American Geographical Society of New York Records, 1723-2010,  (bulk bulk 1854-2000)

 
Contents List
Container Title
Series: 1. Administration, 1855-1993
Subseries: 1A. Buildings, 1863-1970
Scope and Content Note: This subseries contains files related to the various buildings the AGS occupied through the years, including correspondence on the construction of the buildings and other financial matters. The majority of the materials focuses on the building where the AGS spent the longest time located: Broadway and 156th in New York City.
11 West 29th Street
Box   1
Folder   1
building fund, 1876-1881, , undated

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Box   1
Folder   2
Box   8
Folder   1
pictures, undated
15 West 81st Street
Box   36
Folder   1
architectural drawings, 1900, undated
Box   1
Folder   3
city surveyor plans, 1906

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Box   1
Folder   4
Box   1
Folder   5
correspondence, 1899-1908

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Box   1
Folder   6
guarantees, certificates, and permits, 1899-1902

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Box   1
Folder   7
James M. Kerr vs. The American Geographical Society, 1901

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Box   1
Folder   8
monthly building accounts, 1900-1902

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Box   36
Folder   2
photograph of building, undated
Box   40
Folder   1
photographs of construction, 1900, undated

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Box   8
Folder   2
pictures, undated
Amergeo and Geographical Realty Corporations
Box   1
Folder   9
correspondence, 1938-1946

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Box   1
Folder   10
mortgages and extensions, 1905-1930

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Box   10
scrapbooks, 1934-1943
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   1
Folder   11
Box   8
Folder   3
Audubon Terrace Group, 1965-1966
Box   40
Folder   2
Audubon Terrace, Hispanic Society of America, photographs, circa 1951

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Broadway and 156th Street
Box   1
Folder   12
construction payments, 1909-1911

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Box   1
Folder   13-14
correspondence, 1909-1913

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Box   36
Folder   2
oil paintings, undated
Box   437
Folder   1
negatives and positives, 1970, undated
Physical Description: 4 safety film negatives 
Physical Description: 2 film transparencies 
Box   36
Folder   2
photograph, 1970
Box   40
Folder   3
photographs, 1929-1970

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Box   1
Folder   15
Early Correspondence, 1863-1928

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Box   1
Folder   16
Insurance, Fire Protection, Repairs, etc., 1944-1968

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Box   40
Folder   4
Library, photographs, undated

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Box   40
Folder   5
Map Department, photograph, circa 1960

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Box   40
Folder   6
Photographs for Bowman Memorial Volume ("Amgraphics"), incl. photographs of staff, circa 1935

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Box   438
Photographs for Bowman Memorial Volume ("Amgraphics"), incl. photographs of staff, negatives, circa 1935

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Physical Description: 96 nitrate negatives 
Access Restrictions: Access to the nitrate negatives is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copies.
Box   1
Folder   17
Property on Boulevard and 150th-151st Street, 1886-1894, undated

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Subseries: 1B. Financial Records, 1864-1993
Scope and Content Note: Contains the financial records of the AGS and includes general ledgers, budget reports, fundraising proposals, information about funds, sales of AGS publications, and other materials of a financial nature.
Box   8
Folder   4
Account Books, 1874-1899
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Box   8
Folder   5
Account Books, 1950-1967
Physical Description: 6 volumes 
Box   8
Folder   6
Billing Record, contracts and projects, 1969-1979
Box   8
Folder   7
Billing Record, government projects, 1952-1967
Contributions
Box   1
Folder   18
"America's Prospects", 1936-1937

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Box   1
Folder   19-20
corporate support, 1947-1970, undated

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Box   1
Folder   21-23
donations and contributions, 1907-1971, undated

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Box   1
Folder   24
"Opportunities" circular, 1932-1937

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Box   1
Folder   25
special gifts and donations list, 1977-1978

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Box   1
Folder   26
Standard Oil Company, 1954-1966

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Foundations
Box   1
Folder   27
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1968

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Box   1
Folder   28
Asia Foundation, 1959-1974

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Box   1
Folder   29
corporations and foundations that purchase AGS Publications, 1957

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Box   1
Folder   30-31
correspondence, 1953-1965

