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George Sabin Gibbs Papers, 1896-1947

Title: George Sabin Gibbs Papers 1896-1947

Businessman and army officer. Correspondence, a field notebook, telegrams, reports, memoranda, military records, clippings, and printed matter. Most of the material concerns Gibbs's career leading up to his appointment as chief signal officer in 1928. Includes personal correspondence as well as correspondence relating to his vice presidency of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and his presidency of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company in 1931.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009231 View

Cranston family papers and photographs, 1846-1923

Title: Cranston family papers and photographs 1846-1923

The Cranston family papers and photographs comprise 2.5 linear feet of letters, clippings, books, certificates, ephemera, and photographs. The material originates from three generations of the Cranston and Morehouse families of Brooklyn, N.Y., who witnessed--among other events--the Civil War and Brooklyn's transition from an independent city to a borough of New York City. The majority of the collection relates to the lives of Alfred Cranston and his wife Elizabeth Petford Cranston, covering the period from 1846 to 1923 (bulk dates 1860 to 1915). The collection also contains items relating to their daughter Ella Cranston, the Morehouse family (from which family a daughter, Emma Louise, married the Cranstons' son, Alfred Petford Cranston), and the Oliver and Bellows families.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet; in two manuscript boxes, one half manuscript box, and one oversize box.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_1994_013_cranston/arms_1994_013_cranston.html View

Godfrey, William R., b. 1870. William R. Godfrey papers, 1823-1898.

Title: William R. Godfrey papers, 1823-1898.

Chiefly bills and account sheets, 1823-1825, re construction of bridge over the Pee Dee River by the Cheraw Bridge Company, Cheraw, S.C., materials purchased, provisions for laborers, legal papers, and records of wage payments to African-American and white workers identified by name. Land deed, 21 Jan. 1824, Marlboro District, S.C., Merchants Bank of S.C., Cheraw, S.C., J[ames] A[uld] Harrington conveying right-of-way for a public road to the Cheraw Bridge Company; account book, 1852-1883, Cheraw and Anson Plank Road Company and the Cheraw Bridge Company; receipt book, 1864-1865, Cheraw and Coal Fields Railroad Company. Also including manuscript, 1 Jan. 1869, Cheraw Bridge Company treasurer's report; letter, 23 Mar. 1869, B.D. Townsend, Society Hill, S.C., re Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company stockholders electing a new president, Townsend's opposition to a provisional administration due to the company's uncertain financial position, volunteering to be president, his qualifications, and his willingness to resign as president of the Cheraw and Salisbury Rail Road. Letter, 7 May 1889, from J[ames] W. Kates, Richmond, Va., re agreement between Cheraw Bridge Company and Postal-Telegraph-Cable Company granting right-of-way for extending lines across the Pee Dee River, S.C.; manuscript, 15 Oct. 1890, from Cheraw Bridge Company Board of Directors, Cheraw, S.C., to Henry Jackson and A[lexander] G. Kollock, re proposed free ferry across the Pee Dee River, violation of the Cheraw Bridge Company's charter, and possible legal action; undated manuscript, listing stockholders in the Old Cheraw Bridge Company. Also including letter, 6 Jan. 1843, Cheraw, S.C., from Duncan Clarke, Fulton, Miss., re land sale in Mississippi, benefits of bankruptcy laws, and availability of farm lands in Mississippi; oversize account book, 1863-1864, Confederate States Depository at Cheraw, S.C., re bond purchasers [PU-5]; diary, 1919, of Harriet P. Godfrey during senior year of high school in Cheraw, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 123 items and 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40810712 View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of First Vice President (Finance and Accounting). Records, 1900-1909.

Title: Records, 1900-1909.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122648831 View