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W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company. Office of the Vice President. Correspondence files, 1928-1945.

Title: Correspondence files, 1928-1945.

Contains files of Louis V. Place, Jr., executive vice president of the W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company. In his letters, Place discusses the day-to-day management of the company, negotiations between the United States and Cuba for a new reciprocal trade treaty in 1934, Place's participation in the National Recovery Administration and the War Labor Board, sugar tariffs, and labor strife in the industry. Of particular interest is the material on the Sugar Institute. The Institute was a refiners' association that was disbanded by the United States Supreme Court in 1936 on the grounds that its activities constituted a restraint of free trade. Also included in this series is a subject file related to the Sugar Research Foundation, a lobbying and public relations group for the sugar industry.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23433016 View

Rionda y Polledo, Manuel, 1854-1943. Subject files, 1911-1943.

Title: Subject files, 1911-1943.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 58.3 linear ft. (140 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19371605 View

American Sugar Refining Company records, Bulk, 1907-1951, 1876-circa 2004

Title: American Sugar Refining Company records Bulk, 1907-1951 1876-circa 2004

The American Sugar Refining Company operated a refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for nearly 150 years and employed, at its height, over 4,500 people at a time. Founded in 1807 as Wm. and F.C. Havemeyer, the company went through many name and ownership changes, eventually incorporating as American Sugar Refining Company in 1891, and is today known as Domino Foods, Inc. This collection includes annual reports describing the business operations of the firm and publications featuring photographs and stories about some of those workers.

ArchivalResource: 0.83 Linear feet; in 2 manuscript boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_2008_042_american_sugar/arms_2008_042_american_sugar.html View

Webb, Electra Havemeyer. Papers, 1893-1966 (bulk 1947-1960).

Title: Papers, 1893-1966 (bulk 1947-1960).

Chiefly materials about the Shelburne Museum, including correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, financial papers, and scrapbooks, documenting the founding of the museum, its physical structure, and the development and presentation of its collections; together with some personal papers, including scrapbooks relating to Webb's volunteer work during both world wars, menus and invitations for parties (1930-1956), sympathy letters on the death of her brother Horace Havemeyer, Webb-Havemeyer genealogy and family history documents, and hunting records. Museum staff members represented include Sterling D. Emerson, David Webster, Lilian Baker Carlisle, Gordon Parker Manning, Lewis N. Wiggins, and Ralph Nading Hill, a historian friend, who was paid by the museum for special projects.

ArchivalResource: 6 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70960391 View