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Collection Overview
Title: Board of Trustees Meeting Records, 1831-2000
ID: UA/RG-02/001
Extent: 38.0 Boxes
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Contains handwritten, bound, and typewritten meeting records for the Board of Trustees, including minutes, ledgers, finance reports, and cash books, addressing institutional policy, board operations, tenure and raise decisions, university construction, scholarships, and endowments
Administrative Information
Repository:
Denison University Archives
Access Restrictions:
The Board of Trustees Records are confidential. Please consult archivist for more information.
Use Restrictions:
While Denison University may hold the physical rights for this collection, we may not hold the copyright or reproduction rights. If a researcher wishes to use or reproduce any of the material held in this collection, they are required to obtain copyrights, releases, and/or permissions their own. The Denison University Archives & Special Collections is not held liable.
Preferred Citation:
RG 02 Board of Trustees, Series 1 Board of Trustees Meeting Records, Denison University Archives. Granville, Ohio.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Original inventories created by Zakia Sultana '18. Finding aid created and data migrated to Archon by Charles Busby in November 2017. Previously classified as Series M.
Revised Aug 20, 2018 to include Series 5: Red Books
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Sub-Series:
[
Sub-Series 1: Bookbound Minutes, 1831-1997],
[
Sub-Series 2: Handwritten & Unbound Meeting Records],
[
Sub-Series 3: Policies and Programs of the Board],
[Sub-Series 4: Finance Reports, Construction, and Endowments, 1834-1990],
[
Sub-Series 5: Full Red Books, 1990-2016],
[
All]
- Sub-Series 4: Finance Reports, Construction, and Endowments, 1834-1990
- Box 1
- Folder 6: Denison University Budget for Trustee Expenses, 1979-1990
- Box 6: Endowment Support
- Folder 1: Endowment, 1867
- Folder 2: Building Campaign, 1858
- Folder 3: Campaign to Purchase Furnities Library, 1851-1862
- Folder 4: Centennial Endowment, 1876
- Folder 5: Cleveland Proposal, 1852
- Folder 6: Surveys, 1940
- Folder 7: Surveys, 1940
- Folder 8: Taxation Appeals, 1962-1964
- Folder 9: Tuition Receipts, ETC., 1837-1903
- Box 7: Finance: Amos Fisks Legacy, 1834-1939
- Folder 1: Financial History, 1938-1979
- Folder 2: Finance: Amos Fisks Legacy, 1847-1853
- Folder 3: Finance: Mary E. Talbot Fund, 1878
- Folder 4: Finance, 1834-1850
- Folder 5: Finance, 1850-1900
- Folder 6: Finance, 1900-1934
- Box 8: Finance
- Folder 1: Retirement Annuity Certificates, 1946-1976
- Folder 2: Denison University Auxiliary Facilities Construction & Refunding Bonds, 1967-1968
- Folder 3: Denison University Bonds, 1958
- Box 5: Financial Reports, 1853-1894, 1882-1899
- Bound volumes of financial reports: Denison 1853-94, Denison & Shepardson College 1882-1899
- Box 9: Financial Reports, 1882-1936
- Box 10: Financial Reports, 1937-1967
- Box 11: Financial Report, 1968-1977/1978
- Box 12: Financial Reports, 1978/79- 1987/88
- Box 13: Financial Reports, 1988/89
- Box 14: Finance Committee: Buildings and Property
- Folder 1: Beaver and Sawyer Contracts, 1924
- Folder 2: Beaver and Sawyer Hall Dormitory Construction, 1925-1930
- Folder 3: Alumni Building, 1935
- Folder 4: Architects: Arnold Burner, 1922-1925
- Folder 5: Architects: Schenck and Williams, 1938
- Folder 6: Ashmore House, 1950
- Folder 7: John Sherman Lease on Barney Building, 1930
- Folder 8: Commons Clubhouse Construction, 1941
- Folder 9: Curtis Hall Dormitory Construction, 1938
- Folder 10: Deeds Field Construction, 1916-1923
- Folder 11: Doane Gymnasium, 2005
- Folder 12: Doane Hall Former Library, 1925-1936
- Folder 13: East Cottage, 1919
- Folder 14: Electrical Wiring, 1895-1908
- Folder 15: Faculty Housing Construction, 1935-1938
- Folder 16: Finance Committee Authority RE: Properties, 1936
- Folder 17: Heating and Lighting Plant, 1938
- Box 15: Finance Committee: Buildings and Property
- Folder 1: Physical Education Center and Community Center:, 1948-1952
- Folder 2: Life Sciences Building Construction, 1940
- Folder 3: Music Hall, 1925
- Folder 4: Pierson Property, 1945-1950
- Folder 5: Rehabilitation Fund, Plans for Building Alterations, 1944-1945
- Folder 6: Trustees, Finance : Regulations of North Street, 1957
- Folder 7: Shaw Hall Dormitory Construction, 1939
- Folder 8: J.S Jones Property (Monomoy Place), 1924-1940
- Folder 9: Irvine Hill Property, 1800-1854
- Folder 10: Whisler Hall Construction, 1920-1937
- Box 48: Ledgers, Cashbooks, Collection Lists, 1831-1956
- Item 1: Subscription Lists, 1831-1839
- Farm, rebuilding, education, and other smaller subscriptions
- Item 2: Register of Notes, 1843
- Item 3: Ledger of Subscriptions & Funds,, 1867-1875
- Physical Description: Fragile condition
- Item 4: Centennial "Dollar Roll" Subscription book, 1876
- Item 5: Report of Collection Agent "William Whitney", 1899 July 12
- Single page handwritten report
- Item 6: Ledger, "New Endowment Fund", 1900
- Item 7: Cash Book, 1900-1907
- Endowment Fund, Building Fund, Scholarship Fund, Equipment and Expense Fund, Campus Improvements and Furnishing Funds
- Item 8: Ledger No. 1, 1900-1924
- Endowments, real estate, equiptment, building, and multiple scholarship funds. Also includes bills receivable.
- Item 9: Scholarship Funds, 1952-1956
Browse by Sub-Series:
[
Sub-Series 1: Bookbound Minutes, 1831-1997],
[
Sub-Series 2: Handwritten & Unbound Meeting Records],
[
Sub-Series 3: Policies and Programs of the Board],
[Sub-Series 4: Finance Reports, Construction, and Endowments, 1834-1990],
[
Sub-Series 5: Full Red Books, 1990-2016],
[
All]
