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Beals, Jessie Tarbox. Photographs, 1896-1941 (inclusive).

Title: Photographs, 1896-1941 (inclusive).

Collection of JTB's photographs consists of approximately 2500 original prints, 1100 duplicate prints, 780 film negatives, and 110 glass negatives. With the exception of a few tintypes, cyanotypes, and autochromes, positive images are silver prints.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007544 View

August Belmont Jr. papers, 1827-1965 (bulk 1909-1924).

Title: August Belmont Jr. papers, 1827-1965 (bulk 1909-1924).

Correspondence, charts, reports, telegrams, congressional documents, legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly 1909-1924, of August Belmont Jr. as president of the Boston, New York and Cape Cod Canal Company, regarding the financing, engineering, and operation of the canal and litigation resulting from government seizure of the canal; and materials relating to the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Includes translations of letters (1828-1841) of August Belmont Sr. to his family about his early training in the office of the Rothschild family banking firm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and later experiences in New York. Correspondents include William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor; Newton Diehl Baker; Josephus Daniels; Harry M. Daugherty; Stuyvesant Fish; George W. Goethals; Warren G. Harding; W. Averell Harriman; Henry Cabot Lodge; Eleanor Roosevelt; and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items. 5 microfilm reels.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm76056887 View

Farmers' Loan and Trust Company records, 1829-1866.

Title: Farmers' Loan and Trust Company records, 1829-1866.

Includes abstracts of titles, agreements of sale and articles of trust, copies of the deeds and the contract schedules used to transfer title, detailed maps of townships where the transfers took place, resolutions by officers of the company, powers of attorney to company agents, schedules of land and of mortgage foreclosures, bills of cost, accounts of cattle received in payments on mortgages, and other material relating to the business. Also, accounts for the Batavia and Buffalo Land Offices, land tables for the Batavia Land Office, and other material pertaining to Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, New York. Microfilm covers correspondence of the presidents of the company; correspondents include Horatio Seymour, Erastus Corning, James S. Wadsworth, August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and many others.

ArchivalResource:

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Belmont, August, 1813-1890. Document draft, undated.

Title: Document draft, undated.

AD.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28985856 View

Hemment, John C. Photographic collection, 1885-1908.

Title: Photographic collection, 1885-1908.

This is a collection of over 1,000 black and white photographs by John C. Hemment. The primary subject of the collection is horse racing and racetracks with a strong emphasis on events at New York and Maryland tracks.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191915748 View

August Belmont Jr. papers, 1827-1965 (bulk 1909-1924).

Title: August Belmont Jr. papers, 1827-1965 (bulk 1909-1924).

Correspondence, charts, reports, telegrams, congressional documents, legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly 1909-1924, of August Belmont Jr. as president of the Boston, New York and Cape Cod Canal Company, regarding the financing, engineering, and operation of the canal and litigation resulting from government seizure of the canal; and materials relating to the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Includes translations of letters (1828-1841) of August Belmont Sr. to his family about his early training in the office of the Rothschild family banking firm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and later experiences in New York. Correspondents include William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor; Newton Diehl Baker; Josephus Daniels; Harry M. Daugherty; Stuyvesant Fish; George W. Goethals; Warren G. Harding; W. Averell Harriman; Henry Cabot Lodge; Eleanor Roosevelt; and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items. 5 microfilm reels.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm76056887 View

Pach Brothers Portrait Photograph Collection, 1867-1947, undated (bulk 1880-1940)

Title: Pach Brothers Portrait Photograph Collection 1867-1947, undated (bulk 1880-1940)

Portrait collection including photographs of nationally prominent people and socially prominent New Yorkers.

ArchivalResource: 4.86 Linear feet; (9 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/pach/pach.html View

Hettrick, John T., 1868-. reminiscences of John T. Hettrick : oral history, 1949.

Title: reminiscences of John T. Hettrick : oral history, 1949.

Leading figures on Brooklyn EAGLE, New York WORLD, New York TIMES, 1889-1900; New York sporting life; New York, N.Y. under Mayor Robert Van Wyck; New York, N.Y. subways, building and development, secretary to August Belmont, 1900-15; Lockwood Investigating Committee; impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, John W. Keller, P.J. Donahue.

