"A Brief Description of the Newberry Library's Restricted Funds", 1969
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, agreements, financial papers, wills, etc., documenting gifts to the Library of collections and money. Included are papers regarding the donation and endowed support of the Ayer, Wing, and Greenlee collections, and the Oakley fund for music. There are also donor files for personal papers (e.g., Willa Cather, Floyd Dell, Eunice Tietjens, Francis Fischer Browne, Henry Blake Fuller), railroad archives (Burlington, Illinois Central), and paintings (George P. A. Healy).
Dates
- Creation: 1969
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