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Box   2
Folder   1-3
Ford Foundation, correspondence, 1954-1962, undated
Box   2
Folder   4
Ford Foundation, presentation, 1955
Box   2
Folder   5
general information, 1955-1965
Box   2
Folder   6
James Foundation of New York Inc., 1958-1965
Box   2
Folder   7
Lincoln Ellsworth Foundation, 1959-1968
Box   2
Folder   8
Link Foundation, 1967-1968
Box   2
Folder   9
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, 1967-1969
Box   2
Folder   10
Moses Taylor Foundation, 1960-1966
Box   2
Folder   11
Resources for the Future Inc., 1953
Box   2
Folder   12
Rockefeller Foundation, 1930-1952
Box   2
Folder   13
schedule of corporate and foundation renewals, 1956-1965
Box   2
Folder   14
United States Steel Foundation Inc., 1964-1965
Fundraising
Box   2
Folder   15
"AGS: A Statement", 1951
Box   2
Folder   16-17
general, 1954-1975
Box   2
Folder   18
negative, 1960-1964
Box   2
Folder   19
"Survey and Plan of Fundraising for the AGS", 1929
Box   2
Folder   20
survey of AGS, prepared by Reuel Estill and Company, 1951
Funds
Box   2
Folder   21
analysis by Sarah K. Myers, 1977-1979
Box   2
Folder   22
Bowman Memorial Fund, 1950-1977
Box   2
Folder   23-24
building, Huntington property transfer, 1965-1984
Box   2
Folder   25
building fund, 1876-1910
Box   2
Folder   26
Commonwealth Fund, 1967-1968
Box   2
Folder   27
general, 1938-1971, undated
Box   2
Folder   28
Granthale Fund, 1952-1978
Box   2
Folder   29
Huntington Trust Fund, 1940-1975
Box   2
Folder   30
Louise A. Boyd Publishing Fund, 1956-1961

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Box   2
Folder   31
permanent endowment fund, 1920-1975, undated
Restricted Funds
Box   3
Folder   1-2
background information, incl. wills, 1898-1975
Box   3
Folder   3
capital gains, 1971-1974
Box   3
Folder   4
memoranda, 1971-1995
Box   3
Folder   5
use of principal, 1971-1978
Box   3
Folder   6-8
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1964-1972
Box   3
Folder   9
solicitation for endowment funds, 1919-1933, undated
Box   3
Folder   10
special projects, Teggart-Rosenberg Fund, 1927-1940
General
Box   3
Folder   11
account for Alois Musil's Arabian publications, 1924-1954
Box   3
Folder   12
books by Louise A. Boyd and Alexander Forbes, 1934-1939

