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George W. Perkins Jr. papers, 1895-1990, bulk 1909-1960

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Series I: Subject Files Arranged by George W. Perkins, Jr., 1909-1985

Most of the papers in this series were arranged by George W. Perkins, Jr.; several folders contain letters received by his family after his death. The labels chosen by Perkins were retained, excepting those in brackets within the finding aid. The series consists mostly of correspondence from the 1940s and 1950s, when Perkins was a US diplomat. Also included are his documents pertaining to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission: correspondence, data for developing projects, and speeches. Of particular interests are folders with papers from World War I, when Perkins served as Lieutenant, and World War II, when he worked for the Chemical Warfare Service as a Colonel. Contained here are handbooks and maps from training sessions held during World War I, as well as maps, folders with memos on chemical warfare, and reports on travels to several countries, especially India, during World War II.

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Box 1 Folder 1 to 6 [General], 1920s-1959, (6 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 7 Acheson, Dean-- Truman Library, 1953-1956

American Council on NATO

Box 1 Folder 8 to 10 [General], 1958-1959, (3 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 11 [Correspondence--Outgoing], 1953-1955

Box 1 Folder 12 Fund Raising, 1959

Box 1 Folder 13 International Conferences, 1952-1955


Box 2 Folder 1 International Conferences, 1954-1955

Box 2 Folder 2 Ancestry Data, circa, 1930s

Box 2 Folder 3 Assistant Secretary of State Matters, 1949

Atlantic Congress

Box 2 Folder 4 Atlantic Council of the U.S., 1959

Box 2 Folder 5 to 6 Europe, 1959, (2 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 7 Ball, Flamen and Susan, David, 1947-1974

Box 2 Folder 8 Barbizon Conference, 1955

Box 2 Folder 9 Bonbright, James C. H., 1953-1958

Box 2 Folder 10 BR, 1922-1959

Box 2 Folder 11 BU, 1922-1958

Box 2 Folder 12 Burgess, W. Randolph--NATO, 1949-1959

Box 2 Folder 13 C, 1920-1957


Box 3 Folder 1 to 2 Career Data, 1931-1960, (2 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 3 Childhood, 1899-1910

Box 3 Folder 4 to 9 Condolence--A-Z, 1960, (6 Folders)

Correspondence


Box 4 Folder 1 A-Z, 1917-1922

Box 4 Folder 2 to 3 A-C, 1953-1958, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 4 to 7 A-Z, 1959, (4 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 8 Linn Merck Perkins and George W. Perkins Jr--Paris, 1953-1958

Box 4 Folder 9 Council on Foreign Relations Inc., 1957-1966

Box 4 Folder 10 Cutting Arboretum, 1936-1958


Box 5 Folder 1 to 3 De Bilderberg Conference, 1954-1957, (3 Folders)

Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)

Box 5 Folder 4 to 5 [General], 1948-1949, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 6 Travel Orders and Salary Information, 1948-1949

Box 5 Folder 7 Edgar, James A.--Personal and Investments, 1949-1972

Box 5 Folder 8 Eulogies, 1960

Box 5 Folder 9 George W. Perkins, Jr., 1895-1960

Box 5 Folder 10 Glyndor Fire, circa, 1926

Box 5 Folder 11 Haldane Commencement, undated


Box 6 Folder 1 Harriman, W. Averell, 1949-1970

Box 6 Folder 2 Harriman, E. Roland, 1923-1959

Box 6 Folder 3 He, 1919-1970

Box 6 Folder 4 Hempstead, Mrs. Lucie G. (Baysis)--Mrs. Alan, 1985

Box 6 Folder 5 Henry Hudson Memorial, 1920-1934

Box 6 Folder 6 Highlands Country Club, 1925-1968

Hill School

Box 6 Folder 7 [General], 1911-1913

Box 6 Folder 8 [Correspondence--Alumni--Outgoing], 1953-1955

Box 6 Folder 9 Manuscripts, 1911-1913

Box 6 Folder 10 Historic Georgetown Inc., 1952-1986

Box 6 Folder 11 Ho, 1957

Box 6 Folder 12 Hoskins, Harold B., 1953-1977

Box 6 Folder 13 Hughes, John C.--NATO, 1954-1959

Box 6 Folder 14 Impersonation, 1925

Box 6 Folder 15 Information for Who's Who, 1943-1956

Box 6 Folder 16 Javits, Jacob K., 1949-1959

Box 6 Folder 17 Lee, Ivy L.--Personal Data, 1920-1921

Box 6 Folder 18 Letters Received upon Resigning as Assistant Secretary of State, 1953


