French historical manuscripts 1600s-1900s 1789-1900s

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

French historical manuscripts 1600s-1900s 1789-1900s

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1202

Benjamin Franklin (Ben) Grauer (1907-1977) was an American radio and television announcer, reporter and news commentator. In the mid 1960s he assembled a collection of mainly French historical manuscripts. Collection contains approximately 10,000 manuscript letters, documents and printed ephemera collected by Grauer. Manuscripts cover a wide span of time and subject matter and are of minor figures in French literary, cultural, social, academic, governmental, and administrative life. Also includes some English, Italian and Arabic items. Printed ephemera consists of flyers, pamphlets, reports and minutes of governing bodies during the period of the French Revolution, as well as invitations, menus, programs, posters, and engravings.

6.2 linear feet (7 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6311231

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Académie française

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sk4ppk (corporateBody)

Grauer, Ben

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mk6f9z (person)

Born in Staten Island, N.Y., Benjamin Franklin Grauer (1908-1977) had a prosperous career as a child actor in the 1920s, both in film and on Broadway. He graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School, the preparatory school for City College of New York, and he received his B.A. from City College in 1930. Grauer started in radio as an actor but soon became part of the broadcasting staff at the National Broadcasting Company. On the radio, he was associated with Walter Winchell, Eleanor Roosevelt...