1946-1956 - F - General Correspondence
Scope and Contents
General file maintained in the Business Office since 1946 when the position of Comptroller (later Controller) was created. Records were created under the administrations of Robert A. Brannan (1946-1967) and Lawrence C. Hodapp (1967-1985). Until 1967, when the Librarian assumed that function, the Comptroller/Controller was also Secretary to the Board of Trustees.
Correspondence, memoranda, statements, agreements, etc., regarding Library business affairs with auditors (Arthur Anderson & Co.), real estate management firms (G. R. Bailey & Co. and successors), the in house bindery, banks and investment firms, insurance agents, architects (Holabird & Root), legal counsel (Sidley & Austin), employees, local, state, and national government agencies, and private foundations. There is also routine trustee correspondence.
Creator
- From the Collection: Newberry Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.
Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org