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Phillips Family, papers, undated, 1752, 1758-1955

Title: Phillips Family, papers undated, 1752, 1758-1955

Contains personal papers, correspondence, and other material relating to the Phillips family, 1733-1954. Papers center about the following members of the family: Jonas Phillips, 1733-1802, including his copy of a book on the laws and practice of shehita, printed in Wandsbeck, Germany (1733), and a document by Moses Lindo (1773); Naphtali Phillips, 1815-1868, including letters relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, the Tammany Society and the National advocate, of which he was publisher, and documents signed by Myer Moses (1831) and David G. Seixas (1818); Joseph Phillips, 1811; Rebecca Hart Phillips, 1812; Joshua Phillips, 1852-1858; Isaac Phillips, 1830-1884, including correspondence relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, Masonic activities, and his position as Appraiser of Merchandise for the Port of New York; Roslie Solomons Phillips, 1872-1945, including correspondence and other material relating to her political activities, her work on behalf of various Jewish institutions, Cong. Shearith Israel and the Solomons family, and letters from Eleanor Roosevelt; and Naphtali Taylor Phillips, 1895-1954, including correspondence, published material, newspaper clippings and notes relating to American Jewish history and correspondence and other material relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, the Touro Synagogue, the Federation of American Zionists, the National Conference of Jewish Charities (Committee on Palestinian Charities) and Adolphus S. Solomons. Collection also contains published material of the Masons and political memorabilia, and a letter from George Mifflin Dallas to an unidentified member of the Phillips family, 1856.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear feet (9 manuscript boxes, 1 oversized folder)

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Endowment Fund. Legal documents, 1901 ; 1902.

Title: Legal documents, 1901 ; 1902.

Included are four legal agreements documenting the establishment of the Jewish Theological Seminary's endowment fund in 1901 and additions to it in 1902. The first is an agreement, October 28, 1901, signed by Jacob Schiff, Leonard Lewisohn, Daniel Guggenheim, Louis Marshall, Mayer Sulzberger, Cyrus Adler, Felix Warburg, and Adolphus Solomons. This document establishes the original $200,000 endowment fund. The three other documents are triplicates - although there are some differences between them - of an agreement signed on June 2, 1902 by Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, Louis Marshall, James Loeb, Simon Guggenheim, Daniel Guggenheim, Philip S. Henry, and others, agreeing to contribute sums of money to increase the Seminary's endowment to $500,000. The signers represent a display of support for the Seminary by members of the German-Jewish community, and include members of the Bloomingdale, Lehman, Loeb, Morgenthau, Seligman, Straus, Sulzberger, and Untermyer families.

ArchivalResource: Four documents; .2 linear ft.

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Papers of Hannah Ruth London, 1919-1990, bulk: 1923-1980

Title: Papers of Hannah Ruth London 1919-1990 bulk: 1923-1980

Contains the research notes and writings relating to London's works on early American Jewish portraits, miniatures, and silhouettes, which includes family histories of the subjects of the artwork, biographical information on the artists, and information about the works themselves. Also includes items relating to London's personal life, such as her genealogy and a notebook of letters written by her son Robert who was killed in action in World War II during his service in the army. Contains notes, manuscripts, published and unpublished articles and poetry, art catalogs, legal documents, lantern slides, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical charts, handwritten sheet music, military medals, sound recordings, a theater program, a scrapbook, and a binder that contained correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 4.55 linear feet

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Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls (New York, N.Y.) records, undated, 1905-1944

Title: Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls (New York, N.Y.) records undated, 1905-1944

Contains correspondence, financial data, and reports (some published) on the work and activities of the School. Among the officers were N. Taylor Phillips, treasurer, and his wife, Rosalie Solomons Phillips, president and first vice president.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet (1 one-half manuscript box)

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Records of the American National Red Cross. 1881 - 2008. Historical Personnel Files

Title: Records of the American National Red Cross. 1881 - 2008. Historical Personnel Files

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Records of the American National Red Cross. 1881 - 2008. Records Relating to Adolphus S. Solomons

Title: Records of the American National Red Cross. 1881 - 2008. Records Relating to Adolphus S. Solomons

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Baron de Hirsch Fund Records, undated, 1819-1991 (bulk 1882-1935)

Title: Baron de Hirsch Fund Records undated, 1819-1991 (bulk 1882-1935)

The Baron de Hirsch Fund Records document the organization's involvement in the planning of agricultural communities across the United States and to some extent in South America; the founding and administrative dealings of agricultural and trade schools; the establishment of the Jewish Agricultural Society; and the business records of the Fund itself. In addition, the collection documents the protection offered to immigrants through port work, relief, temporary aid, promotion of suburban industrial enterprises and removal from urban centers through the Industrial Removal Office, land settlement, agricultural training, and trade and general education. In this respect, the collection is of major interest for Jewish genealogists as it documents a number of individual immigrants. In addition, the collection contains documentation on the administration and organization of the fund, documentation on Jewish farming colonies such as the Jewish Agricultural Society, Woodbine Colony and Agricultural School, and documentation on the Baron de Hirsch Trade School. In addition, the collection contains blueprints and photographs of facilities.

ArchivalResource: 109 linear feet

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912. Clara Barton papers, 1805-1958 (bulk 1861-1912).

Title: Clara Barton papers, 1805-1958 (bulk 1861-1912).