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309733973 View

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858. Addresses and family papers, 1857-1874.

Title: Addresses and family papers, 1857-1874.

Includes the draft of an address, ca. 1857, by Perry on American expansion in the Far East, two letters from Oliver Hazard Perry to Caroline (Perry) Belmont, and a letter from Christopher (Perry) Rogers to August Belmont.

ArchivalResource: 1 boxes (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78770355 View

Belmont family. Belmont family papers, 1799-1930.

Title: Belmont family papers, 1799-1930.

Correspondence, copies of letters, documents, manuscripts, invitations, menus, clippings, school papers, leases, agreements, deeds, financial accounts, photographs, and printed miscellany. The papers deal with many aspects of the Belmont family interests from 1799 until 1930, including: finance, banking and the Rothschilds; the United States Navy, Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) and the Perry expeditions to Mexico and Japan; Belmont's embassy to The Netherlands from 1853 to 1857; the Democratic Party, New York City politics, presidential and Civil War politics; social life in New York and Newport and European travel; horses, horse breeding, The Jockey Club, polo, the Remount Association (for cavalry horses in World War I), fox hunting, dog breeding, and yachting; New York subway construction, railroads, the Cape Cod Canal and aviation; the Democratic Convention of 1912; and genealogical notes on the Belmont, Perry, and other families. In addition to the correspondence, there are 117 letter books, tissue-paper copies of outgoing letters.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. ( 64 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/467178402 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

Werner, M. R. (Morris Robert), 1897-1981. Morris Werner papers, 1920-1981, bulk(1940-1950)

Title: Morris Werner papers, 1920-1981, bulk(1940-1950)

Collection consists of correspondence, writings of Werner, photographs, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3.4 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652439 View

August Belmont papers, 1853-1887

Title: August Belmont papers 1853-1887

Collection consists of Belmont's letter books, 1853-1858, as United States Chargé d'Affaires and Minister to the Netherlands; correspondence as a director and president of the New York Academy of Music; visiting list, 1853-1854, at the Hague; several letters to his wife, Catherine Slidell Perry Belmont, from European figures; and family memorabilia. Correspondents include Charles R. Fowler, D. Kingslund Macy, J.H. Mapleson, Levi P. Morton, Royal Phelps, C.A. Seward, and B. Ullman. Also, personal and household papers, photograph of Belmont, and copper plates for invitations, calling cards and admission cards.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear foot (3 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/257 View

Frost family. Frost family papers, 1710-1923 (inclusive).

Title: Frost family papers, 1710-1923 (inclusive).

The papers contain correspondence, account books, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of members of the Frost family. Correspondence of William Frost details his political activity in the Maine Territory, Jeffersonian politics in Massachusetts, and the Embargo Act. Material relating to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's Civil War duties is scarce. His years as Bowdoin College president and his role in the election riot of 1880 are documented more fully. Other material details Chamberlain's business interests.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206053 View

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858. Correspondence, 1812-1878.

Title: Correspondence, 1812-1878.

Contains letters to Perry, many pertaining to naval affairs and letters to him from U.S. presidents concerning his expedition to Japan and his 3 volume published report on it; and copies of presidential documents of appointment and on international treaties that reflect the work of Perry and his relatives who also served as naval officers and diplomats. Also includes the correspondence of family members August Belmont, Caroline Slidell (Perry) Belmont, and Jane Slidell Perry among other items.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83317359 View

Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company records, 1829-1866.

Title: Farmers' Loan and Trust Company records, 1829-1866.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937663 View

August Belmont papers, 1853-1887.

Title: August Belmont papers, 1853-1887.

Collection consists of Belmont's letter books, 1853-1858, as United States Chargé d'Affaires and Minister to the Netherlands; correspondence as a director and president of the New York Academy of Music; visiting list, 1853-1854, at the Hague; several letters to his wife, Catherine Slidell Perry Belmont, from European figures; and family memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear foot (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122534114 View

Belmont Family Papers, 1799-1930.

Title: Belmont Family Papers 1799-1930.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft (ca. 13,000 items in 64 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079136 View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

New York Yacht Club. Tribute to Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan and Captain C. Olive Iselin for their defense of the America's Cup upon the occasion of the challenge of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club : New York : calligraphic manuscript by Tiffany & Co., 1900 Feb. 8.

