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Manuscripts and Archives Division
The Division holds over 29,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives in over 5,500 collections. The strengths of the Division are the papers and records of individuals, families, and organizations, primarily from the New York region. These collections support research in the political, economic, social, and cultural history of New York and the United States.
Items in the Manuscripts and Archives Division See More
Invoices and sales
India Pavilion basement and ground floor plans
Aerial photograph of the Fair with Bell Systems Pavilion in the foreground
Photograph of riders admiring the It's a Small World amusement
Photograph of suspended automobile body in the Chrysler Pavilion production ride
"Dear Brother" letter
Annual ticket for riding the Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railroad Company: John Z. Lott
Annual ticket for riding the Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railroad Company: G.F. Thomas
Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la ysla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico
Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār
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[Ḥāshiyat al-fāḍil Ibrāhīm Ḥaydar al-wāqiʻah ʻalá Qūl Aḥmad]
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Gulshan-i raz
Katherine McClintock vanity
Katherine McClintock dresser
Katherine McClintock dressing table
Illustrated envelope to Miss Ellen A. Hargedon
Letter from John England to Ellen Hargedon
Barbara Gittings picketing
Publication party guests #1
Clarke, Nichols, Gitting and Lahusen at publication party
Kameny with Bob Martin and Morty Manford at publication party
Gittings and guests at publication party
Lige Clarke and Jack Nichols
Publication party guests #2
Collections in the Manuscripts and Archives Division
New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated records
177,198 items
Century Company records
15,771 items
New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated records
13,645 items
Benjamin K. Miller collection of United States stamps
5,505 items
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
5,127 items
Diana Davies photographs
3,844 items
Theodorus Bailey Myers collection
1,810 items
Committee of Fifteen records
1,731 items
Samuel J. Tilden papers
1,561 items
Philip Schuyler papers
1,531 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection
1,412 items
Samuel Adams papers
1,248 items
Duyckinck family papers
1,153 items
Bancker plans
1,080 items
Gay Men's Health Crisis records
854 items
Schwimmer-Lloyd collection
753 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
725 items
Kay Zakariasen Greek Diners collection
562 items
Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection
437 items
James Madison papers
368 items
William Smith Jr. papers
342 items
Benjamin R. Tucker papers
262 items
Boston Committee of Correspondence records
258 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Photographs
252 items
United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter
246 items
Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
246 items
Andrew Jackson and William B. Lewis correspondence
237 items
George Chalmers collection
195 itemsBrown Brothers & Company records
174 items
Liebmann collection of American historical documents relating to spiritous liquors
167 items
Yaddo records
156 items
Thomas Kelah Wharton diaries and sketchbook
154 items
Thomas A. Larcom photographs collection
151 items
Gran Fury collection
147 items
ACT UP New York records
147 items
Port Washington Public Library Gallery Talks
141 items
Harold M. Fleming papers
109 items
George Washington papers
107 items
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation records
96 items
Augusta Melville papers
92 items
Gansevoort-Lansing collection
83 items
Robert Brewster Stanton papers
80 items
East Village Eye records
74 items
Vincent Raschella papers
71 items
William J. Wilgus papers
69 items
Noah Webster papers
67 items
Thomas Jefferson papers
58 items
Fifty-seven early New York documents
57 items
George Gibbs collection of Oliver Wolcott correspondence
56 items
Livingston family papers
56 items
Schuyler-Malcom family papers
55 items
William Williams papers
52 items
Robert Morris papers
51 items
John Bigelow papers
46 items
Camilla and Earl McGrath papers
46 items
Frank J. Sprague papers
45 items
August Belmont papers
41 items
John Quinn papers
41 items
Joseph Hawley papers
40 items
Alexander Hamilton papers
40 items
Robert F. Byrnes collection of automat memorabilia
38 items
New Yorker records
37 items
National Audubon Society records
34 items
William H. Meyers diary
33 items
Henry Knox papers
32 items
