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Scope and Content Note

The series constitutes a final record of financial transactions of the school according to controlling and individual accounts. Included in controlling accounts are transactions involving clothing, fuel, freight and express, medicine, provisions, and wages. Individual accounts pertain to individual merchants and suppliers.

Entries generally include date of transaction, amount of transaction, and nature of transaction (e.g. "services," "goods," "labor," "cash," or name of merchandise). Most entries include a page reference to the corresponding entry in the journal accounts (series B0642).

All volumes in the series contain controlling accounts; individual accounts exist only for the periods 1894-1896 and 1898-1920. Special accounts for individual categories of food and general supplies (e.g. apples, beef, brooms, coal, fish, hooks and eyes, lard, oats, tea, yeast, etc.) were kept between 1894-1897.