Papers, 1812-1959.

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Papers, 1812-1959.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, blueprints, memorabilia, clippings, and scrapbooks relating to city planning in Washington, D.C. and Newburgh, N.Y., railroads and transportation, monetary policy, Delano family affairs, and various civic organizations he worked with, 1904-1950. Correspondence, Supreme Court documents, and photographs from a boundary dispute between Oklahoma and Texas (the Red River Boundary Case) for which Delano served as the receiver, and a typewritten history of the receivership, 1920-1928. Papers of the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia, 1925-1927, for which Delano served as President, including letters, agenda, minutes, reports, memoranda, drafts, scrapbooks, and diaries from a 1926 visit kept by Delano and his secretary Archibald MacLeish. Delano's speeches, articles, and letters to newspapers on railroads, urban planning, monetary policy, and other subjects, 1887-1940s. Correspondence, clippings, articles, and financial papers relating to the death of Delano and the settlement of his estate, 1953-1962. Family papers include correspondence of several Delano family members, 1812-1891, including Sara Delano Roosevelt; diaries and journals of Delano's parents Catherine and Warren Delano, and others, kept at the family home "Algonac," 1869-ca. 1925; logs of the whaling ship PHILIPPE DE LA NOYE owned by the family, 1848-1855; and scrapbooks.

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Philippe de la Noye (Ship)

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Delano, Warren, 1809-1898

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