SUMMARY INFORMATION

RepositoryThe Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives10 East 71st StreetNew York, NY, 10021archives@frick.org © 2012 The Frick Collection. All rights reserved.

CreatorFrick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919.

TitleHenry Clay Frick Papers, Series V: Subject Files

IDHCFF.1.5

Date1848-1966, undated

Extent34.3 Linear feet

AbstractHenry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh industrialist who made his fortune in coke and steel, was also aprominent art collector. This series consists of materials organized by subject, and includes documentation ofFrick's investments, real estate holdings, personal and household matters, and philanthropic activities.

Preferred Citation

Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series V: Subject Files. The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Henry Clay Frick was born 19 December 1849, in West Overton, Pa. One of six children, his parents were John W.Frick, a farmer, and Elizabeth Overholt Frick, the daughter of a whiskey distiller and flour merchant. Frick ended hisformal education in 1866 at the age of seventeen. In 1871, Frick borrowed money to purchase a share in a cokingconcern that would eventually become the H.C. Frick Coke Co. Over the next decade, Frick expanded his businessthrough the acquisition of more coal lands and coke ovens. In 1882, he partnered with fellow industrialist AndrewCarnegie, and assumed the chairmanship of Carnegie Bros. & Co. (later Carnegie Steel Co.) in 1889. During his tenureas chairman, differences between Frick and Carnegie emerged, most significantly in their approach to labor issues. The1892 Homestead Strike strained relations between the two men for the rest of their working relationship, and heresigned from the company in December 1899.

For the remainder of his life, however, Frick continued to be a fixture in industrial and financial circles in America. Heserved as a director of United States Steel Corporation, and of various railroads, banks, insurance companies, andinvested in property in and around Pittsburgh, as well as in Massachusetts, New York, and Indiana. He also served onthe boards of cultural, educational, and charitable organizations, including the American Academy in Rome, theMetropolitan Museum of Art, and Princeton University. Frick was a life-long collector of art, focusing chiefly on OldMaster paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vermeer, and Gainsborough. Upon his death in 1919, hebequeathed his New York City residence, along with the paintings, sculpture, furnishings, and decorative objectstherein as a public museum now known as The Frick Collection.

Frick was married to Adelaide Howard Childs of Pittsburgh, with whom he had four children: Childs Frick (1883-1965),Martha Howard Frick (1885-1891), Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), and Henry Clay Frick, Jr. (born 1892, died ininfancy). They maintained a home in Pittsburgh (“Clayton”), as well as an elaborate summer residence (“Eagle Rock”)on Boston’s North Shore, which was completed in 1906. From 1905-1914, the family also occupied the Vanderbiltmansion at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York, before building their own residence on the site of the former Lenox Library atFifth Avenue and 70th Street. Henry Clay Frick died in New York on 2 December 1919.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Henry Clay Frick's Subject Files, 1848-1966 and undated, consist of correspondence, financial records, legaldocuments, notes, and printed material on a variety of topics relating to Frick's personal and business interests. Thesefiles were organized by Frick's office staff in Pittsburgh, and do not adhere to any chronological or alphabetical filingsystem. Instead, documents on a particular topic were gathered into an envelope, and envelopes were assignedsequential numbers. Four separate runs of numbers have been arranged in this series as the following four subseries:I: General Subject Files, II: Unfinished Matters, III: Finished Matters, and IV: Agreements. The last subseries amongthese papers, Subseries V: Bound Volumes, contains a handful of miscellaneous volumes used by Frick's office staff.

Subseries I: General Subject Files, 1848-1966 and undated, is the most voluminous of the materials in this series.These files largely concern real estate transactions, loans and financial assistance to family members, friends, andbusiness associates, and investments in railroads, utilities, mining, banking, and manufacturing. Other topics ofinterest include Frick's private railroad car “Westmoreland,” the family's box at the Metropolitan Opera; social eventshosted by the Frick family, and membership in a range of clubs, societies, and other organizations. These papers alsodocument philanthropic endeavors and the lease of various properties, including the Vanderbilt mansion at 640 FifthAvenue in New York, the Robert S. Bradley house in Prides Crossing, Mass., a vacation cottage in Palm Beach, Fla.,apartments at Louis Sherry's in New York, and the charter of the steam yacht Shemara. An alphabetical index of topicsand their corresponding envelope numbers is filed in the beginning of the subseries. Note that some gaps exist amongthe sequence of envelope numbers, and that some envelopes are empty, indicating that their contents may have beenremoved and stored elsewhere by Frick's office staff. The location of materials transferred out of these files is oftenunclear.

Subseries II: Unfinished Matters, 1903-1949 and undated, and Subseries III: Finished Matters, 1907-1921 andundated, appear to be two parts of the same sequence of numbered envelopes. As in the General Subject Filessubseries, documents pertaining to a transaction or topic were assigned a numbered envelope. Notations were madeon the envelopes concerning action taken and the existence of relevant documentation. Matters considered unresolvedat the time of Frick's death were probably left in their envelopes, even though action may have been taken andrecorded in the course of handling Frick's estate. For those matters considered resolved during Frick's lifetime, theenvelope was stamped "Closed" and the contents of the envelopes were removed to another location as indicated onthe envelope, with the empty envelope remaining in the file. Documentation from closed matters was transferred intothe General Subject Files above (sometimes referred to in notes as the "regular file") or the Henry Clay Frick's VoucherFiles, also in this repository (http://www.frick.org/archives/FindingAids/HCFVouchers.html). While the envelopes in theUnfinished Matters subseries are largely empty, they do contain detailed summaries of action taken and existingdocumentation, and can provide references to materials filed elsewhere among Frick's papers.

Subseries IV: Agreements, 1884-1925 and undated, pertain largely to real estate transactions and investments in invarious companies. Exceptions to this include an agreement with F.J. Osterling for renovations at Clayton, andcontracts for utilities at Clayton and the Frick Building. A bound record of agreements filed at the beginning of thesubseries contains details such as the parties involved, pertinent dates (i.e. expiration, payment, renewal, cancellation,

Finding aid for the Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series V: Subject Files, 1848-1966,undated Part of the Frick Family Papers, on deposit from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation Archives

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summary Information

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement

AdministrativeInformation

Controlled AccessHeadings

Collection Inventory

Subseries I: GeneralSubject Files 1848-1966, undated

Subseries II: UnfinishedMatters 1903-1949, undated

Subseries III: FinishedMatters 1907-1921, undated

Subseries IV:Agreements 1884-1925, undated

Subseries V: BoundVolumes 1911-1920s

etc.), a synopsis, and the location of related documentation. As with the General Subject Files, Unfinished Matters, andFinished Matters, there are unexplained gaps in the sequence of numbered agreements in this subseries.

A small group of materials, Subseries V: Bound Volumes, 1911-1920s, contains an address book, an index to a filecase, and an inventory of securities held in a safe deposit box.

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ARRANGEMENT

Materials are arranged in five subseries:

I. General Subject Files, 1848-1966, undated

II. Unfinished Matters, 1903-1949, undated

III. Finished Matters, 1907-1921, undated

IV. Agreements, 1884-1925, undated

V. Bound Volumes, 1911-1920s

Files are primarily arranged by envelope number; unnumbered envelopes are arranged alphabetically by title.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions

These records are open for research under the conditions of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archivesaccess policy. Contact the Archives Department for further information at archives@frick.org.

Provenance

On deposit from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, 2001.

Processing Information

Arranged and described by Julie Ludwig, 2012, with funding from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation.

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CONTROLLED ACCESS HEADINGS

Genre(s)

Deeds.Financial records.

Personal Name(s)

Frick, Adelaide Howard Childs, 1859-1931.Frick, Childs, 1883-1965.Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984.Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919.

Subject(s)

Railroads--History.Steel industry and trade.

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COLLECTION INVENTORY

Subseries I: General Subject Files

Files in this subseries largely concern real estate transactions, loans and financial assistance to family members,friends, and business associates, and investments in railroads, utilities, mining, banking, and manufacturing.Other topics of interest include Frick's private railroad car "Westmoreland," the family's box at the MetropolitanOpera; social events hosted by the Frick family, and membership in a range of clubs, societies, and otherorganizations. These papers also occasionally contain information regarding philanthropic endeavors, artpurchases, and the lease of various properties, including the Vanderbilt mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York,the Robert S. Bradley house in Prides Crossing, Mass., a vacation cottage in Palm Beach, Fla., apartments at LouisSherry's in New York, and charter of the yacht Shemara. An alphabetical index of topics and their correspondingenvelope numbers is filed in the beginning of the subseries. Note that some gaps exist among the sequence ofenvelope numbers, and that some envelopes are empty, indicating that their contents may have been removedand stored elsewhere by Frick's office staff. The location of materials transferred out of these files is often unclear.

Folders are arranged by envelope number.

Box Folder Date

1 1"Index to Miscellaneous Papers" [preservation photocopy]

Alphabetical index to Henry Clay Frick's subject files.

undated

1 2#1: Bills Receivable - D.B. Kinch correspondence

Correspondence to, from, and about the financial situation of D.B. Kinch.

1918-1919

1 3#1: Bills Receivable - D.B. Kinch receipts and check register

Receipts for bills incurred by D.B. Kinch, with accompanying check register forthe Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh.

1919

1 4#1: Bills Receivable - Bondholders' Committee, Fort Smith & Western

1915-1917

Railroad Co.

Re: deferred interest

1 5#1: Bills Receivable - Bondholders' Committee, Fort Smith & WesternRailroad Co.

Certificate of Indebtedness

1917-1921

1 6#1: Bills Receivable - Bondholders' Committee, Fort Smith & WesternRailroad Co.

Certificates of Deposit

1920-1922

1 7#1: Bills Receivable - Loan to John Watson of Bayside, Long Island

1909

1 8#1: Bills Receivable - U.S. Steel stock owned by Marika Ogiz

1915

1 9#1: Bills Receivable - Registered mail insurance

1915

1 10#1: Bills Receivable - The Lido Corporation

1919-1920

2 1#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Alfonse Jongers

Contains correspondence re: commission of a portrait of John C. Tappin.

1916-1917

2 2#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Charles W. Culp

1904-1905

2 3#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to F.T. Cole

1907

2 4#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Francis T.F. Lovejoy

1912-1914

2 6#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Judge Joseph Buffington

1911-1915

2 7#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Louise Inglis

Includes correspondence re: two Millet drawings Mrs. Inglis wishes to sell.

1910-1915

2 8#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Lyman B. Childs

1915

2 9#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Loan to Walter Scranton

1910

2 10#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Louis Rott

Re: Lynch property, purchased by Rott in 1896.

1896-1899

2 11#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Asa P. Childs, Jr.

1906-1922

2 12#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Bondholders' Committee, Fort Smith &Western Railroad Co.

1916-1924

2 13#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Charles McK. Lynch

1919-1920

2 14#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Carl C. Law

1911-1914

2 15#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - C.S. Overholt

1907-1909

2 16#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Notes - Donner Steel Co., Inc.

1920-1922

2 17#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Elliott Rodgers

1912

2 18#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - George Nox McCain

1909-1911

2 19#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - George W. Delamater

1903-1908

2 20#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Guild of Boston Artists

1914-1923

2 21#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Isham Carter/William Wallace

1892

2 22#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Joseph Holroyd

1914

2 23#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Katherine M. Snyder

1917-1922

2 24#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Note - Lawrence Litchfield

1918-1922

2 25#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Notes - miscellaneous (canceled, overdue,etc.)

1885-1912

2 26#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Notes - Oliver Mining Co.

1900

2 27#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Notes - W.H. Donner

1920-1922

2 28#1-A: Accounts Receivable - Notes - Wm. Martin

1902

3 1#1-B: Bills Payable - $1,250,000 note at First National Bank

Includes correspondence with Duveen Brothers.

1916-1920

3 2#1-B: Bills Payable - W.J. Naughton note ($416,100)

1917-1920

3 3#1-B: Bills Payable - W.J. Naughton note ($1,300,000)

1917-1920

3 4#2: Mortgages - D.B. Kinch

1916-1921

3 5#2: Mortgages - D.D. Gage

1914-1920

3 6#2: Mortgages - George H. Doerr

1898-1907

3 7#2: Mortgages - Heyl & Patterson, Inc.

1920-1924

3 8#2: Mortgages - Markle family

1887-1889

3 9#2: Mortgages - Rachel Roy/Mary C. O'Connell

1904-1922

3 10#2: Mortgages - Tinstman family

1910-1925

3 11#2: Mortgages - University of Pittsburgh

1921-1924

4 1#2-A: Mortgages - Holroyd family

1898-1904

4 2#2-A: Mortgages - Joseph P. Hoguet

1919-1923

4 3#2-A: Mortgages - Josiah V. Thompson

1914-1915

4 4#2-A: Mortgages - Litchfield bond and mortgage

1904-1905

4 5#2-A: Mortgages - Matthew H. Thompson

1896-1898

4 6#2-A: Mortgages - Papers re: various bonds and mortgages

1877-1898,undated

4 7#2-A: Mortgages - Country Club of Allegheny County

1921-1925

4 8#2-A: Mortgages - Joseph P. Hoguet fire insurance

1919-1923

4 9#2-A: Mortgages - T. Lea Hamnett

1916

4 10#3: A. Overholt & Co. stock

1921

4 11#4: South Penn Railway Co.

1881

4 12#6: Homewood Cemetery lot

1892-1918

4 13#7: Shady Side lot

undated

4 14#8: Thomas St. property - called Doerr property on books

1901

4 15#10: Mt. Pleasant property

1891-1906,undated

4 16#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Assay certificates

1903-1904

Mining property in Colorado.

4 17-18#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Correspondence

Mining property in Colorado.

1881-1902

5 1-3#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Correspondence (continued)

Chiefly correspondence with George D. Nickel; later correspondents includeFrederick Brooks, Mrs. Jesse C. Wiley, Louise Brooks, and Virginia B. Carnegie.

