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Serge Chermayeff architectural records and papers, 1909-1980
17 linear feet of papersThis collection contains materials related to Chermayeff's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the United States, beginning in the late 1930s. Project records document the full range of his work, including many records from his British period. The collection also contains extensive correspondence with personal friends, clients, and professional and academic colleagues.
Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952
19.5 linear feet#12 Images of Non-Conformist and Conformists of the Upper Class in the Soviet Post-War Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1948 November 23 Box 12, Folder 10
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- #12 Images of Non-Conformist and Conformists of the Upper Class in the Soviet Post-War Literature
Wesley Clair Mitchell papers, 1898-1953
22.5 linear feetProfessional correspondence, diaries, unpublished articles, lecture notes, abstracts, and other manuscripts by Mitchell. Subjects include economic theory and its history, business cycles, money, national planing, anthropology and psychology, and published material by Mitchell and others.
72: hol. & typed 39 p.; quotes by J.S. Mill: Buckle, Malthusian theory, McCulloch, own "Unsettled Problems", economics, value, Darwin, McCulloch, Utilitarianism,, Kantean categories, upper classes, instincts, education, sex, self, hedonism; abstract : "Definition of Political Economy." Box 30, Folder a222
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- Problems", economics, value, Darwin, McCulloch, Utilitarianism,, Kantean categories, upper classes
Preston Gibson papers, 1903-1920
2 linear feetMarie Mattingly Meloney papers, 1891-1943
22 Linear FeetPhoenix House Foundation oral history collection, 2014-2015
183 GigabytesLawrence Lederman, 2014 September 17 Box 2
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- community and amongst New York's upper class; he used these connections to encourage donations to and board
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After detailing his early life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Lawrence Lederman narrates his process of becoming a lawyer. He tells of his experience clerking for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court, and then entering as an associate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP. He describes the origins of Phoenix House's relationship with Cravath, moving on to the extrication of Phoenix House from New York City's Addiction Services Agency. He discusses his own move to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, LLP, in the context of the merger wave in corporate America. He explains the establishment of the Phoenix House Development Corporation, which handled private donations so that they would be separate from budgets submitted to the City. He discusses the nature and stature of the board among New York's elite, and the role of public service in the upper reaches of the law profession.
MacDonald Family correspondence and ledger, 1841-1930
0.75 linear feetThis family archive includes numerous letters which shed light on MacDonald's career and the operation of the Sanford Hall asylum: 4 letters from James MacDonald to brother Allan MacDonald concerning the operation of their asylum, 1842-48, including one concerning admission of the widow of John Delmonico, the famous restaurateur, 22 March 1843: "They are respectable folks and want everything done for the comfort and advantage of Ms. D." * 7 letters of introduction and other documents relating to Dr. MacDonald's tour of European asylums, 1831-2 * Letter from Dr. MacDonald to his wife, who was apparently running the Murray Hill asylum briefly in his absence: "I hope you will have a more quiet afternoon than yesterday. Pray do all you can to keep the place quiet, particularly in front of the house." 17 June [1841?] * Letter from James MacDonald to Dr. Ranny of Blackwell's Island, referring a patient, 30 April 1849 (shortly before his death) * 18 letters from Dr. Josiah W. Barstow (superintendent of Sanford Hall) to widow Eliza H. MacDonald, circa 1857-60, most concerning the asylum * One long letter from C.M. Kittredge to Dr. Barstow, 1870, concerning a new Sanford Hall patient, B.B. Colah, a Parsi from India * Letter from Dr. Pliny Earle to widow Eliza MacDonald, 1857, researching Dr. MacDonald's use of restraints in the 1830s, with her draft response * plus more than a hundred family letters and receipts.
Ledger for a private mental asylum established at Murray Hill by Dr. James Macdonald with the aid of his wife, Eliza, and his brother, Allan Macdonald. Cmibox ledger
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- upper class. Several other "boarders" are added to the books in subsequent entries, although it is not
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Eliza appears to have managed the household as well as the bookkeeping, as she occasionally issues small sums "to myself" in the ledger (e.g., Dec. 28, 1842, "Box for Eliza (myself)". Dr. Macdonald, who also appears in occasional ledger entries, usually for "lent" sums, was a longtime physician for the mentally ill, having worked for 10 years (1825-1830 and 1832-1837) at the Bloomingdale Asylum in New York City and touring European asylums as an observer for the better part of 1831. His Murray Hill asylum was a "long cherished design" ("James Macdonald, M.D.", The American Journal of Insanity, Vols. 5-6, p. 85), and was located in two secluded houses in what were then the suburbs of Manhattan, opening its doors to patients on June 1, 1841. Having outgrown these accommodations within a few short years, it was then relocated to Sanford Hall, in Flushing, Queens, where it stayed in operation at least until its founder's death in May 1849.
James Truslow Adams papers, 1918-1949
15 linear feetThe collection is composed of the correspondence files of the James Truslow Adams. The majority of the letters were written to Adams by various contemporary historians, educators, public figures, business associates, friends and family. The material ranges in date from 1918-1949. The letters are concerned with the following: Adams' literary activities and the publication of his writings; contemporary politics; personal and business affairs; requests and solicitations from individuals and groups for support, etc.; scholarly and academic activities. While very few original letters sent by Adams are present, there exist margin notes in his own hand on incoming letters indicating the nature of his reply. Of special note are six volumes of mounted letters and clippings relating to President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the United States Supreme Court. Adams was an opponent of the plan.
Cuban Voices oral history collection, 2004-2010
6740 pagesThe Cuban Voices oral history collection is comprised of interviews conducted for the project of the same name. The project resulted in the publication of Elizabeth Dore's book How Things Fall Apart. The interviews are intended to engage in conversations with Cubans who lived through the transition to communist rule after the Cuban Revolution and experienced events of the following decades. The goal of the project, led by Dore, was not to interview people who have established themselves as public or political figures after the Revolution, but rather to generate a dialogue with ordinary citizens whose narratives do not appear in conventional narratives. Most of the interviewees, then, are not prominent personalities. They are professionals, campesinxs, teachers, sex workers, state employees, cooks, messengers, and people working illegally, among others.
Oral history interview with Lorenzo, 2006 Box 5
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- . He also recalls his childhood in an upper-class school, while he belonged to the working class.
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Lorenzo begins the first session by discussing the fights between the different factions of communism (26 July Movement, 13 March Revolutionary Directorate, the Second Front, and the Popular Socialist Party) in the pre-revolutionary period. He then recalls his childhood and obtaining the scholarship that allowed him to study in the United States. Lorenzo discusses the process of U.S. colonization that had taken place in Varadero before the Revolution. He recalls his time at the University of North Carolina and the jobs he had to do to support himself. Lorenzo also remembers his first jobs in the hotel business. He comments having provided information to the revolutionaries about the hotels where he had worked. Lorenzo recalls the early days of the Revolution, his first job at the National Association of Public Beaches and Tourist Attractions (ANPAT), the founding of the Jagua Hotel, and his time at the National Institute of the Tourism Industry (INIT). Finally, he describes the aristocracy of Cienfuegos in the pre-Revolutionary period.