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Architectural Drawings and Building Plans Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-49-ARCH
Scope and Contents
This collection contains architectural drawings related to the construction and renovation of Marjorie Merriweather Post's various properties owned over the course of her adult life.
Earliest drawings are of the apartments in New York City purchased in the late 1910s during her marriage to Edward B. Close. Subsequent plans are of properties in:-Battle Creek, Michigan
-Hillwood, Long Island
-Camp Topridge in the Adirondacks
-Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach,...
Dates:
1920-2024
Archives and Special Collections Department Records
Record Group
Identifier: FA-36-ASC
Content Description
The Archives and Special Collections Department records contain materials related to the library and archives collections and research, policies and procedures, events, library facilities, and various outreach related projects. It contains both analog and electronic resources. An inventory of additional electronic records is available upon request. Further details of scope and contents are included at the fonds and series-level.
Dates:
1950s-2000s
David Palmer Close Papers
Collection
Identifier: FA-8-DPC
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents and correspondence relating to legal services performed by David Palmer Close for Marjorie Merriweather Post and her daughter Eleanor Close Barzin, and to a lesser extent for Adelaide Brevoort Close. Close's legal work for Marjorie Merriweather Post included wills, codicils, trusts, bequests, financial transactions and her marriages to Joseph Davies ansd Herbert May. He also served as the purchasing agent for Post when she acquired Arbremont (later...
Dates:
1872-2004
Curatorial Department Records
Record Group
Identifier: FA-45-CUR
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of records created by members of the Curatorial Department including exhibition files, presentations, research, reports and various administrative materials. A portion of this collection is restricted for further processing. For access to these restricted records, please contact ASC staff.The portion available, the Born Digital Materials series, currently features electronic records from various curatorial department staff relating to the research and...
Dates:
1996-2017
Diane Viall Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-60-DV
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials documenting the relationship of Diane Hull Viall and Marjorie Merriweather Post as well as holds some materials related to Hillwood when it became a museum in 1977. The collection is divided into four series: Correspondence; Clippings & Periodicals; Ephemera; and Visual Materials. Materials date from 1946 to 2005; with the bulk dating to the 1950s and 1960s.
The Correspondence series is the largest and dates from 1946 to 2005 with the...
Dates:
1946-2005
Dina Merrill Hartley Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-26-DMH
Content Description
The collection includes records pertaining to the life of Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, also known as Dina Merrill. This collection includes a series of correspondence which includes letters and telegrams on various topics. Topics covered include Nedenia’s birth, letters from Nedenia to her parents, and congratulations on Nedenia’s life milestones. Also in the collection are papers regarding the Hutton family’s genealogy and history, photographs and transparencies throughout her...
Dates:
1873-1975, bulk 1920s-1940s
Dr. H. Mason Hicks Photograph Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: FA-9-HMH
Content Description
This collections holds 84 black and white photographs of a voyage on the Hussar to the Galapagos Islands including photographs of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Nedenia and E.F. Hutton as well as other passengers and crew. The collection also holds photographs depicting an old navy tradition called the “crossing the line” ceremony, an initiation rite for those who have never crossed the equator.
Dates:
circa 1932
Earl Loy Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-2-EL
Scope and Contents
Various newspaper and magazine clippings about Dina Merrill’s marriages, the death of David Post Rumbough (Dina Merrill’s son), Marjorie Durant’s (Marwee's) wedding, Sea Cloud, Hillwood, Mrs. Post, her family, boyfriends, and death, Mar-A-Lago, Topridge, Christmas cards, Emlen Knight Davies, Herbert May, Joseph E. Davies, and Tregaron. The collection also includes photographs of the Post family, Hillwood and its gardens, and the retirement party for general manager Commander Clyde B. Ault in...
Dates:
circa 1850-1990
Edward Kasinec Papers
Collection
Identifier: FA-50-EK
Content Description
The Edward Kasinec Papers include research notes, reference copies of published works, printed materials, and records related to Kasinec's donation of books to the Hillwood Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1866 - 2007 (bulk 1990s-2000s)
Ellen MacNeille Charles Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-41-EMC
Scope and Contents
The Ellen MacNeille Charles Collection is made up of material donated to Hillwood by Ellen Charles. The collection holds both materials pertaining to Ellen Charles and materials from family that were passed down to Ellen. Material pertaining to Ellen includes newspaper clipping featuring her and a series of photographs from a 1956 trip to Europe. Also in the collection is a digital oral history of Ellen at Topridge. The collection also includes two diaries belonging...
Dates:
1956-2023