Joseph Pulitzer papers, 1883-1947, bulk 1885-1912

Joseph Pulitzer papers, 1883-1947, bulk 1885-1912

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1033
Bib ID:
4079242 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
26 Linear Feet (62 document boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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This collection is located on-site.

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Description

Summary

Correspondence and business documents of Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer family, and the operation of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Also, drafts of Thomas E. Eichhorst's dissertation, Representative and Reporter: Joseph Pulitzer as a Missouri State Representative.

Arrangement

Chronological.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Joseph Pulitzer papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Archival Materials

The material directly relating to Pulitzer's New York newspaper, THE WORLD, forms a separate collection. See THE WORLD (New York) - Papers .

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr. Method of acquisition--Gift; Accession number--M-59.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

The rough drafts and final draft of Thomas E. Eichhorst's dissertation "Representative and Reporter: Joseph Pulitzer as a Missouri State Representative" were deacessioned, circa 2006-2012. These comprised Boxes 61-62. The remaining boxes in the collection were not renumbered, and are currently 1-60 and 63-64.

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.

Revision Description

2009-07-07 xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2019-08-07 Link switched from PDF to EAD. kws

2023-07-31 Expanded container list for Series I: Cataloged Correspondence (Boxes 1-3). Updated processing note, and removed Boxes 61-62 from the container list.CCR.

Biographical Note

Jopseph Pulitzer was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Dispatch and The New York World.

Subject Headings

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Subject
Families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Journalists
Newspaper publishing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Politicians

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1883-1911, 1947


Box 1

Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1886-1903


Box 1

Belmont, August (1816-1890), 1885-1887, undated


Box 1

Belmont, August (1853-1924), 1884-1911, undated


Box 1

Belmont, Perry, 1885-1904


Box 1

Bigelow, John (1817-1911), 1886-1887


Box 1

Bloomingdale, Emanuel, 1900


Box 1

Boas, Franz, 1907


Box 1

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1903-1905


Box 1

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1904-1911


Box 1

Chambers, Julius, 1885-1903


Box 1

Cockran, Bourke, 1904


Box 1

Coler, Bird S., 1902


Box 1

Conkling, Roscoe, 1883-1888


Box 1

Conried, Heinrich, 1904-1905


Box 1

Corcoran, William Wilson, 1887


Box 1

Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa, 1905-1906


Box 1

Cravath, Paul D., 1909


Box 2

Damrosch, Walter, 1904-1905


Box 2

Davis, Varina Anne, 1886-1887


Box 2

Davis, Varina Howell (Mrs. Jefferson), 1887-1906


Box 2

De Forest, Robert Weeks, 1906-1909


Box 2

De Koven, Reginald, 1907


Box 2

Depew, Chauncey Mitcehll, 1886-1905


Box 2

Depew, May Palmer (Mrs. Chauncey), 1902


Box 2

Drew, Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Harry), 1908


Box 2

Dudley, Rachel Gurney Ward, Countess of, 1903


Box 2

Dunning, William, 1907


Box 2

Eggleston, George Cary, 1903-1904


Box 2

Eliot, Charles William, 1907-1911


Box 2

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1885-1886


Box 2

Field, Cyrus West, 1886-1887


Box 2

Field, Kate, 1885


Box 2

Fish, Stuyvesant (1851-1923), 1905-1908


Box 2

Flagler, Harry, 1907


Box 2

Frewen, Moreton, 1900


Box 2

Gerry, Elbridge Thomas, 1887


Box 2

Gibson, Preston, 1884


Box 2

Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount, 1887


Box 2

Glennon, John Joseph, 1904


Box 2

Godwin, Parke, 1886


Box 2

Gould, Jay, 1886, undated


Box 2

Greet, Sir Philip Barling "Ben", 1907


Box 2

Gregory, Eliot, 1906


Box 2

Hawthorne, Julian, 1904


Box 2

Hewitt, Abram, 1886-1887


Box 2

Hill, David Bennett, 1886-1888


Box 2

Hitchcock, Ripley, 1907


Box 2

Huntington, Daniel, 1886-1887


Box 2

Hyde, James Hazen, undated


Box 2

Jay, John (1817-1894), 1885-1887


Box 2

Jerome, Leonard, 1886-1887, undated


Box 2

Lee, Sidney, 1904


Box 2

Lipton, Thomas Johnstone, Sir, 1902


Box 2

Low, Seth, 1899


Box 2

McAllister, Ward, 1886


Box 2

McCarthy, Justin, 1887


Box 2

McKelway, St. Clair (1845-1915), 1886-1911


Box 2

McKim, Charles, 1900


Box 2

MacVeagh, Wayne, 1887


Box 2

Marble, Manton, 1886-1888


Box 2

Mason, Alfred Bishop, 1909-1911


Box 3

Mead, William Rutherford, 1900-1902


Box 3

Mitchell, S. Weir, 1891


Box 3

Morris, Stuyvesant, 1885


Box 3

Morton, Levi Parsons, 1886


Box 3

Muir, William, Sir, 1903


Box 3

Munsey, Frank A., 1907


Box 3

Noble, Edmund, 1886


Box 3

Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1900-1904


Box 3

Northcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Milner Harmsworth, Viscountess, 1901-1905, undated


Box 3

O'Connor, Thomas Power, 1899-1903


Box 3

Ogden, Rollo, 1907


Box 3

Page, Thomas Nelson, 1903


Box 3

Page, Walter Hine, 1904


Box 3

Pène du Bois, Henri, 1885


Box 3

Pinchot, Gifford, 1904


Box 3

Plimpton, George A., 1903


Box 3

Potter, Henry Codman, 1900


Box 3

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1887


Box 3

Pruyn, John V. L., 1885


Box 3

Pulitzer, Joseph, 1947

Commemorative postage stamps. Signed by Albert Goldman, Joseph John Lawler, Robert Porter Patterson, and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. With related items.


