Subseries I: Bound Volumes, 1880-1927

Chiefly composed of ledgers and journals detailing daily transactions from 1880 through 1919. Journals contain financial transactions entered chronologically, with a column referencing the page number on which the entry appears in the corresponding ledger. Entries may be either credits or debits, and include general and household expenses, income from investments and rental properties, donations, and art purchases.

Ledgers contain financial transactions grouped by the type of expense, with an index of categories at the front of the volume. One column on each page also references the corresponding page number on which the entry appears in the journal. Entries may be either credits or debits, and include general and household expenses, income from investments and rental properties, donations, and art purchases. Unlike the journal, where entries are made only once, the same transaction may be entered multiple times in the ledger. For instance, art purchases were entered under the heading "Oil Paintings" or "Paintings" (categories were not always consistently titled from one ledger to the next), but may also have been entered under the name of the dealer who sold the painting (e.g. M. Knoedler & Co. or Duveen Bros.)

Other volumes in this subseries include registers of securities, volumes recording interest accrual and dividends, and cash books.

Volumes are arranged by type.