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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

Hell Gap Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 63-38
Scope and Contents: The expedition records contain evidence of the many activities that were carried out on site. Series include field notes, site cards, clippings, correspondence,personnel records, manuscripts and...

Henry W. Peabody & Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1867-1957 P352
Overview:

Ledgers, journals, miscellaneous accounts, and scattered letters, 1867-1957, of the Boston, Mass. based import-export firm founded by Henry W. Peabody.

Jay Cooke & Co. records

Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1832-1915 (1861-1905)
Overview:

Select records of the investment banking house Jay Cooke & Co.

Jesseniah Kittredge account books

Collection — Volume 01-03Identifier: H MS c271
Scope and Contents:

Consists of three volumes of Kittredge's account books dating from 1829 to 1857. Entries include male, female, and juvenile patients, with their place of residence, date, treatment, and fee charged. Kittredge dressed legs, fingers, hands; extracted teeth, handled obstetrics cases, and vaccinated individuals and groups.

John C. Phillips business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1859-1885 P561
Overview:

Business records kept by Boston, Mass. shipping merchant John C. Phillips while he was in the employ of R.C. Mackay & Son and later head of John C. Phillips & Company. Phillips engaged in trade with India, China, South America and the West Indies.

John Jacob Astor business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1784-1892
Overview:

Correspondence, account books and other records documenting the business activities of merchant, fur trader, and investor John Jacob Astor (1763-1848).

Kidder, Peabody & Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:783 1836-1959
Scope and Contents: Kidder, Peabody & Co. records include an incomplete set of John E. and Nathaniel Thayer’s account books. Information contained in the account books include Thayer & Brother activities of investing in a variety of enterprises, mostly New England banks, insurance companies, cotton manufacturing firms, real estate, and railroads. The partnership records of Kidder, Peabody (1865-1931) include some of the partners’ correspondence, confidential letters, and set of clerk records, circulars...

Diary of Delia Kingsley, 1906-1910

Collection Identifier: A/K5525
Overview:

Collection consists of Delia Kingsley's diary describing her teaching, studies, romantic interests, travels, and other daily concerns.

John Law business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:1 1799-1838 L415
Overview:

The John Law records consist of ledgers, daybooks, notebooks, receipt books, and cash books that document the business activities of John Law Sr. and his son, John Law Jr.

Lawrence Manufacturing Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:422 1831-1926 L419
Overview:

Cotton manufacturing firm of Lowell, Mass., established in 1831 by proprietors of the other Lowell mills in connection with the Boston merchants Abbott and Amos Lawrence. The collection includes general account books, production records, sales records, payrolls, and letters.

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, 1918-2001 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 631: T-185: Vt-24: Phon-11
Overview:

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts include program research files, local League files, and administrative and financial records.

Papers of Ellis Gray Loring, 1809-1949

Collection Identifier: A-160
Overview:

Correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, etc., of Ellis Gray Loring, lawyer and abolitionist, from Boston, Massachusetts.

Papers of the Charles Greely Loring family, 1821-1943

Collection Identifier: MC 357
Overview:

Correspondence, account books, letterbooks, notebooks, and other materials, documenting the lives of members of the Charles Greely Loring family.

Lyman Mills records

Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1854-1927 L986
Overview:

Records of Lyman Mills, a Holyoke, Mass., manufacturer of cotton textiles, 1833-1936.

Thatcher Magoun business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1816-1885
Overview:

Records of merchant and shipowner Thatcher Magoun and his son Thatcher Magoun, Jr., of Boston and Medford, Mass., relating to their involvement in international trade and shipping, 1816-1885.

Manuscript notebooks associated with the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1353
Overview:

Notebooks from the 18th and 19th centuries encompassing a range of topics as well as printing and binding styles.

Records of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, 1933-2008 (inclusive), 1960-1999 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: RG XXVIII
Overview:

Records of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute contain the office files of the deans and directors of the Institute: Constance E. Smith, Alice Kimball Smith, Susan Storey Lyman (Acting Director), Patricia Albjerg Graham, Marion Kilson, Mary Baughman Anderson (Acting Director), and Margaret McKenna.

Papers of the May and Goddard families, 1766-1912

Collection Identifier: A-134
Overview:

Photographs, correspondence, diaries, financial papers, etc., of the May and Goddard families, of New England, including social reformer Abigail Williams May.

New England Mutual Life Insurance Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:797 1844-1999 N532
Overview:

Policy application records, financial papers and documents of Boston, Massachusetts based New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1844-1999.

New York Life Insurance and Trust Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:797 1830-1878 N567
Overview:

Select records of New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, chartered in 1830.

Papers of Amelia Muir Baldwin, 1821-1961

Collection Identifier: A-131
Overview:

Correspondence, financial ledgers and files, photographs, etc., of Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior decorator and needle tapestry designer.

Papers of Annie Barber Clarke, 1875-1978

Collection Identifier: SC 7
Overview:

The collection consists of collected diaries, correspondence, and writings of a member of Radcliffe's first graduating class.

Papers of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, 1829-1956 (inclusive), 1837-1916 (bulk).

Collection Identifier: MC 351
Overview:

Writings, notes, clippings, etc., of Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall, author and social reformer.

Papers of Celia T. Hubbard, 1887-2014 (inclusive), 1945-1991 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 834
Overview:

Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and artwork of gallery owner, artist, and antique dealer Celia T. Hubbard. Articles, posters, and publicity materials pertaining to the Botolph Group art gallery and to the artist Corita are also included.

Papers of Ella Lyman Cabot, 1873-1934

Collection Identifier: A-139
Overview:

Correspondence, journals, account books, etc., of Ella Lyman Cabot, author and educator.