John Purroy Mitchel papers, 1835-1932 (bulk 1892-1918).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 27,000 items; 71 containers plus 1 oversize; 28.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930 -- Correspondence
- Belmont, August, 1853-1924 -- Correspondence
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 -- Correspondence
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917 -- Correspondence
- Hand, Learned, 1872-1961 -- Correspondence
- Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 -- Correspondence
- Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929 -- Correspondence
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 -- Correspondence
- Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Correspondence
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 -- Correspondence
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Correspondence
- Mitchel family
- Mitchell family
- New York (N.Y.) Collector of the Port of New York
- Diamond mines and mining -- Guyana
- National security -- United States
- Ports of entry -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
- United States -- Defenses
- Lawyers
- Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York
- Soldiers
Open to research.
Correspondence, desk diaries, speeches, articles, notebooks, press releases, family papers, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Mitchel's administrations as counselor and mayor of New York City. Also documents his work as Collector of the Port of New York, New York, N.Y., and his views on national defense. Includes records kept by Mitchel as a member of the board of directors of the Corona Diamond Syndicate, a firm conducting mining operations in British Guiana (Guyana). Correspondents include Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour; August Belmont; Andrew Carnegie; Joseph Hodges Choate; Learned Hand; Norman Hapgood; Myron T. Herrick; Herbert Hoover; Charles Evans Hughes; John D. Rockefeller; Theodore Roosevelt; William H. Taft; Oswald Garrison Villard; and Woodrow Wilson.
Soldier, lawyer, and mayor of New York, N.Y.
Collection material in English.
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