TY  - GEN
AU  - Whitney,William C.
AU  - Whitney,Harry Payne
TI  - Harry Payne Whitney collection of letters of William Collins Whitney,
KW  - Cleveland, Grover,
KW  - Greely, A. W.
KW  - Whitney family.
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Law Department
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - Navy Department
KW  - Tammany Hall
KW  - Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
KW  - (1881-1884)
KW  - Bimetallism
KW  - Fraud
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - Horse racing
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Election
KW  - Silver question
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Tweed Ring
KW  - Yachting
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - To 1898
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1865-1950
KW  - Polar regions
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1865-1898
KW  - 1865-1900
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Financiers
KW  - Sportsmen
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence; business, legal, and financial records; genealogies; scrapbooks; printed matter; photographs; and other papers pertaining chiefly to William C. Whitney's service as corporation counsel in the New York (N.Y.) Law Dept. and as U.S. secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.  Documents his work in the modernization of the U.S. Navy and his fight against political corruption and fraud in New York, N.Y., primarily in relation to Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring.  Subjects include New York city and state politics; the Democratic Party (N.Y); national politics; and foreign relations.  Other subjects include Grover Cleveland's nomination and election as New York state governor and U.S. president; presidential campaigns, 1884-1896; bimetallism; silver question; tariff; social life in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.; horse racing: yachting: and Whitney family affairs.  Includes six scrapbooks containing photographs from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884) led by A.W. Greely
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012064
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012064.3
ER  -