1903-1939

5 4-5#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Deed folders

1879-1897

5 6-7#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Expenditures

1903-1904

5 8#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Legal documents

1882-1903

5 9#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Maps and newspaper clippings

5 10#11: Anna Belle and Baker mine - Taxes

1897-1929

5 10#12: Lincoln Ave. property

See No. 49: McPherson St. property

undated

6 1#15: Carnegie Bros. & Co., Ltd.; Carnegie Phipps & Co., Ltd.; and CarnegieSteel Co., Ltd.

1889-1912

6 2#15-A: Carnegie option

Contains agreements between Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Phipps,W.H. Moore, and P.C. Knox.

1899,1905,undated

6 3#16: North American Phonograph Co. / P.L. Walter [empty envelope]

undated

6 4#17: Union Land Co. - Envelope only

undated

6 5#17: Union Land Co. - Canceled checks and receipts

1889-1914

6 6#17: Union Land Co. - Check register

1911-1925

6 7#17: Union Land Co. - Correspondence

1892-1910

6 8#17: Union Land Co. - Dissolution papers

1925

6 9#17: Union Land Co. - Dividend payments

1923

6 10#17: Union Land Co. - Federal capital stock tax

1918-1925

6 11#17: Union Land Co. - Federal income tax

1909-1919

7 1#17: Union Land Co. - Federal income tax (continued)

1920-1927

7 2#17: Union Land Co. - Insurance

1892

7 3#17: Union Land Co. - Letterpress book

1891-1919

7 4#17: Union Land Co. - Minute book

1889-1910

7 5#17: Union Land Co. - Mortgages

1888-1892

7 6#17: Union Land Co. - Pennsylvania capital stock taxes

1890-1916

8 1#17: Union Land Co. - Pennsylvania capital stock taxes (continued)

1917-1925

8 2#17: Union Land Co. - Pennsylvania emergency profits tax

1923-1924

8 3#17: Union Land Co. - Renting agent

1889-1898

8 4#17: Union Land Co. - Resignations

1910,undated

8 5#17: Union Land Co. - Stock

1891-1909

8 6#17: Union Land Co. - Stock certificates

1889-1891

8 7#17: Union Land Co. - Tax on corporations

1909

8 8#21: Union Bridge Co.

undated

8 9#22: Elizabeth Frick's heirs (John S.R. Overholt, et al)

1872-1888

8 10-12#25: Homewood Improvements - Bills

Includes invoices from 1891-1892 for plumbing, masonry, foundry and othermetal work, carpentry, and cement work at Henry Clay Frick's Pittsburghresidence (Clayton). Bills are approved by F.J. Osterling. Materials dating from1896-1897 include summaries of expenses, a statement from A. Overholt & Co.,and invoices for a 12-volume edition of the complete works of Robert Burns.

1891-1897

8 13#25: Homewood Improvements - Orchestrion

Folder contains specifications for the new positioning of the orchestrion,prepared by architects Alden & Harlow.

circa1890s

8 14#25: Homewood Improvements - Osterling, F.J.

Contains correspondence from Osterling to Frick re: charges for the renovationwork being done at Clayton.

1891

9 1#28: Second Ave. property (Nos. 133 and 135 Second Ave.)

undated

9 2#29: W.J. Hitchman

1889

9 3#29: Joseph Rist

1869-1887

9 4#32: Henry Phipps, Jr. and Robert Pitcairn; Frank Thomson and RobertPitcairn

undated

9 5-6#34: Baldwin Estate

1848-1887,undated

9 7#35: Illinois Steel Co.

1892-1893

9 8#36: Delaware & New England Co. and Philadelphia, Reading & NewEngland Railroad Co. Securities

1889-1910

9 9#37: Brushton property

1892-1923

9 10#38: Monro property, 22nd Ward, Pittsburgh

1892

10 1#39: English property, 22nd Ward, Pittsburgh

1891-1919

10 2#40: F.J. Osterling [empty envelope]

undated

10 3#41: Receipt for will of H.C. Frick from Fidelity Title & Trust Co.

1899

10 4#42: Castalia Sporting Club

1893-1916

10 5-6#44: Beck property, 22nd Ward, Pittsburgh

1892-1921

10 7#45: Mrs. L.C. Carnegie property, 22nd Ward, Pittsburgh [empty envelope]

undated

10 8#46: Mercantile Library Hall Co.; James F. Hudson.

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

10 9#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, A-C

1905-1916

10 10#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, D-F

1905-1917

11 1#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, G-K

1905-1914

11 2#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, Lang &Cassidy

1905-1910

11 3#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, Le-M

1905-1914

11 4 1905-

#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, N-P

1914

11 5#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, R

1905-1914

11 6#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - Correspondence, S-W

1905-1915

11 7#47: Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal - List of industrial plants in thePittsburgh district

1907

11 8#48: Alldred Lot and Gillespie Lot

1894-1906

11 9#49: McPherson Street Property

1882-1911,undated

11 10#50: Life Insurance - Abstracts and general correspondence

1900-1919

12 1#50: Life Insurance - Berkshire Life policy #31580

1890-1919

12 2#50: Life Insurance - Connecticut Mutual Life policy #190336

1890-1919

12 3#50: Life Insurance - Equitable Life [various policies]

1886-1926

12 4#50: Life Insurance - Mutual Benefit Life policy #158055

1887-1920

12 5#50: Life Insurance - Mutual Life policy #163109

1887-1919

12 6#50: Life Insurance - Nederland Life policy #54105

1895-1920

12 7#50: Life Insurance - New York Life policy #103932

1893-1920

13 1#50: Life Insurance - New York Life policies #497958 and 501052

1912-1917

13 2#50: Life Insurance - State Mutual Life policy #23135

1891-1919

13 3#51: South West Natural Gas Co.

1896-1908

13 4#53: Butler & Pittsburgh Railroad Syndicate

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

13 5#54: Consolidated Traction Co.

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

13 6#55: Mrs. Jane Clark property

1888-1897

13 7#56: Bonds given various parties

1896

Re: promissory note of M.P. and J.R. Schooley.

13 8#57: Virginia coal property

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

13 9#58: Union League of Philadelphia

1897

13 10#59: Spencer A. Ford - Insurance policy

1909

13 11#60: Plans of T.A. Gillespie property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 22nd Ward.

1893-1900,undated

13 12#61: Gallant property and Lepper property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 22nd Ward.

1897-1898,undated

13 13#62: South Highland Avenue property; Highland Building

1897-1915

13 14#63: Reynolds Street property

1901-1914,undated

14 1#64: Colorado Electric Power Co.; Colorado Light and Power Co.

1897-1911

14 2#65: David Fraser property, or Morgan property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 22nd Ward.

1895-1898

14 3-4#66: North Woods Club and cottage

1896-1913

14 5#67: Bellefield Co.

1897-1928

14 6#68: Smith property

Re: property of James O. and Margaret E. Smith in Pittsburgh's 22nd Ward.

1897

14 7#70: Bank of Charleroi

1898-1900

14 8#72: Revere Coal Tract

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

14 9#73: Sterrett School House property

1892-1898

14 10#74: Vandevort property

Folder contains cross reference only.

undated

14 11-12#75: Diamond Street property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 2nd Ward.

1893-1925

15 1#75: Diamond Street property - Rent statements

1898-1903

15 2-3#75: Diamond Street property - Vouchers

1898-1903

15 4-6#75: Diamond Street property - Widening project

1919-1921

15 7#77: Lake Michigan Tract [empty envelope]

See Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series: Deed Files for more documentation on thisproperty.

undated

15 8#78: New Castle Gas Company stock

1898-1899

15 9#81: Plans of various properties

1901-1902,undated

15 10-11#82: New York Shipbuilding Co.

1899-1915

16 1#82: New York Shipbuilding Co. (continued)

16 2#83: Cornucopia Mines [empty envelope]

undated

16 3#83: McDondald property; Braddock Avenue property [empty envelope]

undated

16 4-5#85: Schwarz tract, 22nd Ward, Pittsburgh

1899-1914

16 6#86: Continental Coke Co. [empty envelope]

undated

16 7#87: Wylie Monongahela River property [empty envelope]

undated

16 8#89: Big Meadows Gas Co. [empty envelope]

undated

16 9#92: Dean property [empty envelope]

undated

16 10#93: Trust Company of America

1899

16 11#94: American Ship Building Co.

1899

16 12#95: Windella Pineapple Co. [empty envelope]

undated

16 13#96: Horn property [empty envelope]

undated

16 14#97: Snee property [empty envelope]

undated

16 15#98: Dutch property [empty envelope]

undated

16 16#99: Fort Pitt Natural Gas Co.; Manufacturers Light & Heat Co.

1899-1909

16 17#100: Large property [empty envelope]

undated

16 18#101: Amalgamated Copper Co. [empty envelope]

undated

16 19#102: Central District & Printing Telegraph Co. contract

1899-1915

16 20#103: "16 to 1" and Crystal Mining Co.; Rex Mining Co.

1899-1924

16 21#104: Lease of Rooms 919 and 920 from Carnegie Steel Co. to H.C. Frick[empty envelope]

undated

16 22#105: Oil paintings

Re: insurance on paintings while in transit, on exhibition, etc.

1904-1907

17 1-2#106: Blair Land Co. property; Monongahela River property

1898-1905

17 3#107: Bradshaw property

Re: property located in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County, Pa.

1899

17 4#108: Blair property (Geo. W. Blair)

Re: property located in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County, Pa.

1899

17 5#109: Blackburn property; heirs of R.M. Blackburn [empty envelope]

undated

17 6#111: Rochester Heat & Light Co. [empty envelope]

undated

17 7#112: Penn Cotton Mill [empty envelope]

undated

17 8#113: Elizabeth Water Co.; Monongahela Valley Water Co. [emptyenvelope]

undated

17 9#114: Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey

1899-1900

17 10#115: H.C. Frick Coke Co. and allied companies

1894-1895

17 11#116: Columbia Chemical Co.

1899-1920

17 12#117: Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railway Co.

1900-1903

17 13#118: Allegheny Valley Railway Co.

1900

18 1#118: Allegheny Valley Railway Co. (continued)

1901-1906

18 2#119: Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh

1900-1919

18 3-8#121: Oil investment

Re: Standard Oil subsidiaries

1911-1914

18 9#121: Oil investment (A-C)

Anglo-American Oil Co. - Crescent Pipe Line Co.

1911-1915

18 10#121: Oil investment (C-N)

Cumberland Pipe Line Co.-Northern Pipe Line Co.

1912-1914

19 1#121: Oil investment (O-S)

Ohio Oil Co. - Solar Refining Co.

1911-1913

19 2#121: Oil investment (S continued)

South Penn Oil Co. - Southern Pipe Line Co.

1911-1913

19 3#121: Oil investment (S continued)

Standard Oil Co. of California

1912-1913

19 4#121: Oil investment (S continued)

Standard Oil Co. of Indiana - Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey

1911-1914

19 5#121: Oil investment (S-W)

Standard Oil Co. of New York - Washington Oil Co.

1911-1913

19 6#121: Oil investment (W)

Waters Pierce Oil Co.

1911-1913

19 7#121: Oil investment

Memoranda of dividends, proxies, etc.

1911-1914

20 1#122: Agreement re: yacht "Shemara"

Chartered from Amzi L. Barber through Tans, Lemoine & Crane. Folder containscorrespondence, contract, crew list, notes for recommended cruises along theeastern seaboard, and an abstract log compiled by the captain.

1900-1901

20 2#122: Guestbook for yacht "Shemara"

1900

20 3#123: Interest in Republic Coke Co.

1900-1902

20 4-6#123: Interest in Union Steel Co.

1900-1931

20 7#125: 1/2 Interest in Diamond St. property (Andrew W. Mellon); nowDiamond, Scrip, and Relief Alley property

1900-1902

20 8#127: John F. Atcheson/Shaw Coal Co. agreement

1902-1910

21 1#128: P.C. Knox [empty envelope]

undated

21 2#129: Interest in Union Improvement Co.

1900-1915

21 3#130: River Coal Co.

1900-1902

21 4#131: John E. Thompson

Re: financial assistance to attend Ann Arbor College.

1900

21 5#132: Park property [empty envelope]

undated

21 6#132: Church property [empty envelope]

undated

21 7#135: S.L. Schoonmaker [empty envelope]

undated

21 8#136: McCracken property [empty envelope]

undated

21 9#137: Margina and Jane H. Blair property [empty envelope]

undated

21 10#138: Scaife property [empty envelope]

undated

21 11#139: McKeesport Brick Co. [empty envelope]

undated

21 12#140: Carnegie Company Bonds

1900-1901

21 13#141: Third Presbyterian Church [empty envelope]

undated

21 14#142: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.

1900-1920

21 15#143: Rafferty property [empty envelope]

undated

21 16#144: Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Co.

1901-1903

21 17#145: United Gas Improvement Co.

1901-1911

21 18-20#146: A. Cummins; Pocahontas Coal Lands; Faraday Coal Lands

1901-1908

22 1-5#146: A. Cummins; Pocahontas Coal Lands; Faraday Coal Lands(continued)

1909-1917

22 6#146: A. Cummins; Pocahontas Coal Lands; Faraday Coal Lands -Settlement with Mr. Cummins

1911-1913,undated

22 7#146: A. Cummins; Pocahontas Coal Lands; Faraday Coal Lands - Interestof James McCrea

1901-1917

22 8#146 A: Faraday matters, etc. - Correspondence with A. Cummins

1901-1908

22 9#146-B: Kentucky Coal Lands

1909-1910

23 1-4#146-B: Kentucky Coal Lands (continued)

1911-1925

23 5-7#147: United States Steel Corporation

1901-1924,undated

23 8#148: American Can Company

1901

23 9#149: Wall & Bickerton lots

Re: property in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County, Pa.

1896-1901

23 10#150: White property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 22nd Ward.

