Manuscripts Collection
The Gilman family collection includes the papers of several generations. Major family members represented in the collection include:
Nicholas Gilman (1672-1741). Judge, farmer and merchant in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Nicholas Gilman II (1707-1748), son of Nicholas Gilman. Graduate of Harvard (1724); ordained into ministry at Durham, New Hampshire, in 1742 and died there.
Joseph Gilman (1738-1806), son of Nicholas Gilman [II]. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire; was a member of the Board of War of the State of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War and a merchant in Marietta, Ohio, after 1788. Appointed Judge of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio in 1796; died in Marietta.
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1766-1833), son of Joseph Gilman. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire; merchant at Marietta, Ohio, and by 1813 in Philadelphia; died in Alton, Illinois.
Benjamin Ives Gilman II (1794-1866), son of Benjamin Ives Gilman.
Winthrop Sargent Gilman (1808-1884), son of Benjamin Ives Gilman and brother of Benjamin Ives Gilman II. Born in Marietta, Ohio, merchant at Alton, Illinois by 1829, and later banker in New York; died in Palisades, New York.
Theodore Gilman (1841-1930), son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman. Born in Alton, Illinois, he was graduated from Williams College in 1864. He was a merchant and banker in New York. In 1863, he married Elizabeth (Lilly) Drinker Paxson (1841-1912).
Robbins (Jack) Gilman (1878-1955), son of Theodore and Elizabeth Drinker (Paxson) Gilman. He graduated from Williams College in 1899 and entered the family's New York banking house, Gilman, Son and Company. He also worked with the bond firm of Mason, Lewis and Company and in the New York office of another family business, the North Platte Irrigation and Land Company (Hershey, Nebraska). In 1909 he became head worker at the University Settlement in New York City. After his marriage to Catheryne Cooke, they moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they took over the organization that later became the Northeast Neighborhood House, a settlement house with which they were involved until 1948.
Catheryne C. Cooke Gilman (1880-1954), daughter of Jeremiah Amelius and Aditha Vangelia (Cole) Cooke, she was educated at Iowa State Teachers College and University of Chicago. She taught school in Iowa and Illinois. On December 31, 1914, she married Robbins Gilman. In addition to her work with her husband at the Northeast Neighborhood House, Catheryne was instrumental in the organization of the Women's Cooperative Committee, which was incorporated in 1918 as the Women's Cooperative Alliance. The Alliance promoted social welfare activities in the Twin Cities and conducted extensive research into movies, volunteer courts, social hygiene, recreation, public entertainment, sex offenses against women and children, prostitution, venereal diseases, and obscene literature. She organized numerous national associations related to the motion picture industry.
Logan Drinker Gilman (1918-1978), son of Robbins and Catheryne (Cooke) Gilman. He married Rhoda Jean Raasch. Trained as a design engineer, Logan served with the Civilian Public Service during World War II and participated in various medical experiments. He died in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 17, 1978.
Rhoda Raasch Gilman, historian, researcher, and author who retired after a long career as editor and education specialist at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Raasch Gilman, (born 1952), daughter of Logan and Rhoda (Raasch) Gilman. She is a historian and writer.
Carolyn Gilman (born 1954), daughter of Logan and Rhoda (Raasch) Gilman. She is a historian and writer.
Leonard O. Raasch, (1900-1978), father of Rhoda Raasch Gilman.
Rhoda Kimbro Raasch, (1896-1994), mother of Rhoda Raasch Gilman.
Robbins and Catheryne Cooke Gilman were social workers with the North East Neighborhood House in Minneapolis and were active in promoting social legislation and peace movements. Catheryne Cooke Gilman also was executive secretary of the Women's Cooperative Alliance of Minneapolis. Included in the collection are records of the Women's Cooperative Alliance and many subject files related to the work of this organization in areas of social and public health for women and children. There is also information about Catheryne Cooke Gilman's work with several national organizations involved in promoting higher social and moral qualities in movies and regulation of the motion picture industry.
