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Papers on banking and finance, especially relating to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
This collection is arranged into 4 series.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Research to be published which is based upon or which employs quotations from material in the Harrison Papers must be submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for review prior to publication as of January 1968.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George Leslie Harrison papers on the Federal Reserve System; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Source of acquisition--Harrison, George Leslie. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/18/57. Accession number--M-57-07-18.
Gift - George Leslie Harrison - 18 July 1957. Gift of Mrs. George Leslie Harrison, 1959
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89. Processed by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library staff, 1957; Revised by BRC and PMW.
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Lawyer, financial expers. Harrison was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1913-1914; Assistant General Counsel, and the Counsel, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., 1914-1920; Counsel and Deputy Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1920-1928; Governor and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1928-1941; President, New York Life Insurance Company, 1941-1948; and Chairman of the Board, New York Life Insurance Company, 1948-1953. His career also included activities for the American Red Cross and trusteeship of Columbia University.
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Note: This multilithed set of spiral note books might be a preliminary draft of the Board Banking Studies (published in 1914)
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