Box 50

Scope and Contents note Highlights include: Various items on E.H. Harriman, Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Henry Phipps, and aviator Louis Bleriot; deaths of William G. McCandless, Sarah J. Mellon, and William Frick; bribery case of Councilmen Klein, Brand, and Wasson; inauguration of President Taft; Willie Whitla kidnapping; “Hump” removal; Metropolitan Grand Opera performances; rumored purchase of Holbein’s Christina, Duchess of Milan; new skyscraper...