Creator:
Cole, Ashley W., 1841-1920.
Inclusive Dates:
1882- 1916
Abstract:
Papers of the American editor, railroad commissioner, executive
secretary to New York State Governor Levi P. Morton. Incoming correspondence concerning railroads (Avery Andrews,
Paul D. Cravath, Chauncey M. Depew, James Jerome Hill, Jeremiah Jenks, Theodore Roosevelt); politics (Thomas Collier
Platt, L. Bradford Prince); the John Ericsson monument in New York City (Jonathan Scott Hartley); and the personal life
of actress Louise D. (Mrs. Leslie) Carter.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (State) -- History -- 1865-
New York (State) -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Journalism
New York State
Railroads
Patronage, Political -- New York (State)
Railroads and state -- New York (State)
Creator:
Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883.
Inclusive Dates:
1814- 1891
Abstract:
Papers of the
New York State lawyer, U.S. Congressman (1859-1863),
abolitionist, born near Pompey, N.Y. Correspondence (1847-1891);
genealogical material; legal and financial records
(1814-1879); writings (1837-1884), including essays, speeches, and
published letters; and memorabilia. Largely family
correspondence with additional letters of Louis Agassiz, Samuel
Bowles, Salmon P. Chase, F.J. Child, James Freeman Clarke,
Roscoe Conkling, George W. Curtis, John A. Dahlgren, Richard H.
Dana, H.L. Dawes, Daniel S. Dickinson, J.T. Fields, John M.
Forbes, John C. Frémont, William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Geddes,
George F. Hoar, John Jay, Thomas Starr King, Samuel J.
May, Robert B. Minturn, Levi P. Morton, Charles Eliot Norton,
Elizabeth P. Peabody, Wendell Phillips, William H. Seward,
Gerrit Smith, Israel Washburn, R.S. Watson, Andrew D. White, and
others.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Genealogies (histories)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.), History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Lawyers.
Social reformers.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Lawyers -- New York (State)
Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements.
Social reformers -- United States.
Creator:
Arkell, W. J. (William J.), 1856-1930.
Inclusive Dates:
1881- 1894
Abstract:
Papers of the American publisher, journalist. One commemorative menu, rest is business and personal correspondence, largely in connection with the Judge, a weekly magazine of wit and humor which began publication in 1881 in New York. Correspondents include August Belmont, James G. Blaine, George W. Childs, Charles A. Dana, Chauncey M. Depew, Joseph W. Drexel, Stephen B. Elkins, Joseph B. Foraker, George Jay Gould, David B. Hill, Collis P. Huntington, Robert Ingersoll, Levi P. Morton, John C. New, Bill Nye, William W. Phelps, Thomas B. Reed, Whitelaw Reid, Samuel Sloan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Kissam Vanderbilt.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
The Judge (New York, N.Y.)
Journalists.
Publishers.
Journalism
Publishing, printing and book arts
Journalism -- United States.
Journalists -- United Statese.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.