Logan and Rhoda Gilman were active in political and peace issues. Rhoda Gilman is a historian and writer who was a researcher and editor at the Minnesota Historical Society. Betsy Raasch-Gilman and Carolyn Gilman also have backgrounds as historians and writers and have worked for the Minnesota Historical Society.
A significant amount of correspondence between family members is included. The correspondence discusses business matters, family news, current events, the Women's Cooperative Alliance, and many other topics.
The collection is organized into the following series:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics
should
Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.
Accession numbers: 7,715; 10,075; 10,328; 10,465; 10,592; 10,644; 10, 795; 11,129; 11,308; 11,643; 12,637; 14,325; 16,327; 16,718; 16,765
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Digitized by: Christopher G. Welter, May 2011
Digitization of reserve material was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 005275527
The North East Neighborhood House records are also in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections and contain work-related correspondence of Catheryne Cooke Gilman and Robbins Gilman.
Includes information on numerous members of the Gilman family and school transcripts, work biographies, and bibliographies of Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Contains original and copied letters and other materials relating to family affairs, business enterprises, and the many organizations with which the Gilmans were connected through many of the generations represented in the collection.
The letters and accounts dealing with the mercantile firm have information on the buying, financing, transporting, and selling of many products and commodities.
The letters from the Gilmans in St. Louis also contain information on the personal affairs of the family, missionary work and church affairs, railroads in Illinois and Missouri, cholera epidemics, floods, the condition of the Mississippi River, the status of other mercantile firms in St. Louis, and the negligence of St. Louis in developing its trade.
The land interests of Winthrop Gilman are documented in a few letters by him, and letters to him by J.W. Hedenberg, John S. Hayward and others.
The papers are dominated by letters written by Winthrop S. Gilman to Theodore Gilman. The letters deal primarily with the business of the banking house of Gilman, Son and Company, the family banking house in which Winthrop Gilman held a controlling interest. The letters contain general instructions in the principles of operating a banking business; detailed instructions on handling the bonds of government (federal, state, and municipal); data on railroads, mining companies and other enterprises; observations on the events of the day, such as politics, business methods; health; religion; and family affairs.
The papers contain information about the organization, finances, and management of the North Platte Land and Water Company and the North Platte Irrigation and Water Company.
Papers document the affairs of Gilman, Son and Company, particularly its failure in 1902, plans for the organization of a successor company, and plans for satisfying the claims of the creditors.
Papers document Theodore Gilman's study of currency and banking questions, including the bill prepared in 1901 by Theodore Gilman for introduction into Congress on the incorporation of clearing houses under federal law; the introduction of the bill into the House by C.A. Pugsley; the publication of Theodore's two studies, A Graded Banking System and Federal Clearing Houses; and other interests of Theodore in the operation of the economic system.
Also present are a stock certificate (March 27, 1912) of the Drinker Land and Improvement Company (Pennsylvania), issued to Elizabeth D. Gilman and an agreement (August 17, 1912) between Andrew Carnegie and Elizabeth D. Gilman regarding the bonds of the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company.
Includes Women's Cooperative Alliance fund-raising campaign conducted for the Alliance by a professional fund raiser, motion pictures, and social hygiene.
Gilman family business includes data concerning settlement of the affairs of the bridge company, the Iguana Company, Gilman, Son and Company, the Hershey Land Company, the North Platte Land and Water Company, and Williams College.
The death of Theodore Gilman in 1930 closes out his correspondence.
This printed volume bears the name of Nicholas Gilman as owner.
Regarding his progress in education.
A love letter. Molly became his wife.
Regarding Webster's duty as a minister.
Defining terms of the partnership.
Regarding Mrs. Gilman's share in the Ives estate.
Regarding the delivery of military stores to Hunt by order of the Committee of Safety.
Notifying him of his election by the General Court as Senator for the County of Rockingham.
Regarding a treaty with Great Britain and politics.
Regarding presidential appointments, an insurrection in Pennsylvania, selection of presidential electors, politics, and relations of the United States with France.
Regarding adoption of the embargo by the Administration and a flood in Marietta.
Regarding purchases by Woodbridge of tobacco in Kentucky, the embargo, arrangements for picking up the tobacco by vessel at New Orleans, and insurance.
Regarding purchases of tobacco and its shipment.
Regarding the purchase and shipment of tobacco.
Regarding the preparation of the above letters and the embargo.
Regarding the embargo.
Regarding hemp, cordage, and plans for their shipment.
Forwarding a copy of the above letter.
Regarding purchase and shipment of tobacco, hemp, and yarn and the embargo.
Regarding purchase and transportation of tobacco, hemp, and yarn; financing the purchases; and the embargo.
Regarding the transportation of the purchases; the repeal of the embargo; and financing the purchases.
Regarding correspondence.
Regarding the purchase and transportation of hemp and yarns; the sale of a schooner; the purchase of tobacco; and the repeal of the embargo.
Regarding the market for hemp and cordage.
Regarding road conditions and purchases of tobacco.
Regarding navigation of the Mississippi River and supplies for a trip to New Orleans.
Regarding profits in the business they are conducting.
Includes description of the countryside.
Regarding the illness and death of Mrs. Miller's grandmother and other Gilman family news.
Contains a description of a wedding and other social events.
Regarding the death of an infant.
Regarding the death of Arthur.
No author of letter given. Regarding the estate of Arthur.
Regarding the estate of Arthur.
Mostly regarding the business affairs of Winthrop S. Gilman.
Letters include L.S. Williams (St. Louis) to R.S. Finley (October 7, 1848) reporting on missionary work in St. Louis; E. Long (Galena) to W. S. Gilman (March 27, 1849) recommending to Gilman a trip to the Falls of St. Anthony, St. Paul, and other points in Minnesota; S. Granville (St. Louis) to W.S. Gilman (October 2, 1851) regarding the negligence of St. Louis in developing her trade; and J.W. Hedenberg to W.S. Gilman (June 24, 1852) regarding investment possibilities in western lands, the effect of a homestead law on western land values, and the effect of railroad land grants on land values.
Starting in 1856 mostly regarding Theodore Gilman (written by and concerning his affairs).
Mostly regarding Theodore Gilman.
Mostly regarding Theodore Gilman.
Mostly regarding Theodore Gilman.
Includes a letter from Andrew Carnegie (London) to Theodore Gilman (June 24, 1872) regarding the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company, conditions in London, and attitudes toward the Alabama case.
Mostly regarding Theodore Gilman.
Mostly regarding Theodore Gilman.
Letters include Andrew Carnegie to Theodore Gilman (February 13, 1885) regarding lawsuit against the steamboat company; Theodore Gilman to his wife (July 25, 1885) describing his trip to Salt Lake City, Utah, the rumors of riots in the city, the presence of federal troops outside the city, his opinion on polygamy, and a description of the practice in Salt Lake City; the printed reorganization agreement of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company (November 19, 1885); and Theodore Gilman to his wife (May 23, 1886) describing his trip to New Orleans on business relating to the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Items include the certificate of incorporation of the North Platte Land and Water Company (March 2, 1896); a resolution (March 24, 1896) making the company a Nebraska corporation; a letter from Theodore Gilman to his wife (November 28, 1896) describing a Christian Science meeting; a letter from Theodore Gilman to his wife describing the home of George Pullman, Chicago, and a tour of the Pullman car factories (October 18, 1897).
Also includes an agreement (May 1, 1899) between the Trust Company of America and Everett J. Dallas and George H. Whitcomb, as receivers of the Trust Company and Theodore Gilman, Winthrop S. Gilman, Edward Lewis, and William B. Broomall that includes a financial history of the North Platte Land and Water Company and the North Platte Irrigation and Land Company; a bondholders agreement (April 1, 1899) of the North Platte Land and Water Company detailing the assets of the firm; and a first mortgage (July 1, 1900) of the same companies to Theodore and Winthrop Gilman.
Includes several letters to Catheryne Cooke. Other items include the shares owned by Theodore Gilman, Jr in the Batopilas Mining Company (New York) with mines in Chihuahua, Mexico, to which is attached a stock certificate in the Iguana Land and Mining Company (West Virginia, January 23, 1917), and a letter from Andrew Carnegie (May 2, 1911) to Mrs. Gilman regarding services rendered.
