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Riggs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS2239
Abstract
This collection contains family photographs (including daguerreotypes and tintypes), travel photographs, books, artwork, personal accessories, draft manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. The materials date from 1672-2006, with the bulk of the collection ranging from 1870-1939. The records are related to the Riggs family, including Thomas Riggs, territorial governor of Alaska (1918-1921), and family members involved with the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. Family...
Dates:
1672-1987; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1939
Riggs Family records (Page R. Bradley donation)
Collection
Identifier: MS2336
Overview
This collection contains materials relating to the Riggs family, a prominent family in the Washington, D.C. area notable for its banking fame. The materials in this collection include business ledgers, correspondence, and personal belongings related to various members of the Riggs family. These materials date from the early 1800s to 1950. The most notable members of the Riggs family represented in this collection are: Elisha Riggs (New York merchant & Georgetown business man), George...
Dates:
1800-1950
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- Alaska 1
- Alaska -- Pictorial works 1
- Ambrotypes 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Banks and banking -- United States 1
- Banks and banking -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Cabinet photographs 1
- Card photographs (photographs) 1
- Carte-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- Cased photographs 1
- Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
- Middle East -- Pictorial works 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
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- Bradley, Page Riggs 1
- Corcoran & Riggs 1
- Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson) 1
- Peabody, Riggs & Co. 1
- Riggs & Co. of New York 1
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