Duncan, Fry, White, Storm, Mackey, and Knapp family papers, [ca. 1800-1967]

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Duncan, Fry, White, Storm, Mackey, and Knapp family papers, [ca. 1800-1967]

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Papers consist of miscellaneous 19th and some 20th century papers of the Duncan, Fry, White, Storm, Mackey, and Knapp families, along with correspondence, ca. 1960s, of Varian M. Fry related to his research on the families' histories. Also, genealogical notes on the above families as well as the Rose, Storm, Gardner, Le Sueur, Goetschius, Lyon, Richardson, Taylor, and other families. Photographs including cartes de visite, tintypes, cabinet cards, daguerreotypes, and modern prints; correspondence, accounts, bills, and receipts; copies of wills, birth certificates, and death certificates; clippings, legal documents, calling cards, printed material, books, and other family ephemera. Of note are a notebook, 1829, of Francis Duncan containing poems, algebra exercises, notes about proportion, and miscellaneous memoranda, and ten school notebooks, ca. 1855-1862, of Anna Duncan who was attending Ward School 13, New York in 1862, and one school notebook, 1857 or 1858, of Isabella Duncan. These contain penmanship and spelling exercises, poems, and math problems.

3.4 cubic ft.

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Fry, Varian, 1907-1967

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Varian Fry, an American journalist, was sent to France in 1940 as an emissary of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization formed in 1940 in New York to aid refugees in Vichy, France who stood in danger of Nazi persecution; Fry expedited the emigration of many prominent intellectuals. He made the acquaintance of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel in Marseilles in August 1940 and helped them make their way safely across the border into Spain and then to Portugal,...

Duncan, Isabella

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Ward School 13 (New York, N.Y.)

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Duncan, Francis, fl.1805

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Duncan, Anna

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