1901-1915

24 1-5#151: Fort Smith and Western Railroad Co.

1899-1908

25 1-5#151: Fort Smith and Western Railroad Co. (continued)

1909-1914

26 1-2#151: Fort Smith and Western Railroad Co. (continued)

1915-1922

26 3-4#151: Fort Smith and Western Railroad Co. - Joint account

1902-1922

26 5-6#152: St. Paul's Cathedral property

Re: Property in Pittsburgh's 3rd Ward.

1901-1903

27 1#152: St. Paul's Cathedral property (continued)

1912-1921

27 2#152-A: Union Arcade Building

1916-1922

27 3#153: Burns property [empty envelope]

undated

27 4#154: Flannery property [empty envelope]

undated

27 5#155: National Union Fire Insurance Co.

1901-1922

27 6#156: American National Bank (Barberton, Ohio)

1901-1916

27 7#157: Bellefield property - Correspondence

1905-1911

27 8-13#157: Bellefield property - Summaries of receipts and expenses

Re: Rental properties in Pittsburgh's 14th Ward.

1906-1908

28 1-11#157: Bellefield property - Summaries of receipts and expenses(continued)

1909-1914

29#157: Bellefield property - Summaries of receipts and expenses(continued)

1914-1919

30 1-8#157: Bellefield property - Summaries of receipts and expenses(continued)

1920-1924

30 9#158: Paulsboro property

Re: Property in Gloucester County, N.J.; sold to Vacuum Oil Co. in 1916.

1901-1916

30 10#160: St. Clair Furnace Co.; St. Clair Steel Co.

1901-1911

30 11#161: George Megrew [empty envelope]

undated

30 12#162: A.C. Case property; Linden Ave. property [empty envelope]

See Folder #166.

undated

30 13#163: American Locomotive Co. [empty envelope]

undated

30 14#164: Consolidated Tobacco Co.; American Tobacco Co.

1901-1905

30 15#165: Nicola property [empty envelope]

undated

31 1-2#166: Miss Childs' residence

Re: residence built for Martha H. Childs, sister of Adelaide H.C. Frick, on LindenAve. in Pittsburgh. Includes contracts and specifications for construction of thehouse, and plans for disposition of the property after Miss Childs' death in 1914.

1901-1916

31 3#166-A: Diller property

Re: Diller homestead on Forbes Street between Bellefield Avenue and DithridgeStreet in Pittsburgh's 4th Ward.

1915-1917

31 4-9#168: Traction and Power Securities Co., Ltd.

1901-1917

31 10#169: A. Florence Fagan

Re: financial assistance to attend the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School.

1901

31 11#170: New York Dock Co. [empty envelope]

undated

31 12#171: Jutte property [empty envelope]

undated

32 1#172: George I. Whitney; Whitney, Stephenson & Co.

1907

32 2#173: Peru Copper Mines [empty envelope]

undated

32 3#174: Sears lease

Re: lease of the Sears residence ("Woodrock") in Beverly, Mass.

1901-1903

32 4-6#175: British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Contains information relating to stock in the company.

1902-1911

32 7#177: Continental Coal Co.; Sunday Creek Co.

Re: Syndicate agreement, bonds, etc. Includes letters from P.C. Knox.

1903-1920

32 8#178: Mining Development Co.; Cerro de Pasco Investment Co.

Folder contains envelope and reference to materials removed in 1904. The bulkof the documentation on Cerro de Pasco Corporations can be found in thearchives at the University of Pittsburgh. See: Helen Clay Frick FoundationArchives, Series VI. Cerro de Pasco Corporations, 1901-1925.

1904

32 9#179: International Banking Corp. [empty envelope]

undated

32 10#180: U.S. Steel Corporation Preferred Stock Retirement SyndicateAgreement

1902-1904

32 11#181: St. John Hotel property [empty envelope]

undated

32 12#183: Homestead Park improvement

Improvements include grading, curbing, sidewalks, and a fountain.

1898-1911

33 1-3#184: Toledo Furnace Co.

Includes information about company stock and statements of the company'sfinancial condition.

1902-1924

33 4-5#185: Navigation Syndicate; International Mercantile Marine Co.

Includes syndicate agreement and plan of reorganization for the company.

1902-1916

33 6#186: Will of Jacob Frick [empty envelope]

undated

33 7#187: East Chicago Co.

Folder contains information for stockholders and map of East Chicago.

1902

33 8#188: Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Purchase Syndicate

Folder contains syndicate agreement and related correspondence.

1902

33 9#188 1/2: Promises

Folder contains notes, correspondence, and related materials regarding fundspromised to underwrite United States Steel Co. securities, Union Trust Co. ofClairton, and other organizations. Also documents a promise by Frick to give$25,000 to the Soldiers' Memorial [in Pittsburgh?], provided certain conditionswere met.

1901-1914

33 10#189: Union Trust Co.; Mellon National Bank; Union Savings Bank

Folder contains correspondence, agreements, and information for stockholders.

1901-1913

34 1#189: Union Trust Co.; Mellon National Bank; Union Savings Bank(continued)

1913-1921

34 2#190: Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh

Re: lease of vault and former restaurant space in the Frick Building to the bank.

1911-1919

34 3#192: Prides Crossing properties

Folder contains miscellaneous papers on matters regarding the Frick property inPrides Crossing, Mass.; includes correspondence with Little & Browne and ErnestW. Bowditch.

1904-1921

34 4#192: Prides Crossing properties - Allen, George L.

Folder contains correspondence with Allen re: acquisition, taxation, andinsurance on property in Prides Crossing, Mass.

1902-1906

34 5#192: Prides Crossing properties - Beverly Shore Road

1904-1906

34 6#192: Prides Crossing properties - Brower land

1905-1908

34 7#192: Prides Crossing properties - Cabot land

1904-1905

34 8#192: Prides Crossing properties - Drainage system at Automobile House

Includes correspondence with William Caleb Loring, Little & Browne, and ErnestW. Bowditch.

1906-1907

34 9#192: Prides Crossing properties - Fogg estate

Purchased from Augustus P. Loring in 1909; documents includes deed andmortgage agreements dating from 1883-1898.

1883-1909

34 10#192: Prides Crossing properties - Hale Street

Re: Permit from the Massachusetts Highway Commission to lay a water pipeunder Hale Street.

1908,undated

34 11#192: Prides Crossing properties - Insurance

1902-1903

34 12#192: Prides Crossing properties - Tyson place

Includes papers re: acquisition of the property, as well as a letter from Little &Browne offering their services as architects.

1902-1903

34 13#193: Elk Creek Dock property

Re: Property in Erie Co., Pa. Folder contains correspondence with Andrew W.Mellon.

1902-1903,undated

34 14#194: Personal Property returns

Re: Returns summarizing some of Frick's personal assets; filed in the state ofPennsylvania.

1900

35 1-7#194: Personal Property returns (continued)

1906-1929

35 8#195: Passavant property [empty envelope]

undated

35 9#196: Loan to J.D. Cameron

1903-1907

35 10-12#197: McKeesport property

1901-1914

Includes correspondence and legal agreements re: rental property inMcKeesport's 4th Ward.

35 13#197: McKeesport property - Taxes and mortgage interest

1902-1914

36 1#198: Louis Sherry - Lease of apartments

Re: Lease of six unfurnished apartments at Louis Sherry's, located at Fifth Ave.and 44th St. in New York.

1903-1906

36 2-3#200: Guaranties made by H.C. Frick

Re: Guaranties in connection with mortgage of James J. Flannery, Union SteelCo. bonds, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Cerro de Pasco Mining Co.,Pittsburgh Tube Co., loan to Carl C. Law, note of George Westinghouse, Anglo-French 5% bonds, and United States Steel common stock.

1902-1916

36 4#200: Guaranties made by H.C. Frick - Harold B. Thorne loan

1917-1920

36 5#200: Guaranties made by H.C. Frick - M. Knoedler & Co. notes

Includes correspondence between Henry Clay Frick and Roland F. Knoedler.

1903-1916

36 6#203: Pennsylvania Railroad Co. shares

1903-1906

36 7#204: Union Restaurant Co. of Pittsburgh

Re: Restaurant operated within the Frick Building in Pittsburgh.

1902-1913

36 8#205: Union Safe Deposit Co.

Includes lease for vault space in the basement of the Frick building.

1902-1913

36 9#206: Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. bonds

1903

36 10-11#207: Riter-Conley property

Re: Rental property located in Pittsburgh's First Ward.

1902-1910

37 1-7#207: Riter-Conley property (continued)

1910-1921

37 8#208: Allegheny Valley Improvement Co.

Includes correspondence of William H. Donner and Andrew W. Mellon.

1903-1917

37 9#209: Duquesne National Bank stock

1903-1913

37 10#210: West Side Belt Railroad Co.; Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad & Coal Co.

Re: Right of way through Frick property near Clairton, Pa.

1902-1903

37 11#211: Country Club Land Co.

Re: Sale of land to the Country Club of Pittsburgh.

1903-1916

37 12#212: Pittsburgh Coal Co.; Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & CokeCo.

Folders contain receipts for the purchase of company stock, reports tostockholders, memoranda on assets, and a brief re: Pittsburgh coal fields by A.

1904-1907

Cummins.

38 1-3#212: Pittsburgh Coal Co.; Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & CokeCo. (continued)

1908-1920,undated

38 4#213: Robert S. Bradley lease

Rental agreement for Bradley's house in Prides Crossing, Mass.

1903-1904

38 5#214: Continental Coke Co. [empty envelope]

See: Subject File #177 (Box 32, Folder 7) in this series.

undated

38 6#215: Gift of Chartran's Signing of the Protocol to Pres. Roosevelt [emptyenvelope]

See: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series I: Art Files, and Henry Clay Frick ArtCollection Files, both in this repository, for documents concerning this painting.

undated

38 7#216: Lease on Palm Beach cottage

Re: Lease of furnished cottage for the 1904-1906 seasons.

1904-1905

38 8#217: Interest in Baraboo Range

Re: Exploration for iron ore near Baraboo, Wis.

1903-1928

38 9#218: Princeton, N.J. property (for Colonial Club)

1903-1907

38 10#219, 219-A: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Re: Stock and indebtedness of the company.

1903-1917

38 11#220: Gould-Cassatt negotiations

Includes correspondence of A.J. Cassatt and John P. Green.

1903-1904

38 12#222: New England Central Railway Co. securities

1899-1907

39 1#222: Central New England Railway Co. securities (continued)

1908-1911

39 2#223: Miscellaneous - receipts, etc.

Includes list of matters requiring attention during Frick's absence in Europe(1901), a bill for olive oil received from abroad (1902), a receipt from Frick's1904 trip to Cuba, a $53,900 contribution to the Republican National Committee(1904), a receipt from dinner at Louis Sherry's (1906), bills from the Hotel St.Regis in New York (1906), a template for minutes from the board meeting of anunnamed organization, bills from the Garden City Golf Club and Pau Golf Club(1908 and 1909), 1000 francs to the credit of Cte. Ridgway at the SociétéGénérale (1909), and receipts for several small contributions.

1901-1913

39 3#224: H.C. Frick & Co. - Correspondence and financial papers

1883-1914

39 4#224: H.C. Frick & Co. - Passbook and canceled checks

1881-1902

39 5#225: Japanese loan syndicate

Re: Subscription to Japanese government bonds.

1904-1905

39 6-7#226: Various stock and bond syndicates

1905-1910

Includes information re: investments in various railroad syndicates (PennsylvaniaRailroad Co., Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co., etc.), Imperial Japanesegovernment bonds, and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

39 8#226-A: Various stock and bond syndicates

Includes information re: investments in American Telephone & Telegraph Co.,Union Pacific Railroad Co., American Smelters Securities Co., Chesapeake & OhioRailway Co., and Western Union Telegraph Co.

1903-1908

40 1#226-A: Various stock and bond syndicates (continued)

1908-1911

40 2-3#226-B: Various stock and bond syndicates; trio and quarto accounts withKunh Loeb & Co.; Southern Pacific and Union Pacific

1910-1916

40 4#227: "Hump" removal project [empty envelope]

The bulk of the documentation on "Hump" removal project in downtownPittsburgh can be found in the archives at the University of Pittsburgh. See:Helen Clay Frick Foundation Archives, Series XV. Hump Removal, 1899-1914.

undated

40 5#229: Fire insurance

Re: insurance on properties in Pittsburgh, Frick's homes and their contents, andhis art collection.

1903-1912,undated

40 6-7#230: Banks - Stock and other matters

Includes information re: Equitable Trust Co., Mercantile Trust Co., ManhattanTrust Co., and Bankers Trust Co., among others.

1902-1912

41 1#230: Banks - Stock and other matters (continued)

1913-1924

41 2-3#232: Cambria Steel Co.

Includes information about company stock and statements of the company'sfinancial condition.

1905-1915

41 4#233: Clairton Street Railway Co.