Letterheads include the National Liberal Immigration League (January 4, 1915) and the National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures (January 6, 1915).
Includes correspondence and other papers regarding the Minnesota Act amending the law relating to the sale and distribution of obscene literature, and the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Mostly regarding work of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Mostly regarding work of the Women's Cooperative Alliance but also includes letters (September 6 and 10, 1923) from James Truslow Adams to Theodore Gilman regarding Gilman's criticism of his research.
Mostly regarding work of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes correspondence dealing with the affairs of the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company and the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes correspondence regarding the closing up of the business of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Regarding Gilman family affairs.
By Theodore Gilman, Robbins Gilman, and Catheryne Cooke Gilman on religion, morality, history, social problems, and other subjects.
Includes obituaries of Theodore Gilman, Mrs. Theodore Gilman, and Charles P. Noyes, articles by Theodore Gilman on currency reform and other questions, and miscellaneous clippings relating to Gilman family affairs.
Articles by Theodore Gilman on the Progressive Party (1912), the Huguenots, the Reverend Jonas Clark, the Sabbath, social theories, and banking and currency; constitution of Phi Sigma Society; articles of incorporation of the North Platte Irrigation and Land Company and the North Platte Land and Water Company; statement to the bondholders of the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company; advertisement of the Lockhart Land Company (Palisades, New York) and miscellaneous items.
Administrative records, printed materials, and historical data on the development of the Women's Cooperative Alliance, incorporated in 1918 and dissolved in 1932. The organization was created to disseminate information about sex education, to promote the eradication of juvenile delinquency, and to advance social hygiene and public morality.
The group began in 1915 as the Women's Cooperative Committee, an organization sponsored by the Women's Welfare League. It was named the Women's Cooperative Alliance in 1917, and was incorporated under that name in 1918. The work of the Alliance developed through four departments: Administration, Education and Publicity, Research and Investigation, and Big Sisters.
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, constitution, and other papers relating to the formation.
Notes, speeches, articles and other materials summarizing the history of the organization. This file was assembled by Catheryne Cooke Gilman for the purpose of writing a history of the Alliance; includes excerpts from minutes of the Women's Welfare League.
Reports of the executive secretary and the various departments.
Includes a final report (1932) and a summary of annual reports, dated 1929 but filed at the end of the report file.
Instructions for the execution of work in various departments of the Alliance.
Includes printed reports for the East, North, and South Districts of Minneapolis.
Includes pamphlets and leaflets, published by the Alliance, outlining training courses for volunteers, and articles by Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Most of the materials in this alphabetical file relates to the Women's Cooperative Alliance. There are, however, folders for the Northeast Neighborhood House and on various other subjects that interested Robbins and Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Includes papers relating to the Twin Cities Chapter.
Includes papers relating to the Twin Cities Chapter.
Articles and publications by Catheryne Cooke Gilman and the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
The Association was a department of the Alliance from 1917-1930, after which it became an independent agency.
Clippings about proposed legislation to give women legal equality with men.
Includes data regarding the residence of the Alliance in the Citizens' Aid Building.
Includes minutes, programs, and bulletins.
The committee worked for law enforcement in Minneapolis.
Constitution and bylaws of the Minneapolis committee and information on the Committee of 15 in Chicago.
The purpose of this organization was to combat indecency.
Includes correspondence and printed material.
Includes correspondence, reports and other data regarding the work of Catheryne Cooke Gilman with women of color.
Includes correspondence, reports, and minutes.
Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, legislation and bibliography.
Includes correspondence, reports, and bill.
Includes reports and articles.
Includes clippings, publications and legislation.
Includes correspondence and other papers.
Includes minutes, agendas, correspondence and other papers.
Includes reports, correspondence and other papers.
Literature relating to the trial of Mary Ware Dennett for writing on sex education.
Regarding candidates for municipal, state and federal offices.
