Dwight D. Eisenhower manuscript material : 1 item 1950

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Dwight D. Eisenhower manuscript material : 1 item 1950

The army general and 34th president of the United States was president of Columbia University from February 1948 to December 1950. To John T. Van Sant, of the Horace Mann School for Boys in New York City : 1 typescript letter signed : 20 Mar 1950 : (MISC 0946) : on Columbia University letterhead; concerning scholarships to Columbia for the sons of Horace Mann faculty members. Eisenhower also notes that "I thoroughly enjoyed my visit with Mr. Forsheimer [i.e. Pforzheimer] and yourself ...".

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Horace Mann School (New York, N.Y.)

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Van Sant, John T

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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957

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The New York financier and collector Carl Howard Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began acquiring materials documenting the English Romantic poets in the 1920s. After his death, his various collections became an asset of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc. In 1986, the Foundation gave to the New York Public Library those items pertaining to the Romantics (including ca. 12,000 printed items, cataloged separately and searchable in the NYPL catalogue), and other tangential material, along with an...