Financial Records, 1939 - 1979

The financial records are one of the most comprehensive surviving records. Combined, the Cash Reports, which are a report of receipts and expenditures submitted monthly to the central offices in New York City, and the financial statements, a later, more complex report, provide a substantial amount of information about Annville Institute and its programs. Because they are accounting of expenses incurred and income generated by specific departments, these reports are a record of departments and programs in operation during each given time period. Thus they provide information about the components of the campus community ranging from the physical plant to the non-academic programs, and on to smaller elements such as scholarship funds. From time to time the financial reports include information about services for or programs offered to the general community, and a number of them include figures for Gray Hawk and McKee programs.

The journal entry ledgers (1967-75) are a record of purchases from the Institute by staff and students of farm products or other merchandise; as such, they provide some information about the internal workings of the Institute and daily life on campus. The reports of Audit (1964-69, 1971) serve primarily as a verification of statements compiled by the Institute staff for those years.

Mrs. Dorothy Brockman, an art teacher at the high school who with her husband, Enos, ran the student industries for a number of years, was in charge of the weaving program at the time the school closed. The files documenting the sale of the Weaving Room to Mrs. Brockman are also a documentation (albeit a sparse one) of the survival of this school department as a small, independently owned business.