Box 2

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Account book recording predominantly debts and credits of parents and guardians for tuition and expense payments. Book also includes accounts of vendors and laborers, including free Black, enslaved laborers, and their enslavers.

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Chronological record of transactions made to maintain the Washington Seminary. It includes tuition payments for enrolled students; the payment of wages to washerwomen, cooks, and other laborers, including enslaved laborers hired out to Washington Seminary and free Black laborers; and clothing provisions for enslaved and free Black laborers. Maintained by John Blox, S.J.; Samuel Barber, S.J.; Hippolyte deNeckere, S.J.

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A manuscript record of speeches, written by students and faculty, performed at annual "exhibitions" at the Washington Seminary. Notebook includes copies of the programs performed at exhibitions. The speeches do not include attributions of authorship.

Scope and Contents Washington Seminary Diary (March 25, 1850-October 19, 1854) includes notes on school and religious holidays, student activities such as processions and debates, illnesses of students and faculty, and burials of students and faculty. There is a list of regulations for the students (pp. 3-9), accounts of student discipline and notes on visits of faculty to other Jesuit missions, and Provincial leaders' visits to Gonzaga. There is description of the surrounding neighborhood and disorderly...