The Winterthur Archives

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Alfred Craven Harrison

Title: Papers

Dates: 1938-1973

Call No.: Arc. 1

Quantity: 2 boxes

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Alfred Craven Harrison was an attorney in New York. He attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. and graduated from Harvard in 1936. In 1938, Harrison married Pauline Louise du Pont. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United Stated Navy during World War II. Harrison was a trustee of Winterthur Museum from 1949 to 1973 and served as its vice president from 1951 to 1973.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of correspondence, corporate records, and social records that reflect Alfred Harrison’s personal activities and involvement with the Winterthur Corporation, legal and financial matters involving the estates of Ruth Wales du Pont and Henry Francis du Pont, and the rental matters concerning a New York Park Avenue apartment. The collection also contains a hotel bill from Claridge’s, a London establishment where Harrison stayed in 1962, a letter from Elise Bordeaux-Groult, a friend in Paris, and a telegram from his mother Alison Gowen. Other correspondents include: Gasparilla Island Dairy, Boca Grande Light & Power Company, the firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht, and Tunnell, and the firm of Millbank, Tweed, Hope, and Hadley.

ORGANIZATION

Collection is arranged in four series and within each box, folders are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Series 2 holds corporate records such as bills; series 3 holds correspondence; series 9 social forms; and series 10 telegrams. Series 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 are not represented. The original finding aid to the collection, done in MSAccess, appears at the end of this finding aid.

PROVENANCE

Collection is owned by the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. It was assembled over years, from 1969-1975 by transfers and gifts from various sources: in 1969, from the clerical division of the Wilmington, Del. Office of Henry Francis du Pont; in 1970, from the financial division of the same office; and in 1975 as a gift.

RELATED MATERIALS

The papers of the Winterthur Corporation and the Winterthur Museum, owned by the Henry Francis Winterthur Museum, are housed in the Winterthur Archives.

ACCESS POINTS

Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969

Du Pont, Ruth Wales, 1889-1967

Bordeaux-Groult, Elise

Harrison, Alison Gowen

Winterthur Corporation

Claridge’s Hotel

Gasparilla Island Dairy

Boca Grande Light and Power Company

Morris, Nichols, Arsht, and Tunnell

Real estate management

Museums – management

Decedents’ estates

Leases – New York

Streets – New York

Social life and customs

Boca Grande, Florida – description and travel

Wilmington, Delaware – description and travel

London, England – description and travel

Paris, France – description and travel

Correspondence

Telegrams

Invoices

Leases

Guest registers

Lawyers

Boards of trustees

Milbank, Tweed, Hope, and Hadley

Alfred Craven Harrison
Folder title	Information and date	Series	Box
Boca Grande	buiness, 1938, 1946, 1969	2, 3	8
Bordeaux-Groult, Elise	social, n.d.	3	8
Claridges	bill, 1962	2	8
Du Pont, H. F., estate	business, 1969	3	8
Du Pont, R. W., estate	business, 1968	3	8
Harrison, Alison Gowen	social, 1938	10	8
Park Avenue	business, 1944-1945	2, 3	8, 9 (oversize)
Pittman, Zola	social, 1963	10	8
Wedding	notes, n.d.	9	8
Winterthur Corp.	buiness, 1951, 1957	3, 2	8