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James Rossant papers, 1950s-1990s
8 document boxesHartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company correspondence, 1883-1896
.45 linear feetBusiness correspondence of the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company, addressed mainly to the secretary, Stephen Ball. The letters are from insurance agents, business firms, and banks and relate to policies, premiums, taxes, investments, and other business transactions.
Arthur C. McGiffert Sr. papers, 1882 -- 1926
3.75 linear feetSeries 1: Correspondence, 1913 -- 1926 2.5 linear feet
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- relates to financial matters both personal, such as payment of income tax and investments, and UTS-related
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This series contains substantial correspondence regarding publications, lectures, addresses, invitations to speak, correspondence with certain institutions and individuals, and other professional and personal correspondence. The bulk of correspondence is from the period of McGiffert's presidency at Union Theological Seminary (1917-1926). Some of the publications included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 1-7) are: "God of the Early Christians," Martin Luther, the Man and His Work, and The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas. Some of the publishers included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 8-15) are: The American Journal of Theology, The Christian Work, The Macmillan Company, and Charles Scribner's Sons. The correspondence in Box 5, folder 12 is related to McGiffert's summer property in West Falmouth, Massachusetts, as well as a boat and car used there. The correspondence in Box 5, Folder 13 relates to financial matters both personal, such as payment of income tax and investments, and UTS-related, such as payment for a new chapel window and messages seeking to improve telephone service for the president. The correspondence in Box 6, Folder 1 is connected to the McGiffert family and includes writings from family members such as Rev. Dwight F. Mowery, one of McGiffert's sons-in-law, and James H. McGiffert, a cousin of McGiffert and an attorney at the National City Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Photograph and Lithograph collection
3000 photographsThe collection of historical photographs and lithographs of New York City consists of about 3,000 items dated from the 1850s until the 1980s. The collection is made up of color photographic prints, color negatives, black-and-white photographic prints, black-and-white negatives, copy prints, studio and cabinet cards, stereo cards, cyanotypes, albumen prints, gelatin silver prints, lantern slides, glass negatives, and Polaroid prints, lithographs, woodcuts, tear sheets, and engravings. The collection also includes official images, newspaper images, and candid images. Also included are images from the photo morgue of the New York Herald-Tribune newspaper, which ceased publication in 1966. Other images were purchased as copies from New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, WNYC-FM Radio, the Bettman Archive, and from collectors, private vendors, and other institutions. Photos by noted photographers are included.
Banks, alpha order [4 folders] Box 2, Folder 3
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- , Commercial Investment Trust Bldg 1958, Wurts Bros, The Seamen's Bank for Savings, officers at Chemical Corn
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39 photographs : (The Bank of Manhattan Company sketch, Bank of Manhattan Trust Co façade 1930, Gillender & Hanover Bank Building 1906, Bankers Trust 1911, Shoe & Leather and Chemical Bank Buildings 1914, Planned Bankers Trust Co Building 1958, Bankers Trust Co interior 1957, Commercial State Bank & Trust Co 1954, Bank of London 1942, Banca Commerciale Italiana 1941, Brevoort Savings Bank 1949, Bank for Savings 1954, City Bank Farmers Bldg rendering 1931, Central Savings Bank 1957, Chelsea National Bank 1964, Citizen Savings Bank interior 1938, Colonial Trust Company 1950, Clinton Trust Company commuters Branch 1957, Greenwich Savings Bank 1899, Manufacturers Trust Company, Manhattan Savings Institution 1878, Commercial Investment Trust Bldg 1958, Wurts Bros, The Seamen's Bank for Savings, officers at Chemical Corn Exchange Bank 1956, Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co.)
Phoenix House Foundation oral history collection, 2014-2015
183 GigabytesPeter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney, 2014 November 19 Box 3
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- grow the firm into a global leader in alternative investments. In the 1970s and 80s, Peterson served as
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Peterson and Ganz Cooney discuss their philanthropic life histories, which include fiscal policy reform, and youth education and digital learning, respectively. They then discuss their friendship with Mitchell Rosenthal. They speak to their role in supporting Phoenix House through fundraising efforts via their own donations, connecting the organization to a number of influential donors, and encouraging innovative fundraising strategies that catapulted Phoenix House into the world of the New York elite.
