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May 2007

Florence Kelley, 1930 Nicholas Kelley Papers Box 162	FM 2030 F.M. Esfandiary / FM 2030 Papers Box 59

The following collection guides have recently been made available online. Visit the Collection Descriptions and Guides page for descriptions of other collections in the Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Civic Affairs Forum records (1.7 linear ft.)
The Civic Affairs Forum was established in 1971 as an informal coalition of citywide civic organizations concerned with the welfare of New York City. The records include correspondence, internal memoranda, meeting minutes, and printed ephemera documenting the group's efforts to improve urban planning, economic development, housing, education and social services. The Forum remained active in municipal politics until its dissolution in 1993.

F.M. Esfandiary / FM-2030 papers (24.5 linear ft.)
The papers of Iranian author, futurist philosopher, designer, long-range planner, and lecturer   FM-2030 (born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary) include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks; manuscripts; typescripts; book reviews; press releases; interviews; lecture and seminar notes; photographs; and audio recordings.

George A. Hubbard papers (.8 lin. ft.)
Letters and diaries of an American Civil War soldier who served in the 117th New York Regiment from 1862-1865. Notable actions of the 117th Regiment that are mentioned in the diaries are the defense of Washington (at Tenleytown), Siege of Suffolk, Folly Island, Morris Island, Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Fair Oaks.

Florence Kelley papers (6.5 linear ft.)
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a Progressive-era social reformer in Chicago and New York. She worked with Jane Addams at Hull House, was Chief Factory Inspector of Illinois and Executive Secretary of the National Consumers' League. She was also associated with many reform groups working to abolish child labor, protect women workers, and promote peace, suffrage and labor reform.  Her papers include correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of her writings, address books, scrapbooks, photographs, and ephemera documenting her family life and her social reform activities.

Nicholas Kelley papers (70 linear ft.)
Nicholas Kelley (1885-1965) was a New York City lawyer and civic leader. He served as an official of the U.S. Treasury Dept. from 1918 to 1921. In his private law practice, Kelley specialized in corporate law and he also was a director of several companies, most notably the Chrysler Corporation from 1937 to 1957.  The collection consists of professional and family
correspondence, personal documents and ephemera related to Kelley's education at Harvard, his career as a lawyer in New York City and as assistant secretary in the Treasury Department, and his involvement with legal and civic reform organizations.

Georgia Lloyd papers (35 linear ft.)
Author, peace activist, world government advocate and philanthropist, Georgia Lloyd (1913-1999) was executive secretary of the Campaign for World Government from 1943 until 1990. Her
papers consist of correspondence, professional writings and drafts, subject files, financial and real estate materials, miscellaneous personal items, and a small number of photographs.

Kohlbach-Bickel Family papers (5.5 linear ft.)
The Kohlbach-Bickels were a Hungarian and Swiss family that contained a rabbi, professor, engineers, and the first female Hungarian architect. The first generations originated in Hungary and Switzerland, with later branches moving to Germany, Romania, Norway and Israel. This collection, which work, printed publications, and other miscellaneous papers documents three generations, covering the period from the 1880s through World War II.

Theodore Koppanyi papers (.4 linear ft)
Theodore Koppanyi was a Hungarian émigré and professor of pharmacology, who spent the majority of his career at Georgetown University. He was a pioneer in modern pharmacology, physiology and cellular biology, and the author of numerous papers on the structure and operation of the eye, in particular eye transplantation in animals. The collection consists of correspondence, scientific writings, printed matter, press clippings, and a small number of photographs.

Lola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949 (35 linear ft.)
Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944) was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace, feminist, and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains extensive correspondence, photographs, writings, and other personal and professional materials documenting her life and participation in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Ford Peace Expedition of 1915-1916, and founding of the Campaign for World Government in 1937.

Kitty Marion papers (1.3 lin. ft.)
Kitty Marion's papers document her personal life and involvement with both the Birth Control International Information Centre in London and the American Birth Control League's Birth Control Review, chiefly for the period 1934-1937. The collection includes annotated drafts of her memoirs in English and German, incoming correspondence and newsletters, printed matter--much of which features articles on Marion herself, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs.

Maverick Family papers (3 linear ft.)
The Maverick family papers are comprised of correspondence of members of the Maverick family of Texas, descendents of land baron and politician Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870). Letters received by Mary Vance Maverick, Samuel’s granddaughter, constitute the majority of the correspondence. Also included are genealogical materials, a newspaper clipping scrapbook, and a small number of photographs.

Jessie Lloyd O’Connor papers (2 linear ft.)
Jessie Lloyd O'Connor was a journalist and labor activist from the 1920s through her death in 1988. She predominantly wrote for the Federated Press, a news service oriented toward labor and unions. O'Connor spent the years 1927-28, and 1933 in the Soviet Union writing for the London Daily Herald and the Moscow Daily Times.  Her papers consist of correspondence, professional writings and notes, as well as a small amount of printed matter, newspaper clippings, financial papers, and photographs. A typescript of a 1927-1928 diary kept by O'Connor while she was living in the Soviet Union documents the circle of American “fellow travelers” in Moscow at that time.

Pierre F. Simon collection of artists’ letters 1787-1978 (.5 linear ft.)
The Simon Collection consists of autograph letters of sixty artists, chiefly French painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included are letters of Paul Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Chaim Soutine.

Lillian D. Wald papers, 1889-1957 (21 linear ft.)
Lillian D. Wald, the renowned public health nurse and social worker, was the founder of the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. The collection consists her correspondence, speeches, articles and printed materials relating to her activities as crusader for a variety of liberal, social welfare and philanthropic causes.