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{"value"=>"MssCol 6090", "type"=>"local_call"}
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1610
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1952
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1610
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{"value"=>"William B. Osgood Field papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"William Bradhurst Osgood Field and his family were prominent members of New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Field was an avid book collector, gentleman farmer, and philanthropist who sat on the boards of many organizations, both commercial and charitable, and was a member of over twenty clubs and societies. The collection consists of family, personal, and office correspondence; financial documents; diaries; genealogical records; educational materials; photographs; and ephemera documenting the family's commercial, philanthropic, and social activities from 1897 to 1934."}
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{"value"=>"<p>William B. Osgood Field Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Field, William B. Osgood", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>William Bradhurst Osgood Field and his family were prominent members of New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Field was an avid book collector, gentleman farmer, and philanthropist who sat on the boards of many organizations, both commercial and charitable, and was a member of over twenty clubs and societies. He and his family divided the year between the family's three homes: 645 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, High Lawn in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Westfield in Mohegan Lake, N.Y.</p> <p>His mother, Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, and his sister, Mary Pearsall Field, were society women who traveled throughout Europe and entertained at their homes in New York City and Mohegan Lake. Mary maintained an extensive correspondence with friends and family. Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, his wife, was a great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Like her husband, Lila was involved in a number of charitable organizations and was an accomplished sportswoman.</p> <p>William and Lila were the parents of four children. Their older son, William Osgood Field, became a noted glaciologist. Frederick Vanderbilt Field, their younger son, became a member of the Communist movement and the author of a number of books about Asia's economy in the 1930s. Marjorie Lila and Mary Augusta were their two daughters. Marjorie and her husband H. George Wilde took over the High Lawn estate and turned it into one of the region's top dairy farms.</p> <p>William's paternal uncle, Osgood Field, was a prominent member of London and Rome society in the second half of the 19th century. He conducted the family's business in London and undertook extensive research into the history of the Field family. He published his results as <span class=\"title\">The Fields of Sowerby near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York</span> in 1895.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The William B. Osgood Field Papers consist of family, personal, and office correspondence; financial documents; diaries; genealogical records; school and college memorabilia; photographs; and ephemera which record his and his family's commercial, philanthropic, and social activities, chiefly between 1897 and 1934. While the bulk of the collection consists of William B. Osgood Field's papers, other family members are well represented, especially his wife, mother, sister, uncle Osgood, and daughter Marjorie.</p> <p>The collection is arranged so that William B. Osgood Field's papers come first, followed by the papers of other family members, in alphabetical order.</p> <p>Some materials are in German, French, and Italian.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The William B. Osgood Field papers are arranged in twenty-one series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c193634'>Series I. William B. Osgood Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1753-1949, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>123 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series I is divided into seven subseries: Subseries A includes Field's general correspondence; Subseries B includes materials relating to his collecting interests, including correspondence with art and book dealers, invoices, and inventories of his collections; Subseries C includes materials relating to his genealogical research; Subseries D contains materials pertaining to the New Theatre; Subseries E relates to his position as treasurer of the Sloane Hospital for Women; Subseries F. contains records of the Trinity School (Lenox, Mass.) of which Field was a founder and trustee; Subseries G contains financial and legal documents, including bank and investment account documents, real estate records, and invoices; and Subseries H contains personal miscellany such as diaries, passports, driver's licenses, and education materials.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194406'>Series II. Alice Withrow Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-1933</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3 folders</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194410'>Series III. Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1862-1919, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>23 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194492'>Series IV. Elizabeth Brown Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-1933, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 folders</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194497'>Series V. Erika Segnitz Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-1933</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 folder</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Erika Segnitz Field was William B. Osgood Field's second wife. They met in 1929 in Germany through Field's son, Frederick. They married in 1936 and were divorced in 1940. The folder contains personal letters she received.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194498'>Series VI. Frederick Vanderbilt Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1907-1947, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194547'>Series VII. Hickson Woolman Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1884-1907</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 folder</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Personal letters to Hickson W. Field, Osgood Field's nephew, son of his brother Maunsell B. Field.