Box 7 Folder 1 Library of Congress, 1954

Box 7 Folder 2 Major, Randolph J., 1943-1955

Box 7 Folder 3 Marsh, Harold N., 1922-1929

Box 7 Folder 4 Martin, Dr. Alexander T., 1925-1968

Box 7 Folder 5 Mayer, Charles, 1960-1961

Box 7 Folder 6 Mayer, Louis, 1931-1932

Box 7 Folder 7 Mc, 1920-1960

Box 7 Folder 8 Memorabilia, 1924-1961

Box 7 Folder 9 Merchant, Livingston T., 1953-1959

Box 7 Folder 10 Merck, Albert W., 1953-1986

Merck and Co

Box 7 Folder 11 to 12 [General], 1928-1929, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 13 [General], 1958-1960

Box 7 Folder 14 Family Stockholders, 1957-1958

Merck Family

Box 7 Folder 15 [General], 1934-1947

Box 7 Folder 16 Correspondence, 1921-1987

Box 7 Folder 17 Miller, William, 1950-1953

Box 7 Folder 18 Miscellaneous, 1920s-1948

Box 7 Folder 19 Mo, 1945-1961

Box 7 Folder 20 Mu, 1920-1955

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)


Box 8 Folder 1 to 5 [General], 1953-1959, (5 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 6 National Conference, 1953-1955

Box 8 Folder 7 Parliamentarians' Conference, 1955

Box 8 Folder 8 Social, 1955-1957

Box 8 Folder 9 to 10 Travel, 1955-1958, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 11 North Atlantic Council--Appointment and Resignation, 1955-1958

Box 8 Folder 12 NY/NJ Trail Conference--Rothschild, 1958


Box 48 Folder 4 to 5 New York Life Insurance Co, 1921-1990, (2 Folders)

Box 48 Folder 6 Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., 1957-1969

Box 48 Folder 7 Norstad, Lauris General, 1959-1968

Box 48 Folder 8 to 10 Official Entertainment, 1955-1956, (3 Folders)


Box 9 Folder 1 Ogden, Alfred, 1954-1989

Box 9 Folder 2 Osborn, Frederick, 1954-1958

Box 9 Folder 3 Page, Alice Wilson (Mrs. Walter H.), 1953-1958

Box 9 Folder 4 Paget, Humphrey, 1949-1957

Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC)

Box 9 Folder 5 to 11 [General], 1920-1980, (7 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 12 99 Year Lease, 1958-1959


Box 10 Folder 1 AK Morgan, 1955-1957

Box 10 Folder 2 Albright, Horace Marden--Assistant Secretary, 1953-1959

Box 10 Folder 3 to 4 Appointment to Commission, 1936-1956, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 5 Bear Mountain Inn, 1926-1935

Box 10 Folder 6 Burnett Property, 1954-1958

Box 10 Folder 7 Commemorative Booklets, 1962

Box 10 Folder 8 Commissioner Mrs. Linn Merck Perkins, 1960-1973

Box 10 Folder 9 Condemnation Proceedings, 1930-1938

Box 10 Folder 10 Contributions, 1950

Box 10 Folder 11 Correspondence--Ideas on Uses of Park, 1939-1945

Box 10 Folder 12 to 13 Correspondence, 1941, (2 Folders)


Box 11 Folder 1 to 13 Correspondence, 1942-1952, (13 Folders)


Box 12 Folder 1 to 7 Correspondence, 1952-1959, (7 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 1 to 4 Correspondence, 1959-1963, (4 Folders)

Box 13 Folder 5 Data from Ken Morgan--Parkway Battle, 1946

Box 13 Folder 6 to 7 Forrest Lands, 1957-1959, (2 Folders)

Box 13 Folder 8 Land Grants, 1954

Box 13 Folder 9 Letters to Hikers--Thruway, 1954

NY/NJ Metropolitan Region


Box 48 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1958

Box 48 Folder 13 Speeches by George W. Perkins, Jr., 1958


Box 49 Folder 1 Parkway Data by George W. Perkins, Jr., 1945


Box 14 Folder 1 Parkway Project, 1954

Box 14 Folder 2 Personal, 1943-1945

Box 14 Folder 3 [Report,], 1909

Box 14 Folder 4 Rockland Lake and Dellwood, 1959

Box 14 Folder 5 Rockefeller Contributions for Fort Clinton and Montgomery Restoration,, 1928

Box 14 Folder 6 Sealantic, 1954-1955

Box 14 Folder 7 Speeches, 1945

Box 14 Folder 8 to 9 Passport Data, 1926-1955, (2 Folders)

