Manuscripts
George F. Kunz correspondence to: A-Z
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Correspondence to George F. Kunz: A-N
Manuscripts
A collection of 587 items from 1837 to 1958, it consists chiefly of letters, but also includes a small number of documents, poems, speeches, four photographs, and ephemera related to the life and interests of George F. Kunz. Subject matter includes: routine business and professional affairs; international mines and mining and the world gem market; reflections on public health, international expositions, preservation of national parks and scenic sites; New York City's economy, civic affairs, and Republican politics. Please note: there is virtually no information about Tiffany and Co.
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George Frederick Kunz papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 587 items from 1837 to 1958, it consists chiefly of letters, but also includes a small number of documents, poems, speeches, four photographs, and ephemera related to the life and interests of George F. Kunz. Subject matter includes: routine business and professional affairs; international mines and mining and the world gem market; reflections on public health, international expositions, preservation of national parks and scenic sites; New York City's economy, civic affairs, and Republican politics. Please note: there is virtually no information about Tiffany and Co.
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Correspondence to George F. Kunz: O-Y, miscellaneous items, autographs, photograph, ephemera and newspaper clippings
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Includes Theodore Roosevelt autograph letter signed to George Frederick Kunz, 1917 April 9.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, M-Z
Manuscripts
Although assembled chiefly for its autograph value, the collection contains various groups of related materials. In addition to the collections of Alexander Dallas Bache, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, National Institute for the Promotion of Sciences, and Smithsonian Institution, the collection contains correspondence of William Jones Rhees, letters and papers addressed to the United States Pension Bureau, letters and papers related to Indian affairs, and miscellaneous autograph letters and documents. Personal correspondence of William Jones Rhees and correspondence with Sons of the American Revolution, particularly the chapter at Washington, D.C. This portion of the collection holds letters from Dorothea Lynde Dix. Letters and addresses to the United States Pension Bureau contain routine letters regarding pensions or applications. Letters and papers relating to Indian affairs pertain to various Indian agents and factors, including Benjamin Hawkins, William Hull, William Irvine, Return Jonathan Meigs, and others. There are also 134 letters collected chiefly for their autograph value, and receipts for Smithsonian publications. The papers of Alexander Dallas Bache, 1827-1867; National Institution for the Promotion of Sciences 1816-1858, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1815-1874, and Smithsonian Institution, 1831-1906 have been organized in separate sub-units.
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Sir George Yonge correspondence
Manuscripts
A collection of 850 items from 1750 to 1814, which contains correspondence from the War Office; the material was accumulated by Sir George Yonge during his term of office as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794, together with some material of his predecessors and successors in office. The collection includes routine correspondence, consisting of letters regarding promotions, commissions, retirements, accounts, desertions, and troop movements. The papers contain many references to past service of officers in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar and elsewhere on the continent. Officials represented, in addition to Yonge, are: William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington; Charles Jenkinson; William Windham; Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Bart.; and Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston.
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1. Correspondents, A-Z, to George W. Beattie (Business)
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, manuscripts, maps, clippings and photographs related to California history, especially that of the San Bernardino County region. There are also materials related to Mormon pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley and education in the Philippine Islands. Most of the items in the collection are secondary source materials gathered by the Beatties in the course of their research on California history.
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