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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2009
Abstract

Letters from Susan Dixwell Miller (Mrs. Gerrit Smith Miller) concerning Miss Cross' settlement house work for women in Brooklyn; letters, notes, and reminiscences concerning the beginnings of the George Junior Republic in Freeville, New York; and family letters and printed items.

Dates: 1896-1954,-1898-1910 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers

John L. Moffat papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-1460
Abstract Correspondence between John and his parents, Dr. Reuben Curtis and Elizabeth Virginia Barcly Moffat, constitutes the bulk of this collection; there is also correspondence between Moffat and his brothers Edgar, George, and Burnham, and sister Ada, and several relatives and friends, including Aunt Liney (Adelaide Curtis) and her sons Gram, Frank, and Ernest. Moffat's letters discuss his experiences at Cornell University; letters from family and friends discuss life in Brooklyn, New York. Also...
Dates: 1867-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John L. Moffat papers

Nelson Peter Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2712
Abstract

Speeches and papers given by Nelson P. Lewis; scrapbooks of news clippings and programs, 1896-1923; scrapbook of reviews of The Planning of the Modern City, 1919-1923; professional engineering license, 1921; three illuminated memorial booklets, 1924; copies of The Planning of the Modern City, 1916; Urbanizacion, the Spanish edition, 1917-1918; and other books by Nelson P. Lewis.

Dates: 1896-1925.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Nelson Peter Lewis papers

Paul Davidoff papers

 Collection — Box 27: [Barcode: 31924065340170]
Identifier: 4250
Abstract

Papers relating to Paul Davidoff's career as a city planner, including his civil rights activism on housing discrimination.

Dates: 1951-1985.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Paul Davidoff papers

William Wallace Tooker papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9187
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Wallace Tooker papers

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