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Archives related to: Hyde, James H. (James Hazen), 1876-1959
| title | James Hazen Hyde Papers, [ca. 1891-1941]. | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and other papers from 1891-1941 pertaining to his interest in Franco-American relations, e.g., Fédération de l'Alliance, Cercle Français de l'Université Harvard, American Field Service Fellowships, American lecture tours by French professors, his work in the American Red Cross in France during World War I, his social life, anecdotes and comments about prominent persons, especially in French government, military, and educational circles, personal affairs, etc. Historical Note: James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a businessman, francophile, and expatriate. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. In 1899 he was left in charge of his father's (Henry Baldwin Hyde, 1834-1899) life insurance company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. In 1905 Hyde lost control of the company in a publicity scandal that resulted in an investigation of the insurance industry by the New York State. In late December 1905 Hyde sailed for Paris, where he lived until the Nazi occupation. Location: New York Historical Society Manuscripts Collection Call Number: Mss Collection Hyde |
| extent | ca. 35 linear ft. (22 boxes, 115 v.)..; Arranged alphabetically |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Scrapbooks |
| access | Access: open to qualified researchers at The New-York Historical Society. |
| bibliography | Letters to Hyde from Henri Bergson have been published in their entirety in: Henri Bergson correspondances / Textes publiés et annotés par Andr/ACe Robinet..Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu |
| finding aid | Alphabetical list of correspondents available in repository. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:02 |
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| title | James Hazen Hyde papers, 1899-1934. | repository | New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| description | Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Hyde. Includes correspondence with French actors and dramatists, and correspondence while Hyde was in Paris acting as foreign agent for the New Theatre in New York City. Topics include the building of the theater, financial and policy matters, and choosing and producing plays. Also, documents relating to the organization of the New Theatre. Correspondents include Winthrop Ames, Gabriel Astruc, Eugène Brieux, Lucien and Sacha Guitry, Jean Richepin, and Henry R. Winthrop. Biographical and Historical Note James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a businessman and philanthropist of New York City. Language Note Materials in English and French. LOCATION Stephen A. Schwarzman Building- Manuscripts & Archives CALL # MssCol 1471 |
| extent | .5 linear foot (2 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers |
| access | Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated. |
| record link | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b12397071~S98 |
| record source | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b12397071~S98 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | John H. Finley papers, 1892-1940, bulk (1913-1935) (MssCol 1000) | repository | New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| description | Collection contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, writings, diaries, miscellaneous papers, photographs, and printed matter that document Finley's varied career. Correspondence, 1892-ca. 1939 reflects his professional activities, organizational memberships, biography of Grover Cleveland, and recreational interests. Addresses and speeches, ca. 1902-1940, consist of autograph manuscript and typescript texts of Finley's presentations to groups, such as schools, learned societies, chambers of commerce, and at commencements and patriotic celebrations. Many of the speeches are accompanied by correspondence, clippings, programs, menus, and photographs. Writings include manuscript and typescript drafts of his books, miscellaneous prose writings, poems, and scrapbooks of clippings of editorials by Finley published in the New York Times for the period 1921 to 1940. Diaries consist of personal diaries, 1910-1919, and desk calendars, 1922-1940. Miscellaneous papers include correspondence, letters of introduction, personal notes, travel documents, clippings, and other memorabilia relating to his European trips from 1921 to 1929. There are also postcards, genealogical papers, receipts, menus, programs, and papers relating to railroad arbitration, 1913-1914; New York State Contitutional Convention, 1915; and New York State Agricultural Advisory Board, 1915. Photographs consist mainly of pictures (negatives and positives) taken by Finley during his Red Cross mission to the Near East, from a trip along the Mississippi River, and while he was at City College. There are also lantern slides of scenes and people in the Near East. Printed matter includes books, pamphlets, ephemera, and some artifacts. Historical Notes: John Huston Finley (1863-1940) was an educator, editor, author, and civic leader. He was president of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. from 1892 to 1899 (later trustee); editor of Harper's Weekly, 1899; professor of history at Princeton University, 1900-1903; and third president of the College of the City of New York from 1903 to 1913. He then served as Commissioner of Education for New York State and president of the University of the State of New York from 1913 to 1921 before becoming editor of the New York Times, 1921-1938. His career also included service with various educational, political, and charitable organizations. |
| extent | 105 linear feet (168 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Photographs Clippings Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/finleyj.pdf |
| record source | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b11635593~S1 |
| finding aid | Collection guide available in repository and on internet: http://catnyp.nypl.org/search?/tJohn+H.+Finley+papers/tjohn+h+finley+papers/1,1,1,B/l856~b2669564&FF=tjohn+h+finley+papers&1,1,,1,0/startreferer//search/tJohn+H.+Finley+papers/tjohn+h+finley+papers/1,1,1,B/frameset&FF=tjohn+h+finley+papers&1,1,/endreferer/ |
