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Depew, Chauncey M., 1834-1928. Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers, 1879-1928

Title: Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers 1879-1928

Newspaper clippings documenting his personal life, his business affairs as president of the New York Central Railroad and his political career as senator from New York (1899-1905), as delegate-at-large to nine Republican National Cenventions (1888-1924) and as a prominent figure in Republican national politics.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0180 View

Michelet, Simon Thenistrup, 1871-1956. Simon T. Michelet and family papers, 1879, 1908-1943.

Title: Simon T. Michelet and family papers, 1879, 1908-1943.

Correspondence, clippings, articles, and printed data (largely 1920s) reflecting the activities of Michelet, a Minneapolis attorney and secretary (1918-1923) to Minnesota Republican senator Knute Nelson.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122412013 View

Wadsworth, James Samuel, 1807-1864. Civil War photographs [picture].

Title: Civil War photographs [picture]. [1861-1865]

ArchivalResource: ca. 170 photoprints in 2 boxes : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50060445 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

Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1877-1952. New York State political and social correspondence, 1822-1924.

Title: New York State political and social correspondence, 1822-1924.

Political and social letters from James W. Wadsworth, R.H. Walworth, Christopher Morgan, Eli Perry, John V.L. Pruyn, W.B. McClay, Erastus Corning, G.M. Schuyler, W.E. Robinson, George Law, T.C. Platt, Charles Tracey, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781423402 View

Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1877-1952. Letter to Dr. J. Milton Mabbott. Geneseo, NY. 1926 Aug. 31.

Title: Letter to Dr. J. Milton Mabbott. Geneseo, NY. 1926 Aug. 31.

Thanking Dr. Mabbott for his support in the coming campaign.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148538079 View

Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946 (inclusive).

Title: Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946 (inclusive).

The collection consists of printed matter, reports, correspondence, memoranda, radio scripts, memorabilia, scrapbooks and clippings documenting some of the activities at Yale University and of the individual colleges during World War II. Letters from Yale men in the services, both in the United States and abroad, to officials of the university make up a substantial part of the collection. Also included are correspondence and financial documents of the "Yale Library Project," a military intelligence operation secretly funded by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services which used Joseph T. Curtiss, a professor of English at Yale, as its agent.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205986 View

Bingham, Robert W. (Robert Warwick), 1880-1966. Robert W. Bingham letters received : from H. C. Griffith and J. W. Wadsworth, 1939 June 20 and July 7.

Title: Robert W. Bingham letters received : from H. C. Griffith and J. W. Wadsworth, 1939 June 20 and July 7.

Letters to Bingham, Director of the Buffalo Historical Society, enclosing the text of Griffith's and Wadsworth's addresses at a ceremony dedicating a cannon placed in the War of 1812 cemetery on Decoration Day, 1939.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (2 items) + encs. ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76937930 View

Wadsworth, James W. (James Wolcott), 1877-1952. Autobiography (youth to politics), diaries, scrapbooks, letters [microform] / [James W. Wadsworth, Jr.].

Title: Autobiography (youth to politics), diaries, scrapbooks, letters [microform] / [James W. Wadsworth, Jr.]. [between 1906 and 1951]

ArchivalResource: ca. 18 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9262937 View

Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938. James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969 (inclusive).

Title: James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, and photographs documenting the political and diplomatic career of James Rockwell Sheffield. The bulk of the material dates from 1893 to 1938 and concerns either the New York Republican party and its influence on National politics or American diplomatic relations with Mexico during the Coolidge administration. Major correspondents include William Boyd Allison, Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and James R. Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 9.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167190 View

Bingham family papers

Title: Bingham family papers

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary efforts, and family matters; and Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) and his academic career, his South American explorations, including the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, and his political career as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator from Connecticut. Papers relating to several other family members are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 75.94 Linear Feet (140 boxes)

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0081 View

United States. Congress. Senate. Senate hearings [in which J.W. Wadsworth, Jr. participated] [microform].