Philip Schuyler letters and documents
32 items
Abraham Lincoln collection
28 items
Stefan George letters to Ernst Morwitz
27 items
Timothy Leary papers
27 items
Philip Mazzei papers
26 items
Carl Van Vechten papers
26 items
Raphael Lemkin papers
26 items
Arabic manuscripts collection
25 items
Frank Thompson photograph albums
24 items
Edward F. Caldwell Lighting Company records
24 items
Emigrant Savings Bank records
21 items
New York Times Company records. General files
20 items
William B. Osgood Field papers
18 items
Richard Henry Lee letters
17 items
Fred F. French Companies records
17 items
Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records
15 items
People's Institute records
15 items
Piccirilli family papers
15 items
Whitney cookery collection
15 items
Angela Morgan papers
14 items
William B. Astor papers
14 items
Highland Notes
13 items
Draper Collection of cuneiform
13 items
Sydney Howard Gay papers
13 items
Hugh Gaine papers
12 items
Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
12 items
Gilbert H. Montague collection of Robert Fulton manuscripts
12 items
Cravath, Swaine & Moore collection of historical documents
12 items
Alexander Jackson Davis papers
12 items
Florence Kelley papers
12 items
Nathaniel Trumbull papers
12 items
Alexandria, Virginia account books
12 items
Stratemeyer Syndicate records
12 items
Silas Deane letters
11 items
Moe Berg papers
11 items
H.L. Mencken papers
11 items
Babette Deutsch papers
11 items
Bettye Lane Gay Rights Movement Photographs
11 items
Committee of Fourteen records
10 items
Bacon cipher collection
10 items
Spalding baseball collection
10 items
Joseph Hawley correspondence and documents
10 items
Robert Moses papers
10 items
Genevieve Taggard papers
9 items
Benjamin Randolph ledger
9 items
Paul Kester papers
9 items
Craig Rodwell papers
9 items
Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order records
8 items
Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York Records
8 items
Collin MacGregor letterbooks
8 items
Raphael Patai papers
8 items
Hudson collection
8 items
William Conant Church papers
8 items
Frank P. Walsh papers
8 items
United States Sanitary Commission records. Hospital Directory archives
8 items
Straus family papers
8 items
Shaker manuscript collection
8 items
Dutchess County Anti-Slavery Society Executive Committee minutes
7 items
Edward Clark Potter papers
7 items
Gerry-Townsend papers
7 items
Jacob Riis papers
7 items
Washington Irving papers
7 items
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender periodical collection
7 items
Lee Kohns collection
7 items
Ruth and Hermann Vollmer papers
7 items
Robert Fulton collection
7 items
Albert S. Bard papers
7 items
National American Woman Suffrage Association records
7 items
Litchfield family photograph collection
7 items
Edward S. and Mary Stillman Harkness collection
7 items
Liberal Party of New York State records
7 items
Elizabeth Van Lew papers
7 items
Truman Capote papers
7 items
Bertram David Wolfe papers
7 items
Holger Cahill papers
7 items
Horace Grant Healey penmanship collection
7 items
Joel Sayre papers
7 items
Emigrant Savings Bank records
7 items
Ezra A. Carman papers
7 items
Hayden Carruth papers
7 items
Henry George papers
7 items
Genet family papers
6 items
Monumentos Guadalupanos
6 items
The works of William E. Channing
6 items
William Barclay Parsons collection of Robert Fulton manuscripts
6 items
Michael P. Riabouchinsky papers
6 items
Schieffelin family papers
6 items
Theodore Winthrop papers
6 items
Tom Wolfe papers
6 items
F. M. Esfandiary / FM-2030 papers
6 items
Georgia Lloyd papers
6 items
Fannia M. Cohn papers
6 items
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh papers, 1871-1934.
5 items
Obadiah Rich collection
5 items
Sol Bloom papers, 1898-1949, bulk (1935-1949)
5 items
Pierre F. Simon collection of artists' letters
5 items
Vito Marcantonio papers
5 items
Carnegie Corporation of New York correspondence
5 items
Harry Miller Lydenberg papers
5 items
Propaganda collection
5 items
Thomas Bohen papers regarding Grace Paley
5 items
Isabel Florence Hapgood papers
5 items
Central and Eastern European Planning Board records
5 items
Crane family papers
5 items
Louis Waldman papers
5 items
Maitland collection of South Sea Company and Mississippi Scheme papers
5 items
Patricia Cornwell collection
5 items
Samuel Ward papers
5 items
Gino Speranza papers
5 items
Willa Cather literary manuscripts
5 items
H. R. Newton's Oyster House ledger and photographs
5 items
Camera Club of New York records
5 items
John A. Roebling Sons Company Brooklyn Bridge engineer's drawings
5 items
Bryant-Godwin papers
5 items
Moses Taylor papers
5 items
Oriental piano compositions
5 items
Montague collection of historical autographs
5 items
Gustav Scholer papers.