Includes correspondence and reports on race relations and motion pictures.
Investigation was conducted by two National Secret Service Men, under the supervision of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Issued by the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes correspondence and other papers.
Includes correspondence, articles, and bills.
Includes correspondence regarding the work of the Women's Division of the Commission.
Sponsored by the Women's Cooperative Alliance. Includes memoranda, program, and advertisements.
Surveying the social work agencies of Minneapolis; includes reports, correspondence, and memoranda; some reports detail the history and work of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes clippings.
Includes leaflet and petition for freeing Kelly Postal from false imprisonment.
Correspondence of Catheryne Cooke Gilman with law enforcement committees in other states.
Includes lists, clippings, reports, correspondence, and memoranda regarding the work of the Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes printed materials and reports.
Includes reports, minutes, and bulletins.
Includes index to Minnesota laws, data on laws of other states relating to children, summary of Minnesota laws, memoranda, bills, notes on the Nash Bill, and correspondence.
Includes memoranda, literature and reports, as well as drafts of legislation.
Includes clippings and articles.
Includes bibliographies and articles.
Includes literature of the Minnesota Mental Hygiene Society and articles on mental hygiene.
Includes statistics, memoranda, articles, sample ballot, organization charts of Minneapolis city government, and correspondence.
Includes
Includes data on the Town Tea Kettle, Community Fund, and agencies cooperating with the Council.
Includes bulletins and other literature.
Includes correspondence and other papers.
Includes correspondence and a report:
Two copies; the key to names in the report is included in the first copy.
Includes correspondence and other materials relating to the placement of social workers.
Includes constitution, bylaws, and correspondence.
Includes correspondence and other papers.
Includes correspondence and other papers.
Includes reports and survey forms, correspondence and other papers.
Includes printed items.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to its Minneapolis meeting.
Includes printed material and miscellaneous.
Includes correspondence and printed material.
Includes correspondence and published materials.
Includes articles and printed materials.
Relating to the Northeast Neighborhood House and other settlements
Materials prepared by Dr. T.W. Galloway.
Includes outlines for lectures, questions.
Includes conference minutes.
Includes reports, articles, questionnaires and outlines.
Includes letters and reports.
The correspondence has data on the application of the Alliance to the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, for funds to carry out its work; the refusal of the Foundation to give support to the general program of the Alliance; the application of the Alliance to study the causes of delinquency, dependency, and defectiveness which arise as a result of misinformation or a lack of information on the fundamental facts of social hygiene.
Includes sponsorship by the Rockefeller Foundation of a study of the work of the Alliance and its possible application to problems in other communities; cooperation of the University of Minnesota, the Bureau of Social Hygiene, and the Alliance in carrying out the study; difficulties between the University and the Alliance in matters of personnel, policies, and conclusions; the engagement of Dr. Helen Witmer to make the study; the employment of Katharine Hattendorf to participate in the study; appointment of Dr. Chloe Owings as director of the Social Hygiene project.
Includes objections of the Alliance to the publication of Miss Witmer's report. Chief correspondents are Lotus D. Coffman, F. Stuart Chapin, Katharine B. Davis, and Catheryne Cooke Gilman. A letter from Chloe Owings to Catheryne Cooke Gilman, July 30, 1929, has attached to it a brief history of the beginnings of the Alliance, dictated by Gilman.
Forerunner of Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Includes data on Minnesota Woman's Committee, Commission of Public Safety, and Council of National Defense.
The correspondence series and the subject matter file series also contain information on motion picture work of Catheryne Cooke Gilman as executive secretary of the Alliance.
A manuscript by Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Chiefly by Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Particularly that of the Women's Alliance.
Chiefly briefs concerning action of the commission against amusement companies.
Catheryne Cooke Gilman was chairman of the Motion Picture Committee of the National Council of Women. She represented the National Council of Women on the Motion Picture Committee of the International Council of Women.
The correspondence has information on the organization of local councils; legislation (world-wide) relating to the control of motion pictures; Catheryne Cooke Gilman's attendance at the conference on motion pictures held by the International Council of Women at Geneva, Switzerland, as a representative of the National Council of Women (1927).
