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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Documenting more than a century of formal proceedings, the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees comprise the bulk of this record group. Although minutes of meetings held before the Board's establishment are included here, the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial recorded is December 15, 1875. The most recent minutes currently in the Archives date from October 1998. Many of the minutes include meeting agendas and reports issued...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: At their monthly meeting held June 8, 1877, the Board of Trustees elected 13 of their own members to serve as an Executive Committee. The committee had the authority to transact "current business of the Board" with exceptions provided in the charter and bylaws. The Executive Committee held its first monthly meeting three days after its formal inception. Those minutes as well as those for meetings held up until its dissolution in 1928 are bound with the Board of Trustees minutes. The...