Belmont family papers, 1799-1930.

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Belmont family papers, 1799-1930.

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Correspondence, copies of letters, documents, manuscripts, invitations, menus, clippings, school papers, leases, agreements, deeds, financial accounts, photographs, and printed miscellany. The papers deal with many aspects of the Belmont family interests from 1799 until 1930, including: finance, banking and the Rothschilds; the United States Navy, Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) and the Perry expeditions to Mexico and Japan; Belmont's embassy to The Netherlands from 1853 to 1857; the Democratic Party, New York City politics, presidential and Civil War politics; social life in New York and Newport and European travel; horses, horse breeding, The Jockey Club, polo, the Remount Association (for cavalry horses in World War I), fox hunting, dog breeding, and yachting; New York subway construction, railroads, the Cape Cod Canal and aviation; the Democratic Convention of 1912; and genealogical notes on the Belmont, Perry, and other families. In addition to the correspondence, there are 117 letter books, tissue-paper copies of outgoing letters.

27 linear ft. ( 64 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7569169

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Belmont, August, 1813-1890

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American banker and financier, U.S. minister to the Netherlands, and a leading Democratic political leader. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he vigorously supported the Union and helped raise the first German regiment sent from New York City. Daniel Edgar Sickles was a U.S. Representative from the State of New York (1857-1861 and 1893-1895). From the description of August Belmont letter, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 711208279 Banker and diplomat. ...

Remount Association.

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United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)

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Jockey Club (New York, N.Y.)

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Belmont, August, 1853-1924

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Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858

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