Found 2 collections related to Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915

Robert Bonner (1824-1899) was a newspaper publisher and trotting horse breeder. He owned and published the New York Ledger. Collection consists of general correspondence, trotting horse papers, financial documents, writings, photographs, and artifacts. General correspondence includes letters to Bonner as proprietor of the New York Ledger, with a few drafts of his replies, mostly from contributors offering stories, suggesting plots, soliciting money, acknowledging remuneration, and relating to personal matters; letters from Presbyterian clergymen about church affairs; and letters from the owners of the New York Sun, New York Herald, and New York Times, revealing Bonner's willingness to lend financial aid to those newspapers. Papers relating to the breeding, development, and shoeing of trotting horses contain letters from owners, breeders, veterinarians, editors of sporting journals, and others from all parts of the United States, especially Kentucky; notes on horses; accounts; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings containing biographical data and other material on the horse and on the Scotch Irish Society of America; and photographs, sketches and artifacts. less

Citizens Union, founded in 1897, was initially established as an independent political party focused on reforming government in New York City and New York State. The City Club of New York was founded in 1892 as a nonpartisan watchdog organization. The assembled ephemera collection, dating from 1873 to 1909, chronicles each organization's efforts to elect anti-Tammany Hall officials in New York City. less