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Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Writings
Series III: Personal Property
Series IV: Subject Files
Series V: Memorabilia

Stanley Myer Isaacs papers, 1938-1989

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Series I: Correspondence

Cataloged Correspondence:


Box 1 John Haynes Holmes

Box 1 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia

Box 1 Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Box 1 Eleanor Roosevelt

Box 1 15 letters written to Stanley Issacs by a variety of correspondents , 1910-1940:

Otto J. Barnard, May 23, 1910

Senator Albert J. Beveridge, June 5, 1922

William S. Calder, January 24, 1910

Frank M. Chapman, November 1, 1933

George Bird Grinnell, May 19, 1925

Hermann Hagedon, February 14, 1951

William H. Hotchkiss, May 26, 1917

John Puroy Mitchel, October 1, 1917

Victor Murdock, May 20, 1940

Rep. Herbert Parsons, September 16, 1910

George W. Perkins, April 20, 1916

George H. Putnam, July 24, 1925

Admiral W. S. Sims, May 18, 1925

E.A. Van Valkenburg, March 10, 1926

Stuart Edward White, November 11, 1925

Arranged Correspondence:

Box 1 Outgoing Correspondence, 1937-1962

(including annual folders for Manhattan Borough President Correspondence)


Box 2 Outgoing Correspondence, 1943-1962


Box 8 Folder 11 Two letters and a card to Edith S. Isaacs, 1930-1968


Box 2 Personal

Box 2 Topical, 1938-1942


Box 8 Folder 6 Committee for the Election of Stanley M. Isaacs, 1941


Box 2 Undated

Box 2 Edith S. Isaacs and material regarding Love Affair with a City

Letters removed from a large scrapbook:

These letter relate mostly to Isaacs's campaing for public office. Many are in direct response to his letters of solicitation to serve on his election committees.


Box 8 Folder 20 A miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 20 Mrs. (Florence Von Wien) Auerbach-Levy

Box 8 Folder 20 Mary Findley Allen (Mrs. Yorke Allen), June 12, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 Marion Rosenwald Ascoli (Mrs. Max Ascoli), October 3, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 Ernest Angell, June 20, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 Henry Bruére, September 29, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 John Harlan Amen, November 14, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 William T. Andrews, November 14, 1941

Box 8 Folder 20 Daniel Allen (State, County and Municipal Workers of America), January 5, 1942

Box 8 Folder 21 B miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 21 Charles C. Burlingham, August 21, 1933

Box 8 Folder 21 Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, November 3, 1937

Box 8 Folder 21 Bruce Barton, June 30, 1941

Box 8 Folder 21 Madeleine Beer Borg (Mrs. Sidney C. Borg), June 12 [n.y.]

Box 8 Folder 21 Arthur A. Ballantine, September 24, 1941

Box 8 Folder 21 Samual J. Bloomingdale, November 13, 1941

Box 8 Folder 21 W. Russell Bowie, November 19, 1941

Box 8 Folder 21 George Britt, March 22, 1942

Box 8 Folder 21 Peter Blume, December 10, 1942

Box 8 Folder 22 C miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 23 D miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 23 Hubert T. Delany, October 1, 1941

Box 8 Folder 23 Allen W. Dulles, October 28, 1941

Box 8 Folder 23 Gano Dunn, November 8, 1941

Box 8 Folder 23 Albert Deutsch, November 2, 1943

Box 8 Folder 24 E miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 24 John L. Elliott, September 2, 1941

Box 8 Folder 24 Douglas L. Elliman, November 13, 1941

Box 8 Folder 24 Philip Evergood

Box 8 Folder 24 Genevieve B. Earle, November 17, 1943

Box 8 Folder 25 F miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 25 John A. Fitch, November 3, 1941

Box 8 Folder 25 Carl Feiss, November 12, 1941

Box 8 Folder 25 Paul Frankfurter, November 12, 1941

Box 8 Folder 25 William H. Friedman, November 10, 1943

Box 8 Folder 25 Louis Fischer, September 30, 1943

Box 8 Folder 25 Father Ford, September 24, 1943

Box 8 Folder 26 G miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 27 H miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 27 Walter Hoving, November 16, 1943