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194548'>Series VIII. Katharine Roxana Parker Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1870-1901, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194562'>Series IX. Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1889-1938, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>48 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194840'>Series X. Mary Hemenway Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1939-1952, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c194879'>Series XI. Mary Pearsall Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1868-1946, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>27 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195064'>Series XII. Osgood Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1739-1900, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>14.5 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195197'>Series XIII. William Hazard Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1851-1888, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195214'>Series XIV. William O. Field</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1907-1947, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195269'>Series XV. Henry Bigelow Jackson</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1931-1934</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 folders</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195272'>Series XVI. Mary Field Jackson</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1915-1947, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195307'>Series XVII. William Douglas Sloane</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1889-1918</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 folders</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195310'>Series XVIII. H. George Wilde</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1933-1942</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 folders</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195315'>Series XIX. Marjorie Field Wilde</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1915-1947, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>19 boxes</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195422'>Series XX. Miscellaneous letters</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1861, 1884, 1893, 1900, 1909, 1926, 1934, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes letters from individuals not represented elsewhere in the collection, including Jerusha Field to a nephew (1861), Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl Lyons to Mrs. Mounsey (1884), Mary Elizabeth Bradhurst Field to her daughter, Elizabeth Field Brancaccio (1893), Rudolff Fenisch to Mme. de Talleyrand (1900), William Francklyn Paris to Leopold Stokowski (1909), L.B. Howden to Thomas F. Davies (1926), D. Lewis to Mrs. H.M. Alexander (1934), and Eleanor Pell Phelps to Fannie Bradhurst Field (undated).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6090#c195423'>Series XXI. Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1862-1945</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes photographs of William B. Osgood Field and members of his immediate and extended family; camping, hunting, and fishing trips in Canada; photographs of High Lawn and Westfield Farm, and Field's World War I residence in Washington, D.C. There are also photographs from Field's travels in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s which include Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Bad Nauheim, and Bad Homburg.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The William B. Osgood Field Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. William B. Osgood Field, 1753-1949, n.d.</li> <li>Series II. Alice Withrow Field, 1929-1933</li> <li>Series III. Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, 1862-1919, n.d.</li> <li>Series IV. Elizabeth Brown Field, 1929-1933, n.d.</li> <li>Series V. Erika Segnitz Field, 1929-1933</li> <li>Series VI. Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 1907-1947, n.d.</li> <li>Series VII. Hickson Woolman Field, 1884-1907</li> <li>Series VIII. Katharine Roxana Parker Field, 1870-1901, n.d.</li> <li>Series IX. Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, 1889-1938, n.d.</li> <li>Series X. Mary Hemenway Field, 1939-1952, n.d.</li> <li>Series XI. Mary Pearsall Field, 1868-1946, n.d.</li> <li>Series XII. Osgood Field, 1739-1900, n.d.</li> <li>Series XIII. William Hazard Field, 1851-1888, n.d.</li> <li>Series XIV. William O. Field, 1907-1947, n.d.</li> <li>Series XV. Henry Bigelow Jackson, 1931-1934</li> <li>Series XVI. Mary Field Jackson, 1915-1947, n.d.</li> <li>Series XVII. William Douglas Sloane, 1889-1918</li> <li>Series XVIII. H. George Wilde, 1933-1942</li> <li>Series XIX. Marjorie Field Wilde, 1915-1947, n.d.</li> <li>Series XX. Miscellaneous letters, 1861, 1884, 1893, 1900, 1909, 1926, 1934, n.d.</li> <li>Series XXI. Photographs, 1862-1945</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the Descendants of William Bradhurst Osgood Field, 2003.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Diaries (1910-1933) of Marjorie Field Wilde and her correspondence with her husband, Helm George Wilde, are closed until 2026.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>All requests for publication before October 2008 must be approved by donors representatives.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"archref\">Field-Osgood family papers, 1702-1938 MMC-3718. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Finding aid to the collection is available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/field-os.html.</span></p>"}
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ger
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eng
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{"value"=>"Some materials are in German, French and Italian"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Megan O'Shea and Benjamin Alexander; machine readable finding aid created by FAKER.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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112 linear feet (274 boxes, 1 volume, 1 map case folder)
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1610
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1952
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1897
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1934