4 items
New Netherland papers
4 items
Smyth of Nibley papers
4 items
Simeon A. Stearns papers
4 items
The Life of Robert Fulton / by Cadwallader D. Colden ; illustrated by Thos. Addis Emmet M.D
4 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Organizations
4 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Bars
4 items
Constance Lindsay Skinner papers
4 items
Berenice Abbott papers
4 items
Clark M. Eichelberger papers
4 items
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research correspondence
4 items
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records
4 items
Robert H. Davis papers
4 items
Constable-Pierrepont papers
4 items
Chester F. Carlson papers
4 items
Albert Tracy papers
4 items
Alexandre Vattemare papers
4 items
Alfred Williams Anthony collection
4 items
J.G. Holland papers
4 items
John Shaw Billings papers
4 items
Spanish Child Welfare Association of America records
4 items
New York City miscellaneous collection
4 items
Pierre Toussaint papers
4 items
Miscellaneous Collections: U.S. States and Territories
4 items
Dorothy Frooks papers
4 items
Butler-Huntington-Smith family papers
4 items
Psalterium Americanum
4 items
Gilbert Jenkins Jr. letters sent
4 items
Ernest Harvier scrapbooks
4 items
Martin B. Duberman papers
4 items
William Henry Jackson papers, 1862-1942
3 items
Gideon Welles papers, 1825-1878, bulk (1840-1864)
3 items
Miscellaneous personal name files
3 items
Log of the ship Lawrance
3 items
Samuel B. Ruggles papers, 1801-1881.
3 items
United States Sanitary Commission records. Department of North Carolina archives
3 items
John H. Finley papers
3 items
Notes to the Retreat of the English
3 items
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi papers
3 items
Artkraft Strauss records
3 items
Arthur Bell papers
3 items
American Industrial Mission to Mexico records
3 items
Max Wertheimer papers
3 items
David Fulton Karsner papers
3 items
Diana Vreeland papers
3 items
Levi P. Morton papers
3 items
Montague-Collier family papers
3 items
Vito Marcantonio photographs
3 items
Vito Russo papers
3 items
A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties ...
3 items
Foster-Murphy collection
3 items
William Frey papers
3 items
Ida M. Mellen papers
3 items
Edith Wynner papers
3 items
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures records
3 items
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poems and miscellany
3 items
Conewago Canal Company records, 1788-1820.
2 items
Edward C. Taintor papers, 1839-1879.
2 items
Thomas F. Madigan collection, 1817-1931.
2 items
United States. Mission to Russia - Official Papers of Albert Gallatin, John Quincy Adams and James A. Bayard.
2 items
William Greenleaf Webster papers, 1820-1865.
2 items
Gilbert Livingston papers
2 items
Alexander Anderson papers
2 items
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement records
2 items
Emily Fowler Ford papers
2 items
Lewis Hine papers
2 items
Richard Mansfield family papers
2 items
Prison Association of New York records
2 items
Horace Greeley papers
2 items
Emerson family papers
2 items
Robert Burns and William Nicol Burns letters
2 items
Van Cortlandt-Van Wyck family papers
2 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Subjects
2 items
Adeline Oppenheim Guimard papers
2 items
Town Hall, Inc. records
2 items
Ronald Sanders papers
2 items
Robert Stone papers
2 items
Forgeries collection
2 items
Ford, Roelker, Turle family papers
2 items
Richard Upjohn and Richard Michell Upjohn papers
2 items
Emma Mills correspondence
2 items
Victory Book Campaign records
2 items
Schuyler Colfax papers
2 items
William Edgar papers
2 items
Copy Berg papers
2 items
Beale shorthand collection
2 items
Joel E. Spingarn papers
2 items
Dutch West India Company Brazil records
2 items
Contemporaries gallery records
2 items
Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la ysla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico : manuscript
2 items
United States Sanitary Commission records. Washington, D.C. archives
2 items
Richard Watson Gilder papers
2 items
Bayard-Campbell-Pearsall families papers
2 items
New Yorker covers
2 items
Stephen Schmidt engineering papers
2 items
Ward family papers
2 items
Ely family letters
2 items
Lithography, its theory and practice: manuscript
2 items
George Bancroft collection
2 items
13th Moon records
2 items
Miscellaneous Collections: United States: U.S. Army
2 items
Astor family papers, 1792-1916.
