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Residence Hall records, 1905-1934

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Series II. Administrative Ledgers, 1908-1934

The series contains the books documenting the management of the buildings. The application books note the applicant's name, date received, deposit paid, and room requests, from specific room numbers to which side the room faced (Amsterdam or campus side). There are books on the repair work done and the attending fees for holes in wall, ink stains on table or floor, posters on wall, dirty or soiled wall, chairs broken, cigarette burns in floor, etc. For John Jay Hall, there is an elevator service log. There is a goods received log for packages, boxes, flowers, medicine, books, and other goods from such stores as Wanamaker's, Brill Bros, Bloomingdale's, Brentano's, and Gimbels. There are also record books for when vacant rooms were rented not for the academic year or for the summer session but for short-term stays (in 1928, $1.50 per day, $9.00 per week) known as "transients."

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Application Books


Box 4 Folder 3 1908-1910

Room Inquiries and Application Logs

Box 4 Folder 4 Summer Session 1910 and 1911-1912, 1910, 1911-1912

Box 4 Folder 5 Summer Sessions, 1911-1912

Box 4 Folder 6 Summer Sessions, 1912-1914

Box 4 Folder 7 Summer Sessions, 1914-1915

Box 4 Folder 8 Burglary Book, 1924-1931

Box 4 Folder 9 Desk Lamp Register, 1923 July -1924 October, 1923

Box 4 Folder 10 Directory by Room by Hall, 1915-1917

Box 4 Folder 11 Goods Received and Signed For, 1929 January -- 1933 June, 1929, 1933

Box 4 Folder 12 Hartley Hall Blotter, 1913

Box 4 Folder 13 Hartley Hall Work Done (Rugs), 1920 March-1920 June, 1920

Box 4 Folder 14 John Jay Hall Lost Keys and Miscellaneous Complaints, 1929-1931

Includes elevator service log

Box 4 Folder 15 Livingston Hall Storage Book, 1926

Box 4 Folder 16 Maintenance Records, 1923-1932

Lamps, storage, linens, keys, furniture, etc.

Box 4 Folder 17 Repair and Damage Records, 1928-1933

Box 4 Folder 18 Room Repair Fees, 1914-1919

Hartley, Livingston and Furnald Halls

Box 4 Folder 19 Special Addresses of All Kinds, 1920s-1930s


Box 5 Folder 1 Storage Book, 1912-1916 1928, 1912-1916, 1928

Box 5 Folder 2 Summer Session Rooms Rented, 1915-1919

Transients/Short-term Occupants

Box 5 Folder 3 Furnald Hall, 1921-1925

Box 5 Folder 4 Hartley and Livingston Halls, 1922-1923

Box 5 Folder 5 Furnald Hall, 1925-1927

Box 5 Folder 6 Hartley, Livingston and John Jay Halls, 1927-1928

Box 5 Folder 7 John Jay Hall, 1929-1931

Box 5 Folder 8 John Jay Hall, 1931-1933

Box 5 Folder 9 John Jay Hall, 1933-1934