Box 8 Folder 27 Helen Hall, November 3, 1937

Box 8 Folder 27 Augustus N. Hand, November 28, 1941

Box 8 Folder 27 E. Adelaide Hahn, August 12, 1944

Box 8 Folder 27 Edward Heilman, June 27, 1944

Box 8 Folder 27 John Haynes Holmes, August 20, 1944

Box 8 Folder 27 Charles E. Hughes, Jr., July 19, 1941

Box 8 Folder 28 J miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 29 J miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 29 Alvin Johnson, 1943

Box 8 Folder 30 K miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 30 Beatrice S. Kahn

Box 8 Folder 30 J. M. Kaplan, May 29, 1941

Box 8 Folder 30 J.P. Keppel, August 21, 1941

Box 8 Folder 30 Rockwell kent, October 13, 1941

Box 8 Folder 30 George S. Kaufman, September 23 [n.y.]

Box 8 Folder 30 Oswald W. Knauth, September 24, 1941

Box 8 Folder 30 Dorothy Kenyon, November 14, 1943

Box 8 Folder 30 Robert D. Kohn, November 16, 1943

Letter contains a drawing of Kohn rejoycing.

Box 8 Folder 30 Freda Kirchway, September 18, 1941

Box 8 Folder 31 L Miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 31 Solomon Lowenstein, September 22, 1937

Box 8 Folder 31 Eduard C. Lindeman, October 4, 1943

Box 8 Folder 31 Sam A. Lewisohn, June 18, 1941

Box 8 Folder 32 M miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 32 Philip McCook, November 3, 1937

Box 8 Folder 32 George McAneny, November 3, 1937

Box 8 Folder 32 Robert Moses, June 23, 1944

Box 8 Folder 32 Newbold Morris, July 11, 1944

Box 8 Folder 32 Henry Morgenthau, September 6, 1941

Box 8 Folder 32 A. Wilfred May, November 8, 1941

Box 8 Folder 32 Julian S. Myrick, October 22, 1941

Box 8 Folder 33 N miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 33 Frederick Buckley Newell, October 25, 1943

Box 8 Folder 33 Reinhold Niebuhr, September 24, 1943

Box 8 Folder 34 O miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 34 Willioam Church Osborn, August 22, 1941

Box 8 Folder 35 P miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 35 Molly Picon, October 25, 1943

Box 8 Folder 36 Michael J. Quill, June 23, 1944

Box 8 Folder 37 R miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 37 Samuel I. Roseman, June 27, 1944

Box 8 Folder 37 John Charles Riedel, November 12, 1941

Box 8 Folder 37 Harold Riegelman, November 14, 1941

Box 8 Folder 38 S miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 38 Samuel Seabury, November 3, 1937

Box 8 Folder 38 Joseph T. Sharkey, June 28, 1944

Box 8 Folder 38 James Speyer, January 19, 1941

Box 8 Folder 38 Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger), November 10, 1941

Box 8 Folder 38 Bernard L. Shientag, November 13, 1941

Box 8 Folder 38 Gerald Swope, November 11, 1943

Box 8 Folder 39 T miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 39 T.O. Thackrey, November 2, 1943

Box 8 Folder 40 U-Z miscellaneous

Box 8 Folder 40 Robert F. Wagner, November 4, 1937

Box 8 Folder 40 Stephen S. Wise, 1941

Series II: Writings


Box 2 Addresses, essays, lectures


Box 3 Skits and songs


Box 8 Folder 4 Poem by S.M.I., November 1, 1925

Box 8 Folder 8 Speech on race by S.M.I. (fragment)

Manuscripts by Edith S. Isaacs:


Box 3 "Apartment to Let -- Furnished?"

