Creator:
O'Geran, Graeme.
Inclusive Dates:
1783- 1991
Abstract:
Autographs of the first 41 presidents of the United States (Washington through George H. W. Bush) and a few of other notable individuals (among them Edison, Ford, and Firestone). Signed items include letters, documents and photographs.
Type of Material:
Autographs.
Photographs.
Subject:
Science and medicine
Politics, government and public administration
Inventors -- Autographs.
Presidents of the United States -- Autographs.
Autographs -- Collections.
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:
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1864- 1905
Abstract:
Papers of the British scholar, man of letters. Seventy-six letters written between 1864 and 1897 to Moncure Daniel Conway on a variety of topics including politics, religion, and social reform.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Scholars.
Activism and social reform
Literature -- British
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Capital punishment.
Free schools.
Free will and determinism.
Irish question.
Marriage law.
Prostitution.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Scholars -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- United States.
Social reformers.
Temperance.