Lehman Brothers records, 1868-2007 (inclusive)

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Lehman Brothers records, 1868-2007 (inclusive)

The collection contains administrative records of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers and of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, another firm that merged with Lehman in 1977. Also includes the papers of numerous Lehman Brothers and Kuhn, Loeb & Company executives and their families.

350 linear ft. (157 v., 370 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382552

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Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934

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Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and was sometimes referred to as the "King of New York". In business, he was best known as a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who reorganized and consolidated railroads. In his personal life, he was a great patron of the arts, where among things, he served as the chairman of the Met...

Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1876-1958

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Frieda Schiff Warburg was born on February 3, 1876, in New York City, New York. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and her maternal grandfather was a founder of the banking firm. She had an opulent private education, although her formal education ended after she graduated from the Brearley School. Warburg was a philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was active in the Young Women...

Warburg, Felix Moritz, 1871-1937

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Felix M. Warburg was a prominent investment banker and philanthropist. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Warburg came to the United States in 1894. From 1896 he was with the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York. Warburg was an active supporter of various charities, including the New York Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee the Jewish Welfare Board, Institute of Musical Art, Teachers College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Warburg founded the American Friends of the Hebre...

Ryan, Margaret Kahn.

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Kahn, Maud E. (Lady Marriott)

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Ryan, John Barry, Jr.

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Schiff, John, 1904-1987.

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Pan American World Airways, Inc.

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Wolff, A. A. 1801-1891.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Warburg family.

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National Jewish Welfare Board

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Origins of the National Jewish Welfare Board (1913-1919) Organized in 1917 to meet the needs of Jewish servicemen in the Armed Forces, the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) became a national federation of local agencies and social service institutions dedicated to meeting the social, cultural, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs of the American Jewish community. The roots of JWB can be traced to the founding of the Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations (YMHA-KA) ...

Warburg family

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Robert Lehman

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American Jewish joint distribution committee

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The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded on November 27, 1914 when the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews (CCRJ) joined forces under the name of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Although JDC reflected the diversity of the American Jewish Community, the Reform-oriented American Jewish Committee faction dominated its early leadership. Conceived as a temporary agency to relie...

Carrie Lauer

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Michel, Clifford W., 1911-1976.

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Kahn, Maud E. (Lady Marriott)

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Knowlton, Hugh, 1893-1981.

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Robert Owen Lehman, Jr.

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Rothschild, Carola Warburg

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Lehman Government Securities, Inc.

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Pan American Airways Corporation

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Clifford W. Michel

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Warburg Foundation

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Warburg, Frederick M., 1897-1973.

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Edward M. M. Warburg

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Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...

Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc.

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Loeb, James, 1867-1933

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Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969

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Mogmar Art Foundation

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Stradivarius Quartet

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The Stradivarius Quartet played on four Stradivarius instruments during the mid-late twentieth century. Two of its members were formerly members of the Flonzaley Quartet, a famed American music circle. These members are: Alfred Pochon, second violin, and Nicolas Moldavan, viola. The other two members are Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello. ...

Philip Lehman

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Ryan, John Barry

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Ryan, Margaret Kahn

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Schiff, John M.

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Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb

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Paul F. Warburg

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Ruth Owen Meeker

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Frederick M. Warburg

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Warburg, Gerald Felix, 1902-1971.

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Lehman Brothers

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The investment banking firm Lehman Brothers was founded as a cotton brokerage in Alabama in 1850. Lehman Brothers quickly evolved from a general merchandising business into a commodities brokerage, eventually becoming a merchant banking firm offering sizable securities trading and financial advisory services. In 1977, Lehman Brothers, Inc. merged with Kuhn, Loeb & Company, another noted investment banking firm. The merged company was called Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb. From the d...

Pan American World Airways, inc.

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Wolff, A. A. (Abraham Alexander), 1801-1891

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Warburg, Edward M.M.

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Art collectors and patrons; New York, N.Y. Edward died 1992. From the description of Edward M.M. and Mary Whelan Warburg papers, 1931-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515675 Warburg was the son of Felix M. Warburg (1871-1937) and the chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee; he writes on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 15...

Mary Whelan Prue Currier

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Harvard Society for Contemporary Art

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The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art was founded in February 1929 by three undergraduates: Lincoln Kirstein, Edward Warburg, and John Walker, with the aid of the Fogg Museum. The purpose of the Society was to hold exhibitions of "frankly debatable" contemporary art in various media. The Society presented some of the first exhibitions of contemporary art in the United States, including the first exhibition of art of the Bauhaus while that school was still active in Germany. The Society disban...

Schiff, Mortimer L.

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Epithet: early Boy Scouts of America leader British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x00007b ...

Penn Central Transportation Company

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The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...

Rothschild, Carola Warburg

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Warburg, Paul F., 1904-1965.

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Kahn, Gilbert W., 1903-1975

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Lehman Wing

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Michel Foundation

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Walter N. Rothschild

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Warburg, Gerald Felix

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Hugh Knowlton

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Kahn, Roger Wolfe, 1907-1962

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Kahn, a Trustee of Adelphi University, was an aviation pioneer, composer, and musician. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1930-[ca. 1960] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155537656 ...

Kuhn, Loeb & Company

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Otto Kahn was a partner at the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and an active patron of the arts and music; he was on the board of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. At the time that Gustav Mahler signed his contract with the Metropolitan Opera it was still called the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company. The latter company was formed in 1903 under the direction of Heinrich Conried (1855-1909); when Conried retired in 1908 the name was changed to the Metropolitan Opera Company. ...