Accounts, 1896-1951 (inclusive)

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Accounts, 1896-1951 (inclusive)

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Contains ledger pages, and some interfiled correspondence, recording details of expenditures and income. Expenditures are made for equipment, salaries, copying, binding, and materials purchases. Income sources are library fines and fees, sales of duplicate materials, and special projects.

5.5 cubic feet in 15 containers.

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...