Scrapbooks, 1905-1924.

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Scrapbooks, 1905-1924.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270926508

Consists of scrapbooks assembled and annotated by Jane Norton Morgan. The volumes contain family photographs, letters, post cards, invitations, calling cards, clippings, playbills and programs, menus, sketches and paintings, and notes describing her activities, travels, and memories. Together these materials record the family life of the Morgans including J. Pierpont Morgan, Frances Tracy Morgan, J.P. Morgan, Jr., Junius Spencer Morgan, Jr., Jane Morgan Nichols, Frances Morgan Pennoyer, and Henry Sturgis Morgan. Topics documented in the collection include: family homes such as Camp Uncas, Cragston, Gannochy, Matinicock Point, Wall Hall; family life such as her children's youth, their birthdays, their school activities, their graduations, their marriages, and the family's pet Pekinese dogs; current events such as royal coronations, the Russian Revolution, the 1907 San Francisco earthquake, the Pujo Committee hearings, the death of her father-in-law, J. Pierpont Morgan, World War I, and the bombing of the J.P. Morgan & Co. offices at 23 Wall Street in 1920. The scrapbooks also record where Jane Norton Morgan and her family traveled during these years with photographs of Corsair and a copy of its itinerary for Jan.-Mar. 1921.

10 v. (ca. 600 p.) ; 28 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7229740

Related Entities

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Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65m6716 (person)

Epithet: of MS Facsimile Suppl. II British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000172 American financier. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Mrs. Ackermann, 1918 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874981 ...

Morgan, Frances Tracy, 1842-1924

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Daughter of Charles and Louisa Kirkland Tracy; wife of J. Pierpont Morgan. From the description of Diaries and expense books, 1865-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270936580 From the description of Correspondence, 1853-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270936455 ...

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913

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Collector. From the description of John Pierpont Morgan collection of signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1761-1803. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79448959 Financier, industrial organizer, and art collector. Born in 1837 in Hartford, John Pierpont Morgan was educated in the U.S. and Europe before embarking on a career as a banker. From his first position as an unsalaried clerk at the New York banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Company, Morgan went on to become a ...

Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925

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Wife of J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943). From the description of Scrapbooks, 1905-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270926508 ...

Pennoyer, Frances, 1897-1989

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Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982

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Henry Sturgis Morgan (1900-1982) was the youngest of the four children of J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943) and Jane Norton Morgan (1868-1925). He worked for Morgan Stanley, first at 2 Wall Street (1935-1967), then at 140 Broadway (1967-1973), and then in the Exxon building at Rockefeller Center. He and his wife, Catherine Adams Morgan (b. 1902), had five children, Henry S. Morgan Jr. (b. 1924), Charles Francis Morgan (b. 1926), Miles Morgan (b. 1928), John Adams Morgan (b. 1930), and Peter Angus Morg...

Corsair III (Yacht)

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Nichols, George, Mrs., 1893-1981

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Morgan family.

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