James Graham Phelps Stokes papers, 1779-1960, bulk 1884-1960
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1207
- Bib ID:
- 4079612 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Stokes, James Graham Phelps, 1872-1960
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 38 linear feet (21 letterbooks; 2 ledgers; 19 document boxes; 99 metal correspondence file boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
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
Among the more than 1,600 cataloged letters there is correspondence with people associated with organizations to which Stokes also belonged, such as Marcellus Hartley Dodge and May Matthews of Hartley House; Samuel Barrows and William Marshall Fitts Round of the Prison Association of New York; William Henry Baldwin and Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute; Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo and William English Walling of the Social Democratic League; and Charles B. Stover of the Outdoor Recreation League. There are also letters from Pearl Buck; John Dewey; Theodore Dreiser; Hamlin Garland; Sol Hurok; Helen Keller; Rockwell Kent; Robert Moses; Anna Pavlova; Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, and Lillian Wald.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James Graham Phelps Stokes papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Alternate Form Available
The Pearl S. Buck letters are also available on microfilm. Request MN# 91-2094-2.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of J. G. Phelps Stokes, June 24 and July 22, 1959.
Gift of Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes, 1984.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Stokes, J. G. Phelps. Method of acquisition--Gift & purchase.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers Entered in AMC 12/04/90. Papers processed 1959, revised March 1985 by BRC/RL, and revised June 1988 by JL-W.
Revision Description
2022-07-05 Container list created by CCR.
Biographical / Historical
Socialist and philanthropist. (Columbia University. College of P&S, M.D. 1896).
Subject Headings
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| Bills (financial) |
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| Bylaws (administrative records) |
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| Diaries |
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| Financial records |
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| Genealogies (histories) |
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| Insurance policies |
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| Journals |
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| Ledgers (account books) |
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| Letterpress copybooks |
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| Maps (documents) |
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| Photographs |
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| Reports |
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| blueprints (reprographic copies) |
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| minutes (administrative records) |
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| American Alliance for Labor and Democracy |
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| Baldwin, William Henry, 1863-1905 |
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| Barrows, Samuel J (Samuel June), 1845-1909 |
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| Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 |
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| Constitutional Democracy Association |
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| Correctional Association of New York |
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| Dewey, John, 1859-1952 |
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| Dodge, M. Hartley (Marcellus Hartley), 1881-1963 |
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| Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 |
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| Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 |
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| Hartley House (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Hurok, Sol, 1888-1974 |
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| Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 |
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| Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 |
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| Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Matthews, May, 1887-1974 |
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| Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 |
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| National Security League |
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| Outdoor Recreation League |
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| Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 |
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| Prison Association of New York |
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| Riis, Jacob A (Jacob August), 1849-1914 |
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| Round, W. M. F (William Marshall Fitts), 1845-1906 |
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| Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941 |
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| Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 |
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| Social Democratic League of America |
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| Spargo, John, 1876-1966 |
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| Stover, Charles B |
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| Tuskegee Institute |
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| Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 |
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| Walling, William English, 1877-1936 |
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| Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 |
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| African Americans -- History |
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| Charities |
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| Deeds |
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| Philanthropists |
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| Radicalism |
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| Socialism |
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| Socialists |
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| Young Men's Christian associations |
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