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BOX 1-20 Family Directors File, 1853-1990
Business and family correspondence, biographical and genealogical records, real estate records, legal documents, reports, military records, photographs, diaries, and an account book.
Arranged alphabetically by name of director and thereunder by document type or subject.
BOX 1 Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)
Account book, 1861
Appointment, Cook County, Ill., deputy sheriff, 1853
Autographs, 1871-1872, undated
Biographical file
Correspondence about Pinkerton
Agency history, 1903-1911, 1919, 1932-1942, 1950
Civil War photographs, 1892-1896, 1930-1939, undated
Genealogy, 1949-1968, 1976, 1983, undated See also Oversize
Civil War service
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1866-1868, 1878, 1887-1894, 1908-1916, 1930-1941, 1961, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 2 Notes, including transcripts of correspondence, undated
(2 folders)
Photographs, positive prints and negatives, undated
Pinkerton and agency history
Dupré, Irma, “The Canny Cooper,” book draft, 1936-1937, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 3 (3 folders)
Essays and notes, 1888-1892, 1945, 1979, undated
(2 folders)
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1873-1875, 1884-1905, 1919-1951, undated
(2 folders)
Chalmers, Joan Pinkerton (daughter), circa 1875, 1890, 1909, 1932-1940, 1950, 1965
BOX 4 Correspondence, including transcripts and copies, 1856-1867, 1872-1879, 1883
(2 folders)
Death
Eulogies and obituaries, 1884-1890
Letters of condolence, 1884, See Oversize
(2 vols.)
Estate and probate court records, 1887
Photographs, 1855, 1860-1867, 1884, 1937, undated
Phrenological description, 1874
Pinkerton, Joan Carfrae (wife), obituary, 1887
Railroad and telegraph passes, 1855-1857, 1878
Residences
General, 1884-1894, 1931-1936, 1956, undated
Larch Farm, family estate near Onarga, Ill., 1884-1887, 1930-1936, 1941-1945, undated
Writings
Advertisements and illustrations for books, undated
“Bankers and Their Vaults,” 1873
History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., on the 22d and 23d of February, 1861, 1892 edition
BOX 5 Pinkerton, Allan (1876-1930)
Diamond pin, loss of, 1914
Diary, voyage to Asia with stops at Baltic ports, 1909
Family and business correspondence
Pinkerton, Robert A. (father), 1900-1903
Pinkerton, William (uncle), 1904, 1913-1917
Incorporation of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1924-1925
(3 folders)
Miscellany
Correspondence and notes, 1903-1911, 1923-1924, undated
Family and financial records, 1902, 1913-1914
New York City police commissionership, New York, N.Y., 1913-1915, undated
Newspaper and magazine articles, 1907, 1912-1930, 1980
BOX 6 Olympic Club, Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y., 1913-1916
Photographs, circa 1880-circa 1920
Pinkerton genealogy, 1903-1925
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency office building, 57 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
General, 1903-1911
(3 folders)
Sale of, 1911-1912
BOX 7 Residential property
Illinois, Larch Farm, family estate near Onarga, 1907-1911
(3 folders)
New York
Brooklyn, 749 Quincy St., 1907-1926
(2 folders)
New York City, 154 W. 95th St., 1900-1912
(2 folders)
BOX 8 World War I
Correspondence
Family, 1918
Proposed service to U.S. government, 1917
Service to British and Canadian governments, 1914-1917
(2 folders)
Diary and typed transcript, military service in France, 1918, undated
Military records, 1918-1919, undated
Newspaper articles and related material, 1917-1918
Writings, untitled draft of incomplete novel, photostat, undated See also Container 185, Writings
(3 folders)
BOX 9 Pinkerton, Robert A. (1848-1907)
Biographical sketches and notes, 1940-1942, undated
Civil War military deferment and loyalty oath, 1862-1865
General correspondence, 1880, 1888-1907
Death
Acknowledgment card, condolences, and estate, 1907
Flowers, 1907
Funeral arrangements, 1907
Memorial tributes, 1907
Newspaper articles
Miscellaneous, 1907
Scrapbooks, 1907
Vol. 1
(2 folders)
BOX 10 Vol. 2
(2 folders)
North German Lloyd Steamship Co., return of remains, 1907
Office notification, 1907
(2 folders)
National Police Agency contract, 1866
Newspaper and magazine articles
Horse racing, 1902-1906
BOX 11 Miscellaneous, 1884-1907, 1914, 1932, undated
Photographs, positive prints and negatives
Other family members, 1935-1941, undated
Pinkerton, Robert A., circa 1885-circa 1905
Pinkerton, Anna E. (wife), 1875, circa 1900, 1933-1934, undated
Residential property
Illinois, Larch Farm, family estate near Onarga
1887-1904
(4 folders)
BOX 12 1905-1906
New York
Brooklyn, 749 Quincy St., 1901-1907
(2 folders)
New York City, 154 W. 95th St., 1899-1907
(5 folders)
Writings on prison reform, 1887, 1898
BOX 13 Pinkerton, Robert A. (1904-1967)
Cemeteries, Chicago and Dundee, Ill., 1931, 1955, undated
Congressional hearings, National Labor Relation Board violations
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