Title: Tribute to Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan and Captain C. Olive Iselin for their defense of the America's Cup upon the occasion of the challenge of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club : New York : calligraphic manuscript by Tiffany & Co., 1900 Feb. 8.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270992102 View

William J. Arkell Collection, 1881-1894

Title: William J. Arkell Collection 1881-1894

Papers of the American publisher, journalist. One commemorative menu, rest is business and personal correspondence, largely in connection with the , a weekly magazine of wit and humor which began publication in 1881 in New York. Correspondents include August Belmont, James G. Blaine, George W. Childs, Charles A. Dana, Chauncey M. Depew, Joseph W. Drexel, Stephen B. Elkins, Joseph B. Foraker, George Jay Gould, David B. Hill, Collis P. Huntington, Robert Ingersoll, Levi P. Morton, John C. New, Bill Nye, William W. Phelps, Thomas B. Reed, Whitelaw Reid, Samuel Sloan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Kissam Vanderbilt. Judge

ArchivalResource: 39 items (SC).

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/arkell_wj.htm View

Belmont, August, 1813-1890. August Belmont correspondence, 1861-1872.

Title: August Belmont correspondence, 1861-1872.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79450615 View

Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting), 1790-1873. Azariah C. Flagg letters, 1840-1844 (bulk 1843-1844).

Title: Azariah C. Flagg letters, 1840-1844 (bulk 1843-1844).

Thirty-one letters written to Azariah C. Flagg and two from him (to C.G. Eastman and Thomas W. Olcott). All but one were written during his second term as comptroller of New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (33 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/708221507 View

Powell, W. H. (William Henry), 1823-1879. Full length portrait of Washington Irving in his library at Sunnyside : Subscription list, [186-].

Title: Full length portrait of Washington Irving in his library at Sunnyside : Subscription list, [186-].

Undated subscription book containing the names of thirty-two subscribers for prints of William H. Powell's full length portrait of Washington Irving in his study at Sunnyside, probably issued some time around 1863. Entries include the subscriber's name, city of residence, and specify the type of print desired, including copies issued on India paper, and artist's proofs pulled before and after letters. Prominent subscribers include: William Cullen Bryant, August Belmont, and Washington Irving's nephew, Pierre Munroe Irving.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58758585 View

Belmont, August, 1816-1890. Telegram signed : New York, to Pierpont Morgan, 1890 Apr. 8.

Title: Telegram signed : New York, to Pierpont Morgan, 1890 Apr. 8.

Expressing sympathy in the loss of his father.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270905802 View

Morris Werner papers, 1920-1981, 1940-1950

Title: Morris Werner papers 1920-1981 1940-1950

Morris Robert Werner (1897-1981) was an American journalist and writer in the fields of history, biography and current events. He was a sales agent for chemical dyes in China and then became a foreign correspondent for a British newspaper and for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. His literary work included writing articles for various American periodicals, a biography of Fiorello H. La Guardia, and his autobiography. Collection consists of correspondence, writings of Werner, photographs, and printed matter. Bulk of the papers is correspondence, 1920-1981, with friends, family, colleagues, editors, and publishers. Most letters relate to Werner's literary contributions to various periodicals, his work as a foreign correspondent, and his books, especially his unpublished biography of La Guardia. Also included are historical manuscript letters collected by Werner. Writings contain typescripts, 1920-1966, of articles by Werner, of his biography of La Guardia, of his autobiography, of his diaries, 1920, 1935-1943, and of book reviews. Photographs are of Werner and his family and friends. Printed matter includes clippings of articles and copies of magazines and journals containing articles by Werner.

ArchivalResource: 3.4 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3289 View

August Belmont note, 1859

Title: August Belmont note 1859

August Belmont (1816-1890) was an American banker, diplomat and patron of the arts. Letter to Mssrs. Brewster & Co., August 16, 1859

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7214 View

Belmont, August, 1813-1890. August Belmont letter, undated.

Title: August Belmont letter, undated.

Letter requesting the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., to let Belmont's friend Daniel E. Sickles to occupy his parlor-bedroom.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711208279 View

Belmont, August, 1813-1890. August Belmont letter, 1863 Sept. 10.

