FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1920-1965.

Summary: Membership Ledgers, 1920-1956, provide financial information in bound volumes broken down by individual or family and report pledges, dues, donations and purchases of tickets for High Holiday services. Name indexes are in the front of most volumes.

Cash Books, 1924-1948, contain monthly and bi-weekly records of receipts and disbursements in bound volumes. The receipts are of dues, donations, Hebrew School tuition, cemetery fees and other income. The disbursements are of great variety, but include the rabbi's and cantor's salaries plus allotments for social activities of the Temple's various organizations, as well as utility fees, general supplies and payments to individuals for unspecified purposes. There is an apparent overlap between the 1944-1946 and 1944-1948 volumes possibly having to do with a new treasurer having been elected during this period. Later cash books do not provide a breakdown of the sources of monies received, for which information the following subseries are available.

Monies Received, 1928-1933 and 1947-1962, are bi-weekly accounts of dues and tuition receipts which also indicate in which Membership Ledger the sum is recorded.

Monthly Balance Sheets, 1952-1958 and 1960-1965, are typewritten financial reports similar to Cash Books in which a given month's income and expenditures are recorded. The Monthly Balance Sheets may, in fact, be a later form of Cash Book.

Cemetery Ledger, 1950-1954, is arranged alphabetically and records payments for cemetery upkeep, presumably under the name of the person who made the payments.

An unidentified and undated account apparently represents an aborted volume of monies received.