1905-1912,undated

41 5#234: Clubs, etc. (A-B)

Academy of Political Science (New York, N.Y.), 1909-1916

Aero Club of New York (Garden City Estates, N.Y.), 1911, 1913

American Academy in Rome, 1911

American Chamber of Commerce in Paris [Includes correspondence with RolandF. Knoedler], 1907, 1911

American Forestry Association, 1915

American Museum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.), 1910-1919

Automobile Club of America (New York, N.Y.), 1911, 1913

Automobile Club of France (Paris, France), 1907

Boston Press Club (Boston, Mass.), 1910, 1915

1907-1919

41 6#234: Clubs, etc. (B-C)

The Brook (New York, N.Y.), 1915, 1918

Cascapedia Club (Quebec, Canada), 1908-1923

Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1906-1921

Chicago Club (Chicago, Ill.), 1910-1918

1908-1923

41 7#234: Clubs, etc. (C-L)

Church Club of the Diocese of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1909

City Midday Club (New York, N.Y.), 1917

Country Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1904

1904-1917

Country Club of Augusta (Augusta, Ga.), 1910, 1916

Country Club of Westchester (Westchester Co., N.Y.), 1915

Engineers' Club (New York, N.Y.), 1906, 1914

Essex County Club (Manchester, Mass.), 1906

Fifth Avenue Association (New York, N.Y.), 1917

Garden City Golf Club (Garden City, N.Y.), 1910

Lawyers' Club (New York, N.Y.), 1905-1913

Longfellow National Memorial Association (Washington, D.C.), 1908-1909

42 1#234: Clubs, etc. (M-N)

Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.), 1907-1912

Montserrat Golf Club (Beverly, Mass.), 1911-1921

Myopia Hunt Club (Hamilton, Mass.), 1910-1911

National Academy Association (New York, N.Y.), 1913

National Art Club (New York, N.Y.), 1911-1922

National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities (Baltimore, Md.), 1917

National Highways Association (Washington, D.C.), 1915

National Security League, Inc. (New York, N.Y.), 1915

Navy League of the United States (Washington, D.C.), 1909, undated

1907-1922,undated

42 2#234: Clubs, etc. (N-S)

New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord, N.H.), 1918

New York Yacht Club (New York, N.Y.), 1918

North Woods Club (Minerva, N.Y.), 1897-1913

Oakmont Country Club (Hulton, Pa.), 1910-1911

Pennsylvania Society (New York, N.Y.), 1911

Piping Rock Club (Locust Valley, N.Y.), 1918

Pittsburgh Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1907, 1909

Princeton Gateway Club (Princeton, N.J.), 1915

Racquet and Tennis Club (New York, N.Y.), 1905

The Recess (New York, N.Y.), 1917

Riding Club (New York, N.Y.), 1918

Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (New York, N.Y.), 1918

Safe Roads Automobile Association (Boston, Mass.), 1910-1914

Somerset Club (Boston, Mass.), 1912-1913

Sportsman's Association of Cheat Mountain (Durbin?, W.V.), 1910-1921

1897-1918

42 3#234: Clubs, etc. (S-W)

Sunningdale Golf Club (Berkshire, England), 1907-1923

Union Club (Cleveland, Ohio), 1914

Union Club of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1913

University Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1918

Urania Royal Arch, Chapter No. 192 (Greensburg, Pa.), 1907

Winters-night Club (Brookline, Mass.), 1912, 1914

1907-1923

42 4-5#235: American Academy in Rome

Includes correspondence with Augustus Saint Gaudens, Daniel Burnham, FrankD. Millet, H. Siddons Mowbray, Wm. Rutherford Mead, and Charles D. Norton;also includes minutes of the Board of Trustees.

1905-1915

42 6#236: Settlement with the Beaumonts on behalf of C.S. Overholt and othermatters

1900-1921

43 1#237: Mlle. Marika Ogiz

Re: house in La Sarraz, Switzerland; church organ at La Sarraz; life insurance,etc.

1905-1921

43 2#238: Eureka Consolidated Mining Co.; Richmond Eureka Mining Co. stock

1905-1925

43 3#239: Contract for automobile (Renault)

1905-1906

43 4#241: Clairton Land Co.

1903-1912

43 5-7#242: New York House (Vanderbilt)

Includes correspondence, lease agreement, household inventory, and otherdocuments pertaining to Frick's lease of the Vanderbilt mansion at 640 FifthAvenue in New York.

1905-1914

43 8#243: Norfolk & Western Railway stock

1906-1910

43 9#244: Chimes for Trinity Lutheran Church, Connellsville, Pa.

1909-1911

44 1-4#245: Clairton; St. Clair Improvement Co.

Folders contain correspondence and related documents largely concerning land inClairton, Pa.

1904-1914

44 5-6#246: Exploration Syndicate, etc.

Includes information about stock in the Hedley Gold Mining Co.

1906-1924

44 7-8#247: Automobile Club of America

1904-1925

44 9-10#248: Stock in Goldfield-Mohawk Mining Co.; Goldfield Consolidated MinesCo.

1906-1925

44 11#249: Point Breeze Land Co.

1906-1913

45 1#250: Agreement with Kaufmann Brothers re: smokestack and exhaustpipes

1906-1908

45 2-4#251: New York Library property

Folders contain legal agreements, drawings, and correspondence documentingthe purchase of the Lenox Library property on Fifth Avenue in New York.

1906-1914

45 5#252: Pittsburgh Golf Club

Folder contains club rules and directory, and information about club bonds.

1899-1916

45 6#253: List of John Porterfield's securities sold at auction

1907

45 7#254: University Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Folder contains information re: club bonds.

1907

45 8-9#255: Cananea Central Copper Co.; Greene Cananea Copper Co.

Folders contain information relating to company stock.

1906-1919,undated

45 10#256: Agreements, deeds, legal papers, and memoranda re: New YorkLibrary property

Includes copy of 1870 deed from James Lenox to the Lenox Library.

1870-1912

45 11 1906-

#257: University Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Re: Use of land at Forbes St. and Grant Blvd. for tennis courts.

1907

45 12#258: Delaware River Steel Casting Co.; Federal Steel Foundry Co.

Includes information about stock and the company's financial condition.

1905-1920

45 13#259: Wabash System

Folder contains report re: railroad traffic.

1903

46 1-2#260: Knickerbocker Trust Co.; Columbia-Knickerbocker Trust Co.

Chiefly concerns the resumption of business at Knickerbocker Trust Co.

1907-1915

46 3#261: "Summit" enterprise

Re: Investment in proposed hotel in Fayette County, Pa.

1906

46 4#262: Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Re: Purchase of stock in Illinois Central Railroad Co. and Southern Pacific Co.

1906-1913,undated

46 5#263: University of Wooster library extension

Re: funds contributed by Frick for expansion of the library building. Also includesaccounts payable vouchers for construction of the original library dating from1900 to 1901.

1900-1907

46 6-9#264: Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Re: Stock and bonds issued by the company.

1906-1922

46 10#265: New Calvary P.E. Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Re: funds contributed by Frick for stone spire and bells for the church.

1905-1907

47 1-3#266: J.H. Bridge - Special B Account

Includes correspondence with Bridge and bonds of the United WaterImprovement Co.

1905-1925

47 4#267: City Deposit Bank

Folder contains passbook and summary of dividends.

1901-1910

47 5#269: The New Theatre

Re: Frick's involvement as a boxholder and founder of The New Theatre. Includescorrespondence with W.K. Vanderbilt.

1908-1926

47 6#269: Newsboys' Home

Re: contribution toward the construction of the home in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1908

47 7#270: Kleber printing telegraph machine

Folder contains correspondence and other documents re: Kleber's patents on themachine.

1907-1909

47 8#271: Pocahontas Coal & Coke Co.

Includes financial statements and map of the Pocahontas Coal Field.

1909,1912

47 9#272: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.; Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.

1909-1911

stock

47 10-12#273: Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

Includes correspondence with Andrew Carnegie, along with legal agreements,financial statements, and information for stockholders.

1881-1913

48 1#274: McCall Ferry Power Co.; interest in Susquehanna Power Co. andPennsylvania Water & Power Co.

1909-1912

48 2#275: Bookplates

Folder contains requests from collectors for Frick's bookplate, and prospectus fora memorial volume of the work of Edwin Davis French.

1906-1917

48 3#276: Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Contents include correspondence with Marvin Hughitt and F.W. Haskell, andinformation for company stockholders.

1906-1919,undated

48 4#277: George Nox McCain lecture enterprise

Re: Financial support for travel lecture series by McCain.

1906-1913

48 5#278: Brashear matter - Observatory fund

Re: Trust to fund the Astronomical Observatory and the University of Pittsburgh.

1910-1912

48 6#279: Dr. Leon Gorodiche (Pennsylvania Railroad stock)

Re: Investments made on behalf of Dr. Gorodiche.

1910

48 7#281: Iron Railing Farm (Wenham, Mass.)

Contents include abstract of title to the property and correspondence re:construction of the house at the Iron Rail Vacation Farm.

1909-1912

48 8#282: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Contains correspondence to Frick as a Fellow and Trustee of the museum.

1909-1910

48 9-12#283: Nevada Hills Syndicate; Nevada Hills Mining Co. stock

Contains correspondence re: Frick's investment and financial statements fromthe company.

1910-1925

48 13#284: Kansas Succession Tax

Re: Taxation on shares of stock in a Kansas corporation held by a non-residentof the State of Kansas.

1910

49 1#285: Colonial Steel Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1905-1915

49 2-3#286: Archer Gibson

Gibson was employed as an organist for the Frick family.

1909-1917

49 4#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

Luncheon at Pittsburgh Golf Club

1909

49 5#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

1909-1914

Charity case of Mrs. Bechtold.

49 6#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

Loss of Helen Clay Frick's fur.

1910

49 7-10#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

Dinner dances held at Pittsburgh Golf Club.

1910-1913

49 11-12#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

Theatre party in Pittsburgh.

1912-1913

49 13#287: Mrs. Frick/Miss Frick social matters, etc.

Address list for Frances S. Dixon.

1913

49 14#288: Manhattan Trust Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1907-1910

50 1-6#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Correspondence

Correspondence discusses the design and construction of the car, insurance,relocation of the car, maintenance and repairs, use of the car by Charles J.Graham in the 1940s, and disposition of it in 1965.

1910-1966

50 7#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Construction specifications

1910

50 8#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Fabric samples for interior finish

1910

50 9#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Measurements and lists of itemsordered

Goods purchased for the car include linens, silverware, glassware, crockery, andcurtains.

[1910]

50 10#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Silver inventory

1938

50 11#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Appraisal

1942

50 12-13#289: Private car "Westmoreland" - Receipts

Contains receipts for groceries and other household goods, and bills from variousrailroad companies for movement of the car, repairs, and commissary supplies.

1911-1912

51 1#290: Country Club of Westchester County

1911-1920

51 2-3#291: Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1910-1912

51 4#292: Texas Pacific Land Trust

Contains trustees' reports and information about stock.

1910-1919

51 5#293: Union Trust Company of Clairton

Contains information relating to stock in the company.

1902-1923

51 6#294: Greene County coal; J.V. Thompson

Contains correspondence, notes, etc., re: coal lands in Greene Co., Pa.

1911-1914

51 7#295: Books - History of the Carnegie Steel Co.

Contains correspondence with publisher Butler-Ward Co., and lists of people towhom copies of the book were sent.

1903-1920

51 8-9#296: Properties at Wenham and Hamilton, Mass.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, etc. re: Ayer, Davis, Appleton, Riva,Knowlton, Marshall, Woodberry, Libby, Lovett, and Pingree properties

1910-1919

51 10-11#297: Inspiration Copper Co.; Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the companies.

1909-1913

51 12#299: Hanover Safe Deposit Co.

Contains note from F.W. McElroy re: rental of safe deposit box, and brochuresfrom the company.

1912

52 1#300: Karl F. Overholt - Taxes

Contains correspondence with Overholt re: taxes due on various propertiesowned by Frick.

1912-1914

52 2#301: Indian Ridge Coal & Coke Co.

Folder contains some notes relating to company stock.

1909,1916

52 3#302: Commercial Trust Co.

Contains information relating to stock in the company.

1912

52 4#303: A.O. Tinstman; Mrs. H.C.M. Tinstman

Re: financial assistance for the Tinstman family.

1910-1917

52 5#304: Cottier & Co. - Furnishings for Clayton

1903-1905

52 6#304: Cottier & Co. - Furnishings for apartments at Sherry's

1904

52 7#305: Kendall Gold Mining Co.

Contains information relating to stock in the company.

1912-1917

52 8#306: Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association

Re: Invitation for Frick to serve as a trustee of the association.

1912

52 9-11#307: Central Young Women's Christian Association - Mrs. John G. Holmes

Contains documents re: Frick's contributions to the Association's building fundand endowment.

1906-1922

52 12#308: Atchison Common Stock Syndicate (J.P. Morgan & Co.)

1911

52 13#309: St. Bartholomew's Church

Re: Frick family pew and contributions to the church's building fund.

1910-1918

53 1#310: Butt and Gary cottages

Re: lease of cottages in Augusta, Ga.

1910-1911

53 2#311: Gypsy Moth Work, North Shore - William D. Sohier

Re: Subscription to Sohier's fund for the preservation and improvement of woodsand roads on Boston's North Shore.

1911-1919

53 3#313: United States v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

Re: Opinion of the Circuit Court in the "Powder Case."

1913

53 4#314: American Golfer, Inc.

Re: Investment in American Golfer magazine.

1909-1920

53 5#314: New York taxes

Re: Personal property taxes assessed by the City of New York.

1914

53 6-7#316: Childs Frick

Re: Investments, accounts, subscriptions, and club memberships.

1904-1913

53 8#317: National City Bank; National City Co.

Contains documents relating to company stock.

1911,1920

53 9#318: Butte Coalition Mining Co.; Anaconda Copper Mining Co;Amalgamated Copper Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the companies.

1910-1915

53 10#319: Photographs of Mr. Frick

Includes requests for Frick's photograph, and inventories of photographs onhand.

1910-1919

53 11#320: Harvard Aviation Association

Re: Subscription to 1911 Harvard-Boston Aero Meet.

1911

53 12-14#321: Tobacco Products Corporation

Contains documents relating to investment in the company.

1912-1918

54 1#322: Interest with S.L. Schoonmaker (#2)

Re: Joint account at Vernon C. Brown & Co.

1912,1914

54 2#323: Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada

Includes annual report (1914) and information for stockholders.

1914-1924

54 3-5#324: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Folders contain information relating to company stock and bonds.

1913-1920

54 6#325: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.

Re: subscription to bonds in the company.

1913-1914

54 7#326: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.

1914

Folder contains information for stockholders.

54 8#327: Donations and other charitable matters - Annual summaries

1918-1923

54 9#327: Donations and other charitable matters - Drais, Clara C.

1909-1911

54 10-11#327: Donations and other charitable matters - Fleming, Harriet M.

