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Archives related to: Lasker, Albert Davis, 1880-1952
| title | Reminiscences of Mary Lasker: oral history, 1965. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Family background, University of Wisconsin, Radcliffe; interest in fine arts; European travel, study at Oxford; art dealer; Hollywood dress pattern business; interest in and promotion of Planned Parenthood Federation, other voluntary agencies in the field of health; fund-raising: American Cancer Society, American Heart Association; attempts to secure adequate appropriations to implement existing legislation for medical research; (cont.) United States Public Health Service: National Science Foundation; formation and development of national institutes for cancer, heart, arthritis, mental health, neurological diseases, blindness; aid to medical education; interest in psychoanalysis; medical research in New York; large scale clinical trials through Veterans Administration; activities of Lasker Foundation to promote health through medical research; health insurance; Health Insurnace Plan in New York, Presidential Health Commission; support for performing arts; art collection. Impressions of many statesmen, legislators, and medical and scientific pioneers. Biographical/ Historical Note: Promoter of medical research, philanthropist; interviewee married Albert D. Lasker. Notes: Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. Location (guide): Oral History, 801 Butler (Non-Circulating) Call Number: NXCP88-A1466 |
| extent | Transcript: 1,157 leaves |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu |
| finding aid | Name index available. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:50 |
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| title | Mary Lasker Papers, 1940-1993. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, bulletins, clippings, photographs, awards, and printed material. The files, arranged by genre and topic in three main series and 22 sub-series, reflect her philanthropic and legislative work in the areas of health, specifically cancer, heart disease, and mental health. Her civic and legislative work is covered in detail, as well as her private interests and activities. Biographical and Historical Note Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), civic worker and philanthropist, was a businesswoman prior to her marriage in 1940 to the advertising executive and philanthropist, Albert Davis Lasker (1880-1952). With her help, Lasker re-ordered his life and priorities. Together they shared a life centering on philanthropic work. They founded the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation which gives awards in the fields of medical research and public health administration. Mary Lasker had a strong interest in the arts, civic beautification, reproductive planning, dress design, and health issues, specifically cancer and heart disease. She was actively involved with the promotion and development of national bodies dealing with cancer, heart disease, arthritis, mental health, neurological disease, and blindness. She was an able and effective Washington lobbyist and knew many statesmen, legislators, artists, and scientific pioneers. Lasker was decorated as a Chevalier Officer of the French Legion of Honor and, in 1969, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Location (guide): Rare Book Call Number: Ms Coll Lasker, M. |
| extent | 353 linear ft. (ca. 450,000 items in 791 boxes and 14 flat boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Clippings Photographs Printed Materials |
| access | Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts. Most of this collection is shelved Off Site. It will take 1 to 2 business days to retrieve. Please contact us prior to your arrival to arrange for use. |
| record link | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/Lasker/ |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu |
| finding aid | Online Finding Aid. Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged by topic. |
| acquisition information | Gift of the Mary Lasker Estate, 1994 & 2000. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:49 |
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| title | Reminiscences of Mary Lasker: oral history, 1982. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Federal aid to medical research, development of regional medical centers, Cancer, Heart, and Stroke Commission, National Institutes of Health appropriations; beautification: plans for National Horticultural Park and Garden, activities in New York, District of Columbia, and elsewhere; visits to Johnson ranch; Medal of Freedom; health and medical research, from 1968: national health insurance, family planning, alcoholism, passage of 1971 cancer bill; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; restoration of Versailles; efforts to increase federal appropriations for medical research; developments in cancer research, heart disease and stroke, (cont.) high blood pressure; impoundment of federal funds; immunology and cancer; need for clinical trials; service on National Cancer Advisory Board; activities of Advertising Council for medical research; interest in arthritis, Eye Institute, endocrinology, virology; international cooperation in medical research; development of interferon, cloning, recombinant DNA; cooperation of pharmaceutical houses; problems of aging; Lasker Awards and their influence; social activities, awards and recognition; sale of paintings, house. Biographical/ Historical Note: Promoter of medical research; philanthropist; interviewee married Albert D. Lasker. Notes: Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. Location (guide): Oral History, 801 Butler (Non-Circulating) Call Number: NXCP88-A1465 |
| extent | Transcript: 986 leaves. Tape: 38 reels. Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. |
| record link | http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5629916 |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu |
