Scope and Contents
The William Adams Delano Collection contains social and professional correspondence, various papers, and assorted printed material relating to the personal life and architectural career of William Adams Delano (1874-1960). The collection spans the period 1902-1960, with the majority of the material falling between the years 1939-1959.
The social correspondnece pertains to Delano's personal relationships, including friends and family. A frequent subject of this correspondence is the various clubs to which he belonged, especially the Coffee House, the Knickerbocker Club, and the Century Association. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence with the Yale Alumni Association and Delano's classmates in the Class of 1895.
The professional correspondence deals with various projects of Delano's architectural career, including public and office buildings and private homes. Especially noteworthy is his work on the White House and West Point, and his design of LaGuardia Field. His participation and leadership in various organizations, including the National Commission on Fine Arts and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, are also covered in the correspondence section.
Nearly all printed material is enclosed with related letters, usuallly with no separated notation being made. There are several pieces, however, for which no origin is discernible; there have been filed in a separate box, likewise uncatalogued. Also in the same box is the unpublished autobiography: "The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano."
Dates
- 1902-1960
- Majority of material found within 1939 - 1960
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of William A. Delano, 1954, and Josephine B. Manning, 1960 and 1962.
Extent
6.5 Linear Feet (16 boxes, 1 folio)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record. Much of the personal correspondence concerns Delano's membership in various New York clubs and his classmates in the Yale College class of 1895. His professional correspondence relates in part to important commissions, among them his work on the White House, West Point, and his design for La Guardia airport in New York. His participation in the work of the National Commission on Fine Arts and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is also documented. Prominent correspondents include Dean Acheson, Frederick L. Allen, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Hiram Bingham, Charles C. Burlingham, George Parmly Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Grew, M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Walter Lippmann, Allan Nevins, Arthur Upham Pope, Elihu Root, Jr., Henry Lewis Stimson, Charles Warren, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Biographical / Historical
William Adams Delano was born in New York City on January 21, 1874. His father, Eugene Delano, was a partner in the banking firm Brown Brothers & Company; his mother, the former Susan Magoun Adams, was the daughter of the Reverend Mr. William Adams. In 1887, William Adams Delano entered the Lawrenceville School, from which he graduated in 1891. In the fall of that year he enrolled in Yale College, obtaining his A.B. In 1895. After graduation from Yale, Delano spent two years in the Columbia University School of Architecture and two years as a draftsman in the architectural office of Hastings Carrère. He then went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, from which he received a diploma in 1902. In 1901 Delano had been awarded the Jean Leclaire Prize, an honor bestowed by the Institut de France upon the member of the First Class who receives the greatest number of values. This had been a particularly meaningful award to Delano, since this was the first time the prize had been given to other than a Frenchman. After over five years in Paris he returned to New York where, in 1903, he and Chester H. Aldrich founded the firm of Delano and Aldrich. Until 1910, Delano also served as a professor of design at Columbia University's School of Architecture.
In 1924, Delano was appointed for a four year term to the National Commission of Fine Arts by President Coolidge. In 1927 Secretary Mellon appointed him a member of the Board of Architectural Consultants of the United States Treasury Department, a position Delano held for six years. In 1929, by president Hoover's request, Delano became the architectural representative on the National Park and Planning Commission, being re-appointed by succeeding Presidents and serving in his capacity until 1946 when he resigned.
In 1908, Delano was awarded the degree of B.F.A., and in 1939 he received an honorary M.A. -- both from Yale. He became, in 1930, a corresponding member of the Academic des Beaux Arts Institut de France, having served as President of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects from 1927 to 1929; also in 1930, Delano became an officer in the Legion d'Honneur. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and from 1928 to 1930 he served as president of the New York Chapter; in 1953 Delano received the Institute's Gold Medal for excellence in Architecture. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, he had received their Gold Medal for architecture in 1940. Delano also belonged to the Architectural League of New York, the National Academy of Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a trustee of the New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and the New York Public Library; he was vice president of the Grenfell Association of America and the New York Hotocultural Society. He was a member of the Century Association, the Coffee House, India House, The Brook, and the Yale University Knickerbocker, and Piping Rock Clubs in New York; he was also a member of the Metropolitan Club in Washington and the Graduates Club in New Haven.
During his architectural career, Delano designed many buildings of note. Among them at Yale were Wright Hall, Sterling Chemical Laboratory, and the Divinity School. His buildings at Washington include the Japanese Embassy, the Post Office Building and Circular Plaza. In New York City, Delano designed the University Club and the Brook, and LaGuardia and Idlewild Airports. A commission which had given Delano particular professional satisfaction was the American Embassy on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. At West Point Delano succeeded in winning the contract for the enlargement of the United States Military Academy. However, Delano is probably best known for his work on the renovation of the White House, including the balcony addition he designed.
