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Subject(s)

• African Americans—19th century—Sources—Economic and social conditions [Browse]
• African Americans—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• Bounties, Military—United States—19th century [Browse]
• Genealogy—Societies, Etc [Browse]
• Freed persons—19th century—Sources—New York [Browse]
• Slave records—New York (State). [Browse]
• Slavery—United States—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Mycologists—United States—20th century—Correspondence [Browse]
• Northern boundary of the United States—19th century [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Reparations [Browse]
• Women—United States—Social conditions—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Women—United States—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Women scientists—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Canada—Boundaries—United States—19th century [Browse]
• Hudson River Valley (N.Y.)—Genealogy [Browse]
• United States—19th century—Boundaries—Canada [Browse]
• United States—Sources—History—War of 1812 [Browse]
• Yale University. Class of 1808 [Browse]
• United States Boundary Commission [Browse]
• United States. Army. Armored Infantry Regiment, 46th [Browse]
• Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.). [Browse]
• Reserve Officers Association of the United States [Browse]
• Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.). [Browse]
• Military Order of the World Wars [Browse]
• New York academy of sciences [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Correspondence [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1393-1985 1800-1950

Restrictions note

This collection is open for research use. Access to glass-plate negatives is restricted due to their fragility. Where prints of the negatives are present, the prints are open for research use. Though digitization may not be possible for every negative, researchers may make requests to digitize material via the Ask Special Collections , form according to Special Collections' policy on digitization .

Summary note

• The Delafields were avid collectors of family history and family-related memorabilia in the Hudson River Valley region of New York state. This collection consists of the papers of the Delafield family and related families, most prominently the Livingstons, containing both personal papers and papers collected for their genealogical and historical significance.
• Consists of the papers of the Delafield family and related families, most prominently the Livingstons, containing both personal papers and papers collected for their genealogical and historical significance. Central to the collection are the papers of John Ross Delafield (1875-1964), his grandfather, Joseph Delafield (1790-1875), and his father, Maturin Livingston Delafield (1836-1917). Also represented are John Delafield (1748-1824), Violetta White Delafield (1875-1949), Prosper Wetmore (1798-1876), Henry Delafield (1792-1875), Henry (1788-1856) and Susan Delafield Parish (1805-1861), and James Ross (1762-1847), among others. The Hudson River Valley region, including the Delafield estate in Annandale-on-Hudson, Montgomery Place, forms a natural background to much of the period covered by these personal papers.

Publications about

• Much of the biographical information for the Delafield Family Papers is from Delafield: The Family History by John Ross Delafield, privately printed, 2 volumes, 1945.
• Additional biographical information on Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield was taken from David Rose, "Our Lady of the Gasteromycetes: The Mushrooms of Violetta White Delafield," FUNGI Volume 13:4 (Winter 2020).

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