| finding aid | Name index available. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Bernard J. Reis papers, 1934-1979. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, photographs, writings, scrapbook, interview, and printed matter. Material on Mark Rothko, Peggy Guggenheim, and Marc Chagall; letters to Reis and his wife, Rebecca, from Edward Albee, Massimo Campigli, Jacques Lipchitz, and Sir Herbert Read; general correspondence with one or two letters from William Congdon, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Abraham Rattner, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Jose Luis Sert, and Adlai E. Stevenson; transcripts of a 1954 speech by Franz Kline and a 1961 interview of him by Katherine Kuh; catalogs and clippings relating to Reis's daughter, Barbara Reis Poe; photographs; catalogs, clippings and printed material; Christmas cards; material regarding tours of the Reis house and Rebecca Reis's cookbook; a caricature of Bernard Reis by Abe Birnbaum; and miscellany. Photographs include Bernard and Rebecca Reis, their collection, and artists, dealers, and collectors including William Congdon, Piero Dorazio, Helen Frankenthaler, Peggy Guggenheim, Philip Guston, Albert Lasker, Jacques Lipchitz, Frank and Suzanne Lloyd, Robert Motherwell, Beverly Pepper, Kurt Seligmann, Theodoros Stamos, Konstantin Stanislavski, Jean Varda, and Adja Yunkers. |
| extent | 2.4 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Writings Scrapbooks Printed Materials |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | The papers were given in 1979 and 1980 by Reis's widow, Rebecca G. Reis. Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers, also located at: Getty Center, California. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Albert Lasker papers, 1928-1952 bulk dates 1946-1952. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Albert Lasker is best known as an advertising executive and philanthropist. His papers consist primarily of correspondence and subject files from the last five years of his life. During these years, he experienced bouts of ill health that forced him to restrict his activities for extended periods. His papers do document his interests and philanthropic work in medicine, particularly as related to cancer and proposals for national health insurance and a national medical education fund. There is also some material related to the Lasker Foundation for Medical Research at the University of Chicago. The collection includes a small amount of personal material, including appointment books, biographical information, clippings, contribution information, and mailing lists. There is necessarily overlap between Albert Lasker’s papers and the more extensive papers of his wife, Mary Lasker, whom he married in 1940. Additional information on the couple’s philanthropic work is filed with her papers. Cite As: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Albert Lasker papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. Location (guide): Rare Book Call Number: MS#1460 |
| extent | 4.62 linear ft. ( 1 document boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Subject Files Ephemera |
| access | This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. This collection has no restrictions. Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. |
| record link | http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6906282 |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu |
| finding aid | Finding aid in repository and online; folder level control. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Reminiscences of Albert Davis Lasker : oral history, 1950. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Interviewed by Allan Nevins and Dean Albertson. Early adventures as a newspaper reporter; career in advertising; George Washington Hill and others; reorganization of professional baseball, 1920; Republican politics, 1918-30; United States Shipping Board. Location (guide): Oral History, 801 Butler (Non-Circulating) Call Number: NXCP88-A1468 |
| extent | Transcript: 180 leaves. Tape: 1 reel. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu |
| finding aid | Name index available. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg papers, 1884-1974. | repository | Bentley Historical Library |
| description | Extensive correspondence, diaries, and scrapbooks detailing his political career; and photographs.' Biographical Note Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan; advocate of the United Nations and bipartisan foreign policy. Location Bentley Historical 86746 AA Aa 2 Ac |
| extent | 8 linear feet; 11 microfilm reels |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Scrapbooks Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Although the collection is open to research without restriction, researchers (except with special permission) must use the microfilm of those portions of the collection that have been filmed. |
| record link | http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-86746 |
| record source | http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ |
| finding aid | http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx? |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Roy Dikeman Chapin papers, 1886-1937. | repository | Bentley Historical Library |
| description | Correspondence, speeches, articles, interviews, business papers, receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellaneous items of Chapin, his wife, and his biographer, John C. Long, concerning family matters, highway transportation, the automobile industry, general economic conditions, foreign trade, World War I, national defense, state and national politics, the Republican Party, and the University of Michigan; also extensive papers concerning the Hudson Motor Car Company, including information on management policies, production, and labor organizing. Correspondents include: Frederick M. Alger, Bernard Baruch, Henry M. Bates, Frederick O. Bezner, Wilber M. Brucker, William L. Clements, James J. Couzens, John D. Dingell, Woodbridge N. Ferris, Harvey S. Firestone, Carl G. Fisher, Arthur Fleming, Edsel B. Ford, Samuel Gompers, Warren G. Harding, Paul G. Hoffman, Herbert Hoover, Joseph L. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Harry B. Hutchins, Pyke Johnson, Henry B. Joy, Frank Knox, Albert D. Lasker, Henry M. Leland, Clarence C. Little, James O. Murfin, Truman H. Newberry, Chase S. Osborn, George P. Putnam, Alfred L. Reeves, Edward V. Rickenbacker, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George W. Romney, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred P. Sloan, Lewis L. Strauss, Julian L. Street, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Albert E. White, Leonard Wood, William H. Woodin, Fielding H. Yost. Biography/History: President of Hudson Motor Car Company and U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1932-1933 |