1 item
Charles Blue diary kept on board the U.S.S. Vandalia
1 item
Autograph verses and photographs of Southern poets of the Civil War
1 item
Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers, 1891-1945.
1 item
George Jones papers, 1825-1894 (bulk 1860-1887).
1 item
Kip family papers
1 item
Koppel S. Pinson papers, 1923-1960, bulk (1940s-1950s)
1 item
Lewis M. Isaacs collection of E.A. Robinson papers, 1896-1967.
1 item
Nicholas Kelley papers
1 item
Samuel Hill papers, 1813-1822.
1 item
Samuel and John Galloway papers, 1739-1812.
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
Taunton Social Library records
1 item
Walter L. Fleming papers
1 item
William Frederick Allen papers, 1870-1894, bulk (1879-1894).
1 item
Bliss family papers
1 item
Serrell-Opdycke-Patrick papers
1 item
Emma Goldman papers
1 item
John Robert Gregg collection
1 item
Maloney collection of Irish historical papers
1 item
Andrew Carnegie letters
1 item
Oliver Wolcott letterbook
1 item
Arcularius and Merrell record and account book
1 item
New York State Comptroller's Office canal records
1 item
Henry Harrisse papers
1 item
George H. Budke collection
1 item
Mormon miscellaneous collection
1 item
William Augustine Washington letters
1 item
Kitty Marion papers
1 item
Messages of the Records
1 item
Horace Newton Allen papers
1 item
Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers
1 item
Eugenia Hughes papers
1 item
Nathan Straus papers
1 item
Peter Gansevoort, Jr. military papers
1 item
Charles Boultenhouse and Parker Tyler papers
1 item
Vincent Astor Foundation records
1 item
Barbara Goldsmith papers
1 item
Almon Harris Thompson and Ellen Powell Thompson diaries
1 item
Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers
1 item
George Clayton Foulk papers
1 item
Isaac and Joshua Child papers
1 item
P.T. Barnum papers
1 item
Florence Nightingale Levy papers
1 item
Jeanne Manford papers
1 item
Eleonora von Mendelssohn papers
1 item
Merle De Vore Johnson papers
1 item
National Civic Federation records
1 item
T.H. Morrell collection of original autograph letters of the presidents of the United States
1 item
William Law papers
1 item
James Oppenheim papers
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
New York Typographical Union No. 6. records
1 item
Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet collection
1 item
Miscellaneous Collections: Subjects
1 item
S. N. Behrman papers
1 item
British headquarters papers
1 item
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. papers
1 item
Environmental Action Coalition records
1 item
Ford autograph collection
1 item
Francis Toohey papers
1 item
Herman Rosenthal papers
1 item
James Monroe papers
1 item
James Riker papers
1 item
Mitchell Kennerley papers
1 item
Robert Troup papers
1 item
A complete system of magic
1 item
Accounts and transactions relative to the estate of Samuel Bayard
1 item
Adolph Philipse estate records
1 item
Alexander Hamilton plan of a constitution for America
1 item
Autograph album from the signing of the Treaty of Riga
1 item
Coats of arms of New Amsterdam and New Netherland
1 item
Compendio historico del los indios de Peru
1 item
Critical remarks by the committee of examination on compositions &c presented to the Calliopean Society
1 item
Daniel Phoenix, Jr. receipt book
1 item
El Brasil restituido
1 item
Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker diary
1 item
Farewell address
1 item
Fort Niagara statement of account with Edward Pollard
1 item
Fort Ontario ledger
1 item
Francis Stanfell papers
1 item
George Clinton Genet cash book
1 item
George Endicott diary
1 item
George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel
1 item
Gouverneur & Kemble cash book
1 item
H.M.S. Aeolus and H.M.S. Norwich logbooks
1 item
Henry Laurens diary
1 item
Henry Ten Eyck docket of actions at law and related documents
1 item
Hugh Gaine receipt book
1 item
Incantation bowl
1 item
Jabez Fitch diary
1 item
James Maury letters
1 item
John Hyslop diary
1 item
Joseph Johnson diary
1 item
La clef du cabinet hermetique
1 item
Lewis Ogden letterbook
1 item
List of loyalists against whom judgments were given under the Confiscation Act
1 item
Map of the East Side of the North River: Done in consequence of orders from his excellency Gen'l Washington
1 item
Mapa de la Sierra Gorda, y Costa del Seno Mexicano, desde la Ciudad de Queretero,circa 1763
1 item
Minutes of the Committee of Brookhaven, Manor of St. George and Patentship of Moriches
1 item
Mol[i]tvʹnikʹ o gospodě Bozě pochina︠i︡emʺ ... Slūzhba s[via]togo Īoana Zlatousta ...
