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Letters Sent (18 folders), 1888-1889 March, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Content of binders 1,2,4-10. No binder 3 (part of December 1888) was found in the collection in December 2021.
Letters Sent (18 folders), 1889 March-April, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Content of binders 11-15, 17-20. No binder 16 (part of March 1889) was found in the collection in December 2021.
Letters Sent (18 folders), 1889 April-1890 December, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Content of binders 21-27.
Letters Sent (18 folders), 1890 December-1891 August, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Content of binders 28-36.
Letters Sent (6 folders), 1891 August-November, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Content of binders 37-39.
"Miscellaneous" (9 folders), circa 1889, inclusive
Scope and Contents
These folders hold the content of 3 binders labeled "miscellanous." The documents appear to be largely Bowen's working files for the Centennial events. Documents include Entertainment Committee reports, lists of invitees or possible invitees to the various events, rough notes, programs and draft event programs, and the like.
Bound volumes (11)
Scope and Contents
Holds 11 volumes with lists of invited guests to events, various lists related to the ball and the banquet, booklets of subscribers to the Centennial memorial book with list of final 1894 financial data for the Publication Committee, and appointment book with a few entries showing committee meeting dates in 1889.
Scrapbooks (3), 1888-1889, inclusive
Scope and Contents
One of the scrapbooks in this box includes documents other than clippings (e.g., legislative bill for funding the event).
Scrapbooks (4), 1889, inclusive
Scrapbooks (3), 1889, inclusive
Inventory of printing plates, 1894, inclusive
Printing plates (3), 1889, inclusive
Printing plates (38), 1889, inclusive
Printing plate (1); Bound volume (1). Oversize items, 1889, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The bound volume includes lists of committee members and related lists.
European dispatches, 1890, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Folder of transcripts received by Bowen from the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish archives that related to Washington's 1789 inauguration. The transcriptions are in the various European languages, with translations to English.
Art & Exhibition Committee minutes, 1888-1889, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Holds the minutes of the committee, some of its subcommittees, and related documents. These were donated in July 1898 by Richard W. Gilder, Secretary of the Art Committee.
Circulars, invitations, admission tickets, and related ephemera (3 folders), 1888-1889, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Holds sating seat for the St. Paul's service, committee list and members, perodic circulars reporting on planning meetings, programs, etc. The third folder holds tickets directed to Frederic Gallatin, one of the members of the organizing committee.