Title: Senate hearings [in which J.W. Wadsworth, Jr. participated] [microform]. [between 1919 and 1946]

Contents: Adjustment of title to Isle of Pines -- Reorganization of Army, 1919 -- Draft bill [3 items] -- Mothers aid -- Reorganization of Army Air Force, 1926 --Selective Service hearings, 1940 -- UMT hearings 1945 & 1946 -- Austin-JWW bill hearings, 1945

ArchivalResource: ca. 10 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9263114 View

Sanford, John, 1851-1939. Scrapbooks, 1890-1930.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1890-1930.

These scrapbooks consist largely of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and related materials concerning John Sanford's 1890 congressional campaign and his activities in thoroughbred horse racing, breeding, and training. There is also information on Sanford's father; his son, Stephen "Laddie" Sanford; and Sanford Stud Farm's trainer, Hollie Hughes.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191915783 View

Chisolm, A. R. (Alexander Robert), 1834-1910. Letter [manuscript] : to James Wadsworth, 1879 December 27.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : to James Wadsworth, 1879 December 27.

Chisolm requests Wadsworth to pay the rent or vacate his offices.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1p. on 1l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823103 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Wadsworth, James W. (James Wolcott), 1877-1952. Handwritten J.W.W. autobiography [microform].

Title: Handwritten J.W.W. autobiography [microform]. [between 1945? and 1952]

ArchivalResource: p. 124-208.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9262785 View

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Selected documents from the papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning James W. Wadsworth, Jr. [microform].

Title: Selected documents from the papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning James W. Wadsworth, Jr. [microform]. [first half of 20th century]

ArchivalResource: [61] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9263518 View

Richard Harkness Templeton Papers, 1899-1952

Title: Richard Harkness Templeton Papers 1899-1952

Templeton was U.S. District Attorney for western New York, and served on the Buffalo Port Authority. Collection includes correspondence, 1917-1951; manuscripts of writings, 1899-1952; published materials, 1924-1947; photographs; and material on the University of Buffalo (where Templeton was a lecturer), 1907-1952. Other subjects include Allegany State Park, the Buffalo Port Authority, prohibition, and Republican politics in the Buffalo area. Correspondents include Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., S. Wallace Dempsey, James Wadsworth, and Mabel W. Willebrandt.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 linear feet

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/t/templeton_rh.htm View

Richard Brown Scandrett papers, 1907-1966, 1907-1951 (bulk)

Title: Richard Brown Scandrett papers, 1907-1966, 1907-1951 (bulk)

Mainly papers that document Scandrett's tenure (1934-36) as Treasurer of the Republican Committee of Orange County, New York.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02623.xml View

Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Title: Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Political business, and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, but also including scrapbooks, loose newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed or mimeographed material, copies of speeches, legal documents, and accounts.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01776.xml View

National American Woman Suffrage Association. National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk), [microform].

Title: National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk), [microform].

The records include correspondence, subject files, printed matter, and scrapbooks. Most of the correspondents are women and many of the leaders in the woman's rights movement are represented. The subject file includes biographical information on some of the principal suffrage workers, a collection of antisuffrage literature, progress reports from state and local suffrage organizations, and material on the official organ of the Association, the Woman's Journal. A series of indexed scrapbooks, prepared by Ida Porter Boyer, document activities in the woman's rights movement as reported in the nations newspapers and periodicals during the years 1893-1912.

ArchivalResource: 73 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122556094 View

Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946

Title: Yale in World War II collection 1938-1946

The collection consists of printed matter, reports, correspondence, memoranda, radio scripts, memorabilia, scrapbooks and clippings documenting some of the activities at Yale University and of the individual colleges during World War II. Letters from Yale men in the services, both in the United States and abroad, to officials of the university make up a substantial part of the collection. Also included are correspondence and financial documents of the "Yale Library Project," a military intelligence operation secretly funded by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services which used Joseph T. Curtiss, a professor of English at Yale, as its agent.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1212 View

Shepard, Frederick Job, 1850-1934. Old Fort Niagara preservation papers, 1891-1949.

Title: Old Fort Niagara preservation papers, 1891-1949.