1 item
New York City Mayor's Court trial minutes
1 item
New York Court of Vice Admiralty records
1 item
New York State Comptroller memorandum book
1 item
Nicasius De Sille, Schout [Sheriff] of New Amsterdam
1 item
Notes on a constitution for France
1 item
Oliver Cromwell letter to John Cotton
1 item
Petition to George III, King of Great Britain, 1775
1 item
Promulgation of the City of New Amsterdam
1 item
Reports of the Board of Treasury
1 item
The south part of Virginia, now the north part of Carolina
1 item
The vindication of astrology &c
1 item
Thomas Jefferson account book, 1791-1803
1 item
Title of executors & administrators by the Honbl. Tapping Reeve, Litchfield, Connecticut
1 item
Uncle Tom's cabin: holograph leaf
1 item
United States District Court of New York proceedings
1 item
Winning of the West : manuscript, 1889
1 item
Rosika Schwimmer papers
1 item
Ferguson family papers
1 item
George Kennan papers
1 item
Poetry Society of America records
1 item
Album de poésies de la Comtesse Auriemma Vianelli de Venise
1 item
Diplomatic correspondence
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
Rhode Island orderly book
1 item
Richard Rogers Bowker papers
1 item
Herbert J. Seligmann papers
1 item
John Wolcott Phelps papers
1 item
Lillian D. Wald Papers
1 item
Short hints towards a scheme for a general union of the British colonies on the continent
1 item
Augustus Porter daybook
1 item
Rodd family papers
1 item
Citizens for a Quieter City records
1 item
Campaign for World Government. Records of the Chicago office
1 item
Cleveland-Perkins family papers
1 item
Dorothy Schiff papers
1 item
Masters-Davis collection
1 item
Robert E. Lee engineering notebook
1 item
Gouverneur & Kemble letter book
1 item
Frances Hodgson Burnett manuscripts
1 item
Commonplace books collection
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
United States Sanitary Commission records. California Branch archives
1 item
Chelsea Fire Club record book
1 item
Minutes of the Commissioners of the Alms-House and Bridewell
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
New York City Court of Aldermen records
1 item
Helen Lansing Grinnell diary
1 item
Commissioners' plan of Manhattan Island and report with related materials
1 item
Farrar, Straus Giroux, Inc. records
1 item
Arthur Upham Pope papers
1 item
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society family files
1 item
Ernst Papanek papers
1 item
Bronson family papers
1 item
Archibald Robertson maps
1 item
William Frothingham papers
1 item
Richard H. and Elizabeth B. Stoddard papers
1 item
Eleanor Gould Packard papers
1 item
Five amulets discovered in Jewish tombs in Irbid, Jordan
1 item
Resolution of the High Mighty Lords States-General
1 item
The trusts, the people, and the Square Deal
1 item
Testimony against Hugh Parsons charged with witchcraft
1 item
An account of the late Negro insurrection which took place in the island of Barbados on Easter Sunday, April 14, 1816
1 item
Syriac manuscripts
1 item
Maryam Jameelah papers
1 item
Frank E. Buttolph papers
1 item
John Milton papers
1 item
Stanley M. Isaacs papers
1 item
Frank H. Pierce papers relating to the U.S.S. Monitor
1 item
Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers
1 item
Isaac Goldberg papers
1 item
Methodist Episcopal Church records
1 item
Ivins family papers
1 item
Livonian and Danish Parchments and Seals
1 item
Armenian manuscripts collection
1 item
Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
1 item
CARE records
1 item
Macmillan Company records
1 item
Goupil and Company correspondence
1 item
Miscellaneous personal name files
1 item
Henry J. Raymond papers
1 item
Indian miscellaneous manuscripts collection
1 item
Fred F. French Companies records
1 item
James F. Milliken correspondence
1 item
Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps letters and journal
1 item
Brewster and Company records
1 item