USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes, 1880-1920, 1956, bulk 1880-1895

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Summary

Creators:
University of Southern California and Widney, R. M. (Robert Maclay), 1838-1929
Abstract:
The USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes consist of a ledger containing the by-laws of the University, adopted September 3, 1880, and minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings beginning on that date through November of 1885 (Box 1). Also included is a bound volume of University of Southern Califonia newsletters, dated January 1881-December 1883, with a few issues missing; a typescript with a breif early history of the founding of the University; contemporary copies of letters to Rufus von Kleinsmid and George Bovard from Widney; a broadside of the University's articles of incorporation; and a signed, by Widney, typescript of the address read at the laying of the first corner stone of the University in in 1880.
Extent:
3 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes, Collection no. 5218, University Archives[Repository], Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

The USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes consist of a ledger containing the by-laws of the University, adopted September 3, 1880, and minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings beginning on that date through November of 1885; these can be found in Box 1. Box 2 contains a bound volume of University of Southern Califonia newsletters, dated January 1881-December 1883, with a few issues missing. The newsletter was created to disseminate "first-class religious, moral, and educational matter...."; the funds generated from the subscription were to be used to fund "a library and apparatus for the University...." The records also consist of a typescript with a breif early history of the founding of the University, which indicates that the newsletter was published by Robert Maclay Widney at his own expense; contemporary copies of letters to Rufus von Kleinsmid and George Bovard from Widney; a broadside of the University's articles of incorporation; and a signed, by Widney, typescript of the address read at the laying of the first corner stone of the University in in 1880, the original of which is deposited in the corner stone. Also included is a 1956 letter to President Fagg regarding a piece of fabric from covering of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Box 3 houses the original ledgers for the minutes, which were rebound into a single volume (Box 1).

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Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes, Collection no. 5218, University Archives[Repository], Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-2587
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