Lyle Stuart papers, 1926-2010, bulk 1949-2003
36 linear feetSubseries V.2: Personal Records, 1944-2005
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- addition to bank statements, investment activity, and tax returns, Stuart frequently borrowed and lent
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Personal records include material from Stuart's service in the Merchant Marine and Air Force, as well as family records. Most of Early Life and Family relates to Stuart's first wife, Mary Louise, and her battle with liver cancer, and includes medical records, his search and reward advertising for an alternative cure, consolation letters, and research relating to Stuart's memorial book,Mary Louise, published in 1972. There are also remembrances of Stuart's father (who committed suicide in 1928) and brother, and his frequently updated memorial "People I've Known Who Have Died."
Mark Twain papers, 1900-1968
1 linear feetThe collection consists of 32 letters written by Samuel L. Clemens to Mary Benjamin Rogers (Mrs. H.H.), his niece by marriage, and four letters written to Clemens and forwarded by him to Mrs. Rogers with comments. The letters are very personal in tone, full of Clemens' well-known wit, and revealing of his personal characteristics. There are a few clippings, cartoons, and one photograph. Also, a collection of 18 letters written by Clemens to Dorothy Sturgis, 1908-1909, relating to the "Angel-Fish Aquarium." There is also one typescript of the Constitution of the Club"The Aquarium, Issued by the Admiral;" and a photograph album of the Mark Twain Dinner, 1905.
Edward J. Bermingham collection, 1948-1957
2.5 linear feetCorrespondence of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his friend Bermingham who first met when Eisenhower became President of Columbia. During his tenure as Columbia's President and later, as commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Eisenhower exchanged long letters with Bermingham, outlining in detail his views of world affairs. When Eisenhower became President of the United States, the correspondence continued, and the two men met at least twice at the White House. The collection also includes a photograph of Eisenhower, inscribed to Bermingham; letters to Bermingham from Antonio Bermúdez, director of PEMEX, and Alexander Makinsky, president of the Coca Cola Export Corporation in Paris; and some correspondence between Bermingham and Eisenhower's aides.
Joseph Kraft papers, 1950-1986
47 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, research materals, lectures, speeches, galley proofs, news releases, appointment diaries, photographs, printed materials, audio and video cassettes. The correspondence consists of letters from editors and publishers as well as a selected group of letters from readers reacting to his columns and articles. Among these letters are one or two each from Joseph Alsop, Warren E. Burger, J. William Fulbright, John Kenneth Galbraith and Hubert H. Humphrey. The manuscripts, with corrections, notes and research materials are for his numerous contributions to periodicals, such as the "Letters from.." series in The New Yorker, radio and television scripts, interviews with prominent government officials, such as George Shultz, lectures, speeches, ideas and proposals for books, and an extensive file for his unpublished history of the investment firm, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. There is a set of news releases for his column, "Washington Insight" 1965-1984 and for his Los Angeles Times column, 1980-1985. The printed materials include newspaper clippings, articles by Kraft in foreign periodicals and some books from his library. The audio and video cassettes contain interviews with presidents and prime ministers as well as radio and television broadcasts on which Kraft appeared.
Renwick Family papers, 1794-1916
2 linear feetThis collection is primarily concerned with Prof. James Renwick and his professional correspondence and papers, both as Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) at Columbia College and as a leading engineer. Many certificates of membership in honorary societies are included. There are letters from Washington Irving (1783-1859) to Prof. Renwick and to his mother, Jane Jeffrey Renwick, pertaining to contemporary events and Irving's own activities. The letters to Mrs. Renwick are about the travels and experiences of Irving and Renwick abroad. The collection also covers the affairs of the Prof. Renwick's grandfather, including documents concerning his land grants in New York State, and those of James Armstrong Renwick, including his valedictory address at Columbia College in 1876 and his class reunion in 1916. There are many legal documents, letters, and manuscripts of various members of the Renwick and Brevoort families; among these are Prof. Renwick's notes on his family genealogy and a memoir of Jane Jeffrey Renwick. Correspondents include Clement Clarke Moore, John A. Dix, Martin Van Buren, Secretary of State John Forsyth, and Secretary of the Navy James K. Paulding. There is one letter from Sir Edward Sabine (1788-1883), President of the Royal Society, giving his views on the American Civil War.