Guide to the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers, 1917-1962
(bulk
1917-1938)
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email:
risdarchives@risd.edu
Published in 2020
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
ledgers |
| Date range: |
1917-1962, bulk 1917-1938 |
| Creator: |
Rhode Island Hospital Trust
Company |
| Extent: |
4 ledgers
|
| Abstract: |
The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers
document the financial activities of Rhode Island School of Design, 1917-1962, bulk
1917-1938. |
| Dimensions: |
17 in. x 14 in. |
| Language of materials: |
English |
| Repository: |
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
|
| Collection number: |
sp9.0 |
Scope & content
The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers document the financial activities
of Rhode Island School of Design, 1917-1962, bulk 1917-1938. The ledgers record
activity for school and museum accounts including endowment funds, building
construction projects, pageants, routine financial matters, and stocks and bonds
transactions. The records are critical for documenting museum works of art
provenance, 1917-1942, particularly works purchased with Lyra Nickerson Brown
endowment funds. The post-1938 records document primarily endowment funds and
transactions.
Two of the ledger books contain account information for other Rhode Island
institutions: the Rhode Island Episcopal Church Diocesan Trust, 1947-1961; the
First Congregational Society, 1930-1948; the Bethany Home, 1931-1947; and Grace
Church, 1937-1948.
Access Points
Subject Organizations
Subject Organizations
Subject Topics
Document Types
Arrangement
- 1. Rhode Island School of Design, 1917-1962, bulk 1917-1938
- 2. Rhode Island Episcopal Church Diocesan Trust, 1947-1961
- 3. First Congregational Society, 1930-1948
- 4. Bethany Home, 1931-1947
- 5. Grace Church, 1937-1948
Historical note
The Lyra Brown Nickerson bequest of 1916 led Rhode Island School of Design to
transfer financial management from the Metcalf family's Wanskuck Company to the
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company in 1917. The RIHT recorded the financial
transactions until RISD established the Business Office in 1937. Management of
capital and endowment funds remained with the RIHT.
Access & Use
| Access to the collection: |
The use of certain documents and collections may be restricted. Please consult
the Archives staff for further details. |
| Use of the materials: |
Permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from archival materials must be
obtained in writing from the Archives. The researcher assumes full
responsibility for use of material and for conformity to all applicable laws,
including copyright. |
| Preferred citation: |
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers, Rhode Island School of Design
Archives. |
| Contact information: |
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email:
risdarchives@risd.edu
|
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION |
| Acquisition: |
The Bank of America placed the ledgers on permanent loan with the RISD Archives
after their discovery in the RIHT building in 2004. |
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| ABOUT THE FINDING AID |
| Author: |
Finding aid prepared by Douglas Doe. |
| Encoding: |
Finding aid encoded by Douglas Doe 2020 February
05 |
| Descriptive rules: |
Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard
(DACS) |
Additional Information
Inventory
Series 1. RISD Ledgers, 1917-1962 (1917-1938)
Subseries I. Transfer Book #1 T-1069, 1917-1935
| Ledger 1 |
|
Admissions to Museum
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Alumni Association Fund
|
|
1925 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Individual Endowment Accounts
|
|
|
| Ledger 1 |
|
Building Account - 1919
|
|
1919-1921 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Building Account - 1920 (Museum Fragment)
|
|
1920-1923 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Building Alterations
|
|
1921-1924 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Cafeteria Receipts
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Class Rings and Pins
|
|
1926-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Common Fund
|
|
1918-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Mrs. Danforth's Scholarships
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Departments of Fine Arts, Loan Fund
|
|
1932-1933 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Dormitory Receipts
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Endowment Fund
|
|
1917-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Express
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Fiftieth Anniversary
|
|
1928-1929 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Furniture and Equipment, Museum Bldg
|
|
1928-1927 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Gifts (Museum)
|
|
1918-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Girls Dormitory
|
|
1926-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Graduation and School Exhibitions
|
|
1930-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Grinnell Sprinkler System
|
|
1921-1922 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Edward Harris and Abby Metcalf Harris Foundations
Funds
|
|
1929-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Income and Expense Account
|
|
1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Insurance Account
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Mary Bixby Jackson Fund
|
|
1929-1933 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Jewelry Expense Fund
|
|
1920-1921 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Walter H. Kimball Fund
|
|
1924-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Laboratory and Shop Fees
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Library Fund
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Educational - Library - Gifts to Library
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Light Heat and Power
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Loan Fund
|
|
1925-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Hall and Locker (Rents)
|
|
1924-1927 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Lockers
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Edgar John Lownes Memory Fund
|
|
1928-1933 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Maintenance
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Materials
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Materials and Textile Store
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Materials - Junior School
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Memorial Hall