1909-1922

55 1#327: Donations and other charitable matters - Frick, Jeremiah

1917-1920

55 2#327: Donations and other charitable matters - Harrison, Inez

1912-1913

55 3#327: Donations and other charitable matters - White, John M.

1912-1915

55 4#328: Forms for reports, etc.

Contains Pennsylvania Railroad Co. rent report forms, sample accounting formsfrom the H.J. Heinz Co., etc.

1901-1913

55 5#332: Home for Mrs. Lott

Re: purchase of property for Henry Clay Frick's sister in Wooster, Ohio.

1913

55 6#333: St. Paul Coal Co.

Contains information about the stock, assets, and organization of the company.

1914,undated

55 7#334: Addington Golf Syndicate, Ltd.

Re: investment in the Addington Golf Club in Surrey, England.

1914,1924

55 8#335: Essex County Club - First mortgage 4% bonds

1914,1925

55 9#336: Wilkinsburgh Bank dividends

1898-1916

55 10#339: Lido Golf Club

Re: Underwriting for the club, located near Long Beach, N.Y.

1915-1916

55 11#341: Southern Pacific Company

Re: Stock and bonds held in the company.

1914,1919

55 12#342: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1910-1920

55 13-16#343: Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company

Folders contain information re: purchase and maintenance of Parterre Box #19,distribution of tickets to various parties, stock in the company, and sale of thebox by Henry Clay Frick's estate.

1906-1923

56 1-2#343: Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company (continued)

1923-1926

56 3#344: General Electric Company

1906-1911

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

56 4#345: Standard Motor Construction Co.

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1909-1915

56 5#346: T. Lea Hamnett mortgage

Re: Mortgage on property in Munhall, Pa.

1912-1916

56 6#347: Third Avenue Railway Co.

Contains documents re: investment in the company.

1915-1916

56 7#348: Princeton University

Re: purchase of land for the University, Frick's election as a trustee, and matterssettled by Frick's estate.

1903-1924,undated

56 8#349: White Motor Company

Contains information re: investment in the company.

1915-1916

56 9#350: The Barahona Company, Inc.

Contains documents re: investment in the company.

1916-1920

56 10#351: Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation Syndicate

Contains documents re: investment in the syndicate.

56 11#352: Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company

Contains correspondence re: stock in the company.

1915

56 12#353: Kennecott Copper Corporation Syndicate

Contains documents re: investment in the syndicate.

1915-1916

56 13#354: Bonds and stock of Erie Railroad Company

Contains correspondence with John S. Phipps, syndicate agreement, etc.

1915-1918

57 1#355: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Two-Year 5% SecuredLoan Gold Note Syndicate

1916,1918

57 2#356: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland One-Year and Two-Year 5 1/2% Secured Loan Convertible Gold Note Syndicate

1917

57 3#357: Consolidated Gas Company

Contains documents relating to stock and bonds in the company.

1913-1920

57 4#358: Stock in Pittsburgh Hotels Company

1914-1919

57 5-6#360: Interborough Rapid Transit Co. 5% Gold Bonds Syndicate

Includes examples of J.P. Morgan & Co. mourning stationery.

1912-1923

57 7#361: Metropolitan Trust Co., New York, N.Y.

1916

Re: Opening of account.

57 8#362: Nipissing Mines Co. (Ontario, Canada)

Re: Conversion of stock held in the company.

1917

57 9#363: Baylies property

Re: Half-interest with Mr. H.A.C. Taylor in property located at Fifth Avenue and71st Street, New York, N.Y.

1915-1917

57 10#364: Property adjoining New York Residence

Re: purchase of lot on 71st Street.

1915

57 11#365: Union Steel Company bonds [empty envelope]

undated

57 12#366: H.C. Frick Educational Fund

Folder contains two pieces of correspondence from John A. Brashear.

1911

57 13#367: American International Corporation

Contains documents relating to stock in the company.

1915-1918

57 14#368: United Alloy Steel Corporation Syndicate

Contains documents relating to investment in the syndicate.

1916

58 1-2#369: The Links Holding Corporation; The Links; The Links Golf Club

Contains documents re: subscription to the The Links Holding Corporation;shares in The Links Golf Club (Searingtown, N.Y.); and The Links club (New York,N.Y.)

1916-1925

58 3#371: Foster Lot

Re: Purchase of property in Beverly, Mass.

1916-1917

58 4#372: Anglo-French Five-Year 5% External Loan

1915-1919,undated

58 5-7#373: Chicago City & Connecting Railways; The Chicago City RailwayCompany Syndicate

Contains documents relating to investment in the syndicate and dividends.

1905-1920,undated

58 8#375: Blind Brook Golf Club; Poningoe Land Company

Re: establishment of a golf club in Purchase, N.Y.

1915-1920

58 9#376: Franklin National Bank

Contains documents relating to shares held in the bank.

1919-1920

58 10#377: Loew's, Inc.

Contains documents relating to investment in the theater company.

1919-1920

58 11-12#378: Securities, stocks, and bonds

Notebook and ledger sheets recording the location of stock certificates, etc., inMercantile Safe Deposit Box #16611

1908,1912?

58 13-14#379: St. Cloud Country Club

1911-1926

Re: investment in the club, located in Paris, France.

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Subseries II: Unfinished Matters

As in the General Subject Files above, documents pertaining to a transaction or topic were assigned a numberedenvelope. Notations were made on the envelopes concerning action taken and the existence of relevantdocumentation. Matters considered unresolved at the time of Frick's death were probably left in their envelopes,even though action was often taken and recorded in the course of handling Frick's estate. For missing envelopes,see Subseries III: Finished Matters.

Folders are arranged by envelope number. Unnumbered envelopes are arranged alphabetically at the end of thesubseries.

Box Folder Date

59 1-6#106: Brashear matter

Contains correspondence with John Brashear and other documents pertaining tothe Henry Clay Frick Educational Fund.

1905-1920

59 7#107: Great Northern Power Development Co. Underwriting

Contains correspondence and other documents re: Frick's investment in thecompany.

1904-1920

59 8#110: J.P. Morgan & Co. [empty envelope]

undated

59 9#111: Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [empty envelope]

undated

59 10#119: Reorganization of Union Land Co.

Re: taxes on Frick's stock in the company.

1909

59 11#122: Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Re: purchase of timber from land owned by Faraday Coal & Coke Co.

1911

59 12#130: Descendants of Abraham Overholt

Contains a family tree and other genealogical information about the Overholtfamily.

1908-1913

59 13#134: Chas. D. Barney & Co.

Re: $30,000 advance to Oliver C. Townsend.

1911-1916

59 14#136: Chicago City Railway Co. syndicate [empty envelope]

1905-1914

59 15#144: Indian Ridge Coal & Coke Co. stock [empty envelope]

1906-1914

59 16#149-B: Straightening of streets through property at Hamilton andWenham, Mass.

1913-1915

59 17#151-D: Fort Smith & Western Railroad Co. bonds

1910-1912

60 1-2#151-H: Fort Smith & Western Railroad Co. Bondholders' Committee

1917-1926

60 3#183-A: Myopia Hunt Club

Re: New locker room at the club.

1916

60 4#183-A: Myopia Hunt Club

Re: Eagle Rock Cup, to be played annually.

1918

60 5#192: Suit for dissolution of U.S. Steel Corp.

1912

60 6#203-B: Nevada Hills Mining Co. stock

1917

60 7#204: Sans Bois Coal Co. coke oven notes [empty envelope]

1912,1917

60 8#207: Donora Water Co.

Re: merger with Charleroi and Monessen Water Companies.

1912

60 9#212: Carnegie correspondence sent to Henry Clay Frick at Pride'sCrossing

1912-1913

60 10#213: Faraday Coal & Coke Co.

Re: advances for purchase of coal property.

1912-1913

60 11#213-A: Faraday Coal & Coke Co.

Re: land purchases and drill tests.

1912-1918

60 12#219: Reisner to purchase Mastaba

Acquired for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

1912

60 13#221: J.G.A. Leishman

Re: Leishman's financial difficulties.

1910-1915

60 14#223-A: John M. White

Re: financial assistance for Mr. White.

1914-1916

60 15#223-B: Mark R. White

Re: financial assistance for a former Frick Coke Co. employee.

1919-1920

60 16#224: George Nox McCain's lecture enterprise

1912

60 17#231-B: Voter registration [empty envelope]

1917

60 18#231-C: Voter registration

1916-1919

60 19#232: Settlement with A.C. Dustin

1912

60 20#240: Dellenbach lot

Re: property on Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1912-1918

60 21#246: Agreement between Helen R. Curtis and Henry Clay Frick

1913-1920

Re: permission to construct a road on Mrs. Curtis' property so Henry Clay Frickcan reach his private rail car by automobile.

60 22#248: Lease of Boston & Maine Railroad to Henry Clay Frick

Re: lease of about 2500 square feet of ground for purpose of driveway to reachprivate rail car.

1913,1917

60 23#252-D: Moore, Leonard & Lynch

Re: abatement of rent [for offices in The Frick Building?]

1919

60 24#255: Declarations of Trust

Re: Trusts for F.W. McElroy, Joseph Holroyd, R.D. Lull, Georges Despres, GeorgeWyness, J.G. Congreve, C.F. Chubb, and Minerva C. Stone.

1912-1915

61 1#263: Mrs. James Elmore

Re: financial assistance to the widow of Henry Clay Frick's former coachman.

1913-1914

61 2#275: J.F. Fogg

Re: use of Mr. Fogg's yard for unloading while Henry Clay Frick's private rail caris on the siding at Prides Crossing.

1912-1913

61 3#280: National Golf Course

Re: subscription to proposed golf course on the eastern end of Long Island.

1906,1908,undated

61 4#280-A: Proposed hotel at Sixth Avenue and Cherry Way [Pittsburgh, Pa.]

1914

61 5#280-D: Pittsburgh Hotels Company stock

1916-1919

61 6#280-E: D.B. Kinch

Re: summary of salary and expenses paid to Kinch.

1916

61 7#280-F: D.B. Kinch mortgage (2nd)

1916

61 8#280: D.B. Kinch loan

1913-1918

61 9#280: Removal of Lenox Library and construction of New York Residence

Re: agreement by D. B. Kinch to superintend the removal of the Lenox Libraryand construction of Frick's New York Residence.

1912

61 10#280: D.B. Kinch mortgage (1st)

1903,1919

61 11#304: Paintings purchased from M. Knoedler & Co.

See: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series I: Art Files (Box 10, Folder 6) in thisrepository.

1914-1915

61 12#306: A.O. Tinstman property (Turtle Creek, Pa.)

1914-1927

61 13#311-C: Bellefield Property (Keeley Institute)

1918-1919

61 14-15#312: National Golf Links of America

1911-1926

See also: #280 - National Golf Course.

61 16#312: New York Street Sprinkling & Flushing Co.

1915-1920

61 17#349: Deed of Trust

Re: pipe organ at Princeton University.

1916

61 18#351: New bath house and high school at Beverly, Mass.

1915-1916

61 19#356-B: Erie Railroad Co.

Contains information for company stockholders.

1916

61 20#359, 359-A: Holmes Electric Protective Co.

Re: patrol service at One East 70th Street.

1915-1917

61 21#372: Offer for Little or Means house, Wenham, Mass.

1916

61 22#377: Pittsburgh Bank for Savings matter (Children's Savings Fund)

Re: reimbursement to children who lost their savings when the bank closed.

1915-1918

61 23#379: Sixth Avenue & Grant Street corner property

Re: repurposing vacant lot in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1916-1919

62 1#383: C.S.O. Tinstman

Re: Tinstman's allowance.

1916

62 2#384: Leader Publishing Co.

Re: black smoke pouring out of the Pittsburgh Leader Building.

1916

62 3#386: Park and playground property in Homestead, Pa.

1916

62 4#391: Exploration Syndicate No. 2

Re: Frick's investment in the syndicate.

1919-1920

62 5#392: Proposed portrait of Dr. Brashear by Alphonse Jongers

1916

62 6#393: Louise Freeman

Re: guarantee against loss relative to U.S. Steel stock.

1916,1919

62 7#394: Steel engraving plates of Mr. Frick's portrait

1916

62 8#399: New York Telephone Co.

Re: change in telephone numbers at One East 70th Street.

1916

62 9#405: Agreement with Western Union Telegraph Co.

Re: stock ticker service at One East 70th Street.

1914,1916

62 10#408-A: New York Residence [empty envelope]

Re: proposed sculpture gallery. For additional documentation, see: One East70th Street Papers, and TFC/FARL Architectural Records in this repository.

1918-1920

62 11#408-H: New York Residence

Re: electric lamp contract made through Lord Electric Co.

1918-1920

62 12#410: H.P. Snyder notes

Re: loans to Snyder and his newspaper, The Connellsville Courier.

1916-1917

62 13#414-A: Faraday Coal & Coke Co.

Re: Berwind exchange

1915

62 14#422: John Holroyd

Re: telephone service for Holroyd.

1916

62 15#427: H.B. Thorne

Re: liability of Bankers Trust Co. when holding securities for customers.

1915

62 16#429: Contents of Room 252, Frick Building Annex

undated

62 17#430: Rules re: movement of private car "Westmoreland"

1910,1914,undated

62 18#434: Imperial Russian Government War Loan of 1916

1916-1918

62 19#435: Norfolk & Western stock owned by Mary Allen Dixon

1916

62 20#438: New York Clearing House rules and regulations

1916

62 21#443: Exhibition of works by Serbian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic

1916-1917

62 22#445: St. Paul Coal Co. Deed of Trust

Re: Thompson property in West Virginia.

1916-1917

62 23#448: City of Pittsburgh - Ordinance for tunnel

Re: tunnel connecting the Arcade Building and Frick Building.

1916-1918,1949

62 24#456: Loan to Stanley Walter Krebs

1917

62 25#458: C.G. Lewellyn

Re: proposed loan.

