New York Times Company Records. Adolph S. Ochs papers 1853-2006 1904-1933

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New York Times Company Records. Adolph S. Ochs papers 1853-2006 1904-1933

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17781

Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaperman and the publisher of the New York Times for almost forty years, from 1896 to 1935. Under his leadership, the paper acquired an international reputation for objective and trustworthy reporting. The collection contains correspondence, letterpress books, scrapbooks, financial records, blueprints, maps, land surveys, photographs, honorary degrees and awards presented to Ochs, and other material related to his life and career. The main areas of focus in the collection are the Chattanooga Times, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the Philadelphia Times, Ochs' continuing interest in the city of Chattanooga, and personal and family matters.

78 linear feet; 137 boxes, 189 volumes, 8 oversize folders, 1 tube

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311711

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Ochs family.

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Sulzbeger (Family : Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968)

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Members of the Sulzberger family, which has owned a controlling interest in The New York Times since 1896....

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...

Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs, 1892-1990

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Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1892-1990) helped shape the history of the New York Times throughout a long and active life. Sulzberger nurtured and bridged the generations of the family that controlled The Times since 1896, when her father, Adolph S. Ochs, acquired it. She played important roles in selecting the succeeding publishers: her husband, Arthur Hays Sulzberger; her son-in-law, Orvil E. Dryfoos, and her son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 19, 1892, Iphigene ...

Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935

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President of the New York Times. From the description of Letter, 1921 Sept. 12, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904887 Publisher and President of the New York Times Company, 1894-1935. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1880-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540212 Newspaper publisher, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1892-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960312 ...

New York Times Company.

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The National Desk, also referred to as the National News Desk or the Telegraph Desk, is the department responsible for the development and presentation of The New York Times' reporting on the United States. At the time of these records' creation, it was one of three main news desks at The Times, along with the Metropolitan Desk and the Foreign Desk. Staff members include the national-news editor who headed the department, news editors in New York City, and editors and correspondents in the vario...

Ochs, Effie Wise

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Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900

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Rabbi and pioneer of the Reform Jewish movement in America, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1850-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960628 ...

Ochs family

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Associated press

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