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Loomis, Francis B. (Francis Butler), 1861-1948. Francis B. Loomis papers, 1897-1939. [microform].

Title: Francis B. Loomis papers, 1897-1939. [microform].

Official and personal correspondence, reports, legal briefs, speeches, publications, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material; also included is correspondence dealing with Loomis' involvement in crises relating to Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Panama, his role during negotioation of the Russo-Japanese War, and his participation in Republan politics during the years 1898-1912; post World War I correspondence focuses on such varied topics as the Japanese question in California, the importance of newspapers in forming public opinion, and consular reform and political issues; numerous Presidents of the U.S. and other notable figures of the period are represented.

ArchivalResource: 9 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462018787 View

New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999

Title: New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers 1823-1999

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing. The papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.

ArchivalResource: 129.9 linear feet; 297 boxes, 10 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17782 View

Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00275/catalog View

Grover Cleveland Papers, 1743-1945, (bulk 1885-1908)

Title: Grover Cleveland Papers 1743-1945 (bulk 1885-1908)

President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns.

ArchivalResource: 108,200 items; 627 containers plus 1 oversize; 235.8 linear feet; 164 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008094 View

Straus family papers, 1810-1962, 1870-1912

Title: Straus family papers 1810-1962 1870-1912

The Straus family of New York City were the descendants of Lazarus Straus (1809-1898) and Sara Straus (1823-1876) who emigrated from Otterberg, Germany in the early 1850s with their four children: Isidor (1845-1912), Hermine (1846-1922), Nathan (1848-1931), and Oscar (1850-1926). They settled in Talbotton, Georgia where Lazarus opened a dry goods store. In 1865 the Strauses relocated to New York City and Isidor and Nathan joined their father in establishing L. Straus and Sons, a glass and chinaware store. They became partners with R.H. Macy's & Company in 1888 and by 1892 were also partners in the Brooklyn N.Y. retail company Abraham & Straus. Isidor Straus represented New York City's fifteenth district in the U.S. Congress, 1893-1894; and was founder and president of the Educational Alliance, an organization for immigrants living in New York. He and his wife were among the passengers who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. Oscar Straus served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 1887 to 1900 and 1909, Secretary of Commerce and Labor from 1906 to 1908, and advisor to Woodrow Wilson during the first World War. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks, and other items concerning Lazarus, Oscar and Isidor Straus, and Isidor's sons and grandsons. Family papers include genealogical charts and family history. Oscar and Isidor Straus papers consist of one box of materials concerning Oscar Straus's 1912 campaign for governor of New York and other political and family matters; the remaining eleven boxes are papers of Isidor Straus and include family and business correspondence, speeches and writings, notebooks, scrapbooks, materials related to his political career and to his death on the Titanic, and biographical information. Papers of Isidor Straus's sons consist of personal and business papers with correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and clippings. L. Straus & Sons records concern the operations of the partnership. Also, photographs of Jack Straus (son of Jesse Straus) and members of his family, framed documents and other materials that belonged to Jack Straus.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear feet (25 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2905 View

Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926. Papers, 1869-1947.

Title: Papers, 1869-1947.

Writings and memorabilia of Straus. The most interesting item in the collection is the letter from the President of Columbia College, Frederick A.P. Barnard, to President Ulysses S. Grant, dated 25 June 1869, recommending Straus, then a student at Columbia College, for a government appointment. Also, five manuscripts of poems, ten volumes of writings by and about Straus, and three scrapbooks of clippings, one of which covers 1909, the period of his ambassadorship in Constantinople.

ArchivalResource: 21 items (2 boxes, 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589779 View

W.R. Grace & Co. W.R. Grace & Co. records, 1828-1986, bulk 1861-1960.

Title: W.R. Grace & Co. records, 1828-1986, bulk 1861-1960.

The records of the W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business form 1864 until the World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 90 linear ft. ( 167 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470399308 View

Simon Wolf, papers, undated, 1868-1925

Title: Simon Wolf, papers undated, 1868-1925

Primarily correspondence with members of Congress and government officials concerning anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad and the treaty with Russia. Includes also correspondence with prominent American Jews, among which are Benjamin F. Peixotto, Jacob Henry Schiff, Oscar Solomon Straus, and Leo N. Levi, and manuscript copies of speeches and articles, published in revised form in Selected addresses and papers (Cincinnati : Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1926).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364844 View

Elihu Root Papers, 1863-1937, (bulk 1899-1937)

Title: Elihu Root Papers

United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books, invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.

ArchivalResource: 66,050 items; 257 containers plus 9 oversize; 87.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011162 View

William H. Taft Papers, 1784-1973, (bulk 1880-1930)

Title: William H. Taft Papers 1784-1973 (bulk 1880-1930)

President of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court. Correspondence including letterpress books, speeches and addresses, presidental and judicial files, legal files and notebooks, family papers and letters, business and estate papers, engagement calendars, guest lists, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Taft's career.

