This page Principal acquisitions Some examples of the bird skins acquired by the American Museum 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011 of Natural History from Walter, 2nd Lord This list is not comprehensive but attempts to record acquisitions of most immediate Rothschild. The images were commissioned during relevance to research. Some items listed here, however, remain closed to access for the year and form part of some time and for a variety of reasons. Researchers should always enquire as to the the Archive’s digital availability of specific items before visiting the Archive, quoting the reference number collections. 000/2062 which appears at the end of each entry. Overleaf Vegetation, from a folio of photographic reproductions of paintings by Nica de Koenigswarter, Records of N M Rothschild Report from the Select Committee on Marble portrait sculpture of Salomon née Rothschild (1913–1988), & Sons Limited the Usury Laws, Mr NM Rothschild Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855) by presented by her daughter, as witness, 30th April 1818 (House of Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard. Salomon Plans of the Royal Mint Refinery c.1914. Janka. 000/2044 Commons reprint 16 April 1821). rests his hand on a railway map of the 000/2064 000/2048 Nordbahn. File from the Admin and Staff series, 000/2040 Off-print of an article from the Journal labelled Staff Matters: Staff records of Experimental Biology, December 1947 Notice regarding the eulogies for pre-1914. The file appears to have been entitled ‘An Electro-Magnetic Mixer for Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 1934. collected in the Staff Department and Manometric Experiments’ by H Laser 000/2056 kept as a record of historical interest. and Lord Rothschild from the Molteno It contains various lists of employees, Testimonial written in honour of Institute and Department of Zoology, giving names, dates of service, positions James de Rothschild on the occasion of Cambridge. held, salaries, wages, allowances and sums his seventeenth birthday on 5 May 1862. paid to staff, together with details of Patent application submitted by Hon. 000/2054 Christmas and bonus payments. There Walter Rothschild, Gerald Dudley Smith Folio of photographic reproductions of are details of pension payments and and James Armstrong Wilding for paintings by Nica de Koenigswarter, née income tax payments, and drafts of improvements in or relating to gun- Rothschild, (1913–1988). terms and conditions. carriage and other vehicles. Accepted 000/2044 000/2067 10 August 1900. 000/2048 Special Correspondence files relating to the Prints and photographs rebuilding of New Court in the 1960s. 000/2052 A collection of photographs of Aston Clinton, the home of Sir Anthony Portraits of members of the Rothschild de Rothschild, showing various rooms Published papers family: Baron James de Rothschild, and members of staff, c.1900. One Cécile, Baroness Gustave de Rothschild, Parliamentary papers relating to photograph of the exterior of the house Baron Salomon von Rothschild and N M Rothschild & Sons: a copy of stamped J.G. Payne & Son, Aylesbury; presumed portrait of Caroline, Baroness the contract entered into by Baron five photographs of staff and kitchens; Salomon von Rothschild. with Her Majesty’s one photograph of staff. 000/2061 Government on or about the 20th day of 000/2057 April last, for a loan of sixteen millions Four portrait studies of persons believed Mounted engraving of the chain bridge for the public service (Crimean War) to be Rothschild Family members of Pesth, by W H Barlett. Captioned on Parliamentary Paper 331, June 1855; a acquired at auction. Three portraits of reverse in pencil ‘Stahlstich von Wallis copy of a letter from the Master of the men, pencil, watercolour, heightened nach Bartlett, um 1854’. Treasury re the lease of the Refinery at with white by Carl Goebel (Vienna 000/2060 the Mint to Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1824–1899). Seated woman, watercolour, together with the terms in question and French School, c.1900. a copy of the Treasury minute of the 000/2053 3rd day of February 1852, sanctioning the arrangement. Parliamentary Paper 310, May 1852. 000/2056

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