Correspondence, diaries and journals, reports, addresses, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, biographical material, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Barton's work to provide relief services during the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, the work of the American National Red Cross which she founded, and the National First Aid Association of America. Subjects include the Office of Correspondence of Friends of the Missing Men of the U.S. Army, speaking tour of Barton and former Andersonville prisoner Dorence Atwater concerning the identification of graves at Andersonville Prison, Barton's civilian relief effort in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War, the passage of the Geneva Convention, the International Red Cross Committee, the founding and administration of the American National Red Cross, the protection of Red Cross insignia, Red Cross Park, the congressional investigation into Barton's stewardship, the Red Cross's response to appeals for aid from victims of natural disasters and war, stateside camp service during the Spanish-American War, Harriette L. Reed's role in the National First Aid Association of America, progressive movements, women's rights, woman suffrage, temperance, and other reform issues. Correspondents include Barton's family members, local chapters of the American Red Cross, Alvey A. Adee, Susan B. Anthony, P. Louis Appia, Dorence Atwater, Harriet N. Austin, E. Florence Barker, Stephen E. Barton, William Eleazar Barton, Henry W. Bellows, Mabel T. Boardman, Samuel W. Briggs, Lucy Hall Brown, Lucien Burleigh, Mary Weeks Burnett, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry Dunant, Edmund Dwight, Frances Dana Gage, Joseph Gardner, Minna Kupfer Golay, Lucy M. Graves, Leonora B. Halsted, John Hitz, Mary Seymour Howell, Julian B. Hubbell, International Committee of the Red Cross, Samuel M. Jarvis, George Kennan, Mrs. John A. Logan, Luise, Grand Duchess of Baden, Antoinette Margot, William McKinley, Gustave Moynier, Ellen Spencer Mussey, Richard Olney, Walter P. Phillips, George H. Pullman, Joseph Sheldon, Adolphus S. Solomons, F.R. Southmayd, Sara J. Spencer, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Elvira Stone, Harriet Taylor Upton, Bernard B. Vassall, Charlotte Fowler Wells, Mary Isabelle (Kensel) Wells, Roscoe Green Wells, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Bannister Willard, and Henry Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 62,000 items.177 containers plus 6 oversize and 3 vault containers.123 microfilm reels.62.6 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981665 View

Clara Barton Papers, 1805-1958, (bulk 1861-1912)

Title: Barton, Clara, 1821-1912. Papers, 1805-1958 (bulk: 1861-1912)

Philanthropist, nurse, educator, and lecturer. Correspondence, diaries, reports, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Barton's work to provide relief services during the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, the work of the American National Red Cross which she founded, and the National First Aid Association of America.

ArchivalResource: 62,000 items; 177 containers plus 6 oversize and 3 vault; 62.6 linear feet; 123 microfilm reels

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Myer S. Isaacs, (1841-1904), Collection, undated, 1844, 1851-1925

Title: Myer S. Isaacs Collection (1841-1904) undated, 1844, 1851-1925

Real estate lawyer, judge,newspaper editor, and philanthropist Myer S. Isaacs was the eldest son of thesecond English-speaking Rabbi in the United States, the Rev. Dr. Samuel M.Isaacs (1804-1878). The Isaacs Family were founding members of the NewYork-based Jewish civil rights organization, the Board of Delegates of AmericanIsraelites (1859-1878), published the (1859-1902), and Myer was the first president of the Baron deHirsch Fund. The collection contains documents deriving from Myer and SamuelIssacs, and Myer's brothers Abram (1852 or 53-1920) and Isaac Isaacs(1845-1907). Information concerning Myer's children may also be found,including documents from his son Stanley (1882-1962), Manhattan boroughPresident and New York City Councilman. Includes correspondence, clippings,commencement programs, invitations, souvenir and anniversary programs, electioncampaign materials, obituaries, funeral programs, and citizenshippapers. JewishMessenger

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Board of Delegates of American Israelites Records, 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Title: Board of Delegates of American IsraelitesRecords 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

The Records of the Board of Delegates ofAmerican Israelites (1859-1878) documents the life cycle of the Board of Delegates, a Jewishcivil rights organization located in New York City. The Board served primarily in a two-foldfunction: acting as a central organization for American Jews and working on behalf of Jewsabroad. To the latter end, the Delegates collaborated with the Committee of Deputies of BritishJews and the French Alliance Israélite Universelle to provide for the relief and aid, civil, andreligious rights of Jews throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East,particularly Romania, Ottoman Palestine including Jerusalem, and Morocco. In the U.S., theDelegates were partially responsible for the appointment of the first Jewish Military Chaplainand surveyed member synagogues concerning the history and size of their congregation, the firstorganization to systematically record this type of information in the States. The Delegatesmerged with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) in 1878 and dissolved in 1925.Correspondents include Adolph Crémieux, Sir Moses Montefiore, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, IsaacsS. Myer, the Rev. Dr. Arnold Fischel, and Maj. General Benjamin Butler. Documents includecorrespondence, minutes, committee reports, memorials, announcements, surveys, some printedmaterial including clippings, and a 1932 Rabbinical thesis on the Delegates by Allan Tarshish.

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National Lincoln Monument Association. Receipt, May 28, 1868.

Title: Receipt, May 28, 1868.

Receipt issued to Adolphus S. Solomons for payment of $2.50.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747102887 View