| acquisition information | Gift of John H Finley, 1943, 1944, and 1972 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | William Adams Delano papers, 1902-1960 (inclusive), 1939-1960 (bulk). | repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record. Much of the personal correspondence concerns Delano’s membership in various New York clubs and his classmates in the Yale College class of 1895. His professional correspondence relates in part to important commissions, among them his work on the White House, West Point, and his design for La Guardia airport in New York. His participation in the work of the National Commission on Fine Arts and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is also documented. Prominent correspondents include Dean Acheson, Frederick L. Allen, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Hiram Bingham, Charles C. Burlingham, George Parmly Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Grew, M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Walter Lippmann, Allan Nevins, Arthur Upham Pope, Elihu Root, Jr., Henry Lewis Stimson, Charles Warren, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Biographical/Historical note: William Adams Delano: architect; from 1903-1910 taught at Columbia University; in 1903 founded Delano and Aldrich in New York City; from 1924-1946 employed by U.S. government (1929-1946 as architectural representative on the National Park and Planning Commission); designed buildings for Yale University, La Guardia and Idlewild Airports, Japanese Embassy in Washington, D. C., and others; designed plan for renovation of the White House. Cite as: William Adams Delano Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Alternative Formats: Additional information not yet available in the online version of the finding aid exists in the repository. Contact Manuscripts and Archives for assistance. Location: LSF-Request for Use at Manuscripts and Archives Call Number: MS 178 |
| extent | 6.5 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 folio) |
| formats | Business Papers Personal Papers Correspondence Manuscript Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/redirect/findaid.php?num=0178&typ=ms |
| record source | http://orbexpress.library.yale.edu/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid is available in repository and on Internet. |
| acquisition information | Gift of William A. Delano, 1954, and Josephine B. Manning, 1960 and 1962. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Henry T. Allen papers, 1806-1933. | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Correspondence, diaries, writings, reports, speeches, military documents, printed material, maps, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Allen’s military career. Documents his service as a member of an Alaskan exploring party (1885-1886), organizer and chief of the Philippine Constabulary (1901-1907), member of the Mexican Punitive Expedition (1916-1917), commander of the 90th Division during World War I, and commander of the American occupation forces on the Rhine (1919-1923). Includes papers dealing with Allen’s organizing of veterans’ groups for the 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Alfred Emanuel Smith; typescript of his book, My Rhineland Journal; and family papers. Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Tasker Howard Bliss, Ellis Loring Dresel, James G. Harbord, Myron T. Herrick, James H. Hyde, Arthur MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur, Peyton Conway March, John J. Pershing, Theodore Roosevelt, Paul M. Tirard, Hugh G. Wallace, John W. Weeks, and Leonard Wood. Biographical/Historical Data: Army officer. Organized/Arranged: Arranged in 13 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1883-1930; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1806-1933; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1887-1923; Series 4: Military Matters, 1900-1923; Series 5: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1899-1930; Series 6: Miscellany, 1878-1929; Series 7: Photographs, circa 1890-1930; Series 8: Printed Matter, circa 1890-1930; Series 9: Clippings, 1901-1930; Series 10: Maps, circa 1911-1923; Series 11: Reports, 1918-1928; Series 12: Oversize Photograph Albums, 1899-1923; and Series 13: Scrapbooks and Portfolio, 1884-1931 CALL NUMBER: 0628DD Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) CALL NUMBER: Oversize 0114X Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) CALL NUMBER: Oversize 4:7 Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) Notes: Portfolio of sketches of Aristide Briand transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English. MSS10504 Additional Formats: Microfilm edition of conts. 11, 33, and 34 available, no. 19,102. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. |
| extent | 15,000 items, 62 containers plus 11 oversize. 3 microfilm reels. 22 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Writings Reports Photographs |
| access | The Henry T. Allen papers are open to research. |
| record link | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78010504 |
| record source | http://catalog.loc.gov/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. |
| acquisition information | Gift, Henry T. Allen, Jr., 1956. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Abraham Flexner papers, 1865-1989 (bulk 1900-1959). | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Correspondence, research material for Flexner’s work, "Medical Education in the United States and Canada" (1910), reports, notes, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Flexner’s activities in educational reform. Documents his work with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and other foundations to expand research and educational opportunities and his service as secretary of the General Education Board. Includes Henry S. Pritchett’s correspondence during his service on the U.S. Light-House Board. Family correspondents include his wife Anne Crawford Flexner, daughters Jean Atherton Flexner and Eleanor Flexner, Bernard Flexner, Hortense Flexner, and James Thomas Flexner. Other correspondents include Louis Bamberger, John D. Barrett, E. Michael Bluestone, Welles Bosworth, W. R. Boyd, Wallace Buttrick, Huntington Cairns, Evans Clark, Richard Courant, Thomas Stephen Cullen, Harold W. Dodds, Albert Einstein, Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Robert J. Getty, Jean Gottmann, Paul H. Hanus, Caryl Parker Haskins, James Hazen Hyde, William S. Learned, Herbert H. Lehman, Charles A. Lindbergh, E. A. Lowe, Paul Mantoux, Violet R. Markham, Thomas H. McKittrick, Paul Mellon, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960), Julius Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Dean Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, William Henry Welch, Hermann Weyl, Sir E. L. Woodward, and the Ford Foundation. Biographical/Historical Data: Author and educational reformer. Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Abraham Flexner Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. CALL NUMBER: 0635X Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) |
| extent | 12,500 items, 35 containers, 14 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence Research Files Clippings Notes Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003042 |
| record source | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm79020834 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. |
