Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Harry Payne Whitney collection of letters of William Collins Whitney, 1757-1942 |
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Span Dates | 1757-1942 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1883-1904) |
ID No. | MSS45468 |
Creator | Whitney, William C. (William Collins), 1841-1904 |
Collector | Whitney, Harry Payne, 1872-1930 |
Extent | 20,000 items |
Extent | 148 containers plus 10 oversize |
Extent | 41.8 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012064 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81045468 |
Summary | Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration. |