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Photograph of Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

Photograph of Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 28, Item 1
Item
1966

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of Higginson outside his home in Pleasantville, New York. Higginson was the chief electrical officer on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennet based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1911-1921 and was part of the cable-ship's recovery of over 300 bodies from the Titanic disaster in April 1912. Thomas Head Raddall served as a wireless operator on the same ship from 1920-1921.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, and unidentified man in uniform

Photograph of Ellen Ballon, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, and unidentified man in uniform

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 21
Item
[c. 1942 -1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photograph of Fiorello H. Laguardia, the Mayor of New York (1934-1945) , signing a scroll of greetings from the "Men in New York at the Stage Door Canteen" to the "Men of Canada." The "Men of Canada" refers to the Canadian service-men's center that opened in Ellen Ballon's family home in Montreal.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with West Point Military Academy cadets

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with West Point Military Academy cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 26
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon with three cadets from the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with unidentified woman

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with unidentified woman

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 30
Item
[c. 1940 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati and Aaron Copland

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati and Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 27
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland and Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 28
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Aaron Copland

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 29
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point museum with cadets

Photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point museum with cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 25
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are cadets, R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon helping with the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service

Photograph of Ellen Ballon helping with the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 24
Item
[c. 1942 - 1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York, with henna preventing the further spread of the oil.

Photograph of an oiled boat at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of an oiled boat at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 11
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a blue-winged teal covered in oil, as a result of the Alexandria Bay oil spill

Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a Coastal Services Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York, with one unidentified worker sitting atop the tanker.

Photograph of a researcher examining weathered crude oil at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of a researcher examining weathered crude oil at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 9
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a group of American sailors standing in front of the New York City Department of Ma...

Photograph of a group of American sailors standing in front of the New York City Department of Marine and Aviation office

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 42, Item 13
Item
1977

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photograph of a group of American sailors eating food in front of the New York City Department of Marine and Aviation office. A flock of pigeons is in the foreground. The photograph was exhibited at the Centre for Art Tapes during a 1977 exhibition of photography and video by Bruce Sparks, Vikky Swettenham and Theodore Wan.

Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a docked oil clean-up vessel.

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 104, Folder 23
File
1981-1983

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence to/from: Mr. Pullar and Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf, B.V. Papa Rao, and Dr. Pantulu.

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 79, Folder 22
File
1974-1983

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence with Alexandera Post, T.V.R. Pillay (Food and Agricultre Organization of the United Nations), Princeton University Press, O.S. Plue, Prentice-Hall of Canada Ltd, Les Presse de la Cité, Elaine Partnow, Praeger Publishers Inc., M. Piovene, and PHP Institute Inc. Also includes "The Implications of Change in Mining Finance and Participation" by Alexandra Post, excerpts from "Ocean mining" by Alexandra Post, a proposal on deepsea mining by Alexandra Post and a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, "Progress of Aquaculture" by T.V.R. Pillay.

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

'P' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 104, Folder 6
File
1978-1979

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with A. Papadopoulos, Renate Platzoder, and Ambassador Arpad Prandler of Hungary. Correspondence concerns the International Ocean Institute (IOI)'s training programme, Pacem in Maribus, and other topics.

Open Letter to the Missouri Knights of Columbus : [poster]

Open Letter to the Missouri Knights of Columbus : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 5
Item
April 7, 1946

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of an illustrated broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the Sunday, April 7, 1946 edition of The New York Times, containing a lengthy letter written by Leslie in response to anti-Soviet and pro-Franco Spanish statements from the Missouri Knights of Columbus Catholic fraternal society.

Olin Downes : [autographed photograph]

Olin Downes : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Novellette : etude in seconds : op. 22, no. 1

Novellette : etude in seconds : op. 22, no. 1

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 12
Item
[1916-1925]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains the manuscript for Alberto Jonàs' "Novelette" for piano, which he wrote for Ellen Ballon. Ballon was one of his students in New York from c. 1916 until 1925.

Jonàs, Alberto

Norman Dello Joio : [autographed photograph]

Norman Dello Joio : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 35
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the American composer, Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), inscribed to Ellen Ballon.

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 179, Folder 24
File
1976-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence to R.A. Ness (of the Ambassador Trading Company) and Satya Nanden (of the United Nations). Topics discussed include the Law of the Sea and Micronesia, and the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 163, Folder 8
File
1981-1983

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with "The New York Times," "The New Yorker," and "National Geographic Magazine."

Murial Dundas : [autographed photograph]

Murial Dundas : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 3
File
April 25, 1925

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of Muriel Dundas, personalized to Ellen Ballon. The photograph was taken at the Ira J. Hill Studio in New York.

Miscellaneous 'J' correspondence

Miscellaneous 'J' correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 2, Folder 31
File
1979-1980

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence primarily from Nowell Jenkins (some of which is regarding dogs), and a letter from Patricia Japp.

Mary Celeste model at Atlantic Companies

Mary Celeste model at Atlantic Companies

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
[19--?]