| acquisition information | The papers of Abraham Flexner, educational reformer and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Flexner in 1954. Additional material was given by Flexner's daughters, Eleanor Flexner and Jean Flexner Lewinson, from 1961 to 1990. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching gave additional items to the Library in 1965. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Archer Milton Huntington Papers, 1919-1957. | repository | Syracuse University Libraries |
| description | The Archer Milton Huntington Papers contains correspondence, secretarial notes (memos, letters and daybooks), writings, legal and financial papers, and ledgers. Correspondence (Boxes 1 through 9) has been entirely merged into the Correspondence-subject files for the Anna Hyatt Huntington Papers (see "Related Material" below). Boxes 1-9 no longer exist in this collection. Please refer to the Anna Hyatt Huntington Papers for a complete listing. Briefly, this material contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with both individuals and organizations. Individual correspondents include painters (Edwin Blashfield), sculptors (Herbert and Adeline Adams, Gutzon Borglum, Donald De Lue, Gleb Derujinsky, James Earle and Laura Gardin Fraser, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Vincent Glinsky, Malvina Hoffman, Edward McCartan, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Paul and Isabel Manship, Brenda Putnam, Alma Spreckels, Katharine Weems), writers (Maxwell Anderson, German Arciniegas, Grosvenor Atterbury, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Nicholas Murray Butler, Archibald Macleish). Organizations represented in the correspondence include universities (Chatham College, Clark University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Syracuse University), museums and galleries (Brookgreen Gardens, Burr Galleries, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Columbia Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fogg Art Museum, Grand Central Art Galleries, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Mariner's Museum, Museum of the City of New York, ), and professional associations (American Geographical Society, American Numismatic Society, Federal Art Project, Hispanic Society of America, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New-York Historical Society). Secretarial notes comprises memos, letters, and daybooks spanning more than thirty years. Writings contains literary gallies, poems and literary manuscripts. Properties consists of information relating to various pieces of real estate including Brookgreen and Arbutus. Ledgers contain financial and business information; the main subdivisions are NY receipts, estate correspondence, estate documents, general correspondence, Bank of Central Hanover receipts, and payment statements. Biographical History Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955) was an American philanthropist, art patron, scholar and poet. The son of Arabella Duval Huntington and her husband, railroad industrialist Collis P. Huntington, Archer made substantial contributions -- both scholarly and financial -- in his chosen fields, though he is particularly known for his work in Hispanic Studies. He wrote several scholarly works in the field and in 1904 founded The Hispanic Society of America in New York City, a museum and rare books library which he helped fill with an impressive collection of Hispanic paintings, decorative art, books, manuscripts, maps, prints, and photographs. At about this same time, Archer was named foreign corresponding secretary for the New-York Historical Society; he served in this capacity for several years and contributed to the funding of many of the society's publications. His first wife, whom he married in 1895, was Helen Manchester Gates, an Englishwoman and author. For his second wife (married in 1923), sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, Archer founded Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina where her works were displayed as well as those of dozens of other American sculptors. (She returned the favor, creating several Hispanic-themed works for the grounds of the Hispanic Society, including an equestrian sculpture entitled "The Cid.") In 1936, Huntington donated an endowment which established the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress, now known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; he also donated to the American Numismatic Society the funding and land for its headquarters and, later, a library. Together with Anna, he founded the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, one of the largest and finest maritime museums in the world, and established the Archer and Anna Huntington Wild Life Forest Station in the Adirondacks of New York State. Archer M. Huntington was awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Kenyon College, and the University of Madrid. Among his other philanthropic positions, he was president of the American Geographical Society and a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the American Indian, and the Heye Foundation. When he died in December of 1955, The Modern Language Journal published a biographical sketch which included the following praise: In his passing, Hispanic studies in the United States, Spain, and Hispanic America have lost a generous patron who was also in his own right a scholar of distinction, a poet of charm, and in everything he did a good citizen." (The Modern Language Journal, Feb 1956, p. 59) |
| extent | 51.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Legal Papers Financial Papers Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/h/huntington_am.htm |
| record source | http://library.syr.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository |
| updated | 04/29/2018 14:24:03 |
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| title | Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Records, 1870-1919 (inclusive). | repository | Harvard Libraries |
| description | Principally correspondence, business and personal, of Henry B. Hyde and his son, James H. Hyde, vice-president of Equitable from 1899 to 1905. There are long runs of letterpress copybooks, 1870-1899, of Hyde and two letter books, 1881-1882, of Samuel G. Goodrich of Equitable's London office. Includes letters and other papers relating to the investigation and struggle for control of 1905. Historical Notes: Life insurance company, New York, N.Y. Founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde's death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. Equitable Life Assurance Society Collection. Baker Library, Harvard Business School. There is related material in Mss. Vertical File. R. Carlyle Buley, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America, 1859-1964. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1967. |
| extent | 22 linear ft. (68 v., 13 cases) |
| formats | Business Papers Personal Papers Correspondence Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid in repository, |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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