Correspondence and subject files relating to Guggenheim's career in business and publishing, philanthropic and civic activities, and special interests in aviation and horse racing. Topics include Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and other family trusts and endowments supporting the arts and research in aeronautics and in the social and medical sciences; Newsday, the Long Island, N.Y., newspaper founded by Guggenheim and his wife, Alicia Patterson; Cain Hoy, his timber and cattle plantation near Wando, S.C.; Falaise, his estate in Port Washington, N.Y.; breeding and training race horses at Cain Hoy Stable, Columbia, S.C., his 1953 Kentucky Derby Winner, Dark Star, and his role in the establishment of New York Racing Association; and his diplomatic service as U.S. ambassador to Cuba (1929-1933) and membership on Committee of Experts on Civil Aviation, of League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Correspondents include Joseph P. Albright, Victor C. Barringer, Bernard M. Baruch, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., and Jr., Thomas B. Byrd, James H. Doolittle, Thomas B. Dorsey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mark F. Ethridge, Horace R. Graham, Leonard W. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Croil Hunter, Jacob K. Javits, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Peter Lawson-Johnston, Ernest Levy, Charles A. Lindbergh, Milton Lomask, Robert Moses, Bill D. Moyers, Richard M. Nixon, George Oppenheimer, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Samuel I. Rosenman, John Steinbeck, J. Albert Woods, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Manuel Ycaza.