Chiefly correspondence concerning efforts by the Old Fort Niagara Association and officers of the Buffalo Historical Society to preserve Fort Niagara, with some background material on the age and condition of the various fort structures, including letters by E.G. Bush, post commander, to Frederic J. Shepard, Buffalo Courier, Mar. 1891, and Sarah E. Boyce's memories, 1903, of her childhood at the fort. Also, a description and snapshots of the lighthouse on the American side of the Niagara River at Fort Niagara, 1941; a list of commanding officers at Fort Niagara, 1797-1945; and photographic copies of plans and elevations of the fort, 1727-1738.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74336719 View

Depew, Chauncey M., 1834-1928. Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers, 1879-1928

Title: Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers 1879-1928

Newspaper clippings documenting his personal life, his business affairs as president of the New York Central Railroad and his political career as senator from New York (1899-1905), as delegate-at-large to nine Republican National Cenventions (1888-1924) and as a prominent figure in Republican national politics.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0180 View

Lord, Bert, 1869-1939. Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Title: Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Political business, and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, but also including scrapbooks, loose newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed or mimeographed material, copies of speeches, legal documents, and accounts. Correspondence for the period when Lord was supervisor of the Town of Afton is concerned mainly with Chenango County politics, road construction, the Chenango County Tuberculosis Hospital, and the operation of the direct primary. Correspondence for the time during which Lord was was a member of the New York Assembly and the state Senate deals with the internal affairs of the legislature and also contains a considerable volume of letters from constituents and colleagues on farm abandonment, the shortage of farm labor, and other agricultural problems; milk quality and prices, oleomargarine production and sale, and other dairy industry issues; teachers' salaries and pensions, nurses' salaries, and veterans' benefits; the gasoline tax, highway construction, and motor vehicle legislation; banking and insurance legislation; forestry and fish and game laws; local option and prohibition; minimum wage and maximum hour, workmen's compensation, and other labor laws; movie regulation and censorship, Sunday observance, boxing regulation, women's prison reform, and public health; the exclusion of the five Socialists from the Assembly (1920); and numerous other matters of public concern. Correspondence for the two terms Lord served as Congressman from the 34th New York District includes numerous letters from constituents concerning current economic conditions, federal tax policy, the Townsend Plan, the operation of the Wages and Hours Law (1938), Social Security, unemployment compensation, veterans' pensions, and tariff legislation, particularly that affecting imported shoes; the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Farm Security Administration, Home Owners Loan Corporation, Public Works Administration, Railroad Retirement Act, Resettlement Administration, Supreme Court reorganization plan, Tennessee Valley Authority, and various other aspects of the New Deal; United States naval power and other questions of national defense; immigration and naturalization policies, neutrality legislation, the situations in China, Ethiopia, and Spain, and other matters pertaining to American foreign policy. In addition, there are approximately four hundred letter (1914-1938) between Lord and members of the Republican Party organization, in which finances and support given candidates for various offices are discussed. Lord's business papers (1902-1932) consist of correspondence and accounts of Lord & McHugh, general merchandise store at Afton, and letters concerning his timber land and lumber mill interests, especially the sale of railroad ties and mine props to the Hudson Coal Company and the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company; personal correspondence concerns family matters and trips made to Europe and Florida. The Lord scrapbooks (8 vols., 1915-1937) contain clippings from newspapers and magazines, photographs, and other items pertaining to Lord's political career and to events on the state and national scene. Correspondents include William H. Anderson, William G. Andrews, Robert L. Bacon, Frank W. Barnes, Nelson P. Bonney, John Boyle, Jr., Charles L. Carrier, Glenn F. Carter, Nelson W. Cheney, John D. Clarke, Marian W. Clarke, Roland L. Davis, Thomas E. Dewey, John J. Dillon, George R. Dutton, Edward R. Eastman, Melvin C. Eastman, Melvin C. Eaton, George W. Fairchild, George R. Frearon, James D. Flanagan, James F. Forman, Edward B. Furry, Archie D. Gibbs, Charles S. Gibson, John Hamilton, Fred Hammond, Charles A. Harnett, Oswald D. Heck, Charles J. Hewitt, Homer Higley, James P. Hill, William H. Hill, Harold J. Hinman, Harvey DeForest Hinman, W.O. Hintermister, Cordell Hull, Irving M. Ives, George F. Johnson, J. Kennard Johnson, Samuel A. Jones, Carl E. Ladd, Herbert H. Lehman, Alfred A. Lord, Seymour Lowman, Clayton R. Lusk, John T. McNeil, Edmund H. Machold, W. Kingsland Macy, Joseph Martin, Jr., Nathan Miller, Ogden L. Mills, Abbott Low Moffat, Henry Morganthau, Jr., Reuben B. Oldfield, Tom O'Rourke, Daniel A. Reed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., E.F. Runnells, Alfred E. Smith, Louis W. Stotesbury, Thaddeus C. Sweet, Gage E. Tarbell, James W. Wadsworth, Jr., George F. Warren, Charles Seymour Whitman, and numerous others. There are also letters from or concerning the New York State Agricultural Advisory Commission, American Defense Society, Anti-Saloon League, Civil Service Reform Association, Dairymen's League, W.H. Dunne Company, Magnolia Petroleum Company, New York Civic League, New York State Association of Real Estate Boards, New York State Women's Relief Corps Home (Oxford), Norwich Pharmacal Company, Otsego Forest Products Cooperative Association, Rock Royal Cooperative, South Coast and Northern Lumber Company, Wayne Lumber Company, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 18 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63947070 View

Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964. Papers, 1683-1964 (bulk 1885-1964).

Title: Papers, 1683-1964 (bulk 1885-1964).

Papers documenting family and personal history, military service in both World Wars, and Goodyear's business and cultural interests as vice- president of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, vice-president of the Great Southern Lumber Company, a director, 1911, of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, and a founder and president, 1929-1939, of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Includes annual reports of various railroad companies and other businesses; correspondence, unpublished articles, memoirs, speeches, diaries, scrapbooks and photo albums, and materials concerning Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, including articles, notes and letters. Correspondents include William J. Donovan, Ham Andrews, James W. Wadsworth and Herbert Hoover.

ArchivalResource: (14.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34555661 View

Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960, 1892-1958

Title: Anson Phelps Stokes family papers 1761-1960 1892-1958

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund are detailed. His religious activities, Yale University work, and family interests are also represented, as are Stokes's work on behalf of the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 and the Yale-China Association. Papers relating to Helen Phelps Stokes include material relating to the Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

ArchivalResource: 145.25 linear feet (321 boxes, 4 folios)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0299 View

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. Selected documents from papers in the Harry S. Truman Library [concerning James W. Wadsworth, Jr.] [microform].

Title: Selected documents from papers in the Harry S. Truman Library [concerning James W. Wadsworth, Jr.] [microform]. [first half of 20th century]

ArchivalResource: [50] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9263426 View

Margaret Terry Chanler family papers, 1815-1939 (inclusive) 1845-1939 (bulk).

Title: Margaret Terry Chanler family papers, 1815-1939 (inclusive) 1845-1939 (bulk).

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Margaret Terry Chanler and her family.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00334/catalog View

National American Woman Suffrage Association. National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk), [microform].

Title: National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk), [microform].

The records include correspondence, subject files, printed matter, and scrapbooks. Most of the correspondents are women and many of the leaders in the woman's rights movement are represented. The subject file includes biographical information on some of the principal suffrage workers, a collection of antisuffrage literature, progress reports from state and local suffrage organizations, and material on the official organ of the Association, the Woman's Journal. A series of indexed scrapbooks, prepared by Ida Porter Boyer, document activities in the woman's rights movement as reported in the nations newspapers and periodicals during the years 1893-1912.

ArchivalResource: 73 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663907363 View

James Wolcott Wadsworth letter, 1910

Title: James Wolcott Wadsworth letter 1910

A letter from James W. Wadsworth, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, to Ashbell P. Fitch of 32 Nassau Street, New York, NY, regarding Assemblyman Youngs' bill to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Records. The letter is dated March 26, 1910.

