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

AHARRISON
Folder title	Series	Box	Names cited	Subjects
Boca Grande (1938, 1946)	69AH2	A8	Boca Grande Light & Power Co.; Gasparilla Island Dairy	electricity, dairy products, invoices
Bordeaux-Groult, Elise (n.d.)	75AH3	A8	Boca Grande	illness, travel, reminiscences
Claridges (1962)	69AH2	A8		invoices, hotel
Du Pont, H. F., estate (1969)	70AH3	A8	New York Telephone Co.; Park Ave.; Miss M.A. Murphy	telephone service, cancellation
Du Pont, R. W., estate (1968)	69AH3	A8	Alexander L. Nichols; Mr. Fairman	stocks
Harrison, Alison Gowen (1938)	69AH10	A8	Mrs. Louis Clark; Kate Jennings	wedding, best wishes
Park Avenue (1945)	69AH3	A8	Douglas L. Elliman & Co.; Mr. Hamlin	lease, apartment
Pittman, Zola (1963)	69AH10	A8	Boca Grande	arrival plans
Wedding (n.d.)	69AH9	A8	[see folder for names]	list of names
Winterthur Corp. (1951)	69AH3	A8	Sinclair Hamilton; H.F du Pont; George W. Jacques	officers
Boca Grande (1969)	69AH3	A8	Thomas Philpot	caretaker
Winterthur Corp. (1957)	70AH2	A8		meeting, agenda
Park Avenue (1944-1946)	69AH2	A9 ovsz	Douglas L. Elliman & Co.	rent, apartments, stocks, lease