| extent | 32 linear ft. and 7 v. [outsize]. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Interview Business Papers Ephemera |
| access | The collection is open for research. |
| record link | http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-851435 |
| record source | http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid available via World Wide Web at URL: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-851435 Finding aid in the library. |
| acquisition information | The collection (donor no. 3584) was the gift of Mrs. Roy D. Chapin and other members of the Chapin familly. The bulk of the collection came to the library in 1940; other smaller additions came throughout the 1940s and 1950s. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | John Callan O’Laughlin papers, 1895-1949. | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, reports, printed material, scrapbooks, and records of the Army and Navy Journal (1921-1948) documenting O’Laughlin’s career as a newspaperman. Subjects include advertising, lobbying, patronage, the Republican Party, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, military policy, foreign affairs, the Anglo-German Venezuelean blockade (1902), the Billy Mitchell trial, Washington, D.C. social life, and Norwich University. Correspondents include Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Camille Chautemps, Bainbridge Colby, Calvin Coolidge, Ira Copley, Josephus Daniels, Charles Gates Dawes, Fred Morris Dearing, Thomas E. Dewey, Hugh Gibson, Otis Allan Glazebrook, George W. Goethals, James G. Harbord, Thomas Charles Hart, Will H. Hays, Charles Dewey Hilles, Herbert Hoover, Patrick J. Hurley, Hiram Johnson, Theodore G. Joslin, Frank B. Kellogg, Julius Klein, Arthur Bliss Lane, Albert Davis Lasker, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Loeb, Francis B. Loomis, Douglas MacArthur, James Clark McReynolds, James G. Mitchell, Dwight W. Morrow, George Van Horn Moseley, Harry S. New, Kichisabur Nomura, John J. Pershing, Gifford Pinchot, Lawrence Richey, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Sarnoff, Reed Smoot, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, Hermann Speck von Sternburg, Edward R. Stettinius, Oscar S. Straus, Lawrence Sullivan, Charles Pelot Summerall, William H. Taft, Baron Kogoro Takahira, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, David I. Walsh, William Allen White, Leonard Wood, Robert C. Wood, and Harry Hines Woodring. Biographical/Historical Data: Politician, statesman, newspaperman, and publisher. |
| extent | 107 containers plus 2 oversize. |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Diaries Journals Writings |
| access | Open to research |
| record source | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm 81035055 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | William Shepherd Benson papers, circa 1791-1941 (bulk 1915-1928). | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Correspondence, memoranda, dispatches, speeches, reports, maps, naval appointments, family papers, photographs, and printed materials relating primarily to Benson’s service as U.S. chief of naval operations during World War I and including materials concerning the naval conference conducted by the Allies (1917), the House Commission appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to confer with the Allied and Associated Powers on naval strategy, Allied Naval Council, Allied Naval Armistice Commission, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), Senate Naval Affairs Committee hearings regarding naval operations in World War I (1920), and postwar naval disarmament. Papers also document Benson’s service as commandant of the Philadelphia Naval Yard (1913-1915), his work related to shipping and the merchant marine as chairman and member of the U.S. Shipping Board (1920-1928), and his involvement in Catholic religious and fraternal organizations including his presidency of the National Council of Catholic Men (1921-1925). Correspondents include Admirals Philip Andrews, Reginald Rowan Belknap, William Hannum Grubb Bullard, William Banks Caperton, Harry Shepard Knapp, Albert P. Niblack, and William Sowden Sims; Generals Tasker Howard Bliss, Peyton Conway March, John J. Pershing, and Hugh Lenox Scott; and Charles Francis Adams, Newton D. Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Montague C. Browning, Michael Joseph Curley, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, James Gibbons, Guy Despard Goff, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Edward N. Hurley, John La Farge, Jr., Robert Lansing, Albert Davis Lasker, Samuel McGowan, C. J. Peoples, James D. Phelan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Nathan Teal, Benjamin R. Tillman, Henry B. Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson. |
| extent | 51 containers plus 6 oversize. |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Writings Photographs Printed Materials |
| access | Open to research. |
| record source | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm 79012443 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. |
| acquisition information | Gift, Howard Hartwell James Benson, 1962-1969. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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