A member of that stylistic persuasion in architecture called the "Beaux Arts School," Delano's designs are today often unfavorably criticized and largely ignored. However, in his time, many thought very highly of his architectural artistry. President Truman, for one, expressed his admiration in this note he sent Delano: "On all sides we find noble works whose artistic merits reflect the fine taste and judgment which you have exercised."
William Delano died on January 12, 1960 in New York City at the age of 85.
CHRONOLOGICAL NOTE
1874 Born, New York City, on January 21
1887-1891 Lawrenceville School
1895 A.B. From Yale
1902 Diploma from Ecole des Beaux-Arts
1903-1910 Professor of Design at Columbia
1903 Firm of Delano and Aldrich established
1905 Trustee, New York Orthapaedic Dispensary and Hospital
1907 Married, to Louisa Millicent Potter (Sheffield), May 23
1908 B.F.A. From Yale
1909 Born, a son, William Richard Potter Delano, on July 31
1924-1928 Member, National Commission of Fine Arts
1927-1933 Member, Board of Architectural Consultants, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.
1929-1946 Member, National Park and Planning Commission
1930 Corresponding member, Academie des Beaux-Arts, L'Institut de France
1933 Operation on neck
1937-1943 Designed LaGuardia Airport
1939 Hon. M.A. From Yale
1939 Member, Board of Design for World's Fair
1940 Awarded Gold Medal of National Institute of Arts and Letters
1945 Won competition for enlarging West Point facilities
1948 Added balcony to White House
1949 Appointed Architectural Consultant to the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion
1950 Retired from active partnership in Delano & Aldrich (January 1)
1953 Received Gold Medal of American Institute of Architects
1960 Died, January 12; memorial service held on February 1 at the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City.
For a listing of selected correspondents with William Adams Delano, and a chart outlining the genealogical relations of the Delano family, please consult the Correspondents Index and Genealogical Chart.
Other Finding Aids
For a listing of selected correspondents with William Adams Delano, and a chart outlining the genealogical relations of the Delano family, please consult the Correspondents Index and Genealogical Chart.
Select List of Correspondents
- Acheson, Dean Gooderham, 1893-1971
- Acheson, Patrick, 1915-
- Adams, Frederick Baldwin, Jr., 1910-
- Adams, James Donald, 1891
- Adams, James T., 1878-1949
- Adams, Lewis Greenleaf, 1897-
- Adams, William
- Adee, George Townsend, 1874-1948
- Alaux, Jean Paul
- Albright, Horace Marden, 1890-
- Aldrich, Amey
- Aldrich, Harriet (Alexander)
- Aldrich, William T., 1880-
- Aldrich, Withrop, 1885-
- Allen, Frederick, Lewis, 1890-1954
- Alsop, Corinne (Robinson)
- Alsop, Stewart Johonnot Oliver, 1913-
- Altschul, Frank, 1887-
- Anastasy, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church, Outside of Russia
- Andrews, John Williams, 1898-
- Angell, James Rowland, 1869-
- Arents, George, 1875-
- Armour, Norman, 1887-
- Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1954
- Armstrong, Hamilton, Fish, 1893-
- Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-
- Astor, Nancy Whicher (Langhorne) Viscountess, 1879-
- Atterbury, Grosvenor, 1869-1956
- Auchincloss, Charles Crooke, 1881-
- Auchincloss, Janet (house)
- Babb, James Tinkham, 1899-
- Bach, Richard, F., 1887-
- Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954
- Bacon, Virginia (Murray)
- Baker, Sir Herbert, 1862-1946
- Baker, Lady
- Baker, John Hopkinson, 1894-
- Baldwin, Henry DeForest, 1862-1947
- Baldwin, Joseph Clark, 1897-1957
- Balfour, Gertrude (Norman)
- Barlow, Samuel, L.M., 1892-
- Beal, Gifford, Reynolds, 1879-1956
- Beals, Ralph Albert, 1899-
- Bechtel, Edwin Deturck, 1880-
- Bédard, Pierre, 1895-
- Beebe, William, 1877-
- Bell, Ulric, 1891-
- Belmont, Eleanor Robson, no date
- Benet, Rosemary (Carr), 1900
- Benét, William Rose, 1886-
- Bennett, Edward H., 1874-1954
- Bernstein, Henri, 1876
- Bertelli, Riccardo, no date
- Binger, Walter D., 1888
- Bingham, Clarissa, 1931-
- Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956
- Birnhaum, Martin, 1878-
- Blaine, James Gillespie, 1888
- Blake, Theodore Evernghim, 1869-
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-
- Bohlen, Charles Eustis, 1904-
- Bolton, Theodore, 1889-
- Bonnet, Henri, no date
- Bori, Luerezia, 1887-
- Bosworth, Welles, 1869
- Boutet de Monvel, Bernard
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897
- Bowman, William McKnight
- Brand, Lord Robert, 1910-
- Breasted, Charles, 1897-
- Brewster, Robert D.