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Box   3
Folder   13
budget, 1954-1970
Box   3
Folder   14-17
budget reports, 1942-1949
Box   8
Folder   8
controller's office memoranda, 1962-1963
Box   3
Folder   18
early funds and receipts, 1864-1865
Box   3
Folder   19
expenditures, 1954-1966
Box   3
Folder   20-23
financial statements, 1928-1970
Box   3
Folder   24
financial statements, drafts, 1930-1941
Box   3
Folder   25
publication program, 1926-1928
Box   3
Folder   26
real estate, New York City Department of Finance, 1917
Box   3
Folder   27
responses from Council on deficit, 1932-1942
Box   4
Folder   1
special committee on increasing revenues, 1946
Box   4
Folder   2
special projects, war and peace maps, 1939-1940
Box   4
Folder   3
tax exemption, 1908
Box   4
Folder   4
taxes, 1935-1941
Geographical Library Society
Box   4
Folder   5
certificate of incorporation and by-laws, 1880
Box   4
Folder   6
checkbook, 1881-1889
Box   4
Folder   7
correspondence, 1876-1891
Box   41
meeting minutes, 1880-1890
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   4
Folder   8
minutes of stockholders and trustees, 1889-1890, undated
property on West 29th Street
Box   4
Folder   9
leases, 1881-1888
Box   4
Folder   10
returning of stock, 1887-1889, undated
Box   4
Folder   11
vouchers and receipts, 1881-1888, undated
Box   4
Folder   12
stock certificates and transfers, 1888-1902
Box   41
stock certificates book, 1880-1888
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   8
Folder   9-11
Journal Vouchers, 1980-1982
Ledgers
cash journals (C1-C13)
Box   11
receipts and disbursements, 1863-1898
Physical Description: 6 volumes 
Box   12
receipts and disbursements, 1898-1911
Physical Description: 5 volumes 
Box   13
receipts and disbursements, 1911-1918
Physical Description: 5 volumes 
Box   14
receipts and disbursements, 1918-1926
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Box   15
receipts and disbursements, 1923-1929
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Volume   3-31
receipts and disbursements, 1929-1992
Physical Description: 29 volumes 
Box   16
transfers, 1929-1959
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Volume   1-2
treasurer's book, 1875-1887
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   17
general ledgers, 1885-1935
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Volume   32-49
general ledgers, incl. subsidiaries, 1936-1989
Physical Description: 17 volumes 
Box   8
Folder   12-13
general ledgers, 1993
miscellaneous (M1-M10)
Box   18
blotter, 1887-1915
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   18
building receipts for construction at 156th and Broadway, 1909-1912
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   18
Catskill map sales, 1907-1910
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   18
Geographical Library Society, receipts and disbursements, 1880-1890
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   18
insurance record, 1890-1915
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Volume   50-51
investment funds, 1937-1970
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   18
journals stock and delivery, 1888-1915
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   18
mortgage investments, 1898-1936
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Volume   52-53
mortgage investments, 1933-1946
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   18
postage disbursements, 1892-1928
Physical Description: 1 volume 
petty cash (P1-P9)
Box   19
account books, 1887-1932
Physical Description: 7 volumes 
Box   20
account books, 1932-1938
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   21
account books, 1939-1954
Physical Description: 6 volumes 
