Creator:
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900.
Inclusive Dates:
1797- 1904
Abstract:
Papers of the American railroad magnate and capitalist, whose financial interests included steamship, manufacturing, construction, and land companies. Philanthropist, trustee of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and supporter of Tuskegee Institute. Collection includes incoming correspondence (1856-1904); letterpress copybooks (1868-1901); legal and financial (including real estate) records (1797-1901); amd personal papers (1862-1901). Notable among the real estate records are documents relating to the furnishing and household expenses of Huntington's San Francisco residence, and records relating to the design, construction, decoration, furnishing, and maintenance of Huntington's palatial home on 57th St. in New York City.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Bills of sale.
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Daybooks.
Deeds.
Ledgers (account books)
Letterpress copybooks.
Maps (documents)
Mortgages.
Photographs.
Receipts (financial records)
Stock certificates.
Subject:
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Capitalists and financiers.
Entrepreneurs.
Philanthropists.
Railroads
Business and Industry
California, History, 1850-1950.
Capitalists and financiers, United States.
Ciphers.
Entrepreneurship.
Palaces -- United States.
Philanthropists -- United States.
Railroad law -- United States.
Railroads -- California.
Railroads -- History.
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates.
Railroads -- United States.
Railroads and state -- United States.
Upper class -- United States.
Creator:
Galloway, Leon J.
Inclusive Dates:
1711- 1962
Abstract:
Collection created by Leon Galloway of
Hicksville, New York, presumably based on his personal interests. Correspondence of military
members of the Confederate States of America and Civil War currency. Contracts, land
surveys, photo albums, and books about the Hicksite Quakers. Correspondence of the Saunders
family.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Paper money.
Autograph albums.
Correspondence.
Postage stamps.
Contracts.
Land surveys.
Marriage certificates.
Wills.
Manuscripts (documents)
War bonds.
Engravings (prints)
Subject:
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, England)
Hicksville (N.Y.)
Oyster Bay (N.Y.)
Jericho (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Westbury (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Religion and philosophy
Civil War (U.S.)
Hicksites -- United States -- History.
Confederate States of America.
Society of Friends.
Quakers.