1917

62 26#466: First Liberty Loan

1917-1918

62 27#466-A: Second Liberty Loan

1917-1918

62 28#466-B: Third Liberty Loan

1918-1920

63 1-2#466-C: Fourth Liberty Loan

1919

63 3#466-D: Fifth Liberty Loan

1919

63 4#468: Loan to Frances A. Heath

1917,1919

63 5#471: Mrs. J.B.A. Fosburgh

Re: Investment in securities.

1915

63 6#472: Central District Telephone Co.

Re: rates for telephone service in the Pittsburgh area.

1917

63 7#474: Loan to Suzanne Keener

1917,1921

63 8#479: Frank Wouters/Oleogravure Co.

Re: reproductions of a portrait of Marshal Joffre.

1917

63 9#484: Mount Union College

Re: endowed chair in honor of P.C. Knox.

1918

63 10#486: A.G. Russell Jr.

Re: increase in salary.

1918

63 11#493-A: Col. George Harvey

Re: North American War Weekly.

1919

63 12#503: Walter Wellman

Re: financial assistance.

1919

63 13#504: Insurance on Ford car at Prides Crossing

1919

63 14#505: Childs Frick

Re: appointment on the scientific staff of the American Museum of NaturalHistory.

1917

63 15#508: Dissolution of Rex Mining Co.

1918

63 16#509: Purchase of a picture by Vermeer

Contains correspondence with Joseph Duveen and others concerning theacquisition of Vermeer's Mistress and Maid.

1919

63 17#511: Vacuum High Suction Cleaning System, Inc.

Re: vacuum cleaning at One East 70th Street.

1919

63 18 1919

#513: New stock in Columbia Chemical Co.

63 19#519: St. Cecilia Symphony Orchestra concert tour

1919

63 20#526: Inheritance taxes

Re: proposed revenue bills taxing transfers of property and gifts to charitableinstitutions.

1918-1919

63 21#527: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.

Re: actions taken by stockholders in the company.

1919

63 22#530: Mr. Frick's will

Contains a brief letter from Frick to Lewis Cass Ledyard, the attorney whoauthored the will.

1915

63 23#533: Massachusetts compensation insurance

1919

63 24#535: Barbara A. Hines

Re: land on Rosemary Street in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1921-1922

63 25#536: Gallatin Land Co.

Re: right of the H.C. Frick Estate to collect personal property tax from GallatinLand Co.

1924

63 26Unnumbered envelopes

Arthur Dummett, Inc. re: new trees on 70th Street, 1918-1919

Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, 1919

Columbia Chemical Co. re: $50,000 note, 1918-1919

Consolidation of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. and the Omaha, 1919

David Fraser re: bulbs for Clayton, 1919

Donner ore matter re: sale to U.S. Steel Corp, 1917-1918

George Wyness re: increase in wages, 1919

George Wyness re: roof on the house at Prides Crossing, 1919-1920

International Music Festival League, 1919

1914-1919

63 27Unnumbered envelopes (continued)

John E. Milholland re: Republican campaign, 1919

John W. Fay re: Who's Who in the World War, 1919

Linden Avenue property [former residence of Martha H. Childs], 1914

Memorial to soldiers and sailors at Braddock, Pa., 1919

Richmond-Eureka Mining Co. re: committee formed to look after interests ofminority stockholders, 1916-1919

Semi-monthly pays re: wages paid to Frick's employees, 1913

Tree Planting Association of the City of New York, 1917

Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh re: sale of shares at auction, 1917

1913-1920

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Subseries III: Finished Matters

This subseries contains envelopes that formerly housed documentation on Frick's personal and business matters,including investments, real estate transactions, membership in clubs, societies, and other organizations,contributions to family members and charitable organizations, art purchases, and service contracts. Envelopesfrequently bear notes including a description of the matter at hand, action taken, payments made, and how thematter was resolved. In nearly all cases, the documentation was removed from the envelopes and filed elsewhereamong Henry Clay Frick's papers. For missing envelopes, many can be found among Subseries II: UnfinishedMatters.

Contents of this subseries are arranged by envelope number.

Box Folder Date

64 1Envelopes #100-104

#100, #100A: Fleming, Harriet M., 1911-1915

#101: Drais, Clara C., 1909-1911

#102: Plant storage house at Prides Crossing, 1910-1911

#103: Estimate of walls, etc. at compost yard, Prides Crossing, 1910-1911

#104: Contract with Daniel Linehan and Son re: additions and changes to thegarage and power house, Prides Crossing, 1911-1912

#104A: Estimate for cost of avenue, path, and grading around garage, PridesCrossing, 1911

#104B: Commission to Ernest W. Bowditch for work at Prides Crossing, 1911-1912

#104C: Estimate of D. Linehan and Son for cost of constructing tool house,various outbuildings, and fences at Prides Crossing, 1911-1912

#104D: Grading, furnishing loam, etc., at Tool House, sheds, etc., PridesCrossing, 1911-1912

1909-1915

64 2Envelopes #105-112

#105: Contract with Lord Electric Co. for electric work, change in plant, etc.,Prides Crossing, 1911

#105A: Sale of old engine set, Prides Crossing, 1911

#106A: Funds requested by Dr. John A. Brashear, 1911

#106E: Contributions to the John A. Brashear Fund, undated

#107: Pennsylvania Railroad Co. stock, undated

#108: New York library property, 1912

#108A: Proposed house to be erected on Lenox Property, 1914

#108B: Cost of examining title for New York library property, 1914

#108C: Offer to remove and re-erect Lenox Library, 1912

#108C: Bids for removing Lenox Library building, 1914

#108E: Removal of Lenox Library and construction of New York Residence, 1912

#108F: Furnishings - New York House, undated

#112: Chimes for Trinity Lutheran Church, Connellsville, Pa., 1909, 1911

1909-1914,undated

64 3Envelopes #113-122

#113, #113A: Inspiration Copper Co. stock, 1910, 1912

#115: Dresel, E.L., undated

#116: Subscription to Deficiency Fund of The New Theatre, 1911

#116A: Loan to The New Theatre, 1910-1911

#117, #117A: Questions re: Indiana Harbor property, 1909, 1911, undated

#118: Central Y.W.C.A. Building Fund and Endowment Fund, 1909-1910

#120, #120A: Rental of Butt cottage, Augusta, Ga., 1910-1912

#121, #121A: Kentucky coal lands, 1910-1912

#122A, #122B: Investments in Norfolk and Western Railway Co., 1912-1913

1909-1913,undated

64 4Envelopes #123-129

#123, #123A-123E: Contributions William D. Sohier's work on the North Shoreof Boston (e.g. fighting gypsy moths, road work, etc.), 1911-1919

#124: Renewal of fence on the line of Carl Borntraeger's property, 1913

#125: Fire escapes on Building #4228, Fifth Ave. [Pittsburgh], 1910

#125A: Tree planting on Bellefield Avenue [Pittsburgh], undated

#126, #126A-B: International Mercantile Marine Co., 1912-1917

#127: Instructions re: Union Restaurant, undated

#128, #128A: National Golf Links of America, 1911, 1913

#129, #129A: Shares in Butte Coalition, undated

1910-1919,undated

64 5Envelopes #131-139

#131: Point Judith Polo Club, 1910-1911.

#132, #132 A-I: Gibson, Archer, 1911-1917

#133, #133 A: Mr. Frick's offer to present to Metropolitan Museum a replica ofBigot's Plan of Imperial Rome, 1911, undated

#135: Engineer desired by Mr. Marvin Hughitt for temporary service, undated

#137: Colonial Steel Co. preferred stock, 1915

#138: Checks to be sent when Mr. Childs Frick writes (Carnegie Museum, Bronx

1910-1917,undated

Zoological Park, 1911-1913

#139: McPherson St. lot offered to Mr. P.R. Dillon, 1914

64 6Envelopes #140-150

#140: Work at "Clayton," directed by Miss Frick, 1911

#141: Widening of Water Street, undated

#142: Agreement with Duveen Brothers for two paintings (Gainsborough's LadyDuncombe and Romney's Lady Milnes), 1911-1912

#143: W. & J. Sloane's estimate for rugs and carpet, 1911

#145: Mr. Frick approved purchase by Faraday of the Harman 50.94 acres up to$5,000 at sale to be made by Commissioner of School Lands, 1911-1912

#146: $100.00 to be given to the Pittsburgh Leader if needed for the purpose ofsecuring Checker Tourney for Pittsburgh, undated

#147: Education of Miss Elizabeth Lott, 1911-1914

#148: Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. Syndicate, 1911-1912

#149, #149A, #149C: Improvement of roads in Wenham, Mass., 1911-1915

#150: Mr. Frick approves of the painting of property at #4232 Fifth Avenue,1911

1911-1915,undated

64 7Envelopes #151-158

#151, #151 A-C, #151 E-G, #151 I: Fort Smith & Western Railway Co. bonds,1911-1921

#152: Subscription to Young Men's Association of Scottdale, Pa., 1914

#153: B.C. Cooke given authority to sell "Harding Real Estate," 1911

#154, #154 A: Mercantile Trust Co. stock; also merger of Mercantile Trust Co.with Bankers Trust Co., and Bankers Trust Co. with Manhattan Trust Co., 1911-1912

#155: Estimates to extend rise of passenger elevator at Pride's Crossing, 1912

#156: Proposed donation to Gloucester Fisherman's Institute, 1911

#157: Playground to be built in Beverly, Mass., 1911-1912

#158, #158 A: Shares in Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co.,1911-1912, undated

1911-1921,undated

64 8Envelopes #160-173

#160: Motor generator, etc., for Clairton Street Railway Co., 1911-1912

#161: Standard Oil Co. stock, 1911

#162: Memoranda re: Lawrence Dilworth estate, 1911

#163: Subscription to Boston-Harvard Aero Meet, 1911

#164: Letter of Thomas Cook & Son [re: 1912 trip to Egypt?], 1911

#165: Education of Jay E. Frick, 1910-1914

#166: Bonds of University Club, Pittsburgh, Pa., undated

#167, #167A: Indiana Harbor property (Lake Michigan Tract), 1913-1914

#168: Loan to Judge Buffington, undated

#169: Plan of all pipe lines at Prides Crossing, Mass., 1911

#170: Art gallery to be erected at Prides Crossing, Mass., 1911

#171: Colorado Light & Power Co., 1911

#172: Bridle path gate, [Prides Crossing, Mass.], 1911

#173: Money advanced Childs Frick for his trip to Africa, undated

1910-1914,undated

64 9Envelopes #174-183

#174: Donation to Helen Keller, 1911-1915

#175: Building for Helen Clay Frick, to be planned by J. Harleston Parker, 1911-1912

#176: Donation to Boston Museum for work of their Egyptian Department,1911-1912

#177: X-ray machine for Mercy Hospital, 1912

#178: Money advanced through Col. James M. Beck for unnamed work, 1912

#179: Portrait of H.C. Leeds by Jongers, 1911

#180: Proposed sewage plant site at Clairton, undated

#180 1/2: Purchase of Pingree Farm, 1912

#181: Life membership in Oakmont Country Club, 1912

#183: Sidewalk ordinance in Clairton, 1911-1913

#183, #183B-D, #183F: Myopia Hunt Club, 1912-1920

1911-1920,undated

64 10 1911-

Envelopes #184-197

#184: Question of inventories and appraisals, undated

#185: Swan & Finch Co. stock, 1912

#186: Repairs to stable behind Keeley Institute, 1912

#187, #187A-B: Private car "Westmoreland," 1914, undated

#189: Bid for Gently property, undated

#190: Merger between Equitable Trust co. and Knickerbocker Trust Co., undated

#191: Proposition for bridge and tunnel connecting Pittsburgh with South Hills,1915

#193: Claim against Mercantile Safe Deposit Co., 1912, 1914

#195, #195A: Widening Cherry Alley from Fifth Ave. to Sixth Ave., 1912, 1914

#196: Additional space needed by Pittsburgh Steel Co. and National Tube Co.,1911

#197: G.L. Allen to trade in some Clairton lots, undated

1915 ,undated

64 11Envelopes #198-210

#198, #198A: Westinghouse Machine Co., 1912, 1914

#199: Faraday Coal & Coke Co., 1912

#200: Merger of Columbia Trust Co. and Knickerbocker Trust Co., 1920

#201: Vacuum Oil Co. stock, 1912

#202, #202A: Interborough Rapid Transit Co. syndicate, 1913-1917

#203: Nevada Hills syndicate, 1915-1916, undated

#205: Davey Tree Expert Co., Inc., 1912

#206: Surveys of Wenham Farm by Henry F. Bryant, 1913

#208: Wrecking and removal of buildings, etc. on Grant St. and Sixth Ave.property, 1912

#209: Proposition of Union Storage Co. for purchase of Riter-Conley property,undated

#210: Stock in Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 1912

1912-1920,undated

65 1Envelopes #211-228

#211: Half interest with Kunh, Loeb & Co. in Pennsylvania Railroad Stock jointaccount, 1911-1912

#214: Cement sidewalk on Homewood Ave., 1912

#215: St. John's Episcopal Church at Beverly Farms, Mass., 1912-1916

#216, #216 A: Clairton Street Railway Co., 1912

#217: Wenham Farm, 1912

#218: Mr. Overholt authorized to buy an electric car for Edgar, 1912

#220: Standard Oil Co. of California stock, 1912

#223: White, John M., 1912-1914

#225: Memorial to Mayor Magee, undated

#226, #226 A-B: Loans to Pittsburgh Tube Co., 1912-1918

#227: Singing lessons for Inez Harrison, 1912-1913

#228: Messrs. Galt & Young, Shorthand Reporters, Washington, D.C., to furnishdaily copies of testimony to be given before Sub-Committee investigatingCampaign Contributions, 1912

1911-1918,undated

65 2Envelopes #229-235

#229, #229 A: Settlement with Mr. A. Cummins, 1912-1913

#230: Organ for Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wooster, Ohio, 1913