- Brock, Henry Irving, 1876
- Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956
- Bronson, Francis Woolsey, 1901-
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
- Brown, Alexander Crosby, 1905-
- Brown, Arthur, Jr., 1874-1957
- Brown, Caro (Noyes)
- Brown, Daniel N., 1900
- Brown, Mary
- Brown, Moreau Delano, 1905
- Brown, Thatcher Magoun, 1876-1954
- Brown, William Adams, 1865-1943
- Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1904
- Bruce, David K.E., 1898
- Bruce, James, 1892
- Bruére, Henry, 1882-
- Bulfinch, Francis Vaughan, 1879
- Bull, Harry, 1904-
- Bull, Ludlow, 1886-
- Bullitt, William Christian, 1891-
- Bullitt, William Marshall, 1873-1957
- Burdon-Muller, Rowland, no date
- Burlingame, William Roger, 1889-
- Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-
- Burton, Harold Hitz, 1888-
- Bush, Dr. Vannevar, 1890-
- Butler, Arthur Stanley George, 1888-
- Butler, Charles, 1870-
- Butler, Senator Hugh Alfred, 1878
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
- Butterworth, Frank Seiler, 1870-1950
- Cadogan, Sir Alexander George Montagu, 1884-
- Cadogan, Lady Theodosia (Gosford)
- Caemmerer, Hans Paul, 1884-
- Calder, A. Sterling, 1870-1945
- Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
- Canfield, Cass, 1897-
- Carle, Robert W., 1897-
- Carter, Bernard Shirley, 1893-
- Carter, Leslie Hope (Thatcher)
- Cervin, Olof Z.
- Chadbourne, Marjorie (Curtis)
- Chadbourne, William Merriam, 1879-
- Chandler, H. Daland, 1883-
- Chanler, William Clift, 1887
- Chapin, Cornelia Van A, no date
- Chapman, Oscar Littleton, 1896
- Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-
- Chatelain, Leon, Jr., 1902-
- Cheney, Ward, 1899-1963
- Clark, Cameron, 1887-
- Clark, Eliot Candee, 1883-
- Clark, Lady Jane Perry, 1898-
- Clark, Sir Kenneth K.C.B., 1903-
- Clarke, Gilmore David, 1892-
- Clay, Sir Henry, 1883-1954
- Cleland, Thomas Maitland, 1880-
- Colby, Charles, William, 1867-
- Coletax, Lady Sibyl
- Collet, Sir Mark, 1864-1944
- Comstock, Leonard Atwood, 1871-1954
- Connelly, Matthew J., 1907-
- Cooper, Charles Proctor, 1884-
- Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954
- Cornell, Katherine, 1898-
- Coudert, Frederic R., Jr., 1898-1955
- Coverdale, William Hugh, 1871-
- Covery, Arthur, 1877-1960
- Coward, Thomas Ridgway, 1896-
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-
- Crampton, Henry E., 1875-1956
- Crane, Percy Waldron, 1873-1964
- Cret, Paul Phillippe, 1876-1945
- Crisp, Arthur, 1881-
- Cromwell, Lincoln, 1865-
- Cross, Katherine Hoyte (Mather)
- Cross, John Walter, 1878-1951
- Cross, Wilbur Lucius, 1862
- Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947
- Curie, Eve, 1904-
- Curran, Henry Hastings, 1877-
- Curtis, James Freeman, 1878-
- Damrosch, Walter Johannes, 1862-1952
- Darrach, William, 1876-1948
- Davidson, Florence Gertrude (Lucius)
- Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952
- Davis, Clifford, 1897-
- Davis, Elmer Holmes, 1890-
- Davis, John William, 1873-1955
- Davis, Norman H., 1878-
- Davison, Anne (Stillman), 1871-
- Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959
- Debevoise, Thomas M., 1874-1956
- Delano, Aldrich, no date
- Delano, Frederick Adrian, 1863-1953
- Delano, Preston, 1886-
- Delano, Richard Potter, no date
- Delano, Mrs. William Richard Potter
- Delavin, David Bryson, 1850-
- Demaray, Arthir, 1887-
- Dennison, Ethan Allen, 1881-
- Derby, Harry Leigh, 1882-
- Derby, Ethel Carow (Roosevelt)
- Derby, Richard, 1881-
- Dewey, Charles Schuveldt, 1880-
- Dillon, Clarence, 1882-
- Dillon, Mary Elizabeth, 1885-
- Dodd, Frank Courtway, 1875-
- Dodge, Marshall, no date
- Donaldson, Norman Vaux, 1891-
- Dougherty, Paul, 1877-
- Dougherty, Richard Erwin, 1880-
- Douglas, Archibald, Jr., 1904-
- Downey, Glanville, 1908-
- Draper, Ruth, 1884-
- Duggan, Stephen Pierce Hayden, 1870-1950
- duMond, Francis Vincent, no date
- Dunn, James Clement, 1890-