ArchivalResource: 0.08 Linear feet; in one folder

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_1974_232_wadsworth/arms_1974_232_wadsworth.html View

Bingham family papers

Title: Bingham family papers

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary efforts, and family matters; and Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) and his academic career, his South American explorations, including the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, and his political career as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator from Connecticut. Papers relating to several other family members are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 75.94 Linear Feet (140 boxes)

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0081 View

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. Additional papers, 1841-1940

Title: John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.

Chiefly correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and family, friends, and associates.

ArchivalResource: 37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00718/catalog View

Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942. Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942, [1986].

Title: Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942, [1986].

The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill, and John Hay. Schurman's later correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, Charles F. Adams, Carl Schurz, Charles W. Eliot, and Sergio Osmena show his interest in the Philippine Islands and their eventual independence. His active interest in politics, the problems of peace and the League of Nations, and his diplomatic activities are discussed in correspondence with William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Lane Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Wadsworth, Joseph Foraker, and Frank Kellogg, including comments on Gustav Stresemann, German politics, and the German economy. Includes addresses and other material on Germany, the Far East, and U.S. foreign policy after Schurman's retirement in 1930. Also personal and family correspondence including letters to Professor William John Alexander about his thoughts on religion and his stay at Heidelberg University; letters to his daughters, Helen and Barbara; and transcriptions and photocopies of other letters. Items about Jacob Gould Schurman Day (February 8, 1986) at the University of Heidelberg include an typescript copy of an address by John R. Silber, President of Boston University. Also, a cassette copy of a recording of Schurman's speech given when he departed as ambassador from Germany. Also included is a notebook of photographs and correspondence concerning Schurman Hall at the University of Heidelberg, dedicated in memory of Jacob Gould Schurman. Silver box presented to Jacob Gould Schurman by the staff of the embassy in China on his appointment as Minister to Germany, donated by Richard W. Kehrt in loving memory of his wife Suzanne D. Schurman, granddaughter of Jacob Gould Schurman.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 cubic ft.; 55 reels microfilm; 1 tape recording; 10 oversize map case folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63939155 View

James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969

Title: James Rockwell Sheffield papers 1768-1969

The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, and photographs documenting the political and diplomatic career of James Rockwell Sheffield. The bulk of the material dates from 1893 to 1938 and concerns either the New York Republican party and its influence on National politics or American diplomatic relations with Mexico during the Coolidge administration. Major correspondents include William Boyd Allison, Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and James R. Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 9.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0446 View

Depew, Chauncey M., 1834-1928. Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers, 1879-1928

Title: Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers 1879-1928

Newspaper clippings documenting his personal life, his business affairs as president of the New York Central Railroad and his political career as senator from New York (1899-1905), as delegate-at-large to nine Republican National Cenventions (1888-1924) and as a prominent figure in Republican national politics.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0180 View

McLean family. Papers, 1789-1944, bulk 1861-1865.

Title: Papers, 1789-1944, bulk 1861-1865.

The bulk of these papers consist of letters (originals and transcripts) and diaries (transcripts) related to William C. McLean's military service during the Civil War. The letters contain good descriptions of the battles at Gettysburg and Kenessaw Mountain (Ga.), and the Union army invasion of Atlanta. In addition, McLean described the pillaging and burning of towns en route to Savannah under the command of General Sherman; and subsequent march through the Carolinas where Union forces skirmished frequently with Confederate troops under the command of General Johnston. The diaries compliment the letters by providing a brief summary of daily activities.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (1.5 cu. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537254 View

Wadsworth family. Papers, 1730-1952 [microform]

Title: Papers, 1730-1952 [microform]

Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, photos., and other papers of the family of James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and William Wadsworth who settled Geneseo, N.Y. in 1790. Includes papers of James Samuel Wadsworth (1807-1864), James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926), James Wolcott Wadsworth (1877-1952), and his father-in-law, John Hay (1838-1905). The bulk of the material concerns the congressional career and political activities of James W. Wadsworth, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 22 ft. (ca. 7000 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34792044 View