New York State Institution for the Blind Daybooks B0427

New York State Institution for the Blind Daybooks

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series contains daily financial transactions for provisions, supplies, equipment, and purchase or repair expenditures incurred during the course of the Institute for the Blind's operations and activities. Transactions are listed for equipment and supplies relating to farming, broom making, beadwork, and carpentry; library and school books; musical instruments; school room furnishings; bedding and other household items; fuel; clothing; and groceries.

Creator:

New York State Institution for the Blind

Title:

Institution for the Blind daybooks

Quantity:

0.6 cubic feet

Quantity:

2 volume(s)

Quantity:

1 35mm microfilm roll(s)

Inclusive Dates:

1877-1881

Series Number:

B0427

Arrangement

Chronological by date of transaction.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains daily financial transactions for provisions, supplies, equipment, and purchase or repair expenditures incurred during the course of the school's operations and activities. Chapter 587 of the Laws of 1865 required school administrators to keep complete records of the "business and daily transactions" of the school. Transactions are listed for equipment and utensils relating to farming, broommaking, beadwork, and carpentry, as well as for library and school books, musical instruments, school room furniture, bedding and other houshold items, fuel, clothing, and groceries.

Volume 1 covers transactions from October 1, 1877 through June 27, 1879; volume 2 covers transactions from June 30, 1879 through October 31, 1881. For each transaction the daybooks provide: date; name of vendor; description; quantity; and price.

Check marks next to the entries may indicate an inventory or summarizing process, and transactions are totaled intermittently along the right page margin.