Invoice Ledger Indexes - General Collection, Nov. 1959 - Oct. 1960
Scope and Contents
From the Library's founding in August, 1887, until 1956, invoices received for book purchases were pasted according to collection (e.g. general, Ayer, Oakley, Wing, Greenlee) in large scrapbooks, indexed by source, and assigned a sequential number corresponding to accession number. In 1956, this practice was abandoned and invoices were filed for each collection by dealer name. Invoices list date of purchase, author, title, price, name of seller, catalogue number, fund, approval, and ordering and received dates.
Dates
- Creation: Nov. 1959 - Oct. 1960
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