- Dunn, Gano, 1870-1953
- duPont, Henry Francis, 1880-
- Easby, Dudley Tate, Jr., 1905-
- Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 1890-
- Edgell, George Harold, 1887-
- Edgerton, Gen. Glen Edgar, 1887-
- Edison, Charles, 1890-
- Eggers, Otto R., 1882-
- Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1890-
- Ellett, Thomas Harlan, 1880-
- Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney, 1887-
- Ely, Gertrude, no date
- Embury, Aumar II, 1880-
- Emerson, William, 1873-1957
- Emery, John Josiah, 1898-
- Erakine, John, 1899-1951
- Everitt, Samuel Alexander, 1871-1953
- Farish, William Stamps, 1881-1942
- Farnam, Thomas Wells, 1877-1943
- Farrand, Beatrix (Jones) 1872-
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
- Farrar, John, 1896-
- Faulkner, Barry, 1881-
- Ferriss, Hugh, 1889-
- Finch, Edward Kidley, 1873-
- Finletter, Gretchen (Damrosch), no date
- Finletter, Thomas Knight, 1893-
- Finley, David Edward, 1890-
- Fisher, Frank Cyril, 1893-
- Flagg, Ernest, 1857-
- Flanagan, John Patrick, 1874
- Forbes, William Cameron, 1870-
- Forrestal, James 1892-1949
- Fosdick, Raymond Blaine, 1883-
- Fox, John Pierce, 1872-
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-
- Franklin, Lindley Murray, 1874-
- Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953
- Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-
- Fuller, Paul, Jr., 1878-1947
- Gade, John Allyne, 1875-
- Garfield, Abram, 1872-
- Garfield, Helen Grannis (Matthews)
- Gavin, Michael, 1873-1960
- Geer, William Drennan, 1905-
- Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944
- Gibson, Harvey D., 1882-1950
- Gibson, Hugh, 1883-
- Gifford, Walter Sherman, 1885-
- Gosford, Mildred Acheson (Carter) Countess of
- Gotlieb, Albert, no date
- Grant, Gordon, 1875-
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson 3rd., 1881-
- Granville-Barker, Helen, _-1950
- Gray, David, 1870-1941
- Greene, Belle d’Acosta
- Greene, Theodore Ainsworth, 1890-
- Greenley, Howard, 1874-
- Greenough, William, 1874-
- Greenway, George Lauder, 1904-
- Grenfell, Sir Wilfred T., 1865-1940
- Grew, Joseph Clark, 1880-
- Grimm, Peter, 1886-
- Grimson, Malvina (Hoffman), 1887-
- Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter, 1872-
- Griswold, Alfred Whitney, 1906-1963
- Griswold, William Edward Schenck, 1877-
- Grossman, Max R., 1904-
- Gruppe, Karl Heinrich, 1893-
- Guardabassi, Count Francesco, no date
- Gugler, Eric, no date In Who’s Who
- Gunther, Franklin Matt, 1885-
- Hadley, Hamilton, 1896-
- Hadley, Morris, 1894-
- Haggard, Howard Wilcox, 1891-
- Hamer, Philip May, 1891-
- Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner, 1889-
- Hammond, Charles Herrick, 1892-
- Hammond, Paul Lyman, 1882-
- Hancock, Walker Kirtland, 1901-
- Hand, Learned, 1872-
- Harbeson, John Frederick, 1888-
- Harkness, Albert, 1886-
- Harkness, William Hale, 1900-
- Harriman, Florence Jaffray (Hurst), 1870-
- Harris, Murray George, 1886-
- Harrison, George Leslie, 1887-
- Harrison, Wallace Kirkman, 1895-
- Haseltine, Herbert, 1877-
- Hassett, William D., 1880-
- Hay, Clarence Leonard, 1884-
- Heely, Alan Vanderhoef, 1897-
- Heiser, Victor George, 1873-
- Hellman, Geoffrey Theodore, 1907-
- Hemingway, Samuel Burdett, 1883-
- Henry, Barklie, McKee, 1902-
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-
- Hewitt, Edward Shepard, 1877-
- Higgins, Daniel Paul, 1886-
- Hill, Patrick Champain, 1903-
- Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-
- Hodges, Gilbert Tennent, 1872-
- Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-
- Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890-
- Holt, Henry Chandler, 1881-1955
- Homsey, Samuel E., 1904-
- Hooker, James Fisk, 1873-1953
- Hoover, Herbert 31st U.S. President., 1874-
- Hope, Walter Ewing, 1879-
- Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 1877-
- Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-