Box 14 Folder 10 Past Invitations, 1951

Box 14 Folder 11 Personal Data, 1916-1922


Box 15 Folder 1 Personal Data, 1916-1922

Box 15 Folder 2 Personal--Assistant Secretary of State, Truman Letter, 1950s

Box 15 Folder 3 Pi, 1931-1979

Box 15 Folder 4 to 5 Pocket Diaries, 1949, 1954-1958, 1949, 1954-1958, (2 Folders)

Box 15 Folder 6 Population, 1959-1960

Box 15 Folder 7 Post Office Matters, 1922-1928

Box 15 Folder 8 Presbyterian Foundation, NY, 1951-1959

Box 15 Folder 9 Press Clippings, 1942-1957

Princeton University

Box 15 Folder 10 [General], 1913-1917


Box 16 Folder 1 to 3 [General], 1913-1917, (3 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 4 Bonds, 1936

Box 16 Folder 5 Honorary Degree, 1957

Box 16 Folder 6 Institute for Advanced Study, 1953-1954

Box 16 Folder 7 Ro--Rosehill Cemetery, 1917-1922

Box 16 Folder 8 Robert College, 1957

Box 16 Folder 9 Roberts, Mrs. Eugene B. (Marie Bonne), 1949-1963

Box 16 Folder 10 Robinson, J. Beverley and Duncan S., 1946-1956

Box 16 Folder 11 Rockefeller, 1954-1991

Romanian Bonds

Box 16 Folder 12 Government Claim, 1959

Box 16 Folder 13 Joint Holdings, 1924-1925


Box 17 Folder 1 Joint Holdings, 1926-1928


Box 49 Folder 2 Notes, 1925-1926


Box 17 Folder 2 Rosengarten, Adolph G., Jr., 1953-1959

Box 17 Folder 3 Rusk, Dean--President Rockefeller Foundation, 1953-1956

Box 17 Folder 4 S--Sanchez, 1940

Box 17 Folder 5 Schenck & Van Haelen, 1940

Box 17 Folder 6 Sea Island--[Correspondence--Outgoing], 1952-1955

Box 17 Folder 7 to 8 Speeches, 1947, 1951-1959, 1947, 1951-1959, (2 Folders)

Box 17 Folder 9 to 10 Speeches--Paris, 1955, (2 Folders)


Box 18 Folder 1 Speeches--Paris, 1956-1957

Box 18 Folder 2 St, 1957-1959

State Department

Box 18 Folder 3 to 4 [General], 1949-1953, (2 Folders)

Box 18 Folder 5 Appointment--Letters of Congratulations, 1949

Box 18 Folder 6 Travel, 1949-1950

Box 18 Folder 7 Stearns, Charles, 1942-1956

Box 18 Folder 8 Stewart, Weir, 1957

Box 18 Folder 9 Suspension of Powers as Executive, 1942

Box 18 Folder 10 Sympathy Acknowledgments, 1960

Box 18 Folder 11 Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1912-1933

Box 18 Folder 12 Ti, 1953-1954

Box 18 Folder 13 Travel, 1956-1957


Box 49 Folder 3 Tributes, 1960

Box 49 Folder 4 [Trip to London], 1952

Box 49 Folder 5 Trusts for Children, 1931

Box 49 Folder 6 U, 1958


Box 19 Folder 1 to 2 US Permanent Representative to North Atlantic Council--Letters of Congratulation,, 1955, (2 Folders)

Box 19 Folder 3 Veterans Administration, 1945-1960

Box 19 Folder 4 W, 1955-1970

Box 19 Folder 5 to 6 Western Trip, 1959, (2 Folders)

[World War I]

Box 19 Folder 7 to 9 Army, 1917-1919, (3 Folders)


Box 20 Folder 1 to 5 Army, 1917-1919, (5 Folders)

Box 20 Folder 6 to 7 Personal Data, 1916-1936, (2 Folders)

[World War II]

Box 20 Folder 8 Air Corps Requirements Affecting Items to Be Produced by the Chemical Warfare Service,, 1942


Box 21 Folder 1 to 5 Army, 1944-1948, (5 Folders)

Box 21 Folder 6 Army--Citation--Legion of Merit, 1945

Box 21 Folder 7 Army--Data for Passport, 1919-1947

Box 21 Folder 8 to 9 Army--[Travel], 1944-1945, (2 Folders)

Box 21 Folder 10 Army--Washington, 1940s


Box 51 Folder 1 Maps, 1940s


Box 22 Folder 1 Report of Trip to India and Southwest Pacific Area, 1944

Box 22 Folder 2 Toxic Gas Production in Industry, 1942

Box 22 Folder 3 to 4 US War Department, 1942, (2 Folders)

Box 22 Folder 5 XYZ, 1948-1973

Box 22 Folder 6 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), 1911-1921