Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 1851-1928 |
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Collector |
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1851-1928 |
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Arrington, VA; Suffern, NY; Baltimore, MD; |
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Thomas Fortune Ryan was an art collector, patron and businessman. His business interests encompassed the Manhattan transit system, the American Tobacco Company, banking, the Equitable Life Assurance, the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, railroads, Mexican rubber plantations and diamond mines in the Belgian Congo.
Ryan’s art collection largely consisted of Renaissance statuary and painting from Italy, France and Spain, however, it also included work of modern artists such as Auguste Rodin, French-Canadian artist M. Suzor-Cote, French-Canadian artist M. Suzor-Cote, Chinese cloisonné, tapestries, etchings, picture books, carpets, Etruscan urns and other pomps & gauds.
As a Catholic philanthropist, Thomas Fortune Ryan endowed Sacred Heart Cathedral in Richmond, Virginia and St. Jean de Baptiste in New York City, as well as funding churches, schools, and hospitals in Virginia’s Nelson County.
Ryan married twice his first wife, Ida M. Barry Ryan (d.1917) they were married in 1873 and had four sons together, his second wife was a prominent society woman of New York, Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler. Ryan married Cuyler a few weeks after the death of his first wife.
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decades
of activity | 1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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Papers of Elihu Root, 1863-1937 (bulk 1899-1937). |
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Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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Papers of Raoul Heilbronner, 1887-1914 (MSS25650) |
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University of Virginia Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |
Papers pertaining to Thomas Fortune Ryan |
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University of Pennsylvania
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections |
Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, n.d. |
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University of Virginia Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |
John Skelton Williams Papers, 1884-1926 |
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Alabama Department of Archives & History
624 Washington Ave. |
Oscar Wilder Underwood papers, 1876-1962. |
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University of Virginia Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |
Papers of James Taylor Ellyson, 1865, 1896-1910. |
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Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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Papers of Henry Delaware Flood, 1870-1921 (bulk 1901-1921). |
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Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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Papers of Thomas Henry Carter, 1883-1917. |
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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[Home of Thomas Fortune Ryan at Fifth Ave. and 12th St. in New York City] [graphic], 1906. |
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
101 Independence Ave. SE |
Thomas F. Ryan funeral from the church of St. Jean Baptist[e] [graphic]. |
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
101 Independence Ave. SE |
Ryan Estate [graphic], c1910. |
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
101 Independence Ave. SE |
T.F. Ryan [graphic]. |
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
101 Independence Ave. SE |
[Thomas Fortune Ryan, full-length portrait, walking on street, facing right] [graphic], c1910.
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
101 Independence Ave. SE |
[Cardinal Désiré Mercier and Thomas F. Ryan, standing, full-length portrait] [graphic], c1920. |
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University of Pennsylvania
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections |
The London company of Virginia; a brief account of its transactions in colonizing Virginia, ... |
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