Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers
Abstract
Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.
Dates
- 1887 - 1978
- Majority of material found within 1887 - 1926
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
10 cubic feet. (10 cubic feet.)
SERIES LIST
Series I. Correspondence Boxes 1-4, 13. Reels 1-10
Willard D. Straight to Dorothy Whitney Straight Willard D. Straight to Others Others to Dorothy Whitney Straight Engagement and wedding congratulations, 1911 Congratulations on Whitney W. Straight's birth, 1912 Dorothy to Willard Dorothy to Others Others to Willard Wedding congratulations (to Leonard K. Elmhirst), 1925 Transcripts of Correspondence (not microfilmed or indexed)
Series II. Other papers through 1911 Boxes 5-7, 9. Reels 11, 12
Photographs, documents, miscellany Notes
Series III. Other papers, 1912 through 1925 Boxes 8-10. Reels 12-14
1130 Fifth Avenue Civic activities Willard D. Straight in France, 1917-1918 (see also #1260, reel 7) India House Asia magazine Willard Straight Hall
Series IV. The New Republic Boxes 11-12. Reels 14-16
Correspondence Accounts
Physical Description
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, papers.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- J. Vargo
- Date completed:
- June 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Julia Guarneri, August 2002
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, October 2018
General
Portions of this collection are available on microfilm. The guide to the microfilm is here.
- Andrew, A. Piatt (Abram Piatt), 1873-1936.
- Asia.
- Auchincloss, J. Howland.
- Bacon, Martha W.
- Bacon, Robert Law.
- Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919.
- Barney, Katharine L.
- Bolton, Frances P. B.
- Bordentown Military Academy
- Calhoun, William J. (William James), 1848-1916.
- Casenave, Maurice.
- Chenoweth, Wilbur, 1899-1980.
- Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947.
- Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1950.
- Croly, Louise.
- Cross, Ellen Straight.
- Curtis, James.
- Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.
- Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922.
- Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960.
- Derby, Ethel Roosevelt.
- Derby, Richard.
- Dix, Margaret G.
- Draper, Charles D.
- Egan, Martin.
- Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
- Fiedler, Alfred W.
- Fletcher, Beatrice Bend, -1941.
- Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959.
- Foord, John, 1842-1922.
- French, Charles, Lord.
- Harriman, Florence Jaffray, 1870-1967.
- Hobart College (Geneva, N.Y.)
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
- House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938.
- Jay, Delancey K.
- Junior League
- Knowlton, Louise R.
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
- Longworth, Alice L. Roosevelt, 1889-1980.
- Marvin, George D.
- Mayor\'s Committee of Women on National Defense
- Merz, Charles, 1893-1977
- Morgan, Ruth.
- New School for Social Research
- New York State Food Commission
- New republic.
- Phillips, Caroline D.
- Phillips, William.
- Pueblos Defense Committee
- Ripley, Annah D., Countess de Viel Castel
- Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
- Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934.
- Sedgwick, Susan R.
- Social Unit Plan
- Social reformers.
- Straight, Hazel.
- Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918.
- Swift, Eliza Morgan.
- Szechenyi, Gladys M. Vanderbilt, Countess, 1887-1965.
- Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children
- Tuckerman, May.
- Viel-Castel, Anna Dillon Ripley, comtesse de, 1886-
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
- War Camp Service Committee
- Warren, Lloyd.
- Whitehouse, William Fitz Hugh.
- Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 18757-1942.
- Whitney, Pauline P.
- Willard Straight Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Williams, Anna L. B.
- Women social reformers.
- Women\'s Emergency Committee of the European Relief Council
- Women\'s Liberty Loan Committee
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Young, Stark, 1881-1963.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J. Vargo
- Date
- August 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Box: 14 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 15 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 2 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 5 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 6 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 7 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 8 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 9 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 10 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 11 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 12 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 13 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 14 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 15 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 16 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 16 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu