Box 1

FF 1 - 1839-1840 Including Missouri Auditor statement regarding income of Seminary Fund; reports to Auditor regarding amounts spent for advertising, payment of University Treasurer, builders and contractors, payment for notice - laying of cornerstone; payment from Subscription Fund; first installment due for erection of principal Edifice [Academic Hall]; list bills for belfry; list monies appropriated by order of the Board of Curators; warrants.

FF 2 - 1841-1842 Including Treasurer's Report to the Board of Curators; warrants, receipts, etc. regarding building of main building and President's House; receipts for funds subscribed by residents of Boone County; payment for attorneys collecting subscriptions; Auditor's Report regarding Seminary Fund; warrants and payments for building materials, furnishings, and advertising.

FF 3 - 1843-1844 Including income from Seminary Fund; surveys and sales of lands payments; advertising receipts; lists of expenditures and warrants for building construction, furnishings, equipment and apparatus; listing of accounts of J.H. Lathrop; reports of committee on accounts; warrants; report regarding pay for faculty for extra session 1841; possibility of Bank of State of Missouri making advances to University to be paid from Seminary Fund; collection of funds subscribed by residents of Boone County; report of committee to settle accounts with University Treasurer; receipts for tuition fees.

FF 4 - 1845-1847 Including receipts for amounts subscribed, land sales, tuition fees; income from Seminary Fund; purchase of chemical apparatus; list warrants paid; publishing of catalogues and circular letters, advertising; building and construction receipts; receipts for tuition; list of warrants; Treasurer's Report; pay of faculty.

FF 5 - 1848-1852 Including warrants and receipts for building and construction, tuition, payment of faculty, collection of subscriptions; report of committee to settle with University Treasurer; income of Seminary Fund; listing Leffingwell account warrants; list S.B. Victor account.

FF 6 - 1853-1854 Including payments for chemicals and apparatus; tuition and payment of faculty; bills for advertising; building supplies; itemized bills for construction (including President's House); insurance on Academic Hall; notice of dividend payment on Capitol Stock of Bank of the State of Missouri; warrants; bills for fencing materials; Promise Note to pay to James Shannon $200 for services of a Negro slave, Tony, as janitor; payment of the Board Secretary and Treasurer; books for Library; loads of wood.

FF 7 - 1855-1857 Including payment of curators expenses; bills for advertising; buildings insurance; construction of buildings; postage bills; payment of Board Secretary and Treasurer; building supplies; list of payments allowed; bill for engraving of "Sections of Observatory" and printing, also engraving "University Edifice" and printing; loads of wood bills; building of Primary or District Schoolhouse; "State University Primary School House" account book.

FF 8 - 1858-1859 Including postage account; bills for building supplies, advertising, loads of wood, prints for Catalogue, District School House building, building insurance; payment of faculty; Treasurer's Balance Report, Annual Reports; list of warrants; repair on Tony's watch; W.W. Hudson accounts.

FF 9 - 1859-1860 Including payment of curator's expenses and payment of faculty; tuition refund receipts; Treasurer's reports; funds received and list of warrants drawn; warrants; building of school house; accounts payable.

FF 10 - 1860-1861 Including building insurance; postage bills, accounts payable; warrants; bills for advertising, chemicals and apparatus, school house building construction, building supplies, printing of catalogues, loads of wood; Treasurer's Account Settlement and Annual Report

FF 11 - 1861-1862 Including Treasurer's statement of financial condition; warrants; accounts and bills payable; payment of replacement faculty; building supplies; bills for advertising, building insurance, curator's expenses; appointment of committee of three to negotiate or litigate with Bank of Missouri regarding principal.

FF 13 - 1864-1866 Including bills and accounts payable; bills for insurance, loads of wood, building repair, postage, plank walk, curator's expenses; Treasurer's Annual Report; warrants.