Box 3 "Baskets for the Rich"

Box 3 "Big Shot"

Box 3 "The First Year"

Box 3 "For Service Rendered"

Box 3 "Joji on Trial"

Box 3 "Mad Party"

Box 3 "Mingo Mealtime"

Box 3 '"Our Talking Dog"

Box 3 "A Play in Three Acts"

Box 3 "Point of View"

Box 3 "Rim of the Cup"

Box 3 Title-pages

Box 3 "Too Many Husbands"

Box 3 "Windfall"

Box 3 "You Can't Miss the Kabuki"

Audiocassettes of Broadcasts by Stanley I. Isaacs

Box 3 "Let's Find Out"

Box 3 "This I Believe"


Box 11 Terry S. Ruderman "Stanley M. Isaacs: The Conscience of New York". Ph.D. dissertation.

Series III: Personal Property


Box 3 Portfolio

Box 3 Real Estate

Box 3 Photographs


Box 8 Folder 20 Family photographs (early) from an album

Box 8 Folder 16 & 17 Family photographs

Box 8 Folder 18 & 19 Portrail photographs of S.M.I.

Box 8 Folder 5 Photographs, campaign: Optometrists

Box 8 Folder 12-15 Photographs of Edith S. Isaacs award celebration at the Waldorf Astoria

Series IV: Subject Files


Box 4 Barnard College

Box 4 Biographical


Box 8 Folder 9 Biographical: "Personal Data and Affiliations" and "Biographical Notes", November 1, 1925


Box 4 Campaign material -- 1937 1941 1957, 1937, 1941, 1957


Box 8 Folder 2 Campaign material -- 1937 & n.d., 1937

Box 8 Folder 3 Campaign Receipts list

Box 8 Folder 10 Campaign leafletts, handouts, etc. d


Box 4 Citations

Box 4 East River Drive Dedication, 1940 June 18, 1940

Box 4 Edith S. Isaacs-charitable organizations

Box 4 Edith S. Isaacs-80th birthday

Box 4 Honorary events-lunches, dinners, etc.

Box 4 Memorabilia-awards, certificates, honors

Box 4 Memorial statements

Box 4 Miscellaneous

Box 4 Mt. Airy Road, Croton related

Box 4 The New Municipal Asphalt Plant, 1944 May 24, 1944


Box 5 New York Service for Orthopedically


Box 8 Folder 7 Editorial from the NY Times: "Where Stanley Isaacs Has Been", October 13, 1937


Box 5 Handicapped

Box 5 New York State Constitution-article XIII


Box 8 Folder 1 Press clippings, 1969


Box 10 Press clippings

This material is so brittle that it cannot he handled.


Box 5 Notes in memory of Edith S. Isaacs to H.I.H.

Box 5 Notes in memory of Edith S. Isaacs to M.S.I.

Box 5 Rosner-Simon

Series V: Memorabilia


Box 9 Large album: "Dinner to Honor Stanley M. Isaacs, November 7, 1954"

Includes congratulary letters from Mamie Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Herbert Lehman


Box 11 Lawyers' Title Insurance Company. Memorial booklet on the death of Myer S. Isaacs.

Box 11 The Baron de Hirsch Fund. Memorial booklet celebrating the 75th birthday of Stanley M. Isaacs, September 27, 1957.

Box 11 The Baron de Hirsch Fund. Memorial booklet commemorating the death of Stanley M Isaacs, July 1962

Box 11 Laurence Gomme. Stanley M Isaacs Personal Correspondence Donated to The New York Public Library, March 1969

Box 11 A Tribute to Stanley M. Isaacs, President of the Borough of Manhattan, January 1, 1938-December 31, 1941 from The Employees of that Office.


Box 5 Printed Material


Box 6 Citations, plaques, certificates of election


Box 7 Citations, plaques, certificates of election, medals

Objects:


Box 11 Felix M. Warburg Memorail Award

Box 11 Bronze plaque from Ninth A.D. Republican Club, March 1, 1961

Box 11 Bronze medal from Citizens Budget Commission

Box 11 First spike removed from the demolition of the 6th Avenue elevated rail road, December 20, 1938

Box 11 Wallet of S.M.I.