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Scientific Book Club Records

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

The collection consists of selected financial records from the New York City office of the Scientific Book Club, which had its editorial office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Included are alphabetical files (1944-1945) of bill statements for books purchased by the Scientific Book Club from various publishers, such as Blakiston Co., Bobbs-Merrill, Garden City Publishing House, G. P. Putnam's, Princeton University Press, and Random House; 9 ledgers of accounts (1930-1944); 3 checkstub books (1942-1944); and representative samples of cancelled checks (1942-1946).

The collection consists of selected financial records from the New York City office of the Scientific Book Club, which had its editorial office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Included are alphabetical files (1944-1945) of bill statements for books purchased by the Scientific Book Club from various publishers, such as Blakiston Co., Bobbs-Merrill, Garden City Publishing House, G. P. Putnam's, Princeton University Press, and Random House; 9 ledgers of accounts (1930-1944); 3 checkstub books (1942-1944); and representative samples of cancelled checks (1942-1946).

Arranged as follows: bill statements, A-Z (1944-1945); miscellaneous papers (1946); ledgers and cancelled checks (1930-1946).

Transferred from within Manuscript Services. AM 1995-58.

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Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2009
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Bill Statements: A, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Appleton-Century, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: B, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Blakiston Company, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Baker & Taylor, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Bobbs Merrill, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: C, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Chemical Publishing Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Columbia University Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: D, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John Day Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Doubleday Doran Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: E, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: F, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: G, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Garden City Publishing House, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: H, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harper & Brothers, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harvard University Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Hastings House, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Henry Holt & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Hinde & Dauch Paper Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: I, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: J, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: K, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: L, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Lippincott & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Longmans, Green & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Mc, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: M, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Macmillian Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: N, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: O, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Oxford University Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: P, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Helen S. Pattison, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Prentice Hall, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Princeton University Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: R, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Random House, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: S, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Select Multigraphing Service, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Select Printing Company, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: T, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: U, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: University of Chicago Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: H.P. Ulich & Co., Inc., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Felix Ullmann & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: V, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Viking Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: W, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: W.W. Norton Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Widney Envelope Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John C. Winston Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John Wiley & Sons, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: W.H. Wise & Co., 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Yale University Press, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: XYZ, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Miscellaneous, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: A, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Appleton-Century, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: B, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Baker & Taylor, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Blakiston Company, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Bobbs Merrill, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: C, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Chemical Publishing Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Columbia University Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: D, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Dodd Mead & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John Day Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Doubleday Doran Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: E, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: F, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: G, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Garden Publishing House, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Grosset & Dunlap Inc., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: H, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harvard University Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harcourt Brace Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Hastings House, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Hinde & Dauch Paper Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Henry Holt & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: I, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: J, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: K, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: L, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Lippincott & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Little, Brown & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Mc, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: M, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: MacMillian Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: N, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: W.W. Norton Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: O, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Oxford University Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: P, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Helen S. Pattison, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Prentice Hall, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Princeton University Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: R, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Random House, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: S, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Select Multigraphing Service, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Select Printing Company, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: T, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: U, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: H.P. Ulich & Co., Inc., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Felix Ulimann & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: University of Chicago Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: V, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Viking Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: W, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Widney Envelope Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John Wiley & Sons, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: John C. Winston Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: XYZ, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Yale University Press, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Zondervan, 1944-1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Receipts, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: Arrow Service, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: A-K, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bill Statements: L-Z, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Cancelled Checks, 1940 September-1946 May. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Check Stub Books, 1942 October-1945 March. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ledger Books, 1930-1944. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Print, Suggest