Financial services records, 1887-[ongoing]

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Financial services records, 1887-[ongoing]

Includes Newberry Library financial records and administrative files of the Financial Agent.

93 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7164182

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Newberry Library. Finance and Administration Division.

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In 1990, Library administrative services - A. C. McClurg Bookstore, Computer Services, Facilities Management and Security, and Personnel Office - were placed under the supervision of the newly created position of Vice President for Finance and Administration, formalizing the responsibility of the Library's chief financial officer for functions auxilliary to library services. From the description of Administrative Services records, 1887-1987. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 28...