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Hunt, Merriam & Company was a mercantile firm of New York City. Order book with memoranda of shipments of "Pocahontas" thread, 18 June-4 September 1851, and credit book with memoranda relative to reliability of certain business men in New York City, Troy, N.Y., etc. less

Papers of Huron W. Virden, a citizen of Atlanta, Georgia, include letters sent to various political leaders, newspaper editors, state and executive officials, and other influential persons on a wide range of current national and international political and social topics, with notes and miscellaneous other material. Dated 1967-1971 less

The collection consists of general correspondence of Hyman A. Schulson, an attorney, Zionist, and activist in Jewish community affairs; and papers relating to his employment as director of the Washington, D.C. office of the American Zionist Emergency Council, an organization which lobbied at the end of the Second World War for the creation of an independent Jewish state in Palestine. less

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944) was an American architect and housing reformer. John Mead Howells and Stokes worked as partners in the architectural firm Howells and Stokes. In addition to his architectural work, Stokes was an organizer of the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society, served on the New York State Tenement House Commission, helped write the New York tenement house law of 1901, and designed several model tenements. He had a renowned collection of prints of old New York and was responsible for The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, a six-volume pictorial history published between 1915 and 1928. He served on the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library from 1916 until 1938. Collection consists of correspondence and research notes, drafts and proofs, photographs, and other materials for the Iconography of Manhattan Island. Correspondence, 1909-1928, is with booksellers, print dealers, librarians, collectors, and scholars regarding the purchase, exchange and copying of prints and maps of New York, research in New York history, and the preparation of the Iconography. Correspondence for 1925-1929 concerns Stokes's attempts to sell his print collection; while that for 1930-1933 documents the further development of the collection, its donation to the New York Public Library, and the creation and sale of the catalog of the collection. Materials used in the preparation of the Iconography include research notes, transcriptions and photostats of source materials, photographs of illustrations, drafts, and page proofs. Also, unsigned typescript of an article about New York City Hall. less

Tailors Isaac Platt Hull (1813-1883) and his brother, Denney Hull, Jr. (1831-1900) were born in Danbury, Connecticut. They were descendants of George Hull, who emigrated from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1692. I.P. Hull & Company was located at 553 Broadway until roughly 1870, when it moved to 590 Broadway. The records consist of two ledgers containing customer orders and general accounting of the shop's financial activities. less

Ichabod Meeker, a native of Fairfield, Connecticut, was a farmer who settled in Catherine, New York. Account book kept by Ichabod Meeker from 1773 to 1834, containing a 1788 entry from Fairfield and an 1802 entry from Catherine. Elijah Meeker also used this account book from 1841 to 1863 less

Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931), American journalist and suffragist, was an associate and biographer of Susan B. Anthony and collaborated with Anthony on writing History of Woman Suffrage. Collection consists of scrapbook compiled by Harper with clippings of her articles relating to women's suffrage. Also included are clippings of articles about Harper's activities, and pamphlets and other printed materials relating to her suffrage work. Personal materials include a flyleaf dedicated to her by Susan B. Anthony. less

The Ignaz Anton Pilat Papers contain correspondence, official documents, newspaper clippings, booklets and pamphlets, and photographs and other graphics. The largest series is correspondence, chiefly between Pilat and other individuals involved in the construction of Central Park. There are manuscripts by Pilat describing the progress of work, as well as a letter from Frederick Law Olmsted detailing Pilat's gardening duties. Other original documents date from Pilat's residence in Austria and include a letter to Ferdinand I, in which Pilat requests the position of imperial gardener, certificates of employment and education, and Pilat's passport. Most of the newspaper clippings refer to the building of Central Park, although there are galley proofs of gardening columns Pilat apparently wrote for New York newspapers less

Manuscript account book, in Portugese and English, related to shipping and goods imported to Brazil, as well as some goods exported from Brazil to New York. Entries are dated 1852-1867 and include ships' names, ports of departure and landing, lists of cargo, captains' names, and other information. Among the goods being imported and exported were coffee, china, jacaranda trees, tapioca, sugar, rugs, copper, scrap iron, hides, skins, and beans. Back of volume contains index of ship names less

Increase Matthews and John Matthews, early Ohio settlers, were merchants in Zanesville and Springfield, Ohio. The collection of Increase Matthews and John Matthews daybooks, 1801-1804, consists of two volumes (bound in one) recording transactions at Zanesville and Springfield, Ohio for sugar, coffee, tea, farm products, cloth, whiskey, gunpowder and lead, and general merchandise. Accounts for animal pelts and charges for cartage to and from Marietta, Ohio are also listed. less

