Series II. Subject Files, 1892-2013, inclusive

Scope and Contents

This series pulls together varied documents that were stored in loose files and binders. They include correspondence, ephemera, some photographs, clippings, and general subject files relating to Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland activities, events, interests, projects, and outings. A small collection of artifacts--largely medals depicting Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands--rounds out the series.

Arrangement

Series II is organized in four subseries:

Subseries II.A. Meetings, luncheons, receptions, 1900-2013
Subseries II.B. Projects and general topics, 1896-2013
Subseries II.C. Talks & papers delivered before the Society & elsewhere, 1892-2013
Subseries II.D. Artifacts, circa 1898-1990s

Subseries II.A. Meetings, luncheons, receptions, 1900-2013, inclusive

DHD events, 1900-1945, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Henry Hudson 350th Anniversary Luncheon, 1959 March 21

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Anniversary Luncheons, 1960-1970, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

For photographs of the 75th Anniversary Luncheon, see box 9, folder 15.

DHD events | Dutch Consulate receptions, 2001-2004, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | St. Nicholas Reception at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2005, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Paas Heritage Ball, 2013 March 15

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices [white binder], 1910-1966, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices [white binder], 1967-1980, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1923-1949, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1950-1959, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1960-1965, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1970-1972, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1973-1979, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, 1980-1990, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD events | Invitations, meeting notices, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DHD stationery, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Non-DHD | Invitations, programs, 1966-1990, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Non-DHD | Invitations, programs, 1991-1995, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.B. Projects and general topics, 1896-2013, inclusive

Albany, New York | Schuyler Mansion clock presented by DHD, 1921, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alden family article, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Numismatic Society | DHD insignia presented to, 1909, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Battery Park | Netherlands Memorial, 2000, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Battery Park | Proposed memorial to "ancestors," with litigation, 1913-1931, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bethell, Union Noble (1859-1933) | published biography, 1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Boer Home Industries, 1906-1908, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Boston | Committee of Correspondence, facsimile of founding document, 1772, circa 1900s, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brinckerhoff Cemetery, Queens, New York, 2000, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brooklyn Museum | Dutch period room, 1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Carter Brown Library, 1998, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings | DHD, 1897-2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings | non-DHD, 1922-2011, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | photographs, Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana, 1898, 1914, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | photographs, Queen Juliana, 1952, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | photographs, Princess Beatrix (2 folders), 1959, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 6-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Queen Wilhelmina's membership certificate, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland, 1896 January 18

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Correspondence, 1898-1945, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Menu, dinner for Princess Juliana, Waldorf-Astoria, 1944 January 10

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 24-a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Commemorative book, The American Visit of the Netherlands Royal Couple, 1952 April 2-28, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 24-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Menu & seating plan, dinner, Waldorf-Astoria, 1952 April 7

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Miscellaneous, 1953-1966, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 26-a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Princess Beatrix visit, 1959, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 26-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Marriage of Princess Beatrix, press packet, 1966 March 10

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Marriage of Princess Beatrix, souvenir issue of Paris Match, no. 884, 1966 March 19

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Menu and seating list, Holland Society dinner for Prince Bernhard, The Biltmore, 1967 September 25

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | Hague Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, 1969 January 28

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch royal family | American visit, 1982, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fabend, Firth | New Netherland in a Nutshell, 2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Five Dutch Days, 2007-2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Annual celebration of Dutch arts and culture in New York City (5dutchdaysnyc.org).

Flag Day, 2011-2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flag of the United States | proper display and respect, 1935-1960, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fort Sumter flagstaff and tablet dedication program, 1931 April 11

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General Court of Patriotic Societies of America, [1938], inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Governors Island | Proposed recreation of Historic New Amsterdam, 2000-2001, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gross, Geoffrey | Early American Dutch Architecture [book project], 2002, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Grotius Memorial Window, Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, [1930s], inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Halve Maen (Half Moon) replica of Henry Hudson's ship, 1992-1993, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island, New York, 2003, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York program "Before New York There Was New Netherland", 2009, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Holland Society of New York, 1960s, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hudson, Henry, [1909], inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 44-a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Illustrations in Holland Dames Record Books, [1907-1933], inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 44-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Coeymans Castle, New York, Built before 1700
Cortelyou House, Long Island, Built 1699
De Peyster House, New York City, Built before 1695
De Sille House, Nieuw Utrecht, Built 1657
Reformed Dutch Church, Beverwyck, Built 1656
Sip House, New Jersey, Built 1666
Suydam House, Flushing, Built about 1680
Van der Heyden Palace, Albany, Built about 1700
Van Rensselaer House, Albany, Built 1666 (2 versions)
Van Vechten House, Raritan River, N.J., Built about 1699
Van Westervelt House, New Hackensack, Built about 1700
Ver Planck House, on the Hudson, Built about 1700

Kingston, New York | City Hall, restoration of plaster lunettes, 2009, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, Queens, New York, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Long Island [now Brooklyn] Historical Society, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Loockermans, Govert | Documentation of 1664 deed from Peter Stuyvesant to Loockermans, and photo of frame made from Stuyvesant pear tree wood., 1934, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Related Archival Materials

This 1664 deed (in Dutch) issued by Peter Stuyvesant, as Director General of New Netherland, to Govert Loockermans for land at Canarsie (now in Brooklyn), and its accompanying frame, made of wood from the pear tree Stuyvesant planted at what became the northeast corner of Third Avenue and East 13th Street in Manhattan, were given to the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland by Mrs. William E. (Emma Du Puy) Reed (ca. 1871-1962), a descendant of Loockermans, in 1933. The Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland transfered both to the New-York Historical Society in 2015. They are cataloged as Y-AHMC - Stuyvesant deed (oversize small). For a translation of the deed, see box 1, folder 2, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland minutes of 2 January 1934.