Box   20
multi-column summary, 1915-1927
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   20
S of S account, 1926-1927
Physical Description: 1 volume 
sales record (S1-S5)
Volume   54-59
AGS publications, 1918-1971
Physical Description: 6 volumes 
Box   8
Folder   14-23
AGS publications, 1971-1975
Volume   60
bills for copies of Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York and Bulletin of the American Geographical Society sold, 1890-1915
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Volume   61
map of the Americas 1:5,000,000, 1942-1947
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   22
trial balances (T1-T5), 1887-1950
Physical Description: 8 volumes 
Volume   62
trial balances, 1950-1954
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Legacies and Bequests
Box   4
Folder   13
Bacon, Francis M., 1913
Box   4
Folder   14
Borup, Henry D., father of George Borup, 1912-1924
Box   4
Folder   15-16
Cullum, George W., 1890-1896
Box   4
Folder   17
Daly, Charles P., 1894-1915
Box   4
Folder   18
De Vaugrigneuse, Sarah M., 1905-1911
Box   4
Folder   19
Ford, James B., 1928-1929
Box   4
Folder   20
general, 1964, undated
Box   4
Folder   21
Huntington, Collis P. and Arabella D., 1901-1927
Box   4
Folder   22
Mills, Darius O., 1910
Box   4
Folder   23
Molyneaux, Silas D., 1963-1976
Box   4
Folder   24
Parks, Harold E. and Susan T., 1960-1971
Box   4
Folder   25
Price, Eli K., 1968
Box   4
Folder   26
Robbins, Chandler, 1926-1928
Box   4
Folder   27
Sands, William R., 1908-1909
Box   4
Folder   28
Von Post, Herman C., 1914
Box   4
Folder   29
Whitaker, John E., 1930-1931
Box   4
Folder   30
Wolff, Emil, 1918-1926
Payroll
Volume   63-66
employee records, 1929-1979
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Access Restrictions: Access to these volumes is restricted.
Volume   67
employee records, incl. departmental analysis, 1955-1982
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Access Restrictions: Access to this volume is restricted.
Box   4
Folder   31-34
employee records, 1949-1955
Access Restrictions: Access to these records is restricted.
Box   4
Folder   35-36
employee records, 1983, 1993
Access Restrictions: Access to these records is restricted.
Box   4
Folder   37
manual, 1968
Box   4
Folder   38
time records, 1943-1953
Box   4
Folder   39-42
Treasurer's Monthly Reports, 1886-1912
Box   5
Folder   1
Treasurer's Monthly Reports, 1913-1925
Subseries: 1C. Legal Records, 1954-1986
Scope and Content Note: This subseries is comprised of correspondence with different law firms the AGS worked with in dealing with various legal issues, particularly the moving of the library and map collections. It includes correspondence with John E. Gould, before he became president of the AGS while he practiced at the law firm of Webster & Sheffield.
Box   2-12
Folder   2-12
General, 1954-1986
Box   1-3
Folder   1-3
Memoranda, 1971-1977
Subseries: 1D. Membership, 1857-1978
Scope and Content Note: This subseries contains files relating to membership, including lists of fellows, dues paid, and resignations. Includes ledgers, scrapbooks, publications, and correspondence. For honorary and corresponding membership records, see Series 7C. For a full index of members and the different types of members, see the list below.
Box   5
Folder   13
Annual and Life Membership, 1860-1932, undated
Box   36
Folder   3
Certificates, 1857
Box   5
Folder   14
Certificates (blank), undated
Box   9
Folder   4
Circulars and Other Printed Materials, 1862-1933
Box   9
Folder   5
Corporate, 1968
Box   9
Folder   6
Distinguished Fellows (non-geographers), 1968
Box   5
Folder   15
Ex-Officio Members, 1860-1891
Box   9
Folder   7
Fellows, 1968, undated
Index of Members