Includes Catheryne Cooke Gilman's acceptance of the presidency of Federal Motion Picture Council; the Federal Trade Commission action against the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; federal regulation of motion pictures; meetings of the National Council of Women; work of the National Motion Picture League; Mrs. Gilman's appointment to the National Committee for Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures (1929); meetings of the International Council of Women; Mrs. Gilman's planning for a session on motion pictures for the Vienna meeting of the International Council of Women (1930); and relations of Gilman's committee with the motion picture industry of America.
Includes materials on the Conference of the International Council of Women in Rome and Catheryne Cooke Gilman's attendance (1931). After 1931, when she resigned as motion picture chairman of the National Council of Women, the correspondence continues to deal with motion picture problems and with Mrs. Gilman's work with other organizations.
This study of motion pictures was supported by the Payne Fund. Mrs. Gilman was a member of the committee; William H. Short was director.
Includes manuals, study material, and reports. There are a few reports by the director and occasional agendas and minutes of meetings.
A few reports are attached to letters. Most of the correspondence is between Catheryne Cooke Gilman, William H. Short and other members of the committee.
Will Hays was president of the organization; Catheryne Cooke Gilman represented the group. The file has information on the Better Movie Movement in Minneapolis, censorship in Massachusetts, and Gilman's attitudes toward cooperation by the industry.
Organized in 1927, the Council's objectives were "To focus public attention on the motion picture as a social influence, and to find and set in motion forces that will progressively improve the quality of entertainment and education it provides." The organization was a successor to the National Committee for Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures. Catheryne Cooke Gilman was a member of the group; most of the correspondence is between William Short, director, and Gilman.
Organized in 1935, the Guild's objectives were "to secure greater efficiency in educational methods by encouraging the use of motion pictures suitable for that purpose; to develop the character of American youth, rekindle and preserve American ideals and principals and further social welfare by encouraging the exhibiting of entertainment and recreational motion pictures of a wholesome nature in the auditoriums of schools, colleges, churches, libraries, lodge rooms and similar organizations; to make available to educational, social, civic, patriotic, and religious institutions and organizations a complete weekly change of program of sound-on-film motion pictures suitable for these purposes, by encouraging, promoting and participating in their production and distribution of apparatus and equipment for their exhibition; and to make such motion pictures available to the public generally by exhibiting them and by encouraging their exhibition by others." Catheryne Cooke Gilman was the president of the organization.
The extracts are a résumé of Gilman's experience with the Guild in the first few months.
Extracts of the letters are included.
An article prepared by Gilman as president of the Guild and miscellaneous papers.
Most of the correspondence is between Gilman, William Cox, and other persons interested in the Guild. There is data on objectives, plans for organization, and failure of Cox to provide the funds necessary to carry out the initial work.
Continuation of the account of the struggle to raise money for the Guild and changes in the plan of the organization.
The correspondence has data on the work of local P.T.A. committees on motion pictures; distribution of literature on motion pictures; functioning of the committee on motion pictures in the organization (National P.T.A.); the assistance given by the National Congress P.T.A. to the Motion Picture Committee; relations of the committee with other local, state and national groups working for the improvement of motion pictures; relations of the committee and other motion picture groups with the motion picture industry.
Correspondence also includes attempts to secure legislation regulating motion pictures; conventions of the National Congress P.T.A.; encouragement by the committee of the production of visual aids and educational films; information on motion pictures available for distribution by various firms and organizations; and on projection equipment.
Organized in 1925, the purpose of the Council was "to secure federal supervision to be applied before the production of films and federal regulation of the trade practices of the industry." It dissolved in 1947. Catheryne Cooke Gilman was president of the organization, 1927-1947, and one of its incorporators.
The correspondence includes letters exchanged among the officers of the council and other individuals and organizations interested in legislation on motion pictures.
There is information on the organization of the council; legislation; motion picture conferences; influence of the motion picture industry on groups working to improve films; annual meetings; relations among the various organizations working to improve or control motion pictures; action and suggested action by the Federal Trade Commission against Lasky and other members or companies in the motion picture industry; and work of the other motion picture groups of which Catheryne Cooke Gilman was a member.
