Letter from Maude Littlefield Baillard to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, dated November 2, 1928. Requesting participation from the Whitney Studio Galleries for an advertising campaign titled "In the New York Art Galleries".
Fessenden, William Pitt,1806-1869; Adams, John C.; Allen, Charles, 1827-1913; Allen, James; Appleton, John; Bradbury, J. W.; Burbank, David; Chamberlain, J. E.; Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889; Cobb, Sylvanus, 1823-1887; Coe, George...
Correspondence of William Pitt Fesssenden, and his sons Francis Fessenden and James Deering Fessenden. The majority of letters are addressed to William Pitt Fessenden on financial and political matters, but a few are private; several letters are...
Brown, Mary Guion, 1782-1871; Brown, Samuel,b. 1781 or 2; Brown family; Haight family; Hobby family; Knapp family; Lounsbury family; Searle family; Smith family; Young women--United States--Diaries; North Castle (N.Y.)--Social life and...
Diary kept by Mary Guion Brown (1800-1852, bulk 1800-1808). Beginning when she was 17, she records, in considerable detail, the personal and social life of a young girl in Westchester County, N.Y., including daily activities, her efforts to...
Inventories of decedents' estates--Kentucky--Jefferson County; Slaves--Kentucky--Jefferson County; Slavery--Kentucky--Jefferson County
Eight-page inventory of the estate of David Brown, including furniture, livestock, and the slaves Sarah, James, Jack, Willis, Charles, Hester, Charlotte, Matilda, Emily, Maria, and Jim, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Verplancke family; Mount Gulian (Fishkill, N.Y.); African Americans--New York (State)--Fishkill; Slaves--Maryland--Social conditions; Fugitive slaves--Maryland; Fishkill (N.Y.)--Social life and customs; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
James F. Brown (1793-1868) was the ex-slave gardener of the Verplanck family at Mount Gulian, Fishkill, New York. Brown was a runaway slave from Maryland, and the Verplancks purchased his time after he was found by his master. The collection...
Gray, Ebenezer, 1743-1795; Barker, Samuel Augustus, 1756-1819; Booth, Ashbel; Humphrys, David, Colonel; Gray, Charlotte, 1789-1873; Gray, Ebenezer, Jr., 1787-1844; Gray, Samuel, 1792-1834; Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790; Society of the Cincinnati;...
Letters, certificates, land grants and military orders pertaining to the life of Ebenezer Gray of Connecticut. Items include Grays commissions as major (dated 1777, signed by John Hancock) and lieutenant-colonel in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment...
Manuscript letter by Robert Breckenridge [of Lexington, Kentucky] for publication in the Baltimore American, appealing to readers to send in monetary support and subscriptions to the Danville Review in order that the publication be able to continue...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
Durant, Thomas J.(Thomas Jefferson),1817-1882; United states--Politics and government--1865-1877; Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950
Nine letters from various correspondents to Thomas Jefferson Durant, a lawyer and Louisiana state senator, and one of the few prominent Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War. After the war he practiced in Washington D.C.
