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Phillipe De La Noye (Ship). Logbook of the ship Phillipe De La Noye, 1852 Sept. 6-1854 Nov. 13.

Title: Logbook of the ship Phillipe De La Noye, 1852 Sept. 6-1854 Nov. 13.

Partial log, kept by William Childs, relating to a whaling voyage to the North Pacific and Western Arctic oceans and Okhotsk Sea.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (161 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70977552 View

Papers donated by the children of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, [ca. 1686]-1959.

Title: Papers donated by the children of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, [ca. 1686]-1959.

The bulk of the collection consists of personal family correspondence, 1883-1945, exchanged among Franklin D. Roosevelt, his mother Sara D. Roosevelt, and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt; letters of the Roosevelt children Anna, James, Elliott, Franklin, Jr., and John to their parents and grandmother; and letters to the Roosevelts from their relatives including Catherine and Warren Delano II, Frederic A. Delano, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, Susan Ludlow Parish, Hall Roosevelt, and President Theodore Roosevelt. There are also some non-family letters concerning business, social engagements, political issues, get well messages following Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio attack, and condolences on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt's half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt. Correspondents include Nancy Cook, Isabella Greenway, Crown Princess Martha of Norway, Langdon P. Marvin, Endicott Peabody, Catherine Smith, Mlle. Marie Souvestre, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, Edith B. Wilson, and Walter Winchell.

ArchivalResource: 19 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155525484 View

Podell, Jacob J.,. Franklin Delano Roosevelt papers, 1896-1943.

Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt papers, 1896-1943.

A collection of Franklin Roosevelt letters, manuscripts, and documents including twelve letters written to his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, of a personal nature, and 24 letters written to a business associate, John B. Shearer. Signed typescript and mimeographed copies of the first three inaugural addresses are present in the collection as well as a valuable document, "Biographical Notes for the Cyclopedia of American Biography," completed in the President's holograph on August 21, 1919. The most charming letter is the one written to his grandfather, Warren Delano, on August 23, 1896, when the President was fourteen years old and traveling through Germany. The books in the collection reflect a wide range of interests including religion, poetry, and history, and all are either signed or inscribed, including the seventeen copies of the President's own writings.

ArchivalResource: 148 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309771588 View

Sage, Gardner A. [Map of the area later bounded by 4th and 8th Streets, 4th Avenue and Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / G.A. Sage.

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 4th and 8th Streets, 4th Avenue and Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / G.A. Sage. 1849 Sep. 20.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 44 x 56 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78788348 View

Papers, 1812-1959.

Title: Papers, 1812-1959.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, blueprints, memorabilia, clippings, and scrapbooks relating to city planning in Washington, D.C. and Newburgh, N.Y., railroads and transportation, monetary policy, Delano family affairs, and various civic organizations he worked with, 1904-1950. Correspondence, Supreme Court documents, and photographs from a boundary dispute between Oklahoma and Texas (the Red River Boundary Case) for which Delano served as the receiver, and a typewritten history of the receivership, 1920-1928. Papers of the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia, 1925-1927, for which Delano served as President, including letters, agenda, minutes, reports, memoranda, drafts, scrapbooks, and diaries from a 1926 visit kept by Delano and his secretary Archibald MacLeish. Delano's speeches, articles, and letters to newspapers on railroads, urban planning, monetary policy, and other subjects, 1887-1940s. Correspondence, clippings, articles, and financial papers relating to the death of Delano and the settlement of his estate, 1953-1962. Family papers include correspondence of several Delano family members, 1812-1891, including Sara Delano Roosevelt; diaries and journals of Delano's parents Catherine and Warren Delano, and others, kept at the family home "Algonac," 1869-ca. 1925; logs of the whaling ship PHILIPPE DE LA NOYE owned by the family, 1848-1855; and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522454 View

Papers, 1843-1891.

Title: Papers, 1843-1891.

Correspondence and financial papers including letters from John M. Forbes, Enoch Pratt, and J.F. Winslow discussing the iron works at Mt. Savage, Md.; letters from C.L. White about Delano's investments in Pennsylvania coal lands; and other letters concerning his interests in China in the 1860s and 1870s. Also, letters from his brother Franklin Hughes Delano and his son Warren Delano III discuss family matters as well as financial concerns.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522477 View

Papers, 1833-1894.

Title: Papers, 1833-1894.

Family correspondence, 1838-1888, includes letters from Delano and Astor family members; letters from Delano's brothers, Warren, Frederic, and Edward concern financial affairs and mutual shipping ventures; many of the letters from Warren's family were written during their residence in Hong Kong in the 1860s. General correspondence, 1839-1890, consists of letters received and two letter books kept by Delano concerning rental properties in New York City, investments, the New York stock market, shipping ventures in the 1840s, and construction of the Laura Franklin Hospital in New York City. Correspondents include Philip Kissam, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Francis S. Hathaway, and many European friends. Other items include diaries, financial papers mainly relating to shipping in the 1840s, trade circulars, rent rolls, estimates and specifications, legal papers, household accounts of Laura A. Delano, monthly accounts, and a record of rainfall at the family home. Also, records of the Mt. Savage Iron Company, Mt. Savage, Md., 1858-1863, including letters from employees to John Graham describing company operations with some description of Civil War activities in the area, receipted bills, and cancelled checks.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522430 View

Papers, 1861-1919.

Title: Papers, 1861-1919.

Family correspondence addressed to Warren or Jennie Walters Delano, 1864-1915, includes from his parents Warren and Catherine Robbins Lyman Delano, his uncles, his sister Sara Delano Roosevelt, and his own children; some of his father's letters concern the Union Mining Company in Mt. Savage, Md. General correspondence, 1891-1919, includes letters from Dutchess County residents concerning stock and equipment for the family home "Steen Valetje" near Barrytown, N.Y.; letters of condolence on the death of his father; and some clippings and material memorializing Warren Delano II, Catherine Lyman Delano, and John Murray Forbes. Financial papers consist of receipts and monthly accounts kept by William Anderson and James Galvin, superintendents of "Steen Valetje," 1894-1918; and cancelled checks, 1915-1917. Also, diaries kept by Warren III and H.A. deWindt during a trip to Wyoming and Yellowstone Park in 1899; scrapbook kept by Warren III in Hong Kong, 1861, which includes a list "Imports of Rice into Canton Waters in 1862" entered by his father; and a scrapbook of clippings, 1880-1909.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522489 View