|
|
1932-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Jesse Metcalf Endowment Fund
|
|
1917-1933 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Educational - Library - L. D. S. Metcalf Book
Fund
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Miscellaneous
|
|
1917-1924 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Museum
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Museum Fund (Special)
|
|
1917-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Museum Building Fund of 1923
|
|
1922-1927 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Museum Construction Account
|
|
1924-1926 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Museum - Works of Art
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
New Furniture and Machinery
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
New Building Account
|
|
1917-1919 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
New Elevator
|
|
1928-1929 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
William C. Benedict Fund
|
|
1917-1926 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Mary Bixby Jackson Fund
|
|
1928-1929 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Edgar John Lownes Fund
|
|
1924-1928 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Lyra Brown Nickerson Bequest
|
|
1917-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Englehart C. Otsby Fund
|
|
1917-1931 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Pageant Account
|
|
1933-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Fenelon A Peirce Fund
|
|
1929-1933 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Petty Cash
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Lucian Sharpe Fund
|
|
1917-1924 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Office and School
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Pageant Account
|
|
1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Postcards and Publications
|
|
1932-1934 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Printing and Advertising
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Prizes, Scholarships, and Aid
|
|
1923-1935 |
| Ledger 1 |
|
Eliza G. Radeke Bequest/Fund
|
|
1931-1934 |
Subseries II. Transfer Book #2 T-1069, 1917-1938
| Ledger 2 |
|
Rent Account
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Salaries
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
School and Museum Photographs
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Lucian Sharpe Fund
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
State of Rhode Island Appropriation
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Dr. Steinhof Lecture Fund
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Student Association of RISD
|
|
1932-1933 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Summer School
|
|
1924, 1930-1933 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Sundries
|
|
1924-1926 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Telegrams and Telephones
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Textile Department
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Travel and Docent Expense
|
|
1924-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Textile Equipment Fund
|
|
1917-1919 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Tuition
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
War Department Account
|
|
1918-1919 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Works of Art
|
|
1917-1932 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Control Account
|
|
1917-1935 |
| Ledger 2 |
|
Stock and Bond Records for Individual Funds
|
|
1917-1938 |
Subseries III. Book #3 1069, 1917-1962 (1947-1962)
| Ledger 3 |
|
Journal (Investments)
|
|
1948-1962 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Investments
|
|
1948-1962 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Realized Profit or Loss
|
|
1948-1962 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
General Funds
|
|
1947-1959 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Building and Improvement Fund
|
|
1938-1958 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Common Fund
|
|
1934-1954 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Special Museum Reserve Account
|
|
1935-1942 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Control - Sundry Funds
|
|
1947-1956 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Control - General Funds
|
|
1943-1955 |
| Ledger 3 |
|
Alumni Association
|
|
1917-1949 |
Subseries IV. Book #4 1069, 1917-1947 (1930-1943)
| Ledger 4 |
|
Endowment Fund
|
|
1934-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
General Funds
|
|
1943-1947 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Mary Bixby Jackson Fund
|
|
1933-1947 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Control Account
|
|
1935-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Control - Sundry Accounts
|
|
1943-1947 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Sophia M. Baker Fund
|
|
1934-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Josephine A. Binney
|
|
1930-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
John Edward and Mary E. Brown Fund
|
|
1928-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
New Auditorium Construction Account
|
|
1938-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Building Fund (Reserve for)
|
|
1932-1938 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
College Street Construction Account 1935
|
|
1935-1938 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Sarah D. Kimball Fund
|
|
1931-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
George Peirce Metcalf Gift
|
|
1936-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Museum Fund Special Appropriation
|
|
1934-1935 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Lyra Brown Nickerson Fund
|
|
1934-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Fenelon A. Peirce Fund
|
|
1933-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Elisabeth D. Potter Bequest
|
|
1933-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Eliza G. Radeke Fund
|
|
1934-1947 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Eliza G. Radeke Memorial Garden
|
|
1933-1935 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Lucian Sharpe Fund
|
|
1932-1943 |
| Ledger 4 |
|
Herbert J. Wells Donation
|
|
1917-1943 |
Series 2. Rhode Island Episcopal Church Diocesan Trust, 1947-1961
The series is part of Book #3 1069
Series 3. First Congregational Society, 1930-1948
The series is part of Book #4 1069
Series 4. Bethany Home, 1931-1947
The series is part of Book #4 1069
Series 5. Grace Church, 1937-1948
The series is part of Book #4 1069