FF 14 - 1866-1867 Including Treasurer's Annual Report; accounts and bills payable; warrants; bills for curator's expenses, wood, janitors, planting trees, postage, President's House foundation, walling Mineral Spring, fence building, printing, advertising, building supplies, and building insurance.

FF 15 - 1868-1869 Including accounts of University income and expenses; list accounts due by University; accounts and bills payable; warrants; bills for postage, books for library; receipts for payment of interest on loans; Treasurer's annual report and statement of financial condition of University.

FF 16 - 1869-1870 Including receipts for payment of interest on loans to University; warrants; Stephens Prize Medal payment; Treasurer's report of receipts and disbursements; Curator's expenses and expenses to locate School of Mines and Metallurgy; expenses of Board of Visitors; list of expenses of Normal and Preparatory School; Boone County donation account for Agricultural and Mechanical College; Phelps County financial statement.

FF 17 - 1871 Including income and expenses; construction Scientific Building; lightning rods; correspondence from Missouri State Auditor; bills for advertising; School of Mines expenses; faculty salary payments; curator's expenses; Agricultural and Mechanical College Fund; Library bills (United States twenty cent Internal Revenue stamp); Report of Commissioner of Agriculture College Lands.

FF 18 - 1872 Including faculty salaries; income and expenses; School of Mines expenses; construction costs; bills for advertising; curator's expenses; security bonds, Treasurer School of Mines and UMC Treasurer; library bills; receipts; report of Commissioner of Agriculture College Lands; correspondence regarding bond sales.

FF 19 - 1873 Including income from stocks, bonds, and etc.; stock certificates of National Bank of the State of Missouri in St. Louis; loan agreements; curator's expenses; money received receipts; income and expenses UMC and School of Mines; Report of Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands; construction costs; furniture bills.

FF 20 - 1874 Including currency (four $5 bills National currency #A881986, #B674415, #D129119, and #P131732); Report of Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands; Library expenses; Horticulture Monthly Reports; curator's expenses; diploma orders from students; list of money due from students; income and expenses; Treasurer's Reports.

FF 21 - 1875 Including construction costs; income and expenses; Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands Reports; correspondence from Missouri State Auditor and Governor Hardin; list of "Property MO School of Mines & Metallurgy on hand June 1, 1875..."; diploma requests; National Bank of the State of Missouri in St. Louis Circular Letter to Shareholders, dated 12/31/1875; bills and accounts.

FF 22 - 1876 Including collection of delinquent taxes; Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands Reports; Treasurer's Reports; expenses and income; diploma fees; curator's expenses; bills for advertising.

FF 23 - 1877 Including Treasurer's Report; income and expenses; Missouri Senate request for report on financial condition of University and related correspondence; diploma fees; Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands Reports; receipts for entrance fee and contingent fee from students; Report on the Value of Property Belonging to State University - comparison with other institutions; construction costs; receipts of payments to Walsh, Smith, and Jungerfelt, architects on Scientific Building contract; Finance Committee Report on Treasurer's accounts; estimated income.

FF 24 - 1878 Including estimated income; Library expenses; money collected from students; income and expenses; Laboratory bills; printing of catalog; Treasurer's Report and warrants from School of Mines; faculty salaries; Boone County National Bank of Columbia loan paper; estimated expenses.

Series Three - Growth and Change: 1876-1888 (cont'd)

FF 1 - 1879 Including greenhouse expenses; flower and seed bills; printing of diplomas; income and expenditures; printed notice National Bank of the State of Missouri in St. Louis regarding its failure and the University of Missouri's individual liability as a shareholder; report regarding displacement and replacement of the Treasurer of the School of Mines, estimated income and expenses, warrants; payment of semi-annual interest on Seminary Fund.

FF 1A - 1879 Including University of Missouri's warrants; listing of abstract by department or fund.

