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Pratt family genealogy and record book
Manuscripts
Pratt family genealogy and record book probably kept from around 1912 until the mid-1930s. The beginning of the ledger contains concrete business records from 1912. Later pages include family notes for Anson Pratt, William D. Pratt, and Parley P. Pratt II. Also includes a record of the wives and children of Parley P. Pratt, a list of Joseph Smith's wives, a genealogy of Parley Pratt's mother Charity Dickinson, and an extended Pratt family tree. The back of the ledger contains notes from a publishing fund for Ralph M. Pratt and M.W. Pratt. With the ledger are pieces of ephemera including Pratt family badges from the Pioneer Jubilee Reunion of 1897, an agreement of separation for Mathoni W. Pratt and Agnes Ure Pratt (1935), a copy of the Deseret Evening News (July 4, 1904), a letter from Clyde E. Pratt to Mathoni W. Pratt regarding family records (1933), and some Pratt family genealogy notes.
mssHM 73032
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Stevens, Edward F. (and Pratt Institute Free Library)
Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
mssMerrymount
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Smithsonian Institution records
Manuscripts
The collection comprises papers, mostly correspondence, documenting routine activities of the Smithsonian Institution; materials relating to the first Smithsonian secretaries -- Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), and miscellaneous items relating to the National Museum, Library, and encouragement of research.
mssRH Boxes 36-55
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Group 1060: Lord, Isabel Ely (of Pratt Institute Free Library)
Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
mssMerrymount
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Spanish American Institute records
Manuscripts
There are over 2,000 student records in this collection. Although the institute provided assistance for primarily boys of Hispanic descent, there are records for students from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Some of the records contain more details than others. For example, one file may only contain a record of only S.A.I. credits, while other files may include a case summary, correspondence, medical records, family history, and/or probation reports. The letters written to the institution may concern tuition or perhaps, additional background information about the student. The letters from the institute are mostly written by the director, Dr. Richard Silverthorn. His letters may be regarding the student's progress at the school, general concerns, or why the student received disciplinary action. At the end of the collection, there are miscellaneous folders containing additional unsorted student records, photographs, and printed matter. Box 22 consists of lantern slides and photographic plates.
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Pratt
Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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