- Hopper, Franklin Ferguson, 1878-
- Houghteling, Laura (delano)
- Howard, Cecil de Blaquiere, 1888-
- Howard, Ernest Emmanuel, 1880-
- Howe, George, 1876-
- Howe, Mark Anthony DeWolfe, 1864-
- Howells, John Mead, 1868-
- Hoyt, Charles Wilson, 1872-
- Hubbard, Henry Vincent, 1875-1947
- Hupper, Roscoe Henderson, 1883-
- Husted, Ellery Spaulding, 1901-
- Hutchins, Robert Senger, 1907-
- Hyde, Charles Cheney, 1873-
- Hyde, James Hazen, 1876-
- Ide, John Fay, 1892-
- Ingham, Charles T., no date
- Iselin, Ernest, 1876-1954
- James, Dorothea Blagden (Draper)
- James, Henry, 1879-1947
- Jaulmes, G.L., no date
- Jay, Nelson Dean, 1883-
- Jay, Louisa Shaw (Barlow)
- Jellicoe, Geoffrey Allen, 1900-
- Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890-
- Johnson, William Templeton, 1877-1957
- Jones, Bassett, 1877-
- Josephs, Devereux Cott, 1893-
- Keally, Francis, no date In Who’s Who
- Kebbon, Eric, 1890-
- Kemp, Arthur Tryon, 1871-1945
- Kemper, Edward Crawford, 1886-
- Kennedy, Foster, 1884-
- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, U.S. President, 1917-1963
- Keppel, David, 1877-
- Kieffer, Paul, 1881-
- Kilham, Walter H., Jr., 1904-
- Kimball, Richard Arthur, 1899-
- King, Frederic Rhinelander, 1887-
- Kirk, Alexander Constock, 1888-
- Knowlton, Hugh, 1893-
- Knox, Sir Geoffrey George, 1884-
- Kohn, Robert David, 1870-
- Kountze, de Lancey, 1878-1946
- Koyl, George Simpson, 1885-
- Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-
- Labatut, Jean, 1899-
- La Beaume, Louis, 1873-
- LaFarge, John, 1880-
- LaGuardia, Fiorello Henry, 1882-1947
- Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-
- Laloux, Camille
- Laloux, Victor
- Lamb, William Frederick, 1883-
- Lamont, Thomas W., 1870-1948
- Lawrie, Lee, 1877-
- Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-
- Ledoux, Louis Vernon, 1880-
- LeFevre, Jay, 1893-
- Leffingwell, Russell Cornell, 1878-
- Lehman, Herbert Henry, 1878-1963
- Lehman, Robert, 1892-
- Lescaze, William, 1896-
- Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, 1895-
- Licht, George Augustus, 1878-
- Lindbergh, Anne Spencer (Morrow)
- Lindbergh, Harrie Thomas, 1880-
- Lindsay, Lady Elizabeth (Hoty), 1885-1954
- Lindsay, Sir Ronald, 1877-
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-
- Litell, Robert, 1896-
- Lobenstine, Edwin Carlyle, 1872-
- Lober, George John, no date
- Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-
- Lockwood, Luke Vincent, no date
- Longcope, Warfield Theobald, 1877-
- Lord, George DeForest, 1891-
- Lothian, Lord Philip Henry Kerr, 1882-1940
- Lovett, Robert Abercrombie, 1895-
- Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-
- Lucioni, Luigi, 1900-
- Luneau, Henry Heinz, 1910-
- Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-
- MacAlister, Ian Sir, 1878-
- McAneny, George, 1869-1953
- McBride, Henry, 1867-
- McCarton, Edward, 1878-1947
- McCoy, Frank Rose, 1874-1953
- McGoldrick, Joseph Daniel, 1901-
- McKee, Lanier, 1872-1943
- McKelvey, Susan (Delano)
- MacKenzie, James Cameron, 1887-
- McKinney, Laurence, 1891-
- McLaughlin, Robert William, 1900-
- MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-
- McMillan, William, 1905-
- MacNeil, Herman Atkins, 1866-
- Maginnis, Charles Donagh, 1867-1955
- Mallory, Walter Hampton, 1892-
- Manning, William Thomas, 1866-
- Manship, Paul, 1885-
- Markel, Lester, 1894-
- Marshall, Charles Henry, 1891-1952
- Martin, George Whitney, 1887-
- Martin, Walton, 1969-
- Maunoury, Jean, no date
- Meeks, Everett Victor, 1879-
- Meiere, M. Hildreth, no date In Who’s Who
- Mellon, Elearnor Mary, 1894-
- Mellon, Paul, 1907-
- Melville, Ward, 1887-
- Menconi, Ralph Joseph, 1915-
- Meyer, Eugenes, 1875-
- Milles, Carl Wilhelm Emil, 1875-
- Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-
- Moffat, John, (1891?)
- Moore, Charles, 1855-1942
- Moore, John Crosby Brown, 1897-
- Moore, Marianne Craig, 1887-
- Moratinos, Almiro, P.
