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Description: William Bradhurst Osgood Field and his family were prominent members of New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Field was an avid book collector, gentleman farmer, and philanthropist who sat on the boards of many organizations, both commercial and charitable, and was a member of over twenty clubs and societies. The collection consists of family, personal, and office correspondence; financial documents; diaries; genealogical records; educational materials; photographs; and ephemera documenting the family's commercial, philanthropic, and social activities from 1897 to 1934.
Names: Field, William B. Osgood (Creator); Eames, Emma, 1865-1952 (Author); Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967 (Author); Field, Augusta Currie Bradhurst (Author); Field, Frederick V. (Frederick Vanderbilt), 1905-2000 (Author); Field, Lila Vanderbilt Sloane, 1878-1934 (Author); Field, Mary Augusta, 1911-2000 (Author); Field, Mary Pearsall, 1865-1945 (Author); Field, Osgood, 1823-1900 (Author); Field, William O. (William Osgood), 1904- (Author); Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 (Author); Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914 (Author); Wilde, Marjorie Field, 1910-1997 (Author); Field, William B. Osgood (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1610 - 1952
Library locations: Manuscripts and Archives Division; Shelf locator: MssCol 6090
Topics: Charities -- Massachusetts; Charities -- New York (State); Collectors and collecting -- United States; Genealogy; Hunting and fishing clubs -- North America; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; Field, William B. Osgood; Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907; Lear, Edward; Leech, John, 1817-1864; Paris, William Francklyn, 1871-1954; Boone family; Field family; Osgood family.; Sloan family.; Vanderbilt family; New Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y. : 1909-1911)
Genres: Diaries; financial records; Photographs; Posters; Scrapbooks; sheet music; Sketches; Drawings; Architectural drawings; Documents
Notes: Biographical/historical: William Bradhurst Osgood Field and his family were prominent members of New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Field was an avid book collector, gentleman farmer, and philanthropist who sat on the boards of many organizations, both commercial and charitable, and was a member of over twenty clubs and societies. He and his family divided the year between the family's three homes: 645 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, High Lawn in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Westfield in Mohegan Lake, N.Y. His mother, Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, and his sister, Mary Pearsall Field, were society women who traveled throughout Europe and entertained at their homes in New York City and Mohegan Lake. Mary maintained an extensive correspondence with friends and family. Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, his wife, was a great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Like her husband, Lila was involved in a number of charitable organizations and was an accomplished sportswoman. William and Lila were the parents of four children. Their older son, William Osgood Field, became a noted glaciologist. Frederick Vanderbilt Field, their younger son, became a member of the Communist movement and the author of a number of books about Asia's economy in the 1930s. Marjorie Lila and Mary Augusta were their two daughters. Marjorie and her husband H. George Wilde took over the High Lawn estate and turned it into one of the region's top dairy farms. William's paternal uncle, Osgood Field, was a prominent member of London and Rome society in the second half of the 19th century. He conducted the family's business in London and undertook extensive research into the history of the Field family. He published his results as The Fields of Sowerby near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York in 1895.; Content: The William B. Osgood Field Papers consist of family, personal, and office correspondence; financial documents; diaries; genealogical records; school and college memorabilia; photographs; and ephemera which record his and his family's commercial, philanthropic, and social activities, chiefly between 1897 and 1934. While the bulk of the collection consists of William B. Osgood Field's papers, other family members are well represented, especially his wife, mother, sister, uncle Osgood, and daughter Marjorie. The collection is arranged so that William B. Osgood Field's papers come first, followed by the papers of other family members, in alphabetical order. Some materials are in German, French, and Italian.; Acquisition: Gift of the Descendants of William Bradhurst Osgood Field, 2003.; Content: Processing information: Processed by Megan O'Shea and Benjamin Alexander; machine readable finding aid created by FAKER.; Content: Related material: Field-Osgood family papers, 1702-1938 MMC-3718. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Finding aid to the collection is available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/field-os.html.
Physical Description: Extent: 112 linear feet (274 boxes, 1 volume, 1 map case folder)
Type of Resource: Text; Still image; Notated music
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16452072; MSS Unit ID: 6090; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2deca5d0-b61f-013b-0a1b-0242ac110004

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