See partnership agreement (October 19, 1761) between Nathaniel Folsom and Joseph and Josiah Gilman in box 1. The type of concerns this partnership was involved in is unknown.
Includes real estate and other business accounts.
Contains newspaper clippings on temperance and clippings of published letters of Winthrop S. Gilman. Most of them were published in the 1830s and 1840s. The back cover contains obituaries of Arthur Gilman and Joseph Gilman.
Debate notes.
An account of Theodore Gilman's trip from New York to Texas to improve his health. He was accompanied by Horace Elisha Scudder, his tutor, and by George Ring, his cousin.
Contain letters and essays covering the entire range of Theodore Gilman's personal and business activities. There are a great many letters and essays on the banking and currency problems, particularly the advocacy by Gilman and others of clearing houses and clearing house currency. Gilman addressed his letters to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, senators, representative, bankers, and newspaper editors. There are also letters concerning the publication of A Graded Banking System and his other writings.
The family businesses on which he gives information in letters, agreements and other papers are Noyes Brothers and Cutler (St. Paul); Gilman, Son and Company; Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City Railway Company; Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern Railway Company; Omaha and St. Louis Railway Company; North Platte Land and Water Company; North Platte Irrigation Company; Hamilton and Keokuk Bridge Company; Missouri Railway Construction Company; New York real estate; mining companies; and other enterprises indicated in the incoming correspondence file.
Additional information is on Williams College; the Order of Founders and Patriots; the Presbyterian Church and church activities; family weddings, births, deaths, will, and property arrangements; and social and cultural organizations of which Theodore Gilman was a member.
The company was incorporated in 1919 in New York. The volume also contains certificates for the Hershey Land Company.
The volumes contain letters, poems, essays, prayers, speeches, constitutions and bylaws. There is information on Gilman's work as a bond salesman for Gilman, Son and Company, New York, and for Mason, Lewis and Company, Philadelphia; the firms, governments, and nations for which the bonds sold by the two companies were issued;
Also includes information about family affairs and property; the First Presbyterian Church in Yonkers; the Brotherhood Bible Class, which Robbins Gilman taught; the Y.M.C.A.; Sunday School teaching; the Prospect House Settlement Association; the Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; the Playground Committee, Yonkers; and Williams College. A number of letters written to friends show the progress in Robbins Gilman's religious and moral life, and the development of his social ideas.
Inventory of household furniture of Theodore Gilman's residence on Palisades Avenue, Yonkers, New York and additional Gilman family accounts.
Presented to Robbins Gilman by the Clubs of University Settlement, New York.
Fillebrown House is located in White Bear Lake and maintained by the White Bear Lake Historical Society.
Reprint of a booklet originally published in 1890.
Documents Robbins Gilman's activities in Yonkers, New York, including the Brotherhood Bible Class, Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, campaign for parks and playground; observance of "Labor Sunday;" includes a broadside requesting support for the campaign of Charles Evans Hughes for Governor of New York.
Filed alphabetically.
Filed chronologically.
Contains drafts of Betsy's letters.
Manuscript by Elizabeth Gilman published in
Received in unarranged increments between 1955 and 1980, the files are in no particular order. Included are correspondence, subject files, and papers from various Gilman and family members and relatives.
Principally to Catheryne Cooke Gilman from her younger sister Nira Cooke Carroll.
Includes academies, land, Northeast Neighborhood House.
Includes photos, maps, charts.
Mainly
Mainly regarding hepatitis and electrophoresis.
Principally involving investments.
Includes some for Catheryne Cooke Gilman.
Includes the
Concerning Central High School's Human Relations Program.
Includes minutes and reports.
Papers including family material, pictures, some correspondence and letters, clippings, and other documents regarding Seattle Public Schools.
Some written before they were married in 1914.
Includes report cards, certificates, and essays.
Signed by George Washington.
Digital version
Regarding an invitation to Bryce to speak.
Regarding a meeting between the two women.