- Morcell, Admiral Ben, 1892-
- Morgan, Emma (Leavitt)
- Morgan, John Hill, 1870-1945
- Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-
- Morris, Benjamin Wistar III, 1870-1944
- Morris, Charles Gould, 1871-
- Morris, Newbold, 1902-
- Morris, Ray, 1878-
- Morrow, Elizabeth Reeve (Cutter)
- Moses, Robert, 1888
- Mosler, Orval McKinley, 1897-
- Murphy, Fred Towsley, 1872-1948
- Nettleton, George Henry, 1874-1959
- Nevins, Allan, 1890-
- Nichols, Hobart, Jr., 1869-
- Nichols, Jesse Clyde, 1880-
- Nichols, William Ichabod, 1905-
- Nicholson, Harold George, 1886-
- Nieburh, Reinhold, 1892-
- Nock, Arthur Darby, 1902-
- Norman, Lina Susan Penelope (Collet)
- Norman, Lord Montagu Collet, 1871-1950
- Norman, Lady Priscilla, (Reyntiens)
- Norman, Thomas Paul, 1893-
- O’Connor, Basil, 1892-
- Olds, Irving Sands, 1887-
- Oliphant, Richard Henry
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-
- Orr, Douglas William, 1892-
- Osborn, Alexander Perry, 1884-
- Osborn, Fairfield, 1887-
- Osborn, William Church, 1862-1951
- Osgood, Alfred Townsend
- Page, Arthur Wilson, 1883-
- Palmer, Walter Walker, 1882-
- Paris, W. Francklyn, 1871-
- Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-
- Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-
- Parsons, William Edward, 1872-1939
- Partridge, William, 1866-
- Patchin, Robert Halsey, 1881
- Patterson, Robert, 1891-
- Peabody, Roger, no date
- Perkins, Maxwell Evarts, 1884-1947
- Perry, Lewis, 1877-
- Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943
- Phelps, Ziba Bennett, 1870-1961
- Phillips, John Marshall, 1905-1953
- Phipps, Paul, 1880-
- Pier, Arthur Stanwood, 1874-
- Pinchot, Cornelia (Bryce), 1881-
- Polk, Frank Lyon, 1871-1943
- Poole, Ernest, 1880-1950
- Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-
- Praeger, Emil Hugh, 1892-
- Price, Walter Winston, 1866-1943
- Proffitt, Charles G., 1896-
- Purves, Edmond Randolph, 1897-
- Putnam, Brenda, 1890-
- Putnam, Herbert, 1861-
- Ravendale, Lady, no date
- Rayburn, Samuel, 1882-
- Redmond, Roland, Livingston, 1892-
- Reid, Helen (Rogers), 1882-
- Reynal, Eugene, 1902-
- Reynolds, James, 1891-
- Reynolds, W. Englebert, 1887-
- Rich, Lorimer, 1891-
- Roberts, George, 1884-
- Robins, Thomas, 1868-
- Roche, Edward P. Archbishop R.C., 1874-
- Rockefeller, David, 1915-
- Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr., 1874-
- Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 1908-
- Rogers, Francis Day, 1912-
- Rogers, Hugo Edward, 1899-
- Rogers, James Gamble, 1867-1947
- Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-
- Roosevelt, Archibald B., 1894-
- Roosevelt, Eleanor B., no date
- Roosevelt, Eleanor (Roosevelt), 1884-1962
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
- Roosevelt, Grace (Lockwood), no date
- Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1893-
- Root, Elihu, Jr., 1881-
- Rosenauer, Michael, no date
- Roudebush, Francis Wilshire, 1899-
- Rousseau, Theodore Duncan, Jr., 1912-
- Saint-Quentin, Count Rene de, 1883-
- Salvatore, Victor, 1884-
- Sanchez, Elia Santiago, no date
- Santacillia, Carlos Obregon, 1896-
- Savage, Eugene Francis, 1883-
- Sawyer, Charles Henry, 1906-
- Saylor, Henry Hodgman, 1880-
- Schieffelin, William Jay, 1866-
- Scoville, William Herbert, 1873-1943
- Seversky de, Alexander P., 1894-
- Seymour, Charles, 1885-
- Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950
- Sheean, Vincent, 1899-
- Shepard, Donald D’Arcy, 1894-
- Shepardson, Whitney Hart, 1890-
- Sheply, Henry Richardson, 1887-
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896-
- Shirer, William Lawrence, 1904-
- Shreve, Richmond Harold, 1877-
- Simon, Louis A., no date
- Simons, Albert, 1890-
- Sinkler, John P.B., 1874-
- Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 1892-
- Siser, Theordore, 1892-
- Skidmore, Louis, 1897-
- Sloane, John, 1883-
- Smith, Howard Caswell, 1871-
- Smith, Livingston, 1879-
- Snow, Carmel (White), 1890-
- Somervell, Gen. Brehon Burke, 1892-1955
- Sparks, Sir Thomas Ashley, 1877-
- Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-
- Sprague, John Russell, 1886-
- Stanton, A. Glenn, 1895-
- Stauffer, John Keim, 1874-1952
- Steinway, Theodore, E., 1883-
- Stetson, Eugene W. Jr., 1911-
- Stewart, Walter W., 1885-
- Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950
- Stimson, Mabel Wellington (White), no date
- Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-
- Stone, Shepard, 1908-
- Stookey, Dr. Byron (Polk), 1887-
- Straight, Willard
- Strong, Austin, 1881-
- Strong, Benjamin, 1896-
- Sturgis, Richard Clipson, 1860-
- Sulzberger, Iphigene B., (Ochs), no date
- Summerlin, George T., 1872-
- Sunderland, Edwin Sherwood Stowell, 1887-
- Swan, Joseph Rockwell, 1878-
- Swartwout, Egerton, 1870-1943
- Swingle, William S., 1891-
- Tatlor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
- Taylor, Henry C., 1894-
- Teaque, Walter Dorwin, 1883-
- Thatcher, Thomas D. Jr., 1881-1950
