Volume 56

Scope and Contents This receipt book records receipts issued for various expenditures, especially payments made to individuals providing services to the College, from 1871 to 1880. From 1871-1875, most of the entries are for salaries paid and payments related to running the Haverford farm. The years 1876-1878 increasingly become what might be labeled a "payroll register," continuing to record payment of faculty salaries but also adding more than thirty employees paid by the month for work on the...