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Cooling, B. Franklin. Research notes.

Title: Research notes.

The records consist of Dr. Cooling's research notes used in the production of GREY STEEL AND BLUE WATER NAVY. They consist of typed notes and transcriptions made by Dr. Cooling, along with a large volume of photocopied and microfilmed pages from manuscript collections. Chief among these are the records of the Navy Dept. at the National Archives and the B.F. Tracy, Andrew Carnegie, and Josephus Daniels Papers at the Library of Congress.

ArchivalResource: Photoprints and notes 9.3 linear ft.Microfilm 10 reels negative microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122393573 View

Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915. Signature, 1890.

Title: Signature, 1890.

Signature of Secretary of the Navy (1889-1893) on 4" x 5" album sheet.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17974213 View

Levi P. Morton Correspondence, 1860-1912

Title: Levi P. Morton Correspondence 1860-1912

Papers of the Congressman from New York, United States minister to France, Vice-President of the United States, and Republican governor of New York State. Collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from clergymen, educators, financiers, journalists, and politicians. Some letters are addressed to Morton's executive secretary, Ashley W. Cole.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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Concord (Mass.). Committee on Gunboat "Concord.". Records of Concord, Mass., Committee on Gunboat "Concord", 1889-1891.

Title: Records of Concord, Mass., Committee on Gunboat "Concord", 1889-1891.

Records include: correspondence (incl. letters from Daniel Chester French, Secretary of Navy B.F. Tracy, and Commander O.A. Batcheller); drawing by Edward Waldo Emerson of proposed placement of statuette; and ms. reports.

ArchivalResource: 27 items ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33987375 View

Tracy, Benjamin Franklin, 1830-. Autograph letter signed : New York, to John Schuyler Crosby, 1906 Dec. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to John Schuyler Crosby, 1906 Dec. 8.

About battleships built during his administration as Sec. of the Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Tracy, Benjamin Franklin, 1830-. Autograph letter signed : B'klyn, to Comm. of the B'klyn Art Association, 1883 Dec. 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed : B'klyn, to Comm. of the B'klyn Art Association, 1883 Dec. 31.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3/4 p.)

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Cooling, B. Franklin,. Papers, 1832-1915.

Title: Papers, 1832-1915.

Research source materials relating to the life and career of Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, 1889-1893, for the work entitled Benjamin F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy. Materials include Xerox copies, holograph and typewritten notes from the National Archives, Navy Dept. archives, and Library of Congress relating to Tracy's youth, education, legal training, Civil War Record, post-Civil War career as N.Y. Attorney, Sec. of Navy including administration of the Navy Yard and Reforms, construction of the New Navy, Relations with Congress, Administration of Pres. Benjamin Harrison, Naval War College and A.T. Mahan, Naval Reserve Militia, and Int. Relations with Chile, Caribbean, Bering Sea, Hawaii, and Venezuela, New York and Brooklyn politics, and final years, 1832-1915; Xerox copies of Annual Reports of Secretary of Navy and Navy Dept., 1889-1892; reports of the Steel Inspection Board, 1890-93; proceedings of General Orders and Circulars, 1887-93; typescript of B.F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy and typescript of dissertation, "B.F. Tracy, Lawyer, Soldier, Sec. of Navy"; microfilm dealing with career of Tracy.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes, 30 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17846215 View

Ritchie, Samuel J., 1838-1908. Papers, 1870-1920.

Title: Papers, 1870-1920.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, legal proceedings, and other papers dealing primarily with the construction and operation of the Central Ontario Railroad Co. and the incorporation and affairs of the Canadian Copper Co. and the Anglo-American Iron Co., three companies which Ritchie served as president. Includes papers relating to Ritchie's discovery of copper and nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario and to his large coal properties in W. Va., and family correspondence, private account books, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 21.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18376018 View

Robert Bonner papers, 1860-1899

Title: Robert Bonner papers 1860-1899

Robert Bonner (1824-1899) was a newspaper publisher and trotting horse breeder. He owned and published the New York Ledger. Collection consists of general correspondence, trotting horse papers, financial documents, writings, photographs, and artifacts. General correspondence includes letters to Bonner as proprietor of the New York Ledger, with a few drafts of his replies, mostly from contributors offering stories, suggesting plots, soliciting money, acknowledging remuneration, and relating to personal matters; letters from Presbyterian clergymen about church affairs; and letters from the owners of the New York Sun, New York Herald, and New York Times, revealing Bonner's willingness to lend financial aid to those newspapers. Papers relating to the breeding, development, and shoeing of trotting horses contain letters from owners, breeders, veterinarians, editors of sporting journals, and others from all parts of the United States, especially Kentucky; notes on horses; accounts; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings containing biographical data and other material on the horse and on the Scotch Irish Society of America; and photographs, sketches and artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 7.8 linear feet (19 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/335 View

David B. Hill Papers, 1885-1910

Title: David B. Hill Papers 1885-1910

New York State Governor, 1885-1891; U.S. Senator, 1891-1897. Collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence (chiefly political), legal papers and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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Robert Bonner papers, 1860-1899.

