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New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends financial records, 1889-1923

2 document boxes
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The collection documents the New York Monthly Meeting of Relgious Society of Friends financial activities from the 1880s until the 1920s. The majority of the collecion consists of cancelled checks, vouchers, and correspondence related to the payment of mortgages held by the N.Y. Monhtly Meeting of Religious Society of Friends. Much of the material is addressed to David S. Taber (Treasurer) or George D. Hilyard.

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Eno Roberts Rhodes & Co. Records, 1858-1877

615 items
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Two volumes of letterpress copies of the business correspondence of the New York City firm of Eno, Roberts, Rhodes & Co. The letters are concerned chiefly with real estate operations and largely in New York City. There are altogether some 615 leaves with an average of one letter to a leaf. Most of the letters are signed either Amos R. Eno (father) or Amos F. Eno (son), but appear to have been written by clerks of the firm.

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516 Broadway (New York NY) records and drawings

2 manuscript boxes
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The archive consists of 250 + letters, drawings, invoices, leases, mortgages, bonds, and deeds related to the 516 Broadway, New York, NY, which was owned then by Edward Livingston and his partner. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence from the architects, Hugh Lamb and Charles Rich, who were hired to convert a portion of the building into stores. They worked with Cornell Iron Works, Otis Elevator etc. and approved all work and payment of bills.

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Mott family papers, 1840-1954

3 boxes
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This collection is a random group of papers of three generations of the Mott family. Papers of Jordan Lawrence Mott include 51 deeds, letters, and leases showing Mott's subdivision, improvement, and letting of this property. Correspondence of J.L. Mott II is mostly from well-known people in English society in the early 20th century. Mott's wife, Katherine Jerome Purdy Mott, was a cousin of the Jerome sisters (Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Leslie, and Mrs. Moreton Frewen). Papers of J.L. Mott III include correspondence with publishers about his works, miscellaneous manuscripts, and financial documents. Correspondents include the Duchess of Abercorn, Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught) and his family, L.B.R. Briggs, Ednah Dow Cheney, Joseph B. Gilder, H.A. Harvey, Lady Constance Leslie, Frank E. Schoonover, Christian Schussele, and Caspar Whitney.

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T. Kennard Thomson papers, 1887-1966

1.5 linear feet
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The collection consists of personal, professional, and project-related papers. The project and professional papers are made up of contracts, specifications, proposals, published speeches, reports, clippings, trade catalogs, and engineering drawings and documents. Among the projects documented in the collection are T. Kennard Thomson's Niagara River Water Power project, Manhattan Extension project, New York City Belt Line Railroad and Elevated Highways project, and Fifth Avenue Traffic Puzzle project. Additional engineering projects represented in the collection include those primarily related to bridge and elevated railroad projects. The personal papers include photographs, financial records, obituaries, clippings, and collected ephemera of Thomson and his extended family members. The personal papers also include menus, programs, and bulletins from various clubs and societies Thomson was associated with, including the Canadian Club of New York and the University of Toronto Engineering Society (founded by Thomson while at University).

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Van Cortlandt family papers, 1664-1870

1 linear feet
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Five manuscripts, one map, and four books formerly belonging to various members of the Van Cortlandt family: New York (Colony) Laws, Statutes, etc. Lawes Establish'd by the Authority of his Majesties Letters Patents.. By virtue of a Commission from.. James Duke of Yorke.. 1664. This first set of laws for New York, commonly known as the "Duke's Laws" were promulgated by Governor Richard Nicolls, after a meeting with representatives in Hempstead, Long Island, on March 1, 1664. Bound with this code are nine additions most of which are "Orders made at the Generall Court of Assizes held in New York" 1664-1672. The texts are written in several different hands and signed variously by Richard Nicolls (1624-1672), first governor of New York, 1664-1668; Matthias Nicolls (1630?-1687), Richard's brother and secretary to the province during the period covered; and Francis Lovelace (1618?-1675?), brother of the poet Richard Lovelace and governor of New York, 1668-1673. Written copies of this code were prepared for all the towns on Long Island. Of these copies only four are apparently extant, including this one and one in the New York Historical Society.

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W.R. Grace & Co. records, 1828-1986, bulk 1861-1960

90 linear feet
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The records of W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business from 1864 until World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.

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Ernest M. Fisher papers for the Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies, 1923-1953, bulk 1923-1953

6 document boxes
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This collection includes data sheets, computer processed data printouts, hand processed data, draft chapters, self-reported data, and administrative documents related to the research and publication of Experience in Urban Real Estate Investment; An Interim Report Based on New York City Properties by Leo Grebler in 1955. The publication came out of the research conducted by the Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies at Columbia University, which was led at the time by Professor Ernest M. Fischer. This collection is composed primarily of data processing files and publishing documents pertaining to the study of New York City real estate value and maintenance during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes data sheets ranging from maintenance cost of individual properties, broken down by year, to generalized indexes spanning half a century of information.
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