Contains the professional files of a renowned accounting professor including correspondence, materials on various accounting topics, photographs (1 folder), articles, writings, miscellany, etc. Miscellany includes unarranged correspondence, articles, writings, notes, etc.

Henry Rand Hatfield (1866-1945) was the first dean of the Chicago business school and the second dean of the Berkeley business school. He was an authority on early bookkeeping history. Drawing on the archives at the Northwestern University among others, this book presents a biographical study of a full-time accounting professor in a US university.

Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.