ArchivalResource: 676,000 items; 1,562 containers plus 8 oversize; 902.5 linear feet; 658 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245 View

George B. Cortelyou Papers, 1871-1948, (bulk 1897-1908)

Title: George B. Cortelyou Papers 1871-1948 (bulk 1897-1908)

Public official and presidential secretary. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and miscellany relating to Cortelyou's duties as secretary to William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, his service as secretary of commerce and labor, postmaster general, and secretary of the treasury, and his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee.

ArchivalResource: 17,000 items; 76 containers; 35 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011097 View

Thomas F. Bayard Papers, 1780-1899, (bulk 1860-1889)

Title: Thomas F. Bayard Papers

Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 items; 220 containers plus 18 oversize; 49.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006007 View

Nathan Straus papers, 1840-1990, 1865-1930

Title: Nathan Straus papers 1840-1990 1865-1930

Nathan Straus (1848-1931) was a German-born New York City businessman and philanthropist. After making his fortune as a partner in the New York department stores Abraham and Straus and R.H. Macy and Co., Straus, with his wife Lina Gutherz Straus, turned to philanthropy. He advocated milk pasteurization to check the spread of tuberculosis, opening the Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratory in New York in 1892; founded the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children in New Jersey in 1909; supported Jewish colonization efforts in Palestine; and provided relief for the poor during economic and natural disasters. Straus served as Park Commissioner in New York City from 1889 to 1893, as president of the New York City Board of Health in 1898, and in 1894 refused the Democratic nomination for mayor. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter concerning Straus and his family. Topics include milk pasteurization, tuberculosis prevention, Zionism, public health, infant mortality, and relief for earthquake victims in Italy in 1909. Writings consist of manuscript, typescript and printed speeches and articles by Straus on milk pasteurization and tuberculosis. Scrapbooks contain letters, documents, photographs, and printed materials documenting Straus's political and business careers, his philanthropic activities, his interest in trotting horses, and family and personal matters including the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law, Isidor and Ida Straus, on the Titanic in 1912.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear feet (26 boxes, 19 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2906 View

Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939. Papers, ca.1800-1941.

Title: Papers, ca.1800-1941.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (ca. 1,000 items in 3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529084 View

John Callan O'Laughlin Papers, 1895-1949

Title: John Callan O'Laughlin Papers 1895-1949

Politician, statesman, newspaperman, and publisher. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, reports, printed material, scrapbooks, and records of the documenting O'Laughlin's career as a newspaperman and advocate of Republican Party and conservative causes. Army and Navy Journal

ArchivalResource: 45,000 items; 107 containers plus 2 oversize; 42.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012045 View

Loomis, Francis B. (Francis Butler), 1861-1948. Francis B. Loomis papers, 1897-1939.

Title: Francis B. Loomis papers, 1897-1939.

Official and personal correspondence, reports, legal briefs, speeches, publications, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material; also included is correspondence dealing with Loomis' involvement in crises relating to Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Panama, his role during negotioation of the Russo-Japanese War, and his participation in Republan politics during the years 1898-1912; post World War I correspondence focuses on such varied topics as the Japanese question in California, the importance of newspapers in forming public opinion, and consular reform and political issues; numerous Presidents of the U.S. and other notable figures of the period are represented.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510697 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Family papers, 1853-1954.

Title: Family papers, 1853-1954.

Family papers of Corinne Douglas (Robinson) Alsop Cole, daughter of Douglas Robinson and Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/trc00018/catalog View

Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950,. Records of the New York Peace Society, 1818-1940 bulk 1906-1940.

Title: Records of the New York Peace Society, 1818-1940 bulk 1906-1940.

Includes one pamphlet from the New York Peace Society (1815-1828): "The Question of War Reviewed"; one pamphlet from the New York Peace Society (1836-ca. 1844): "Arbitrament [sic] of National Disputes"; no items are included for the New York Peace Society (1844-18??); the bulk of the collection is from the New York Peace Society (1910-1940) and its predecessor, the Peace Society of the City of New York (1906-1910). Records from this group include papers of incorporation, by-laws, minute books and annual reports, a history of the organization, correspondence (1907-1940), yearbooks, pamphlets, form letters, articles by C.H. Levermore, and scrapbooks. Correspondents include Fannie Fern Andrews, Rose Dabney Forbes, Samuel Gompers, Lindley V. Gordon, Sidney L. Gulick, John Haynes Holmes, Charles Herbert Levermore, Louis P. Lochner, Edwin D. Mead, Lucia Ames Mead, William H. Short, Anna Garlin Spencer, and Oscar S. Straus.

ArchivalResource: 7.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20366588 View