Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records - Organization and Provenance Information

Organization

The Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records collection has been divided into 12 series.

Series I - Financial statements and reports: Boxes 1-16

    Sub-series:
          A. Monthly financial statements
          B. Treasurer's annual reports

Series II - Transactional files: Boxes 17-18

Series III - Tax records: Boxes 19-25

    Sub-series:
          A. Federal Income, Declared Value Excess Profits, and Excess Profits Tax Returns
          B. Maryland and personal property tax returns
          C. Annual information returns

Series IV - Payroll and wages: Box 26

    Sub-series:
          A. Payroll and unemployment tax
          B. Wage scales for other newspaper guilds

Series V - Financial correspondence: Box 27

Series VI - Sun executives and Newspaper Guild meeting minutes: Box 28

Series VII - Newspaper Guild correspondence: Box 29

Series VIII - Newspaper Guild publications: Boxes 29-31

    Sub-series:
          A. Baltimore Newspaper Guild newsletters and announcements
          B. The Guild Letter
          C. Other Guild newsletters and publications
          D. The Reporter
          E. The Guild Reporter

Series IX - Legal documents: Box 32

Series X - Calvert Street plant construction: Boxes 33-37

    Sub-series:
          A. Calvert Street plant specifications
          B. Contracts and agreements for construction of Calvert Street plant

Series XI - Radio and Television: Boxes 37-42

    Sub-series:
          A. Appraisals, acquisitions, and closings
          B. WRLH television licensing agreements
          C. Vitapix Corporation

Series XII - Ledgers: Boxes 42-168

    Sub-series:
          A. Financial statements and records
          B. Transactional records
          C. Stock ledgers
          D. Letters

Provenance and Acquisition Information:

The collection was received from the Tribune Company in 2002. Arrangements were made with Sandy Levy, the Sun Librarian, to retrieve the records scheduled for destruction and the UMBC Collections Management staff packed materials and transported everything to UMBC. The items were in no particular order when retrieved from Sun offices. Physical property rights were transferred to UMBC but intellectual copyright is still maintained by the Sun.

Processing Information:

A preliminary inventory of the collection was compiled by student assistant Adam Cohen in 2006. The ledgers were separated from the rest of the collection and many of the books, which were moldy when received, were cleaned. All ledgers were eventually housed in phase or flat boxes. Materials were divided into twelve series based on subject or type of document, though when possible the original organization of items in folders and folder titles were maintained. Initial processing was performed by Adam Cohen and graduate assistant Andrea Shahmohammadi. Processing was completed and finding aid was written by graduate assistant Amy Ciesielski in Spring 2009 under the supervision of Special Collections Archivist Lindsey Loeper.