FF 2 - 1880 Including School of Mines Treasurer's Report and warrants; greenhouse bills and receipt book; diploma fees; estimated income; payroll of agriculture departments showing name, hours worked, wage, and amount due; Horticulture Department's financial report; estimated expenses; Treasurer's Abstract; laboratory expenses and income from students; Todd's collection of leases and interest.

FF 3 - 1881 Including income and expenditures; sale and leases of College Lands; Report of Commissioner of Agricultural College Lands; examples of various forms made by Cornell University; Law Department tuition receipts.

FF 4 - 1882 Including bills for chemicals, apparatus, laboratory expenses; income and expenditures; faculty salaries; Farm Department payrolls; receipts for contingent fees and tuition; diploma fee and cottage rent receipts.

FF 5 - 1883 Including listing of plants, trees, and etc. of Missouri Agricultural College nurseries and expenses; Horticulture Department invoices; advertising printing bills; Farm Department warrants; construction costs; laboratory bills and accounts; Invoice Personal Property of Missouri Agricultural College Farm.

FF 5A - 1883 Including construction costs; warrants and bills for services and goods; Farm Department expenditures; Horticulture Department expenditures; bill for McAnnally Medal #2; periodicals bill; curator's expenses; bills for printing and advertising; wood and fuel bills; bill from John W. Carlisle for keys and etc.

FF 5B - 1883 Including bills regarding Edison Electrical Generator; specimens from H. A. Ward; bills regarding Stephens Medal Contest; printing expenses; Medical Department - two weeks of lectures by J. M. Allen; Horticulture Department supplies; Agricultural College salary receipts; Columbia Gas-Light and Coke Company bills; construction and repairs on campus.

FF 5C - 1883 Including construction and repairs; books, maps, and etc. for Scientific Department; printing expenses; Agriculture Farm bills and pay warrants; payroll; books and apparatus for Normal Department; Club House expenses.

FF 5D - 1883 Including construction and repairs; furniture bills; printing expenses; wood and gas bills; Horticulture Department payroll and warrants; College Farm bills and payroll; return of student fees; travel expenses; book bills; Agriculture Department payroll and warrants; curator's expenses to meetings.

FF 5E - 1883 Including apparatus bought by B. F. Thomas; specimens bought by J. W. Spencer (minerals, etc.); book bills and listings; surveying, engineering and astronomical instruments bought by T. J. Lowry; chemicals and apparatus bought by P. Schweitzer; correspondence from S. S. Laws and response from the Missouri Attorney General regarding Certificate of Indebtedness for use and benefit of University; bills from E.D. Hearn, London.

FF 6 - 1884 Including books bought by R. McAnally; apparatus for departments of Botany and Entomology purchased with special appropriation of General Assembly; chemicals apparatus, and etc. bought by Schweitzer and his accounting to the Board of Curators for funds; collections of minerals bought; list of warrants of Geological and Zoological Departments; B. F. Thomas regarding special appropriation for Department of Physics.

FF 6A - 1884 Including purchase of books; spending of special appropriations by departments; estimated expenditures for 2 years by Treasurer; balance sheet for the College Farm and listing of College Farm property; construction and repairs; Schweitzer's bills for chemicals, apparatus, and etc. (includes reports regarding laboratory, spending of funds, and changes in courses).

FF 7 - 1885 Including construction and repairs; Paquin's travel regarding creation of State Veterinarian; listing of property in Greenhouses and fixtures; list of stock on Horticulture Department grounds; list of warrants and amounts for 1883-1885; estimate for gas fixtures; insurance policy costs; list of College Farm property; list of improvements and public works.

FF 8 - 1886 Including estimate of income of University; statements of receipts and expenditures of departments; Treasurer's Bond; bills submitted from Ficklin, Lowry, Blackwell, Tracy, Fisher and Schweitzer.

FF 9 - 1887 Including estimated expenditures and actual expenses to date by department; list of students who entered on Rollins Aid Fund; State Veterinarian expenses; salary list; Botanical Laboratory materials; Chemical Laboratory materials; Physics Department bills.

