898-1900	Box 1
Cash	1900	Box 1
Investments	1898 Jan-1901 Jan	Box 1: folder 23
Check Disbursements and Deposit Receipts	1910 Nov-Dec	Box 1: folder 24
Scholarships and Term Bills	1900-1908	Box 1: folder 25
Registration Fees	1923 May-1933 Jun	Box 1: folder 26
Records of Donors to Amherst College	After 1850	Box 1: folder 27
Hitchcock Scholarship Notes	1871-74	Box 1: folder 28
Annual Assignment of Amherst College Scholarships (also includes extract from a will)	1871-86	Box 1: folder 29
Amherst College Hitchcock Scholarship Notes	1874 Dec-1902 Oct	Box 1: folder 30
Minutes of the Scholarship Committee of Amherst College	1890-98	Box 1: folder 31
Physics Laboratory Accounts	1891-1901	Box 1: folder 32
Scholarship Awards	1891-92	Box 1: folder 33
Laboratory Fees Cash Book	1894 Jan 16-1902 Jul 31	Box 1: folder 34
Treasurer's Correspondence	1895-98	Box 1: folder 35
Record Book of the Board of Control of the Pratt Health College	1897 Sep-1903	Box 1: folder 36
Treasurer's correspondence	1898-99	Box 1: folder 37
Records of the Committee on Beneficiary Aid	1898 May-1901 Mar	Box 1: folder 38
Hitchcock Dining Hall Cash Book	1899 Apr-1901 Jul	Box 1: folder 39
Report of the Dormitory Room Inspections [North-South College]	1900-1904	Box 1: folder 40
Treasurer's correspondence	1899-1901	Box 1: folder 41
Gas Records	1899 Dec 1-1903 Oct 1	Box 1: folder 42
Finance Committee Minutes	1908-23	Box 1: folder 43
Trustees' Financial Committee Meetings	1911-34	Box 1: folder 44
Centennial Housing Receipts	1921	Box 1: folder 45
Ledger of Centennial Gifts, Subscriptions, Bonds, and Trusts	1921-27	Box 1: folder 46
Centennial Cash Fund	1920 Nov 24-1921 May 27	Box 1: folder 47
Centennial Cash Fund	1921 May 23-1922 May 5	Box 1: folder 48
Centennial Cash Gifts	1922 May 10-1923 Aug 31	Box 1: folder 49
Centennial Cash Gifts	1923 Sep 1-1925 Feb 9	Box 1: folder 50
Centennial Cash Fund	1925 Feb 18-1931 Feb 5	Box 1: folder 51
Service Contracts for College Buildings	1924-30	Box 1: folder 52
Folger Shakespeare Memoranda	1931-32	Box 1: folder 53
Folger Shakespeare Memorial Check Register Investment Income Cash Receipts	1931 Sep-1933 Jun	Box 1: folder 54
Report of Campus Buildings Insulated by the Home Insulation Company of New England, Springfield, Massachusetts	1938-40	Box 1: folder 55
Service Report for Genung House	1951 Nov 8-1952	Box 1: folder 56
Term Bills	1908-1915	Box 1: folder 57
Investment A	1874-1884	Box 1: folder 58
Investment B	1885-1889	Box 1: folder 59
Investment C	1889-1899	Box 1: folder 60
Investment D	1900-1907	Box 1: folder 61
Ledger A	1874 Jul-1883 Jul	Box 1: folder 62
Ledger B	1883 Aug-1889 Jul	Box 1: folder 63
Ledger C	1889 Aug-1893 Jul	Box 1: folder 64
Ledger D	1893 Jul-1895 Jul	Box 1: folder 65
Ledger E	1897 Jul-1900 Jul	Box 1: folder 66
Cash D	1881 Aug-1884 Jul	Box 1: folder 67
Cash E	1884 Aug-1888 Mar	Box 1: folder 68
Cash F	1888 Apr-1891 Aug	Box 1: folder 69
Cash G	1891 Aug-1895 Jan	Box 1: folder 70
Cash H	1895 Feb-1898 Dec	Box 1: folder 71
Cash I	1899 Jan-1903 Jul	Box 1: folder 72
Scholarship Cash Book	1881 Oct 26-1900 Oct 22	Box 1: folder 73
Income Pratt Health Cottage	1897 Nov 30-1902 Jun 10	Box 1: folder 74
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund A	1840 Nov 21-1845 May 21	Box 1: folder 75
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund B	1845 Jun 3-1852 Jul 30	Box 1: folder 76
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund C	1852 Jan 20-1860 Apr 14	Box 1: folder 77
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund D	1860 Sep 8-1867 Jan 11	Box 1: folder 78
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund E	1867 Jan 14-1875 Apr 21	Box 1: folder 79
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund F	1875 Apr 21-1886 Jul 31	Box 1: folder 80
Notes of Beneficiaries of Charitable Fund G	1886 Dec 10-1909 Jun 18	Box 1: folder 81
Minutes of the Overseers of the Amherst College Charity Fund (1916-1919 on typewritten sheets)	1872-1919	Box 1: folder 82
Alumni Council Class Funds	1915-1925	Box 1: folder 83
Alumni Fund Ledger	1924 Jun 30-1933	Box 1: folder 84
Term Bill Ledger A	1836 Jan-1852 Aug	Box 1: folder 85
Term Bill Ledger B	1852 Nov-1866 Jul	Box 1: folder 86
Term Bill Ledger C	1865 Mar-1879 Jul	Box 1: folder 87
Term Bill Ledger D	1876 Oct-1888 Mar	Box 1: folder 88
Term Bill Ledger E	1885-1900 Mar 1	Box 1: folder 89
B & G Expenses	1911-1916	Box 1: folder 90
Income	1916-1922	Box 1
Charitable Fund	1917-1920	Box 1
Alumni Fund	1919-1920	Box 1
Record of Bond Investments	Through 1912	Box 1: folder 91
Check Book with Canceled Checks	1914-1919	Box 1: folder 92
Amherst College Centennial Gifts Journal	1921 Dec 8-1929 Jan 31	Box 1: folder 93
Tuition	1930-1933	Box 1: folder 94
Check Register	1901 Dec 19-1910 Nov 10	Box 1: folder 95
Treasurers Records AC Doshisha Fund	c.1931-1932	Box 1: folder 96
Treasurers Records	c.1884-1901	Box 1: folder 97
Charitable Fund Papers (c.1830-1900)	c.1830-1900	Box 1: folder 98
Amherst Academy Papers (1948)	1948	Box 1

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Subjects

Amherst College - Administration
Charity Fund (Amherst, Mass.)
Education -- Massachusetts -- Sources

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