Charles Bradstreet kept this logbook onboard the schooner Independence, captained by Adam Merill. It contains entries made between January 13 and March 31, 1841. During this time, the schooner sailed from Boston to Cuba and back again. The logbook ends as the Independence is departing on a voyage from Boston to Portland, Maine less

Contains correspondence of Robert Ingersoll; copyists' drafts of several speeches or newspaper articles bearing corrections in his hand; social and family correspondence (1878-1921) of the women and children in the Ingersoll and Farrell families; and correspondence, principally 1917-1918 and 1940, of Mrs. Clinton P. Farrell (Sue Parker Farrell) as president of the Vivisection Investigation League of New York and with related movements for humane treatment of animals, and to combat enforced inoculation of children, soldiers, and others. less

This report documents the commission's exploration of possible routs for an inland canal connecting the Hudson River to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. The document was presented to the New York State legislature in February 1811 and signed by commission members DeWitt Clinton, Simeon DeWitt, Thomas Eddy, Gouverneur Morris, William North, Peter Buell Porter, and Stephen Van Rensselaer. It was endorsed by the Senate on March 2, 1811 less

Institoris was a Hungarian stage decorator. Collection consists of manuscripts on designing and painting of stage scenery, lighting and other technical practices relating to theaters in Vienna and Baden, Austria, and Pressburg, Hungary. Includes numerous sketches and drawings. less

The Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA) was founded in New York City in 1937 by a group of scholars in the social sciences for the purpose of assisting the public to detect and analyze propaganda. The IPA conducted research into the methods by which public opinion is influenced, published analyses of current problems, and promoted the establishment of study groups in public schools for detecting propaganda. It published a monthly bulletin, Propaganda Analysis, from 1937 to 1941. The organization was dormant during World War II and in 1950 all formal operations ceased. Collection consists of correspondence, by-laws, minutes of board and executive committee meetings, financial records, and printed matter. Bulk of the collection is correspondence, including that of executive directors, Clyde R. Miller and Alfred McClung Lee, with members of the Institute's advisory committee and others. Correspondence relates in part to the preparation of Propaganda Analysis and to allegations that some of the oficers were Communists or Communist sympathizers. Other topics are the funding and operations of the IPA, board elections and research projects. Financial records include statements and audit records. Also, press releases, circular letters, ballots for board elections, certificates of copyright registration, drafts of IPA publications, and printed ephemera. less

This manuscript volume, titled "Institutiones Philosophiae Logica," was created by Peter Martial Bardy (in Latin, Petrus Martialis Bardy). It was likely created while Bardy was a student and is written entirely in Latin. The text refers to philosophers René Descartes, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and is illustrated. Includes chapters on logic, the origin of thought, the relationship between thought and perception, divine revelation, and memory; many chapters contain axioms and rules. Concludes: "Finis Logicae Dec. 25, 1816 Petrus Martialis Bardy." less

The Interlingua Institute was established in New York City in 1970 for the purpose of promoting the use of Interlingua, an international language developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, founded in New York City in 1924 by Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her husband Dave Hennen Morris. The records of the Interlingua Institute include correspondence of Frank Esterhill, its executive director, and of Alexander Gode, with British and European affiliates, concerning the promotion of Interlingua as an international language; minutes of the board of directors; annual reports; ephemera; newsletters of European affiliates; and books and pamphlets in Interlingua by various authors. The records of the International Auxiliary Language Association include correspondence of Mrs. Alice Vanderbilt Morris and other officers relating to the research and development of Interlingua as an international language; records of international conferences and congresses of linguists held at Brussels, Paris, Geneva, and Rome organized by Mrs. Vanderbilt and her staff; research reports; a chronological file of miscellaneous organization records; and printed matter relating to Interlingua, Esperanto and other international languages. Included are a few personal miscellaneous papers of Mrs. Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris. less

The International Committee for Political Prisoners was founded in 1924 to to agitate for the release and raise funds for the relief of political prisoners throughout the world. The ICPP dissolved in 1942 once the advent of World War II made assistance to political prisoners nearly impossible. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, typescripts, financial statements, and supporting printed matter. less

The collection documents the gay liberation movement in New York City and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, Gay Switchboard of New York, the Mattachine Society Inc. of New York, and records of miscellaneous organizations including Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc., and the periodicals Gaysweek, and New York Native. Personal papers include papers of Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr., Arthur Bell, Billy Wilder Blackwell, Perry Brass, Robert Clement, Don Jackson, Walter Porczak, and Sam Staggs. There are also miscellaneous records of IGIC, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, photographs of gay rights demonstrations, scripts of plays by gay writers, and printed ephemera issued by gay, lesbian and AIDS organizations in the United States. less