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Astor family. Astor family biographical materials, [ca. 1890].

Title: Astor family biographical materials, [ca. 1890].

Biographical sketches of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875), John Jacob Astor II (1822-1890), and William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919); concerns the establishment of the family fortune through the fur and China trade and through real estate operations in Manhattan; management of the family estate; character of Astor's descendants.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26878264 View

McDougall, Duncan, d. 1818. Astoria journal, 1810-1813.

Title: Astoria journal, 1810-1813.

A detailed daily account of events at Astoria. Begins with a list of the names and occupations of the company at their departure from New York on 6 Sept. 1810 and occasional entries of the most important events of the voyage around the Horn. Daily entries begin with their arrival at the mouth of the Columbia River on 22 March 1811. Each entry notes first the weather, personnel assignments and sick list, and progress of work in hand; then reports the day's events including visits of Indians, purchases of pelts and other transactions, hunting expeditions, arrivals and departures, news from outside, and actions of company management. The daily entries end on 24 Oct. 1813, a week after McDougall agreed to sell the post to the rival North West Company. There are three more entries, concluding with the arrival of the North West agents on 30 November.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (416 p.) in case ; 39 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122617051 View

James Francis Ruggles papers, 1848-1895

Title: James Francis Ruggles papers 1848-1895

James Francis Ruggles (1834-1895), attorney of New York City, was secretary to New York governor Washington Hunt, 1851-1852. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, land papers, and unsorted papers of Ruggles. Correspondence, 1849-1895, mainly concerns business and political matters. Accounts, 1864-1885, cover his business affairs; land papers, 1848-1891, include deeds, indentures, titles, and maps for property in New York and Louisiana; and unsorted papers contain printed materials and papers relating to his family.

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2642 View

Palmer, Charles F. (Charles Forrest), 1892-1973. Charles F. Palmer papers, 1903-1973.

Title: Charles F. Palmer papers, 1903-1973.

Correspondence, diaries, reports, mss. of writings, speeches, scrapbooks, photos (1934-1952) of public housing and urban redevelopment projects in the U.S., especially Techwood Homes and University Homes in Atlanta, Europe, and developing countries, and 20 films (1934-1946) concerning slum clearance, defense housing, and urban development, relating chiefly to public housing and city planning in the U.S. (1933-1970s) and including material relating to Palmer's work as organizer and first chairman (1938-1940) of Atlanta Housing Authority, defense housing coordinator in the Roosevelt administration (1940-1941), and leader of special housing mission to Great Britain (1942), but also including material relating to Palmer's relationship with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their family, cavalry service in World War I, and his autobiography, Adventures of a Slum Fighter (1955).

ArchivalResource: 88.75 linear feet (177 boxes and 15 oversized bound v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863339 View

James Francis Ruggles papers, 1848-1895.

Title: James Francis Ruggles papers, 1848-1895.

Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, land papers, and unsorted papers of Ruggles.

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122414810 View