Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers (sp9.0)

The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company ledgers document the financial activities of Rhode Island School of Design, 1917-1962, bulk 1917-1938. The ledgers record activity for school and museum accounts including endowment funds, building construction projects, pageants, routine financial matters, and stocks and bonds transactions. The records are critical for documenting museum works of art provenance, 1917-1942, particularly works purchased with Lyra Nickerson Brown endowment funds. The post-1938 records document primarily endowment funds and transactions.

Two of the ledger books contain account information for other Rhode Island institutions: the Rhode Island Episcopal Church Diocesan Trust, 1947-1961; the First Congregational Society, 1930-1948; the Bethany Home, 1931-1947; and Grace Church, 1937-1948.