Box 3

Putnam, George Haven, 1885


Box 3

Reid, Whitelaw, 1887-1901


Box 3

Ritz, César, 1902


Box 3

Rodin, Auguste, 1907


Box 3

Sargent, John Singer, 1903-1905


Box 3

Schieffelin, William Jay, 1907-1911


Box 3

Schiff, Jacob Henry, 1905


Box 3

Schurz, Carl, 1886


Box 3

Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1910


Box 3

Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1906


Box 3

Thwing, Charles Franklin, 1904


Box 3

Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 1906


Box 3

Washington, Booker T., 1901-1908


Box 3

White, Andrew Dickson, 1905


Box 3

White, Horace, 1907-1908


Box 3

White, Stanford, 1891-1903


Box 3

Whitney, Flora Payne (Mrs. William C.), 1886


Box 3

Whitney, William C., 1887-1902, undated


Box 3

Worth, Frédéric, 1900-1901


Box 3

Wyndham, Mary Moore, Lady, 1904

Series II: Chronological Files, 1883-1936


Box 4

Undated Items, Undated


Box 5

1883-1885


Box 6

1886


Box 7

1887-1888


Box 8

1889-1898


Box 9

1899


Box 10

1900 January -March, 1900


Box 11

1900 April -August, 1900


Box 12

1900 September -December, 1900


Box 13

1900--Bills and Receipts


Box 14

1900--Bills and Receipts


Box 15

1901 January -May, 1901


Box 16

1901 June -December, 1901


Box 17

1901 Bills and Receipts, 1901


Box 18

1902 Bills and Receipts, 1902


Box 19

1902 January -June 15, 1902


Box 20

1902 June 16-September, 1902


Box 21

1902 October -December, 1902


Box 22

1903 Bills and Receipts, 1903


Box 23

1903 January -March, 1903


Box 24

1903April -June


Box 25

1903 July -September 12, 1903


Box 26

1903 September 13-December, 1903


Box 27

1904--Bills and Receipts


Box 28

1904 January -February, 1904


Box 29

1904 March-May, 1904


Box 30

1904 June -August, 1904


Box 31

1904 September -December, 1904


Box 32

1905 January -February, 1905


Box 33

1905 March-April, 1905


Box 34

1905 May -August, 1905


Box 35

1905 September -December, 1905


Box 36

1905--Bills and Receipts


Box 37

1906--Bills and Receipts


Box 38

1906 January -April, 1906


Box 39

1906 May -July, 1906


Box 40

1906 August -December, 1906


Box 41

1907 January -February15, 1907


Box 42

1907 February16-April, 1907


Box 43

1907 May -September, 1907


Box 44

1907 October -December, 1907


Box 44

Bills and Receipts


Box 45

1908--Bills and receipts


Box 46

1908--Bills and receipts


Box 47

1908 January -April, 1908


Box 48

1908 May -December, 1908


Box 49

1908-1911--Account Books of the yacht Liberty


Box 50

1909


Box 51

1909 Bills and Receipts, 1909


Box 52

1910 Bills and Receipts, 1910


Box 53

1910


Box 54

1911 Bills and Receipts, 1911


Box 55

1911 January -August 19, 1911


Box 56

1911 August 20-December, 1911


Box 56

Account Book


Box 57

1912-1916


Box 58

1917


Box 59

1918-1936


Printed Materials:


Box 64 Folder 12

The World Vol. XXVII, No/ 1,386, Wednesday, March 30, 1887


Box 60

Miscellaneous Printed Materials


James G. Blaine:


Box 64 Folder 1

Central Independent Republican Club of Wisconsin [Broadside], 8 October 1884


Box 64 Folder 2

James Gillespie Blaine: Biographical Sketch of the Great Commoner [Pamphlet], 7 June 1884

(Compiled from the Chicago Tribune)


Box 64 Folder 3

Blaine, the Friend of Railroads {Pamphlet]


Box 64 Folder 4

James G. Blaine: An Ultra Prohibitionist [Broadside]


Box 64 Folder 5

Speech of Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, at the German-American Mass meeting in the Academy of Music, New York [Pamphlet], 29 September 1884


Box 64 Folder 6

Central Independent Republican Club of Wisconsin to Republicans in the State of Wisconsin [Pamphlet]

(Re. voting for Blaine)


Box 64 Folder 7

An Appeal to Earnest Citizens [Pamphlet], 16 October 1884

(An appeal not to vote for James G. Blaine)


Box 64 Folder 8

Speech of Hon. Carl Schurz, Delivered in Brooklyn, N.Y. [Pamphlet], 6 August 1884

(An appeal not to support George G. Blaine)


Box 63

Undated material, Undated


Box 63

Joseph Pulitzer's watch fob

(with his initials on one face, the logo ofThe Worldon the reverse and a miniature of his mother inside)

Series III: Albert & Walter Pulitzer Memoirs


Box 64 Folder 10 & 11

Photocopy of typescript of Memoirs

In the course of his research, James McGrath Morris discovered the unpublished memoir of Walter Pulitzer, the son of Albert and nephew of Joseph Pulitzer, still held by family members. Within it is contained the memoirs, also unpublished, that Albert completed in the spring of 1909, shortly before committing suicide. Morris was able to acquire photocopies for his use and to add to the Pulitzer Papers in RBML.

Gift of James McGrath Morris, 2008


Box 64 Folder 9

Albert Pulitzer signature on card


Box 64 Folder 13

Photographs (11) loaned by James McGrath Morris to the Library of Congress and subsequently donated by Morris to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.