Records, [ca. 1760-1983]

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New York Society Library. Records, [ca. 1760-1983]

Records, [ca. 1760-1983]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473080

Contains shareholder and membership records, including records of shares bought and forfeited, dues payments, minutes of meetings, and other material; cataloging records; circulation records; acquisition records, including lists of books and periodicals ordered and received, correspondence with publishers and book dealers, accession books, members' suggestions, and other material; trustees' records, including annual reports, House Committee minutes, reports of various committees, and obituaries and other material concerning trustees; financial records, including treasurer's reports and accounts, librarian's account and cashbooks, checkbooks, and auditor's reports; legal documents, including leases, indentures, wills, insurance policies, and other material; photographs, portraits of trustees, engravings and sketches, architectural plans, blueprints and floor plans, and book plates; and general material, including papers of librarians, papers of Austin Keep and Marion M. King (historians of library) correspondence, scrapbooks of library circulars and clippings on library, records of New York Athenaeum, which merged with New York Society Library, ca.1850, and New York Chess Association, ca.1860-1869.

ca. 120 cubic ft.

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