Hendrick I. Lott House, Brooklyn, New York, 1998-2000, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Netherlands illustrations, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Netherlands map, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents Note

Two copies (one color, one black-and-white) of an undated Rand McNally atlas page showing "Belgium, Netherlands and Western Germany."

Netherlands-American Bicentennial Commission, 1980-1982, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New Netherland (ship), 1922, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New Netherland Project, 1991-1993, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New-York Historical Society | Gift of books to, 1966, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New-York Historical Society | Stained glass window installation, 1906-1909, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New-York Historical Society | Stained glass window rededication, 2011-2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Newsletters, 2007-2013, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

NY400 | Henry Hudson 400th anniversary, 2009, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oudshorn, Holland | church windows, 1904, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pearl Street tablet | Site of the first church built on Manhattan, 1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs | Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland events, 1970-circa 2000, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes photos of the 75th Anniversary Luncheon of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland, 12 December 1970.

Photographs | Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland events, 2011, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 16-a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Roosevelt, Theodore. Letter, 1900 November 22

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 16-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, on State of New York Executive Chamber stationery, regretfully declining an invitation to speak before the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland.

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery | St. Mark stained glass window, 2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery | Peter Stuyvesant stained glass window, installation [1903], 1901-1970, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery | Peter Stuyvesant stained glass window, centennial [2003], 2001-2006, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery | Peter Stuyvesant stained glass window, rededication, 2009 September 11

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery | Peter Stuyvesant stained glass window, restoration & reception (3 folders), 2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 21-23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

South Street Seaport Museum, 1996-2002, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stuyvesant, Peter | mother, 2012, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stuyvesant, Peter | research, 1957, 2001, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stuyvesant, Peter | statue, 1937, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous material, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.C. Talks & papers delivered before the Society & elsewhere, 1892-2013, inclusive

Suggestions for Writing Papers to Be Read Before the Society [printed pamphlet], undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bedle, Althea Randolph: "The Influcence of the Holland Dames in the Capitulation of New Netherlands.", undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bedle, Althea Randolph: "Some of the Old Land Marks in Bergen and Jersey City" [a.k.a. "Old Bergen and Paulus Hook (An historical sketch)"]., 1906 November 6

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brown, Hulda H. Bergen: "Influence of the Dutch"; address at Colonial Dames Breakfast in San Francisco., 1903 December 5

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cadena, Mariana Velazquez de la: "MANA-HA-TA and the DUTCH FLAG.", undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Chenoweth, Catharine R. W.: "Paper read on April 6th, 1897, at a Meeting of Daughters of Holland Dames, being a description of medal presented by Mrs. Alexander Crawford Chenoweth.", 1897 April 6

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Chenoweth, Catharine R. W.: "The Inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina.", 1898 September

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Johnson, Ruth: "Does America Owe More to the Dutchman, or the Puritan?", undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

First Prize in Competition of High School pupils for essay on the subject specified, $15 in gold offered by the Colonial Dames. Prize awarded to Ruth Johnson. Reprinted from the High School Journal.

Kimmelman, Elbrun: "Windows on Dutch History in New York"; delivered to the Dutch Colonial Society., 2013 April 10

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poems, prayers, toasts, 1892-1974, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Missing Title

"Hendrick's Prophecy" (1892)
Beriman (?), Martha Sayre, "The Homecoming of Our Victory Fleet" (1919 December 17)
Edgar Franklin Romig, "Acrostic for the Fiftieth Anniversary, to the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames" (1945 December 10)
John P. T. Blake, "A Knickerbocker Toast" (1972-74)
"Oh Lord . . . " (n.d.)

Randall, Anna J. B.: "Early New Netherland", undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robinson, Harriet Duer: "A Paper on the Philipse Family", 1897 March 9

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weart, Clara L.: "Early Settlement of Hudson County, New Jersey.", undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

300th Anniversary Departure of Pilgrims from Holland, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[William the Silent], circa 1900, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.D. Artifacts, circa 1898-1990s, inclusive

Bracelet & medals | Queen Wilhelmina, circa 1898-1925, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

An orange silk or satin jewel box containing objects donated to the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland by Mrs. Alexander Crawford Chenoweth (first Directress General) in 1925:

Missing Title

Miniature silver bracelet (or crown?), a memento from Queen Wilhelmina's wedding, 1901.
Medal (white metal) inscribed: "Wilhelmina Koningin der Nederlanden [obverse]"; "Ter Herinnering aan de Kroning Van H. M. Koningin Wilhelmina" [reverse], circa 1898-1925.
Medal (brown metal, with pendant loop at top) inscribed: "Wilhelmina Koningen der Ned." [obverse], circa 1898-1925.
Medal (brown metal, in a lapel pin mounting) inscribed: "Wilhelmina Koningen der Nederlanden" [obverse], circa 1898-1925.

Medal | Queen Wilhelmina, 1923, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Bronze medal commemorating the silver jubilee (i.e., 25th anniversary) of the reign of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, inscribed "Wilhelmina Koningin der Nederlanden" [obverse] and "MDCCCXCVIII [1898] - MDCCCCXXIII [1923]" [reverse]. Donated by Mrs. Joseph F. Simmons, who in 1923 received this medal as the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland delegate to the jubilee.

Medal | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1920, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Bronze medal designed by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington and produced by the Medallic Art Company in 1920. Inscribed "Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association Service" [obverse] and "Theodore Roosevelt / Born October 27, 1858 / Died January 6, 1919" [reverse]. The New-York Historical Society holds another copy of this medal under INV.3562.

Ribbon samples and insignia ribbons, 1980s-1990s, undated, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Fabric samples for Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland lapel pins.