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Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Foundation records, 1971-1991

38 linear feet 99 boxes
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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials. The Foundation's correspondence files consist of letters from different organizations and foundations, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, The NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the YWCA. Also included in this collection are community dialogues on race relations (1974-1975); proposed dialogues (1979) on such subjects as the Boy Scouts of America, Columbia University, and the National Council of Christians and Jews; and files on the Whitney M. Young Fellows Retreat Conferences (1980-1984). The collection contains many files on Ed Wilson's bust of Young (1991), including contracts and agreements, records of payments to Wilson, documents concerning the bust's placement in various locations, correspondence with Wilson (1983-1991), and miscellaneous photographs and pictures. The contributions files contain annual listings of contributions and records of contributions from the National Urban League, assorted organizations, corporations, individuals, foundations, and Philip Morris.

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Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Foundation records, 1971-1991 38 linear feet 99 boxes

Pearl S. Buck Collection, 1932-1956

.84 linear feet 2 document boxes
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The collection consists primarily of carbon copies of manuscripts for Pearl S. Buck's short stories, essays, speeches, and screenplays. Some copies include corrections and additions in Buck's handwriting. The collection also includes publications by other authors including an exhaustive bibliography of Buck's work by Lucille S. Zinn of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Inc.
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Pearl S. Buck Collection, 1932-1956 .84 linear feet 2 document boxes

Overbrook Press Records, 1929-1978, bulk 1935-1961

6.3 linear feet 15 document boxes
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This collection documents the operation of Overbrook Press, a private American press once located in Stamford, Connecticut, from its founding by Frank Altschul in 1934 until it ceased operation in 1969.
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Overbrook Press Records, 1929-1978, bulk 1935-1961 6.3 linear feet 15 document boxes

Lawrence A. Wien papers, 1954-1982

60 linear feet 128 boxes and 1 oversize folder
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Correspondence, documents, financial records and memorabilia. The personal correspondence of Lawrence A. Wien, 1960-1983; including memoirs and notes on interests both personal and financial. The Lawrence A. Wien Foundation files include correspondence, 1958-1976, information on the Foundation's 10-year trust, and information on tax returns. Files for the Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial fund consist of general correspondence, grant requests, and miscellaneous financial documents. The Committee to Increase Corporate Philanthropic Giving files comprise a large part of the collection. Among the numerous individual corporations represented are the American Broadcasting Company and the Zale Company. Wien's Foundation for the Improvement of Housing Arrangements for Official Foreign Personnel has personal files for each person receiving the Foundation's benefits, guarantees for those individuals, and letters ment to solicit funds from various corporations

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Lawrence A. Wien papers, 1954-1982 60 linear feet 128 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Julian C. Levi papers, 1862-1971

21 boxes 21 boxes
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Levi's correspondence with his wife, Alice Fries Levi, letters of other family members, his diaries, his school and college notebooks and papers, awards and medals, and personal photographs. The earliest item in the collection is a scrapbook kept by his father, Albert A. Levi, in San Francisco, 1862.

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Julian C. Levi papers, 1862-1971 21 boxes 21 boxes

John Franklin Goucher papers, 16??-1962, bulk 1880-1922

14 linear feet 14 linear feet 22 boxes
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Correspondence; minutes; and reports regarding missions and Christian colleges in China, India, Japan, and Korea, 1880-1922; also manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia from his estate.

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John Franklin Goucher papers, 16??-1962, bulk 1880-1922 14 linear feet 14 linear feet 22 boxes

James Graham Phelps Stokes papers, 1779-1960, bulk 1884-1960

38 linear feet 21 letterbooks; 2 ledgers; 19 document boxes; 99 metal correspondence file boxes
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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, memorabilia, and printed materials. The papers relate to numerous organizations--social, political, civic, and philanthropic--with which he was associated. Among these organizations are Legal Aid Society; Prison Association of New York; Outdoor Recreation League; Socialist Democratic League and National Party; American Alliance for Labor and Democracy; Constitutional Democracy Association; National Security League; YMCA, etc. Included among the papers are his journals and diaries, 1884-1950. An incomplete set of his letterbooks 1905-1960 and some family papers relating to real estate and financial matters

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James Graham Phelps Stokes papers, 1779-1960, bulk 1884-1960 38 linear feet 21 letterbooks; 2 ledgers; 19 document boxes; 99 metal correspondence file boxes

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018

163 linear feet 271 boxes; Audio Visual boxes; Flat boxes; 8 Tube boxes
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Correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.

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International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018 163 linear feet 271 boxes; Audio Visual boxes; Flat boxes; 8 Tube boxes

Harry Scherman papers, 1937-1969

49 boxes 49 boxes
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Large groups of correspondence with members of the editorial board including Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Marquand, Christopher Morley, and William Allen White, which contain insights into the Club's activities, organization, and literary policies. Also, material relating to Scherman's careers as writer, economist, and philanthropist. Mr. Scherman's economic activities are represented by files of correspondence and papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Union, and the Committee on Economic Development. Among the personal items in the collection are manuscripts of his publications, reviews of his writings, numerous awards he has received, photographs, and documents relating to his long and rich career. There are two particularly warm letters from Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Also, additional personal and professional correspondence files of Scherman with publishers, agents, authors, Book of the Month Club judges, and organizations with which he was affiliated.

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Harry Scherman papers, 1937-1969 49 boxes 49 boxes

Harry Harkness Flagler letters, 1781-1948

1 box 1 box
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The collection consists of letters from celebrities in various fields, largely addressed to Harry Harkness Flagler. Included are letters of Ambrose Bierce, Thomas A. Edison, Edwin Forrest, Andrew Jackson, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Mansfield, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ruskin, Constantin Stanislavsky, and George Washington. Especially noteworthy are five letters of Charles Dickens, bound together in one volume.

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Harry Harkness Flagler letters, 1781-1948 1 box 1 box