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HYDE PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The collection focuses on the history of the village and contains only one oral history interview used in
this study.
HYDE PARK LIBRARY
There is no material in the collection relating to this study.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Charles F. McKim Collection includes the correspondence of Charles McKim and contains letters to
Frederick Vanderbilt and others with references to Hyde Park. The collection is available on microfilm.
The Samuel Gottscho archive contains interior views of Wakehurst, Daisy Van Alen's house in Newport.
These are available over the internet.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
The Ogden Codman Collection, Division of Prints and Drawings, includes the watercolor elevations of
Mrs. Vanderbilt's Bedroom and Boudoir, and also elevations of 1025 Fifth Avenue. The Bedroom and
Boudoir elevations are highly finished presentation drawings which Codman only executed in the early
part of his career.
MILLS MANSION STATE HISTORIC SITE
The library collection is an excellent source of period proscriptive literature on topics related to the
Gilded Age. There is no material in the collection which relates specifically to Hyde Park. The
architecture and interiors of Mills Mansion were also examined. The mansion's archive contains good
information on the house's mechanical systems, used as a comparison to Hyde Park.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
The Archives at the National Museum of American History contains hundreds of thousands of trade
catalogs. Many are included on their online catalog, but the vast majority is in the mezzanine, stored
alphabetically by company name.
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
There is no material in the collection which specifically relates to Frederick Vanderbilt's life in Newport;
however, a surviving room-by-room inventory of "Chetwode," built for the Wells family by Trumbauer in
1902, includes the service areas of the house. The material carried a research restriction at the time
researched.
THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The McKim, Mead & White Collection is the largest repository of material pertaining to the firm and was
donated in two separate groups in 1950 and 1968. There are drawings, billbooks, photographs, and glass
plate negatives of Hyde Park. The drawings encompass the designs for the original proposed renovation
to the Langdon Mansion, the designs for the Pavilion, Mansion, gate houses, the Wales House, and the
Howard House. Many of them are the original ink on linen drawings. The correspondence and
specifications for this commission do not survive. There is no information pertaining to Hyde Park in the
books of clippings and internal journals which were also examined.
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Margaret McKim Maloney Collection in the Manuscript Division contains one letter from Frederick
Vanderbilt to Charles McKim. Margaret McKim Maloney was Charles Follen McKim's only child. The
Richard Butler Papers contain numerous references to Georges Glaenzer. Butler was Georges Glaenzer's
father-in-law and Frederic Bartholdi's representative in the U.S. for the Statue of Liberty. Glaenzer
translated letters for Butler and seems to have been a personal friend of Bartholdi's. Glaenzer was also
responsible for the draping of the base of the Statue of Liberty when it was formally presented. The E.F.
Caldwell Papers contain the business records of the lighting firm that supplied many of the fixtures for
Hyde Park. There are numbers identifying commissions. Unfortunately, the first volume with the
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