#231, #231 A: Henry Clay Frick's voter registration, 1912, 1916

#233: P.W. French & Co. have fitted up Aquarelle Room at 640 Fifth Ave. forpictures, 1912-1913

#234, #234 A-D: Tobacco Syndicate and Tobacco Products Corporation, 1912-1919

#235: Work to be done by Dewar & Clinton, 435 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.,1912

1912-1919

65 3Envelopes #236-247

#236, #236 A: Lake Michigan Tract, 1912-1913

#237: Project for athletic field, rear of City Farm, Beverly, Mass., 1912

#238: Joseph Lewis promises to pay H.C. Frick $125.00, 1912-1913

#239: Stock in Cambria Steel Co., 1915

#241: Purchase of two painting by Paolo Veronese, 1912-1913

1912-1915

#242: Set of the complete works of John Ruskin, limited edition, for theUniversity Library, Wooster, Ohio, 1912

#243: De Dion Bouton 50 horsepower auto ordered by Henry Clay Frick, 1913

#244: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. convertible bonds, 1913

#245: Charter of steam yacht "Rheclair," 1913

65 4Envelopes #249-256

#249, #249 A-D: Indiana Harbor property/Lake Michigan tract, 1913

#250, #250 A: Union Pacific Railroad Co. stock, 1913-1914

#251: Bellefield property, [Pittsburgh, Pa.], 1914

#252, #252 A-C: Darr & Moore lease/ Moore, Leonard & Lewis lease/ Moore,Leonard & Lynch lease, 1913-1919

#253: Agreement for telephone service at 640 Fifth Ave., 1907-1913

#254: Writing by Burton Alva Konkle, 1913

#256: Pittsburgh Coal Co. preferred stock, undated

1907-1919,undated

65 5Envelopes #257-274

#257: Pittsburgh Blue Book, 1913-1914

#258: 1914 Book of Prominent Families (issued by Index Co.), 1914

#259: Request of Pittsburgh Press Club for contribution to Building Fund, 1917

#260: Saint Cloud Country Club, undated

#261: Breeze, Charles, 1913-1914

#262: Promise to Mr. L.E. Johnson, 1913-1914

#264: Contract for new Mercedes car, 1913-1914

#265: Joint account of A.W. Mellon, R.B. Mellon, and H.C. Frick, undated

#266: Purchase of Thompson property in Wooster, Ohio, for Sallie F. Lott, 1913-1914

#267: New York, New Haven & H[udson?] Railroad Co. bond subscription, 1913

#268: $100,000 donation to the Y.M.C.A/Y.W.C.A, 1914-1915

#269: Tinstman, H.O., Mrs., 1914

#270: Statue of Mr. Chas. B. MacDonald to be executed by Prince PaulTroubetzkoy, ultimately to be presented to the National Golf Links of America,1914

#271: Project for athletic field at Beverly, Mass., revived, 1914

#272: Expenses of Dr. Jesse Benedict Carter in connection with endowment forAmerican Academy in Rome, 1914

#273, #273 A: New entrance to Union Savings Bank (F.J. Osterling, architect),1914-1915

#274: $15,000 donation to the Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1914-1915

1913-1917,undated

65 6Envelopes #276-285

#276: Elsie de Wolfe to furnish a set of old English chairs for new house, 1914

#277: Historical Society of Pennsylvania (contribution toward the purchase ofPenn portraits), 1914

#278: Contribution to Kingsley House, 1914

#279: Rugs ordered of W. & J. Sloane Co. by Mr. Childs Frick, 1914

#280, #280 B-C: Hotel proposition/Pittsburgh Hotels Co. stock, 1914-1916

#281: Point property (Penn Ave. and Barbeau St.), 1914, 1916

#282: Southern Pacific Co. convertible bonds, 1914

#283, 283 A: Purchase and improvements to Hartzler Farm for J. Edgar Frick,1914

#284: National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association, 1914-1915

#285, #285 A: Vanderbilt lease (640 Fifth Ave.), 1914

1914-1916

65 7Envelopes #287-303

#287: Consolidated Gas Co., undated

#288: Employment of Easthope Martin as organist, 1914

#289: Aeolian Co. to tune and regulate organ and blowing apparatus at PridesCrossing, undated

#290: Essex Country Club bonds, 1914

#291: Welte Mignon piano removed from 640 Fifth Ave. for storage, 1914, 1916

#292: Subscription to fund for the Seventh Annual Convention of the NationalAssociation of Real Estate Exchanges, 1914

#293: Quarterly donation to William George Jordan, 1914-1917

#294: Hon. Herman A. MacDonald, Mayor, Beverly, Mass. (re: High Schoolathletic field and building), 1914

1914-1919,undated

#295: Guild formed by the artists of Boston, 1914

#296, 296A: Loans to Charles B. Macdonald, 1914-1915

#297: Additions and alterations to Eagle Rock, Prides Crossing, Mass., undated

#298: Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. (repairs to arm chair in box),1914

#299: Loan to Dr. Oscar Kniffler, 1914-1915

#300: Dunbar Township High School, 1914

#301: Loan for Bryce J. Allan through Bankers Trust Co., 1914-1919

#302: Indiana Harbor property/Lake Michigan Tract, 1914

#303: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway stock, 1914

65 8Envelopes #305-320

#305: Mortgage to assist Mrs. Gage, a daughter of Capt. Jones, 1915-1920

#307, 307 A: Francis H. Denny property, Augusta, Ga., 1910-1919

#308: Purchase of Hoppner's "The Ladies Sarah and Catherine Bligh," 1915

#310, #310 A: Allowances for Mary V.O. McCain and Alice C. Overholt, 1915-1921

#311, 311 A-B: Bellefield property, [Pittsburgh, Pa.], 1915-1916

#313: Linden Avenue property, 1916

#314: Hostetter property (formerly Peacock property) adjoining Clayton,undated

#315, #315 A: Property at the corner of Homewood Ave. and Reynolds St. (re:selling to Homewood Cemetery), 1915

#316: Third Avenue Railway, undated

#317: Paintings offered for purchase by Mrs. Lewis Hind, 1915

#318: Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. stock, undated

#319: R.W. Johnston Studios (re: sepia enlargement), 1917

#320: Exchange of stock in Amalgamated Copper Co. for stock in AnacondaCopper Mining Co., 1915

1910-1921,undated

65 9Envelopes #321-338

#321: Bill of Dr. H.W. Nowell (claim against estate of Martha H. Childs), 1916

#322: Contribution to the American Social Hygiene Association, 1915-1920

#324: Loan to Lyman B. Childs, 1915

#325: Piping Rock Club, 1915

#326: Furniture purchased from G.A. Letts, 1915

#327: Employment of Ruth E. Williams to look after works of art in the New Yorkhouse during the summer, 1915

#329: Fishing arrangement with Starling Childs of Bonbright & Co., 1915

#330, 330 A: Property adjoining the New York Residence, 1915

#331: Country Club of Pittsburgh, 1916

#332: Lido Golf Club, 1915-1916

#333: Financial assistance for Mary Frick, 1915-1916

#334: New York Shipbuilding Co. stock, undated

#335: Lighting in Frick Building Annex, 1915

#336: William Penn Hotel mortgage, 1915

#337: Cigarettes purchased from Stephano Brothers, 1915

#338: Thomas Hoy v. H.C. Frick, 1915

1915-1920,undated

65 10Envelopes #339-349

#339: Gunn's Hill property (re: baseball permit), undated

#340: Letter to Alfred Anson re: Duke of Devonshire's Memling, 1915

#342: Estimate of Joseph Horne Co. for cleaning, etc. at Clayton, 1915

#343: Botticelli and Holbein, belonging to Hugh Blaker, brought to America byJon Eyre for Henry Clay Frick's inspection, 1915

#344: Sunday Creek Co. collateral trust bonds, 1915

#345, 345 A-B: Joint accounts with John S. Phipps, 1917-1918, undated

#346: Contribution to Industrial Home for Crippled Children, 1916

#347: Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. (re: opera box chairs), 1915

#348: Agreement with Wadley & Smythe for care of trees, grass, hedges, etc. atNew York Residence, 1915-1916

#349, 349 B-C, E-G: Gifts to Princeton University, 1915-1920

#341: Cambria Steel Co. stock given to Childs Frick, 1915

1915-1920,undated

65 11 1915-

Envelopes #350-361

#350: Agreement with Cauldwell-Wingate Co. to maintain shutters at New YorkResidence, 1916-1917

#352: North Shore Association for the Extermination of Mosquitoes, 1915-1917

#353, #353 A-C: Notes of M. Knoedler & Co., 1915-1916

#354, 354 A: Kennecott Copper Syndicate, 1915-1916

#355: Blind Brook Golf Club, 1916-1917

#356, 356 A: Erie Railroad Co. convertible bonds, 1916-1917

#357: Henry Clay Frick to join H.A.C. Taylor in buying property at the corner of71st Street from Mr. Baylies, 1916

#358, 358 A: Anglo-French bonds, 1915-1916

#360: Cuba Sugar Cane Corporation Syndicate, undated

#361, 361 A-B: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 1915-1919

1919,undated

66 1Envelopes #362-365

#362: Contribution to St. Bartholomew's Church, 1916-1918

#363, 363 A-K: Paintings, furniture, and other items purchased through DuveenBrothers, 1915-1921

#364, 364 A-D: Cottage at Prides Crossing, Mass., and improvements to thefarm at Wenham, Mass., 1915-1916

#365: Bust of Madame du Cayla by J.A. Houdon, 1916-1917

1915-1921

66 2Envelopes #366-382

#366: Purchase of Rolls Royce from Robert W. Schuette, 1916

#367: Question of Harry Thaw purchasing the Highland Building, 1916

#368: Paulsboro property, undated

#369: American International Corporation stock, 1915-1917

#370, 370 A-C: The Links Golf Club, Searingtown, N.Y., 1916-1919

#371, 371 A: The Barahona Company, 1916, 1918

#373: Pittsburgh Golf Club bonds, 1916

#374: Loaning Dagnan-Bouveret's "Consolatrix Afflictorum" to the ClevelandMuseum of Art, 1916

#375: White Motor Co. stock, 1915

#376: R.G. Dun & Co./The Mercantile Agency, 1915

#378: Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co. annual assessment, 1916-1917

#381: Suite of furniture offered to E.T. Stotesbury, 1916

#382: Negotiations with Jules Porges for Rembrandt's "Woman with a Bible,"1916

1915-1919,undated

66 3Envelopes #385-407

#385: Mosquito Campaign - North Shore, 1916-1917

#387: National Golf Links of America, 1916

#388: Clayton Conservatory re: amount due from Zieger Co., 1916

#389: Copies of "Benvenuto Cellini" purchased from Charles Scribner's Sons,1916

#390: Chair frames belonging to Mr. Frick; red damask fabric belonging to Maus,undated

#395: Silex Percolator Co. [gifts to Bryce J. Allan and James Parker], 1916

#396 Metropolitan Trust Co., New York re: new account, 1916

#397: American Foreign Securities Co. syndicate agreement, 1916

#398: Carnegie Museum re: black rhinoceros exhibit, 1920

#400: Correspondence with James W. Bechervaise re: bath tub at Cascapedia,1916

#401: Contribution for Schenley Memorial, 1916

#402: Correspondence with Charles Carstairs re: purchasing Sargent painting forLewis Ledyard, 1915-1918

#403: Correspondence with J.A. Farrell, 1915

#404: Proposed sale of Riter Conley property, 1916

#405: Estimate for curtains from B. Altman & Co., 1916

#407: Castalia Sporting Club, 1915-1916

1915-1920,undated

66 4Envelopes #408-425

#408, 408 C-E: New York Residence re: work by Carrère & Hastings, John H.Shipway & Brother, and John A. Bank & Brother, 1916-1918

#409: Sale of Highland Building to Josiah V. Thompson, 1914, 1916

1914-1919,undated

#411: Appraisal of J.P. Morgan Estate, 1916

#412: Exchange of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. stock,1917

#413, 413 A: M. Knoedler & Co. bills; mezzotints for The Links, 1916-1918

#414: Proposition of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. to buy Faraday property, 1915

#416: New York City Police Department re: psychopathic laboratory, 1916

#417: Patrizio Art Mosaic Co. re: mosaic work on porch at Clayton, 1916

#419: Paintings by Jonkhur Six, 1916

#420: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Two-Year 5% Secured LoanGold Note Syndicate, undated

#421: Shaw Coal Co. deeds, 1916, 1919

#423: McElveen Furniture Co. re: carpets for Pittsburgh office, 1916

#424: Contribution to Beverly Hospital, 1916

#425: Boucher paintings purchased from Mrs. W. Rathbone Bacon, 1916

66 5Envelopes #426-452

#426: Wallis paintings; Maris "Windmills & Lock," 1916

#428: United States Steel common stock, undated

#431: Contribution to John W. Alexander Endowment Fund, 1916-1917

#432: Subscription to fund to bring French concert singers to New York, 1916,1918

#433: Contribution to the Hospitality Fund of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science, 1916

#436: United Alloy Steel Corporation syndicate, 1916, 1919

#439: Correspondence with George Lockhart Allen re: purchase of Foster lot,1916-1917

#440: Stock in Kendall Gold Mining Co., 1916-1917

#441, 441 A: Union Arcade Building re: city assessments, 1916-1918

#444: American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, 1917

#446: Chicago & Northwester Railway Co. stock increase, 1917

#447: Sale of equipment, etc. in Frick Building to Duquesne Light Co., 1916-1917

#449, 449 A: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland One-Year and Two-Year 5 1/2% Secured Loan Convertible Gold Note Syndicate, undated

#451: Application of Joseph Donon for the position of chef, 1917

#452: Pach Brothers re: steel engraving to be made from photograph of HenryClay Frick, 1917

