Development Office, 1930-2019, bulk 1960-1990

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Creator:

Abstract:

This collection consists of development records which includes correspondence, memoranda, accounts, donor lists, appeals for funds, clippings, press releases, information pertaining to the Thrift Shop, and event recordings and photographs.

Extent:

17.93 Linear Feet (35 full size document boxes, 3 oversize boxes) and 1.46 Gigabytes

Language:

English

Scope and content:

The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, accounts, reports, studies, lists of donors, printed appeals for funds, clippings, press releases, a hand painted banner, and miscellaneous printed materials related to the fundraising efforts of Barnard College's Development Office.

Fundraising for scholarships, campus buildings, the Barnard Fund, and the Barnard College Development Fund are included. Also included are the by-laws, policy statements, minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Barnard College Thrift Shop, dating from the 1930s-1960s.

Local call number:

BC05.07

Processing information:

This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Heather Lember in January 2014. The finding aid was updated by Dinah Handel in June 2015. The finding aid was updated by Charlotte Kostelic in December 2015, by Joan Hsiao in December 2017, and by Martha Tenney in June 2025.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.

Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the Barnard Colllege Development Office and Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS).

Arrangement:

Items in boxes are arranged chronologically.

Accruals:

Additions are expected.

Physical location:

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Preferred citation:

Development Office, 1930-2019; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials pertaining to donors are restricted. For this reason some records in boxes 1, 4, 5, 16, 21-23, and 25-29 are restricted.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.

Location of this collection:: Barnard Archives & Special Collections

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Barnard College
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New York, NY 10027, USA
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