Research Catalog
George Bancroft papers
- Title
- George Bancroft papers, 1823-1890.
- Author
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 29 linear feet (42 boxes, 37 v.)
- Summary
- Collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, writings by Bancroft and others, legal papers and accounts, clippings, notes, photographs, and research materials.
- Subjects
- Diplomats
- Historians
- Poems
- Dispatches
- Photoprints
- Germany > Foreign relations > United States > 1848-1870
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States > 1837-1901
- Canada > Boundaries > United States
- United States > Boundaries > Canada
- Diplomatic and consular service, American > Germany
- Diplomatic and consular service, American > Great Britain
- United States > History > 1815-1861
- Postal service > International cooperation
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Diplomacy
- Historiography
- International relations
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
- Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Polk, James K (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
- Genre/Form
- Photoprints.
- Dispatches.
- Poems.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Additional Formats (note)
- available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Bancroft, George - Estate
- Biography (note)
- George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, diplomat and public official who wrote the ten-volume History of the United States. Bancroft's positions included Collector of the Port of Boston, Secretary of the Navy under Polk, Minister to Great Britain from 1846 to 1849, and Minister to Germany from 1867 to 1874. In addition to History of the United States, Bancroft wrote other historical studies and biographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 196
- OCLC
- NYPW92-A188
- Author
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
- Title
- George Bancroft papers, 1823-1890.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Additional Formats
- Portions of the collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library.
- Biography
- George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, diplomat and public official who wrote the ten-volume History of the United States. Bancroft's positions included Collector of the Port of Boston, Secretary of the Navy under Polk, Minister to Great Britain from 1846 to 1849, and Minister to Germany from 1867 to 1874. In addition to History of the United States, Bancroft wrote other historical studies and biographies.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Historians.Diplomats.
- Added Author
- Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889.Harris, J. G.Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918.Johnson, Cave, 1793-1866.Logan, J. Dickinson.Moore, George Henry, 1823-1892.Read, John Meredith, 1837-1896.Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866.Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886.Wright, Silas, 1795-1847.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 196