Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Belmont, Oliver H. P. (Oliver Hazard Perry), 1858-1908
| title | Belmont family papers, 1799-1930 | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | orrespondence, 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. |
| extent | 27 linear feet (64 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Personal Papers Legal Papers Business Papers |
| access | You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account. Cataloged correspondence (13 Boxes, numbered C1-C13) is located on-site; the rest of the collection (Boxes 1-51) is off-site. You will need to request the offsite material at least three business days in advance to use the material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library Reading Room. Please consult the Rare Book and Manuscript Library for further information. |
| record link | https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079136 |
| finding aid | https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079136 |
| acquisition information | Gift of August Belmont, IV, 1982. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:01 |
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| title | Artiglieria Veneta : Dedicata al Serenissimo Principe Polo Renier Doge di Venezia / Dal Sopraintendente all'Artiglieria Domenico Gasperoni : engravings, 1779 | repository | Harvard University Library |
| description | 19 engraved plates (numbered I-XIX) showing artillery pieces. Alternating with the plates are leaves having engraved headpieces showing artillery tactics, below which are written in ms. keys to the plates. At the front there are a dedication (f. 2r-v), preface (f.3r-v), and extra table "Tavola della Veneta artiglieria". An unrelated plate, entitled "Fucile dimostrato con tutte le sue parti separate" by Gasperoni and dated 1774, comes between plates XVIII and XIX. |
| extent | 41 leaves, bound ; 40 cm. |
| access | n/a |
| record link | http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990091901640203941/catalog |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/23/2023 12:16:50 |
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| title | Papers, 1932-1933. | repository | Duke University Library |
| description | Letters of Miss Young, paid companion of Mrs. Alva Murray (Smith) Vanderbilt Belmont during 1932, commenting on Mrs. Belmont and the Vanderbilt family; together with Mrs. Belmont's memoirs, describing her personal life as a child, in Mobile, Ala., New York City, and Paris, and as a wife, hostess, and militant feminist, social life and the family estates in New York City and Newport, R.I., women's rights, her marriage to and divorce from William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., and marriage to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, and her three children, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, and Consuelo (Vanderbilt) Spencer-Churchill Balsan. |
| extent | 28 items |
| access | Library use only |
| record link | https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000877823 |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | Purchased in 1966. |
| updated | 02/23/2023 12:22:35 |
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