Title: August Belmont letter, 1863 Sept. 10.

The letter, written to William Sprague (1830-1915), the governor of Rhode Island, recommends the promotion of Captain William J. Slidell, giving an account of Slidell's war record and commending him for his resistance to inducements to join the Confederate Army under the patronage of his uncle, John Slidell.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) ; 18 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608027 View

Robbins, Henry Clay, 1836-. Papers, 1860-1885.

Title: Papers, 1860-1885.

Civil War related papers of Dr. Henry Clay Robbins, Assistant Surgeon, 101st Regiment, Illinois Infantry; including an autobiography primarily concerning experiences while on Sherman's march; service documents; a poem by Robbins; two letters to H.V. Johnson which Robbins found on the battlefield, one from August Belmont in New York, Nov. 22, 1860, and one from Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, April 18, 1864; and four 1884-1885 letters from General W.T. Sherman discussing the Stephens letter and the value of its description of the Confederacy in 1864.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145790402 View

Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865. Papers, 1812-1865.

Title: Papers, 1812-1865.

The Samuel Francis Du Pont Papers include correspondence with more than 1,500 individuals. There is a good deal of official and semi-official correspondence describing naval practices and policies as well as Du Pont's career. Of particular interest are letters from British diplomats and naval officers during the 1840s and 50s describing the operations of the British Navy. Letters received from William B. Reed, American minister to China, document the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Tientsin which opened up China to western trade. Letters from American missionaries Samuel Wells and William and Edward Syle describe the missionary movement in China and efforts to eradicate the opium trade. The files also contain correspondence reflecting Du Pont's role in the Naval Efficiency Board and the reform movement which sought to modernize the navy as it moved into the age of steam.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503472 View

Max James Kohler Papers, 1765-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)

Title: Max JamesKohler Papers 1765-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)

The Papers of Max J.Kohler (1871-1934) document his life's work as lawyer, historian, author,researcher, and defender of Jewish and immigrant rights. Correspondents includemany of Kohler's contemporaries in the field of history and immigration lawincluding Cyrus Adler, William Taft, John Bassett Moore, Mortimer Schiff, DavidHunter Miller, Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, the Straus Family including OscarStraus; Luigi Luzzatti, Leon Huhner, and Julian Mack. Subjects include U.S.immigration law, American-Jewish history, Col. Alfred Dreyfus, Haym Salomon,Ellis Island, Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, the publication , international treaties and the Peace Conference of 1919. Godin Freedom

ArchivalResource:

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109170 View

Belmont, August, 1816-1890. Signature cut from the register of Brown's Hotel, Washington, 1857 Nov.

Title: Signature cut from the register of Brown's Hotel, Washington, 1857 Nov.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (narrow 8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270905801 View

Papers, 1830-1874.

Title: Papers, 1830-1874.

Papers of William Sidney Mount include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, invitations, exhibit catalogs, business papers and miscellaneous printed materials. Correspondents include family members, friends, other artists, musicians, writers, publishers, art collectors and patrons, amoung them Shepard Alonzo Mount, Robert Nelson Mount, Elizabeth Reeves Ford Mount, Maria Seabury, Theodorus Bailey, August Belmont, William Cullen Bryant, E.L. Carey, William M. Davis, John M. Falconer, Charles Lanman, James Lenox, William H. Ludlow, Thomas McElrath, Luman Reed, William Schaus, Francis B. Spinola, Jonathan Sturges, Benjamin Franklin Thompson and Effingham Tuthill. Diaries or journals, 1843-1868, include many sketches. Bound note-books and loose notes include autobiographical notes, lists of commissions and paintings, notes on a variety of subjects such as painting techniques and materials, other painters, health and medications, carriage painting, boat design, improvements to the harbor at St. James, N.Y., politics, spiritualism and religion. There are also social invitations, calling cards, notices of exhibits and other announcements of the National Academy of Design, books and catalogs from Mount's library, an adminiustrator's account for Mount's estate, ms. music written or copied by Mount, and patterns, varnish recipes, memoranda, notes, a U.S. patent and other papers concerning Mount's invention of a hollow-backed violin called the "Cradle of Harmony."

ArchivalResource: 5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155564381 View