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item is a photograph of a model of the Mary Celeste held at the Atlantic Companies in New York, United States.

'M' miscellaneous correspondence

'M' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 103, Folder 25
File
1974-1977

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with Mike McCormack, Carol McCabe, McGraw-Hill Book Company (on a piece Mann Borgese wrote for "Today's Secretary"), Donald McDonald, and J.B. MacInnis. See also MS-2-744, Box 226, Folder 18 for additional correspondence between Mann Borgese and MacInnis.

'M - P' miscellaneous correspondence

'M - P' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 326, Folder 11
File
1992-1993

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence. Correspondents include the Permanent Ambassador of Jamaica to the United Nations Lucille Mair (attached is a copy of the G-77 Draft Paper); Ambassador Don Mills; Claude Morel (Ministry of the Environment, Economic Planning and External Relations for Seychelles) ; Satya Nandan (attached is a statement by Elisabeth Mann Borgese to the United Nation's Commission for Sustainable Development), Professor Kaldone Nweihed (sent with a list of countries that have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea); Chinese Premier Li Peng; M.C.W. (Chris) Pinto; Steve Polansky; Senator Claiborne Pell (sent with the non-paper: "Agreement on the Implementation of Part XI and Annexes III and IV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"); and Jan Pronk.

'M' - 'N' miscellaneous correspondence

'M' - 'N' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 353, Folder 4
File
1986-1990

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with International Ocean Institute (IOI) Training Programme, Dalhousie University, Department of Finance and Treasury Board of Canada. Correspondents include Allan MacEachen; Andrew MacKay; Anne Marie MacKinnon; Willa Magee; Robert Maguire; Evelyne Meltzer; Peter Middleton; Chris Milley; Brian Mulroney; Satya Nandan; Arame Ndiaye; A.M. Nikundiwe; Judy Noel; and Roy Norton. File contains a duplicate letter which has not been digitized.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Sally Ryan and Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Sally Ryan and Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
June 13, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ralph Gustafson, Sally Ryan, and Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ralph Gustafson, Sally Ryan, and Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
May 30, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon and Sally Ryan

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon and Sally Ryan

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 9
Item
October 16, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 6
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 7
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a note from William "Willie" Somerset Maugham written to Ellen Ballon on the reverse side of an advertisement for three recitals in New York (April 4, 11, 25, 1945) performed by Ellen Ballon and recorded by the radio station WNYC.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 10
Item
October 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 4
Item
November 19, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 8
Item
May 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Lotte Lehmann to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Lotte Lehmann to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a brief thank-you note for flowers received.

Lehmann, Charlotte

'L' miscellaneous correspondence

'L' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 79, Folder 27
File
1974-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence with David Luke of Dalhousie University, Lev Ljubmov, Betty Lussier (Consultants in Development), Dennis Livingston, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Edward Landstrom (United States Department of State), Heldegard Lamfrom, The Law of the Sea Institute, and Jonathan Lu.

Konzert etüde, op. 22 no. 1

Konzert etüde, op. 22 no. 1

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 11
Item
[1916-1925]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the original score inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Alberto Jonas. Ballon was one of Jonás' students in New York from c. 1916 until 1925.

Jonàs, Alberto

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 87, Folder 9
File
1979-1980

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the following individuals: D.C. Krause (UNESCO), A.G. Koroma (Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the UN), A.N. Kholodilin (UNESCO), the International Institute for Integrative Technology (IIT), and V. Kopal (Academy of Science, Prague).

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 100, Folder 32
File
1975-1983

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence to/from: [Kirthisinga], Dale Krause (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO), Martin Kaplan (World Health Organization, or WHO), Heimo Kellner, Birabhongse Karemrri, Johan Kaufman (The Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations), Susan Kaeser (World College West), and Franz Koenig (Archbishop of Vienna), which discusses the Holy See's position on the Law of the Sea.

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

'K' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 93, Folder 4
File
1978-1980

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with Pieter Korringa and Margaret Kaplan.

In the rushes, Op. 12, no. 3

In the rushes, Op. 12, no. 3

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
1908

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains the third piece in Rubin Goldmark's composition "In the Forest: Four Piano Compositions." This piece is dedicated to Paolo Gallico.

If love were all : [sheet music]

If love were all : [sheet music]

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 59
Item
1923

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

Item is the sheet music for a song in E-flat Major for solo voice and piano by William Axt. The words are from a poem of the same name by Martha Lois Wells. It is stamped and signed with the name "Marry Thomas."

Hugh Ross : [autographed photograph]

Hugh Ross : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 34
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of Hugh Ross(?), inscribed to Ellen Ballon.

Heitor Villa Lobos and Arminda Villa Lobos in New York

Heitor Villa Lobos and Arminda Villa Lobos in New York

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 21
File
May 12, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains photograph of Arminda and Heitor Villa Lobos, signed by Villa Lobos with dialogue between the two people pictured written in French.

Harold Bauer : [autographed photograph]

Harold Bauer : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 32
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the English pianist Harold Bauer.

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