- Thorndike, Lynn, 1882-
- Thorpe, Malcolm Rutherford, 1891-1958
- Tighe, Laurence Gotzain, 1894-1934
- Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963
- Tobin, Richard Montgomery, 1866-1952
- Townsend, Reginald Townsend, 1890-
- Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945
- Tree, Nancy Perkins (Field), no date
- Tree, Ronald Field, no date
- Trowbridge, Alexander Buel, 1868-
- Treux, Van Day, 1904-
- Truman, Bess (Wallace) no date In Who’s Who
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-
- Tuck, Sommerville Pinkney, 1891-
- Tuck, William Hallam, 1890-
- Tuttle, Emerson, 1890-1946
- Tuttle, Roger Walker, 1875-1947
- Tvedo, Mogens, no date
- Tweed, Harrison, 1885-
- Tyler, Victor Morris, 1875-
- Vail, Robert William Glenroie, 1890-
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1898-
- Vanderbilt, Gloria, no date
- Van der Gracht, Ides, no date
- Van der Woude, Reinier Gerrit Anton, 1885-
- Villa, Alfonso P., no date
- Voochess, Stephen Francis, 1878-
- Wadsworth, Augustus Baldwin, Jr., 1872-
- Wadsworth, Eliot, 1876-
- Wadsworth, Eugene Delano, no date
- Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1877-
- Wadsworth, Lina (Delano)
- Wagner, Robert Ferdinand, 1910-
- Walcott, Frederick Collin, 1869-1949
- Walker, Ralph Thomas, 1889-
- Walker, George Platt, 1889-
- Wardwell, Allen, 1873-1953
- Warren, Charles, 1868-
- Warren, Whitney, 1887-1943
- Wasson, Robert Gordon, 1898-
- Watson, Gen. Edwin M., 1883-1945
- Watson, Thomas J., Jr., 1914-
- Waugh, Sidney, 1904-
- Weeks, Edward Augustus, 1898-
- Weinman, Adolph Alexander, 1870-
- Welch, Congressman Richard Joseph, 1869-1949
- Weld, Francis Minot, 1875-
- Welldon, Samuel Alfred, 1882-
- Wellesley, Gerald, 1885-
- Whalen, Grover Aloysius, 1886-
- Wheeler, Monroe, 1900-
- Whipple, Allen Oldfather, 1881-
- White, Lawrence Grant, 1887-1956
- Whitehouse, Sheldon, 1883-1965
- Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1899-
- Whitney, Eleanor (Searle), 1899-
- Whitney, George, 1874-1960
- Wickes, Forsyth, 1876-1964
- Wilby, Gen. Francis Bowditch, 1883-
- Wilder, Isabel, no date
- Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897-
- Wilgus, William John, 1865-
- Williams, Edgar I., 1884-
- Williams, Roger, 1879-
- Williams, Wheeler, 1897-
- Wilmerdeng, Mrs. Lucius, 1906-
- Winthrop, Bronson, 1863-1944
- Wittouck, Jean, no date
- Wittouck, Margot, no date
- Wolfe, Paul Austin, 1898-
- Woodbridge, Frederick James, 1900-
- Woods, George R., no date
- Woodward, Stanley, 1895-
- Woodward, William, 1876
- Woolsey, John Munro, 1877-1945
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1869-
- Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-
- Wurster, William Wilson, 1895-
- Wyeth, Nathan C., no date In Who’s Who
- Yebes, (Count) Edwardo, 1900-
- Yellin, Samuel, 1885-
- Young, Mahonri Mackintosh, 1877-1957
- Young, Stark, 1881-
- Zantzinger, Clarence Clark, 1872-1954
- Zeeland, Paul van, 1893-
- Zogbaum, Harry St. Clair, no date
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971
- Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001
- Adee, George Townsend, 1874-1948
- Aldrich, Amey
- Aldrich, Winthrop W. (Winthrop Williams), 1885-1974
- Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954
- Architects
- Architecture
- Armour, Norman, 1887-1982
- Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 1893-1973
- Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-1984
- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964
- Atterbury, Grosvenor, 1869-1956
- Autobiographies (documents)
- Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954
- Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946
- Beal, Gifford Reynolds, 1879-1956
- Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957
- Bedard, Pierre, 1895-1970
- Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879-1979
- Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
- Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956
- Birnbaum, Martin, 1878-1970
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
- Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966
- Boutet de Monvel, Bernard, 1881-1949
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897-1973
- Breasted, Charles, 1897-1980
- Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
- Brown, Arthur, 1874-1957
- Brown, Moreau Delano, 1905-
- Bruce, David K. E., 1898-1977
- Bruère, Henry
- Burlingham, Charles C. (Charles Culp), 1858-1959
- Butterworth, Frank Seiler, 1870-1950
- Cadogan, Alexander, Sir, 1884-1968
- Carter, Bernard Shirley, 1893-1961
- Chadbourne, William Merriam, 1879-1964
- Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982
- Clay, Henry, 1883-1954
- Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964
- Colby, Charles W. (Charles William), 1867-1955
- Colefax, Sibyl Halsey, 1924-1940
- Collet, Mark, Sir, 1864-1944
- Coward, Thomas Ridgway, 1896-1957
- Crane, Percy Waldron, 1873-1964
- Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945
- Crisp, Arthur, 1881-1974
- Cross, John Walter, 1878-1951
- Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948
- Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947
- Darrach, William, 1876-
- Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
- Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959
- Debevoise, Thomas, 1874-1958
- Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953
- Delano, Preston, 1886-1961
- Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960
- Demaray, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward), 1887-1958
- Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956
- Eberstadt, Ferdinand
- Edgerton, Glen E. (Glen Edgar), 1887-1976
- Edison, Charles A., 1890-1969
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
- Emerson, William, 1873-1957
- Everitt, Samuel Alexander, 1871-1953
- Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959
- Finch, Edward R. (Edward Ridley), 1873-1965
- Finley, David E. (David Edward)
- Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959
- Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944
- Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968
- Greenley, Howard, 1874-1963
- Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965
- Gugler, Eric, d. 1974
- Hadley, Morris, 1894-
- Haseltine, Herbert, 1877-1962
- Heely, Alan Vanderhoef, 1897-
- Hellman, Geoffrey T. (Geoffrey Theodore), 1907-1977
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966
- Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966
- Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962
- Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
- Hyde, James H. (James Hazen), 1876-1959
- Keally, Francis, 1889-1978
- Kieffer, Paul, 1881-1969
- King, Frederic Rhinelander, 1887-
- La Beaume, Louis, 1873-1961
- La Guardia Airport (New York, N. Y.)
- Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell), 1878-1960
- Lescaze, William, 1896-1969
- Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979
- Lindeberg, H. T. (Harrie Thomas), 1879-1959
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974
- MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966
- McKelvey, Susan Delano, 1883-1964
- Meeks, Everett V. (Everett Victor), 1879-1954
- Mellon, Paul
- Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975
- Moore, John Crosby Brown, 1897-
- Morris, Newbold, 1902-1966
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981
- Mosier, Orval McKinley, 1897-1967
- Nettleton, George Henry, 1874-1959
- Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
- New York (State)
- Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962
- Nichols, Jesse Clyde
- Norman, Montagu, 1871-1950
- Norman, Priscilla
- Norman, Ronald, 1873-
- Orr, Douglas W. (Douglas William), 1892-1966
- Osborn, Fairfield, 1887-1969
- Osborn, Wm. Church (William Church), 1862-1951
- Osgood, Alfred Townsend, 1872-1959
- Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-1956
- Perry, Lewis, 1877-1970
- Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1969
- Proffitt, Charles G.
- Roberts, George, 1884-1968
- Robins, Thomas, 1868-1957
- Rogers, James Gamble, 1867-1947
- Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Root, Elihu, 1881-1967
- Seymour, Charles, 1885-1963
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Shepley, Henry Richardson, 1887-1962
- Simon, Louis A. (Louis Adolphe), -1958
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969
- Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967
- Skidmore, Louis, 1897-1962
- Sloane, John, 1883-1971
- Somervell, Brehon Burke, 1892-1955
- Stanton, A. Glenn, 1895-1969
- Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
- Stimson, Mabel White, 1866-1955
- Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958
- Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928
- Sunderland, Edwin Sherwood Stowell, 1887-
- Swan, Joseph Rockwell, 1878-1965
- Tobin, Richard Montgomery, 1866-
- Townsend, Reginald Townsend, 1890-
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
- Tuck, William H. (William Hallam), 1890-1966
- Tvedo, Mogens
- United States Military Academy
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1898-1974
- Walker, Ralph, 1889-1973
- Wardwell, Allen
- Warren, Charles, 1868-1954
- White, Lawrence Grant
- Winthrop, Bronson, 1863-1944
- Woodward, Stanley, 1895-
- World War, 1939-1945
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
- Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1895
- Yale University -- Officals and employees
- Yale University -- Students
- Zantzinger, Clarence Clark, 1872-1954
- Title
- Guide to the William Adams Delano Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives
- Date
- March 1983
- Description rules
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- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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