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Percy and Harold D. Uris papers, 1901-2003
277.5 linear feetThis collection primarily contains materials related to Percy and Harold Uris and their real estate businesses. Correspondence, financial records, and estate papers document the professional and personal lives of the brothers and their wives. The bulk of the business records are from their properties at 380 Madison Avenue and 300 Park Avenue. There is limited information about the other Uris properties and Uris Building Corporation. Finally, the collection contains records from the Uris Brothers Foundation, Inc about the family's philanthropic endeavors.
New York Life Insurance Company, 1962-1970 Box 12, Folder 11
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- New York Life Insurance Company, 1962-1970
New York Life Insurance Company, 1978-1983 Box 250, Folder 72
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- New York Life Insurance Company, 1978-1983
Margaret B. Young papers, 1921-2010, bulk 1965-2000
12.26 linear feetThis collection is made up of Margaret Young's professional papers, writings, personal and professional correspondence, biographical material, and photographs. A significant portion of the material, including a number of photographs, documents the career and commemoration of Whitney M. Young, Jr. There are several oversized items including photo albums, awards, and scrapbooks that relate to Margaret Young's professional activities and travels. The files span Margaret Young's lifetime, but most of the material documents her activities after Whitney Young's death in 1971.
New York Life Insurance Company-Board of directors, 1980-1995 Box 3
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- New York Life Insurance Company-Board of directors, 1980-1995
George Leslie Harrison papers on the Federal Reserve System, 1920-1940
31 linear feetPapers on banking and finance, especially relating to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Joseph Urban papers, 1893-1998
135 linear feetCollection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.
Eisenstein House, Viktor, 1910 :
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- Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 6. Eisenstein was the Vienna representative for the New York Life Insurance
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Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 6. Eisenstein was the Vienna representative for the New York Life Insurance Company.
Serge Prokofiev Archive, 1917-2012
294 linear feetEphraim Gottlieb to Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, 31 January 1933 Box ii.10, Folder 1933, january
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- Sender organization: New York Life Insurance Company
Ephraim Gottlieb to Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, 08 September 1921 Box ii.1, Folder 1921, september
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- Notes: Written on notepaper headed 'New York Life Insurance Company Darwin P. Kingsley, President.'
Ephraim Gottlieb to Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, 07 January 1933 Box ii.10, Folder 1933, january
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- Sender organization: New York Life Insurance Company
Gordon Bunshaft architectural drawings and papers, 1909-1990, bulk 1950-1979
20 linear feetOctober 1953 Volume 1
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- Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois; construction projects for United Air Lines; airplane hangar at
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Topics include: group insurance policy for SOM employees; construction of the New York Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois; construction projects for United Air Lines; airplane hangar at Nouasseur, Morocco; hotel construction at Istanbul, Turkey; expansion of the New York office; presentation of three hospitals at the American Hospital Association convention in San Francisco: Ohio State University Medical Center, Northern Indiana Hospital for Children and the Maternity and Pediatrics Pavilion of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital of Los Angeles, California; post-graduate school for the United States Navy, Monterey, California
George W. Perkins Sr. papers, 1871-1920
40 linear feetThe collection, which reflects these associations, includes correspondence, financial records, memoranda, papers, speeches, and newspaper clippings, relating to the history of life insurance, banking, industrial development, and politics in the early 20th Century.
New York State Capitol competition drawings and construction photographs, 1866-1870
39 itemsIncluded in this collection are nineteen albumen photographs and one lithographic print of architectural drawings submitted by architects for the competition to design the New York State Capitol building in Albany, circa 1866-1870. Competing architects and architectural firms represented here include Adams & Worthen, Louis Burger, Fuller & Gilman, Fuller & Laver, Schulze & Schoen, and several unidentified architects. Of note are drawings for the New York State Capitol by Louis Burger and Schulze & Schoen bearing inscriptions to Obadiah B. Latham, a member of the Capitol Commission. Also included are nine photographs showing construction in progress on the Capitol between July and September, 1869. Photographs of competition drawings by Schulze & Schoen for the Iowa Capitol, the New York Post Office, and the New York Life Insurance Company Building, as well as an unsigned drawing of the Ohio Capitol building are additionally part of this collection. Several of the images are labeled by the photographer E.S.M. Haines, also practicing as Haines & Wickes, in Albany, New York.
Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Foundation records, 1971-1991
38 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials. The Foundation's correspondence files consist of letters from different organizations and foundations, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, The NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the YWCA. Also included in this collection are community dialogues on race relations (1974-1975); proposed dialogues (1979) on such subjects as the Boy Scouts of America, Columbia University, and the National Council of Christians and Jews; and files on the Whitney M. Young Fellows Retreat Conferences (1980-1984). The collection contains many files on Ed Wilson's bust of Young (1991), including contracts and agreements, records of payments to Wilson, documents concerning the bust's placement in various locations, correspondence with Wilson (1983-1991), and miscellaneous photographs and pictures. The contributions files contain annual listings of contributions and records of contributions from the National Urban League, assorted organizations, corporations, individuals, foundations, and Philip Morris.