Title: Robert Bonner papers, 1860-1899.

Collection consists of correspondence, trotting horse papers, financial documents, writings, photographs, and artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 7.8 linear feet (19 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615817 View

Benjamin Harrison Papers, 1780-1948, (bulk 1853-1901)

Title: Benjamin Harrison Papers 1780-1948 (bulk 1853-1901)

President of the United States, United States senator from Indiana, and army officer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, notebooks in shorthand, legal papers, financial records, scrapbooks, memorials, printed material, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 69,600 items; 925 containers plus 3 oversize; 360 linear feet; 151 microfilm reels

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Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915. Papers of Benjamin F. Tracy, 1870-1924 (bulk 1889-1893).

Title: Papers of Benjamin F. Tracy, 1870-1924 (bulk 1889-1893).

Correspondence, telegrams, speeches, subject file, and newspaper clippings relating primarily to Tracy's service as U.S. secretary of the navy. Includes correspondence (1892-1907) of Theodore Roosevelt relating to naval matters in the Spanish-American War and correspondence (1889-1899) of Benjamin Harrison, much of it concerning the Venezuelan boundary dispute. Correspondents include William P. Clyde, Eugene Hale, Jessie Johnson, George Foster Peabody, and Thomas C. Platt.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items.40 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79452683 View

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887. Papers of Henry Ward Beecher, 1852-1884.

Title: Papers of Henry Ward Beecher, 1852-1884.

The collection contains notes for sermons and a leaf from Beecher's book "Life of Jesus the Christ." Letters concern the moral character of Henry Whitney Cleaaveland, recommendations and introductions, our-of-print books, and the favorable results of using certain throat lozenges. The collection also contains two photographs, one of Beecher and one of a statue of him. Miscellaneous items include two autographs and an admission card to the Beecher-Theodore Tilton trial signed by Benjamin Franklin Tracy. Correspondents include George Bancroft, Salmon Portland Chase and Henry Whitney Cleaveland.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53966360 View

Tracy, Robert S. (Robert Sylvester). Robert S. Tracy collection of Tracy family papers, 1817-1916 (bulk 1896-1916).

Title: Robert S. Tracy collection of Tracy family papers, 1817-1916 (bulk 1896-1916).

History of the settlement of Guilford, Conn. (8 p., 1817 Dec. 24), in the hand of Calvin Chittenden; Tracy family coat of arms and description; life sketch of D. Burnham Tracy, Detroit, Mich. (1901 May); Sons of American Revolution certificate of Robert Sylvester Tracy (1896 Apr. 17); genealogical application relating to Lt. Thomas Tracy; Baronial Order of Runnemede application (1916); family record of Gilbert Tracy; pamphlet on Tracy ancestors of Hon. Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy; newspaper clippings on J. Pierpont Morgan and the Tracy family; and R.S. Tracy genealogical correspondence relating to the Tracy family.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181591586 View

Tracy, Benjamin Franklin, 1830-. Autograph receipt signed : Office of U.S. Dist. Att'y B'klyn, 1870 Dec. 13.

Title: Autograph receipt signed : Office of U.S. Dist. Att'y B'klyn, 1870 Dec. 13.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572974 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

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Ashley W. Cole Letters, 1882-1916

Title: Ashley W. Cole Letters 1882-1916

Papers of the American editor, railroad commissioner, executive secretary to New York State Governor Levi P. Morton. Incoming correspondence concerning railroads (Avery Andrews, Paul D. Cravath, Chauncey M. Depew, James Jerome Hill, Jeremiah Jenks, Theodore Roosevelt); politics (Thomas Collier Platt, L. Bradford Prince); the John Ericsson monument in New York City (Jonathan Scott Hartley); and the personal life of actress Louise D. (Mrs. Leslie) Carter.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

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Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915. Naval order, July 18, 1889.

Title: Naval order, July 18, 1889.

Naval order, 18 July 1889, of reassignment of CDR Francis W. Dickens, CO, USS Tallapoosa, Montevideo, Uruguay with annotations regarding his expenses allowed and date of departure. Signed by Dickens, Tracy and RADM Gillis.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 8 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729740231 View

Thruston, Gates Phillips, 1835-1912. Military officer correspondence, 1855-1892.

Title: Military officer correspondence, 1855-1892.

Correspondence before, during, and after the Civil War from: Gates P. Thruston to C. C. Cratty; Frederick Townsend to Horatio C. King; Benjamin F. Tracy to Thomas Hillhouse and Henry C. Bowen; Charles R. Train; Robert B. Van Valkenburgh; Egbert L. Viele; Carlos A. Waite; and William S. Walker (Confederate, 1863).

ArchivalResource: 11 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318339235 View