FF 10 - 1888 Including Chemical Laboratory bills; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station pay warrants; Boone County National Bank book of D. D. Moss; receipt for $150 for portrait of President John Lathrop; receipt for damages caused by "discharge of contents of privy" to property of W. J. Babb; receipts and expenses for Department of Physics; expenses in sales of Agriculture College Lands; bills for elevator; estimated income, actual expenses by department.

FF 11 - 1889 Including Chemical Laboratory materials; State Auditor regarding requisitions and new law regulating disbursements; expenditures of Rollins Aid Fund; books purchased; acknowledgement of warrants received (including Ward's Natural Science Establishment for specimens); list of appropriations and salaries; State Veterinarian's expenses; statement of amounts appropriated, disbursements and balances by department; receipts and expenses of College Lands Fund, sales of lands.

Series Four - Destruction and Rebirth: 1889-1896 (cont'd)

FF 1 - 1890 Including bills of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station; Scientific Department expenses; chemicals & apparatus; receipts and expenditures from Biology Lab Fees; estimated income and expenditures by department; appropriations, expenditures and balances by department; Paquin (Veterinarian) expenses and bills; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station report of finances; Treasurer's Monthly Balance Sheets; acknowledgements for payments received.

FF 2 - 1891 Including estimated appropriations by department; acknowledgements of payments received; sale of College Lands; construction and repairs; Chemical Lab bills; report of Lieutenant Buck regarding expenditures for cadet encampment and bills.

FF 2A - 1891 Including monthly financial statements; wage receipts for labor; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Financial Report; Report of Financial Aministration of Department of Chemistry.

FF 3 - 1892 Including report of financial administration of Department of Chemistry; receipts for insurance payments; financial statements Building Fund; Monthly Financial Reports; book shipments; construction and repairs; estimated appropriations and expenditures; wage receipts for labor; Proctor's Statement; weekly payroll for laborers; receipt for money from insurance on Academic Hall fire; faculty requests for warrants to be endorsed to another party when drawn; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Supplementary Financial Report; bills and receipts for Cadet Camp, Camp Merritt, and report of Lieutenant Buck; expenses for visiting high schools and academies; receipt for Columbia's subscriptions to University Building Fund (to keep University in Columbia after Academic Hall fire); University Exhibit at Warrensburg's Pertle Springs; books shipped; settlement with J. G. Babb.

Series Four - Destruction and Rebirth:1889-1896 (cont'd)

FF 1 - 1893 Including statement of financial administration of Department of Chemistry and bills; settlement with J. G. Babb; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station income reports; Librarian's Reports; laboratory fees and deposits; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Financial Report; expenses for attending non-resident lecturers in Law Department; construction and repairs; Monthly Financial Statements; Morrill Fund statement.

FF 2 - 1894 Including Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station - Farm Department income reports; Monthly Financial Statements; estimated income and expenditures report; statement of Building Fund; Morrill Fund statement; Land Grant Fund statement; settlement with J. G. Babb, Proctor; Librarian's Reports; Financial Report of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station; expenses for Law Department lecturers; return of laboratory fees; College Farm payroll; requests for warrants to be endorsed to another party when drawn.

FF 3 - 1895 Including estimated income and expenditures for biennial period 1895-1896; Librarian's Reports; Settlements with J. G. Babb, Proctor; reports of sales from Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station; Military Department expenses; Bond of J.H. Waugh for construction and repairs; Farm Department requisitions and payroll; bill for news and periodicals for the Library; statement of income and expenditures for Morrill Fund and Agricultural College-Land Grant Fund; requests for warrants to be endorsed to another party.

FF 4 - 1896 Including reports of income; College Farm accounts and payroll; student board receipts; Librarian's Reports; requests that warrants be endorsed to another party when drawn; Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Financial Reports; Librarian regarding library fines

FF 5 - 1896 Including envelopes and cancelled stamps removed from collection. Each has noted on back original folder and box.