1916-1919,undated

66 6Envelopes #453-476

#453: Hon. Mrs. Alfred Anson re: stock turned over to Chas. D. Barney & Co.,1918

#454: Subscription to the fund for Infantile Paralysis, State of Massachusetts,1917

#455: Addition to home of Mrs. Sallie F. Lott, 1917

#457: Letter to H.C. McEldowney re: room in Frick Building formerly used as arestaurant, 1917, 1919

#459: Fidelity Title & Trust stock, 1917

#460: Portrait of John C. Tappin by Alphonse Jongers, 1916

#461: Painting by Spencer Hals, 1917

#464: Loan to Roland F. Knoedler, 1917

#465: Toledo Furnace Co. increase of capital stock, 1917

#467: Subscription to American Red Cross, 1917

#469: Yearly allowance for Jeremiah Frick, 1916, 1918

#473: Contribution toward the education of Lillian Ramsey, 1917

#475: Engravings to illustrate article on the visit of the French Mission to theUnited States, 1917

#476, 476: Commissions from sculptor J. Massey Rhind, 1917-1923

1916-1923

66 7Envelopes #477-501

#477: Fusion Committee of 1917, 1917

#478: Note of William Butterworth to M. Knoedler & Co., 1917

#480: Red Cross Auxiliary of The Frick Building, 1918

#481: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild re: "Art in America," 1918-1919

#482: Maeder property at the corner of Fifth Ave. and William Penn Place, 1918

#483: Engaging Joseph Stanley Farrar as organist in New York and at PridesCrossing, 1918-1919

#485: Enlistment of John W. Frick in the Army, 1918-1919

1917-1921

#487: Contribution to New York Cooking School, 1918

#488: Portrait of C.B. MacDonald by Gari Melcher, 1918

#489: United States 4% Certificates of Indebtedness, 1918

#490: Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co. re: assessment, 1918

#491: Advance to Dr. Lawrence Litchfield, 1918-1919

#493: Col. George Harvey re: contribution to "North American War Weekly,"1918

#494: Arthur Dummett, Inc. re: proposition for oriental plane trees at One East70th Street, 1918

#495: Norfolk & Western Railway Co. stock, 1918-1919

#496: The Bellefield Co. bonds, 1918-1919

#497, 497 A: Bankers Trust Co. stock, 1918-1919

#499: Bridge, J.H. re: Appleton's Cyclopaedias, 1918

#500: Houghton, George S. re: financial assistance, 1919-1921

#501: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, 1919

66 8Envelopes #502-534

#502: Painting by Lieut. Lemordant, purchased by Helen Clay Frick, undated

#506: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. bonds, 1919-1920

#507, 507 A: Ten paintings purchased from the Estate of Virginia P. Bacon;Duveen Brothers re: portrait of Lady Meux, 1919, 1921

#510 A: Aeolian Co. re: work to be done on the organ at Prides Crossing, 1919-1920

#512: Lord Electric Co. re: vacuum cleaner installation, etc., 1919

#513: Interborough Rapid Transit Co. bonds, 1919-1920

#515: Riter-Conley property re: Elizabeth A. McFadden ground rent, undated

#516: Claim of Eugene J. Sauvageau, 1919

#517: Creelman, Alice B. re: Holbein portrait and "Madonna and Child," 1919-1920

#521: Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. stock, 1919

#523: Proposed subway for Pittsburgh, 1919

#524: Riter-Conley property re: taxes, 1919

#528: Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, undated

#529 B-C: A. Overolt & Co. re: liquidation, 1919

#531: Forbes, B.C. re: contribution to Forbes Financial Magazine, 1919

#534: Comfort station for Frick Park, Homestead, Pa., 1920

1919-1921,undated

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Subseries IV: Agreements

Files in this subseries largely pertain to real estate transactions and investments in in various companies.Exceptions to this include an agreement with F.J. Osterling for renovations at Clayton, and contracts for utilities atClayton and the Frick Building. A bound record of agreements filed at the beginning of the subseries providesdetails such as the parties involved, pertinent dates (i.e. expiration, payment, renewal, cancellation, etc.), asynopsis, and the location where related documentation.

Numbered agreements are filed first, followed by unnumbered agreements in alphabetical order.

Box Folder Date

67 1Record of agreements

Volume in which details of various agreements are recorded. Entries may includewith whom the agreement was made, the date and expiration of agreement, andinformation about costs, payments, and renewals.

1912-1918

67 2Memoranda re: agreements

undated

67 3#4: South Penn Railway Co.

Re: subscribers to the company.

1885-1888

67 4#7: Shady Side Lot

Re: Aiken property on Pittsburgh's 20th ward.

1887,1892

67 5#8: Thomas Street Property

1884-1901

Re: Doerr property in Pittsburgh's 21st ward.

67 6#16: North American Phonograph Co./P.L. Walter

Re: stock in the company.

1888-1895

67 7#21: Union Bridge Co.

Re: stock in the company.

1888-1892

67 8#28: Second Ave. Property, nos. 133 & 135

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 2nd ward.

1891-1892

67 9#32: Henry Phipps Jr. & Robert Pitcairn/Frank Thomson & Robert Pitcairn

Re: interest in Carnegie Brothers & Co., Carnegie, Phipps & Co., and H.C. FrickCoke Co.

1886-1911

67 10#34: Baldwin Estate

Re: administration of the estate of William Baldwin.

1884-1892

67 11#40: F.J. Osterling

Re: alterations to Clayton.

1891-1894

67 12#46: Mercantile Library Hall Co./James F. Hudson

Re: stock in the company.

1894

67 13#47: Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal

Includes published reports, subscription agreement, correspondence with John E.Shaw, and a supplement to a 1907 prospectus.

1894-1908

67 14#53: Butler & Pittsburgh Railroad Syndicate

Re: subscription to the syndicate.

1896-1897

67 15#54: Consolidated Traction Co.

Re: stock in the company.

1896

67 16#57: Virginia Coal Property

Re: coal lands in Wise County, Va.

1897

68 1#72: Revere Coal Tract

Re: property in Fayette County, Pa.

1898-1899

68 2#83: Cornucopia Mines

Re: subscription to stock in the company; includes correspondence with HenryWick.

1898-1916

68 3#86: Continental Coke Co.

Agreement with Henry Wick re: sale of the company.

1899

68 4#89: Big Meadows Gas Co.

Folder contains financial statement of the company.

1899

68 5#95: Windella Pineapple Co.

Folder contains prospectus and solicitations for subscription to the company.

1899

68 6#101: Amalgamated Copper Co.

Re: shares of stock in the company.

1899

68 7#104: Lease of Rooms 919 and 920 from Carnegie Steel Co. to Henry ClayFrick

Re: lease of rooms in the Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1898-1899

68 8#111: Rochester Heat and Light Co.

Re: shares of stock in the company.

1899

68 9#112: Penn Cotton Mill

Re: shares of stock in the company.

1905

68 10#113: Elizabeth Water Co.; Monongahela Valley Water Co.

Re: exchange of property.

1899-1901

68 11#121: Oil investment

Folder contains receipts for payment on contract and attorney's fees.

1900

68 12#128: P.C. Knox

Re: shares of National Steel common stock.

1900

68 13#135: S.L. Schoonmaker

Re: shares in the Carnegie Co. and United States Steel.

1900-1901

68 14#136: McCracken property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 6th ward.

1900

68 15#161: George Megrew

Re: stock in United States Steel Corp.

1901

68 16#163: American Locomotive Co.

Re: subscription for shares in the company.

1901

68 17#170: New York Dock Co.

Re: bonds and stock in the company.

1901

68 18#179: International Banking Corp.

Folder contains circulars to stockholders in the company.

1902

68 19#181: St. John Hotel property

Re: property in Pittsburgh's 3rd ward.

1902

68 20Allegheny County Light Co.

Re: domestic lighting contract for Clayton.

1906

68 21Allegheny County Steam Heating Co.

Re: contract for steam heating [at Clayton?]

1915

68 22American Academy in Rome

Contains information re: Frick's election as a Trustee, and inquiry into Frick's$100,000 contribution to the Academy.

1910,1912

68 23Anson, Alfred, Mrs.

Re: shares of Norfolk & Western stock.

1917

68 24Borough of Homestead, Pa.

Re: improvements to a public square in Homestead.

1902

68 25Carr, William A.

Re: terms of Carr's employment.

1901,1906

68 26Country Club of Allegheny County

Re: unpaid balance on the mortgage of the club.

1921-1925

68 27Country Club of Pittsburgh

Re: lease of property known as the English Farm to the club.

1913-1919

69 1Creelman, James

Re: loan to Creelman.

1907

69 2Cumberland Coal Co.

Re: coal property in Greene County, Pa.

1919

69 3Cummins, A.

Re: Cummins' interest in various coal lands in Virginia, West Virginia, andKentucky.

1901-1912

69 4Denny, Francis H.

Re: Denny's mortgage with the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh.

1914

69 5Diller, Theodore

Re: widening of Forbes Street in Pittsburgh.

1916

69 6Duquesne Light Co.

Re: electrical service at the Frick Building and Frick Building Annex.

1915

69 7Duveen Brothers

Re: payments made to Duveen Brothers.

1916-1921

69 8Epstein, Burford B.

Re: lease of property in Pittsburgh's 2nd ward.

1919-1920

69 9Equitable Life Assurance Society

1906,1916

Re: Clairton Land Co. bonds.

69 10Frick Museum

Folder contains correspondence with Lewis Cass Ledyard and Victor Morawetz re:incorporation of The Frick Collection.

1918-1919

69 11Harding, J. Horace

Re: land in Douglas County, Wis.

1907,1919

69 12Heyl & Patterson, Inc.

Re: lease of the Riter-Conley property in Pittsburgh.

1917-1918

69 13Holmes Electric Protective Co.

Re: contract for watchman service at One East 70th Street in New York.

1916-1923

69 14Johnson, L.E.

Re: purchase of Norfolk & Western Railway Co. stock.

1906,1910

69 15Kaufmann Brothers

Re: exhaust pipe on the roof of the Kaufmann Brothers store in Pittsburgh.

1906,1908

69 16Laufman, W.B., Jr.

Re: construction of a tennis court on Frick's property.

1915

69 17Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.

Re: railroad sidetrack at Emlyn, Ky.

1911-1912

69 18M. Knoedler & Co.

Re: guaranty of Knoedler's promissory notes.

1900-1907

69 19McCrea, James

Re: interest in the Faraday Coal & Coke Co.

1902

69 20Mellon, A.W./Brushton property

Re: property known as McCombs Farm, purchased with R.B. Mellon, H.C. Frick,Robert Pitcairn, A.M. Thorne, and W.S. Mitchell.

1887

69 21Mellon, A.W. and Richard B.

Re: partnership in the West Overton Distilling Co.

1918

69 22Mellon, A.W., et al

Re: Union Trust Co., Mellon National Bank, and Union Savings Bank.

undated

69 23Mercedes license certificate no. 725

Re: agreement with Daimler Mfg. Co. [agreement not in file].

1905

69 24Merriman, M.A.

Re: guaranty of Steel Preferred stock.

1906

69 25 1916

Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co.

Re: increase in the annual assessment of stockholders.

69 26New York Telephone Co.

Re: telephone service at 640 Fifth Avenue and One East 70th Street in New York.

1907-1915

69 27Nicola, Frank F. [empty envelope]

1913

69 28P. & A. Telephone Co.

Re: right of way to erect telephone poles.

1904

69 29Pittsburgh Athletic Association

Re: use of tennis courts on property at the corner of Grant Boulevard and ForbesStreet.

1910-1912

70 1Pittsburgh Field Club

Re: use of land by the club as a golf course.

1914

70 2Pittsburgh office

Re: salaries and duties of employees in Frick's Pittsburgh office. Includesresignation of F.W. McElroy.

1910-1918

70 3Sale of Bellefield property to the University of Pittsburgh

Re: property bounded by Bigelow Boulevard, Fifth Avenue, Bellefield Avenue,and Forbes Street.

1921-1922

70 4St. Paul Coal Co.

Re: money advanced to purchase Josiah V. Thompson mortgage.

1916

70 5Stewart, Altena J. and Samuel

Re: guarantee of bond and mortgage.

1900

70 6Tablet & Ticket Co.

Re: Frick Building directories.

1915

70 7Union Safe Deposit Co.

Re: assignment of safe deposit vault, equipment, fixtures, and furniture in theFrick Building to Henry Clay Frick.

1911

70 8Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh

Re: lease of space in the Frick Building.

1911,1919

70 9Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh

Re: various mortgages, judgments, and stock.

1904-1916

70 10United Iron & Metal Co.

Re: lease of Riter-Conley property in Pittsburgh.

1919

70 11University Club of Pittsburgh

Re: license for tennis courts.

1907,1921

70 12Waddell, S.H.

Re: prospecting and boring for oil and gas in Jefferson County, Ohio.

1900

70 13Water Delivery Co.

Re: lease of Riter-Conley property in Pittsburgh.

1918

70 14West Overton Distilling Co.

Agreement with Sherman C. Bosworth.

1907

70 15Western Union Telegraph Co.

Re: contract for time service at One East 70th Street in New York.

1916

70 16Whitney. George I.

Re: will appointing H.C. Frick as executor.

1901-1902

70 17William Penn Hotel Co.

Re: assignment of bond and mortgage.

1916

70 18Envelopes for agreements - not used

undated

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Subseries V: Bound Volumes

This subseries contains miscellaneous bound volumes prepared and maintained by Frick's office staff. They includean address book, an index to a file case, and an inventory of securities held in a safe deposit box.

Box Folder Date

70 19Index to file case

Inscribed in front cover: "This is an index prepared by Miss Brock when in N.Y.Most, if not all of the papers were subsequently [brought] to Pgh for file.F.W.McE. [Frank W. McElroy]"

1912

70 20Addresses and memoranda

Contains addresses, telephone numbers, etc., for family members, employees,friends, and others.

circa1912-1920s

70 21Securities in Mercantile Safe Deposit

1911

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