Eleanor Belmont Papers, 1851-1979

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Series II: Subject Files, 1904-1979

The subject files relate to the Belmont family and Mrs. Belmont's philanthropic causes. There are extensive files on August Belmont's estate which have information on the New York Subway, the Belmont racing stables, and the several properties. Other files reflect Mrs. Belmont's interest in Belmont genealogy and her pride in the Belmont connection to Commodore Perry. There is extensive documentation on the organizations with which Mrs. Belmont was associated including the American Shakespeare Festival Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera Association, the Community Service Society, Unemployment Relief, and the Red Cross. There are also files related to her theatrical life including a file on George Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Included are drafts of her speeches, her autobiography, and her play, In the Next Room. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject.



Box 17 Adopt-a-family, 1940-1954


Box 17 American Women of Achievement Award, 1940-1951



Box 18 Appointment calendars, 1968-1978


Belmont



Box 19 Estate, 1926-1972


Box 19 Financial papers, 1954-1976


Box 19 Horses and horse-breeding, 1931-1966


Box 19 Household furnishings, 1912-1963


Box 19 Inventories and lists, 1928-1977


Box 19 Nursery Farm-Babylon, 1916-1939



Box 20 Gladbrook Farm, New Ashford, MA, 1929


Box 20 Syosset, Long Island, New York, 1927-1957


Box 20 Wills, Belmont family history


Box 20 Letters to relatives


Box 20 IRT and Railroad



Box 21 Belmont Family Memorabilia


Box 21 Burnett, Frances Hodgson


Box 21 Clippings, 1930-1939


Box 21 Cape Cod Canal



Box 22 Cape Cod Canal, dissertation by William James Reid


Box 22 Community Service Society, 1938-1947


Box 22 Colonial Dames New York, 1958


Box 22 Columbia University, 1950-1973


Box 22 East Harlem Health Center-Welfare Council


Box 22 The Educational Dramatic League (The Educational Players), 1915-1920


Box 22 Edward VIII, 1919


Box 22 Elitch Gardens Theater, Denver, 1936-1952


Box 22 The Hundred Year Association of New York, Inc., 1932



Box 23 Lowell, Amy, 1964-1976


Box 23 Medicine and the changing order, The New York Academy of Medicine


Metropolitan Opera


Box 23 1938-1978



Box 24 1949-1978


Box 24 Metropolitan Opera Association, 1938-1948



Box 25 Moravian Seminary and College for Women, PA, 1936


Box 25 Motion Picture Research Council, 1918-1934


Box 25 N--Miscellaneous, 1934-1953


Box 25 National Achievement Award, 1936-1944


Box 25 New York Historical Society, 1955-1961


Box 25 New York Public Library, 1937-1971


Box 25 New York University, 1933


Box 25 Northeast Harbor, ME, 1960-1976


Box 25 Nurses House, 1936-1972


Nursing



Box 26 New York Hospital, 1943-1953


Box 26 Practical Nurses, 1941-1944


Perry family


Box 26 1948-1971



Box 27 1943-1979


Box 27 Poetry, 1916-1973



Box 28 Poetry


Box 28 Red Cross, 1910-1943


Box 28 Rochester, The University of, 1934


Box 28 Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow (Mrs Theodore), 1935-1948


Box 28 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1914-1943


Box 28 Shakespeare Memorial Theater, 1927-1954


Box 28 Shaw, George Bernard, 1905-1962



Box 29 Speeches, 1933-1935


Box 29 Unemployment insurance, 1930-1935


Box 29 Unemployment relief, 1930-1933



Box 30 Unemployment relief


Box 30 Welfare Council of New York City, 1935-1951


Box 30 Women's National Republican Club, 1951-1958


Writings


Box 30 Collected


Box 30 Fabric of Memory



Box 31 Fabric of Memory


Box 31 Christopher Rand, 1924-1931



Box 32 In the Next Room


Box 32 That Man Gently


Box 32 Yale University, 1948-1973


Box 32 Zangwill, Israel, 1904