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Alfred T. White papers, 1884-1910
1 boxPrinted material and some correspondence related to low rental housing and tenements in New York City. Included are business records concerning the rental and maintenance of tenements.
Barrell family papers, 1751-1929, bulk 1791-1889
1.25 linear feetDaniel Boardman papers, 1795-1838
0.5 linear feetJohn Waite papers, 1743-1799
1 boxPapers, including both personal and business communications. The bulk of the latter are from his term as Sheriff.
Thomas K. Jones papers, 1782-1799
1 boxCorrespondence addressed to the firms Thomas Kilby Jones, Jones & Brazier, and Jones & Bass, consisting chiefly of business transactions with merchants in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, and Alexandria, Va.
William Shaw letters, 1860-1904
5 boxesBusiness and personal correspondence of Shaw. There are letters from Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. to Shaw in the 1890s concerning the sale of arms and munitions to the Greek government, and letters from Basil Zaharoff, director of Maxim Nordenfelt and personal friend of Mr. Shaw; personal letters from Plato Draculis, Greek emigré to England, a writer and some-time professor of Modern Greek at Oxford; letters from Stephen Skouloudis, Greek Prime Minister during World War I; and letters from various members of Shaw's family, friends, and business associates, written in Greek and Turkish. Of major interest in this collection is the material concerning Basil Zaharoff. This correspondence reveals much about his early career. Part of the collection also has a bearing on the international situation of Greece in a critical period. Also, transcripts of and typed quotations from various letters with other notes assembled by Plato E. Shaw for his father's biography.