Other Finding Aids members, circa 1851-1950
members, circa 1950-1978
Box   23
A-Bo
Box   24
Br-Da
Box   25
De-F
Box   26
G-Hi
Box   27
Ho-Kn
Box   28
Ki-Ma
Box   29
Mc-Ol
Box   30
Om-Ro
Box   31
Ru-Sq
Box   32
St-V
Box   33
W-Z
Box   9
Folder   8
Introduction and Directory of Life Fellows, 1968
Ledgers (F1-F13)
Box   35
accounts against deceased fellows, 1888-1910
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   35
index, 1909-1916
Physical Description: 3 volumes 
Box   35
life fellows, 1852-1941
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   34
lists of members, 1859-1887
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   34
names and dues payments, 1859-1905
Physical Description: 3 volumes 
Box   35
names and dues payments, 1929-1953
Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   34
number of fellows and list of dropped fellows, 1892-1928
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Volume   68-71
treasurer's book, names and dues payments, 1873-1916
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Box   9
Folder   9
Life Members, 1967-1968
Box   5
Folder   16
List of Ministers and Consuls (ex-officio members?), undated
Box   9
Folder   10
Members' Book, 1917
Box   9
Folder   11
Names Suggested for Fellowship, 1967

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Box   9
Folder   12
Notebook of Proposed Candidates, 1892-1915
Box   9
Folder   13
Responses on Becoming Members
Abbot, Henry L.?, 1875
Anderson, Henry H., 1887
Anderson, R.S., 1887
Archer, George R., 1886
Baker, P.C., 1887
Balch, Edwin S., 1898
Batchelor, Charles, 1898
Beard, Daniel C., 1901
Belding, Milo M., 1897
Beer, William, 1897
Brown, M. Bayard, 1887
Davis, William Morris, 1904
Dewey, Davis R., 1901
Dieterich, Charles F., 1894
Drexel, A.J., 1887
Dunn, George W., 1894
Du Pont, Henry A., 1889
Duvall, W.C., 1894
Eastman, George, 1904
Field, C.P., 1875
Folsom, George W., 1875
Grant, Madison, 1905
Greer, Henry, 1881
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1888
Howells, William D., 1909
James, William, 1889
Jastrow, Joseph, 1888
McMauer, James?, 1875
Maury, Mytton, 1882
Nash, J., 1875
Parish, Henry, Jr., 1904
Pinchot, Gifford, 1893
Sherman, William T., 1874
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1907
Tuckerman, Paul, 1901
Van Dyke, Henry, 1887
Van Dyke, Henry I., Jr., 1886
Box   37-39
Scrapbooks, publications and fellows circulars, 1921-1966
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Subseries: 1E. Objectives, Policies, and Plans, 1930-1968
Scope and Content Note: This subseries includes files on planning documents for and reports on the future of the AGS, and includes fundraising possibilities and other proposals. There are also materials on the policies of the AGS and an operations manual. Contains mostly correspondence and reports.
Box   9
Folder   14
"AGS: Its Needs and Its Future", 1966
Box   9
Folder   15
Description of Departments and Activities, circa 1950
Box   9
Folder   16
"Existing and Potential Activities", 1946
Box   9
Folder   17
"Geography and the AGS: 1968-1978", 1968
Box   9
Folder   18
"Industry and the AGS", 1964
Box   9
Folder   19
Memo by Wilma B. Fairchild, 1957
Box   9
Folder   20
Operations Manual, circa 1945
Planning Documents
Box   5
Folder   17
key, undated
Box   5
Folder   18
P1, reports, notes, and correspondence, 1933-1944
Box   6
Folder   1-4
P2-4, reports, notes, and correspondence, 1946-1949
Box   6
Folder   5
P5, miscellaneous, 1948-1949
Box   6
Folder   6
P6, proposed exhibition, 1947
Box   9
Folder   21
"Policies and Purpose of the AGS", 1947-1952
Box   9
Folder   22
Praise of AGS, 1930-1944
Box   9
Folder   23
Presentation of the AGS, 1966
Box   9
Folder   24
Report on AGS Activities, 1949
Box   9
Folder   25
"Report on the AGS" by Richard U. Light, 1948
Box   9
Folder   26
Special Committee on Education and Publications, 1946-1947
Box   9
Folder   27
Special Committee on Planning, 1947
Box   9
Folder   28
Special Committee on the Society's Program, 1946-1950
Box   9
Folder   29
Statement on the AGS, 1954-1957, undated
Subseries: 1F. Staff, 1855-1987
Scope and Content Note: The Staff subseries contains miscellaneous information, general correspondence, and photographs on a number of former staff members, and includes biographies of staff members who worked at the AGS in the 1950s and 1960s.
Box   6
Folder   7-8
Adams, Cyrus C., 1891-1931, undated

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Autobiographies
Box   40
Folder   7
volume I, senior staff members, photographs, 1964

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Box   9
Folder   30
volume I, senior staff members, text, 1964
Box   40
Folder   8
volume II, current and past staff, photographs, 1968

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Box   9
Folder   31-32
volume II, current and past staff, text, 1968
Box   9
Folder   33
Biographies, 1952
Box   40
Folder   9
Cartography Department, photographs, 1923-1974, undated

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Box   437
Folder   1
Collins, Sam G., negative, 1971
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative 
Box   7
Folder   1
Daly, Charles P., 1855-1899

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Box   7
Folder   2
Diary of Keeper of Rooms, 1857-1862
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   7
Folder   3
Employee Policies and Benefit Plans, 1944-1974
Box   9
Folder   34
Felland, Nordis, 1940-1967, undated
Box   9
Folder   35
Heusser, Calvin J., 1961-1966
Box   9
Folder   36
Hitchcock, Charles B., 1928
Box   9
Folder   37
Letts, Thomas, 1889-1916
Box   40
Folder   10
Library, photographs, undated

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Box   9
Folder   38
Lists of AGS Staff Members, 1951-1970
Box   9
Folder   39
Lowenthal, David, 1967-1968
Box   40
Folder   11
Map Department, photographs, 1959-1960

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Box   9
Folder   40
McNee, Robert B., 1974-1987
Box   9
Folder   41
Miller, Osborn Maitland, 1938-1950
Box   9
Folder   42
Miscellaneous, 1936-1943, undated
Box   437
Folder   1
Negatives, 1965-1967, undated
Physical Description: 35 safety film negatives 
Box   40
Folder   12-13
Photographs, 1940-1974

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Box   9
Folder   43
Platt, Elizabeth T., 1937-1944
Box   9
Folder   44
Ralphs, Howland D., 1899-1916
Box   9
Folder   45
Wright, John K., 1920
Box   9
Folder   46
Wrigley, Gladys M., 1913-1948
Box   7
Folder   4
Yonge, Ena L., 1946-1965