Original editorial cartoons, sketches, memorabilia.

American politician and Secretary of the Navy. Collection consists of a single incoming letter.

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) was born in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. An American landscape painter and one of the Hudson River School artists, Gifford traveled extensively across New England and Europe for his subjects. This collection includes a scrapbook, correspondence, and a family genealogy. Seven sketchbooks and a paint box of Gifford’s were transferred to the Curatorial department.

The Gifted Math Program records include correspondence, program evaluations, grants, awards, information about curriculum, research and support materials for the program beginning from its inception as a Saturday enrichment program and beyond.

One framed watercolor painting and fabric design in a plastic bag.

An account book from a Port Henry, New York farmer and businessman.

Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs, and printed materials relating to his research, writing, and teaching. The correspondence relates chiefly to research for his books, articles, essays, and lectures as well as reactions, scholarly and popular, to his works. There are single letters for authors including Maxwell Anderson, Lawrence Durrell, Randall Jarrell, and Upton Sinclair; several letters each from John Masefield, James Thurber, and E.B. White; 21 letters from Clifton Fadiman; correspondence with Columbia University faculty and students; with classical scholars in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe; with publishers including Alfred A. Knopf and Oxford University Press; with his literary agent Curtis Brown, Ltd.; with HORIZON MAGAZINE, as chairman of its Advisory Editorial Board; with the Book-of-the-Month Club, as a Judge; with Encyclopedia Britannica Sound Seminars; correspondence concerning his very popular syndicated radio talks; and letters from his readers, ranging from members of women's literary clubs to headmasters of British secondary schools.

The Gilbert H. Reynolds Papers contain documents and letters from his years in the state militia and during and after the Civil War. There are five letters by and to him and his family describing engagements with Confederate troops and artillery, including reports from the battlefields of Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. Two later letters to Reynolds by Frederick Douglass and Theodore Roosevelt are both indexed. The collection also includes newspapers clippings, a short memorial account of his service by his comrades on the fiftieth anniversary of Gettysburg, and a piece of the shirt worn by Reynolds at the battle, said to be cut by shrapnel.

This collection contains materials pertaining to Gilbert Johnson and his service in the Navy during WWII.

Letters from a young man to his sisters and family.