Series V. Certificates and Other Forms, circa 1843-1900s
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Certificates and Other Forms series includes blank print forms related to the membership process. Forms include those related to nominations, applications, and notices to new members of their election. These files are unlikely to be complete as to all the possible forms used over time in the membership process. The series also includes stocks of blank membership certificates; many of these are signed by an N-YHS president and other officers. Seven of the membership and twelve of the fellows certificates are made out to recipients.
Arrangement Note
The series is arranged by format.
Blank Forms, circa 1860s-1890s
Extent
Blank Forms, circa 1900-1982
Blank Membership Certificates, [1843-1844]
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates signed by Foreign Corresponding Secretary Frederic DePeyster, Domestic Corresponding Secretary George Folsom, and First Vice President W.B. (William Beach) Lawrence.
Blank Membership Certificates, [1846-1847]
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates signed by President Albert Gallatin, First Vice President Luther Bradish, 2nd Vice President Thomas DeWitt, Foreign Corresponding Secretary John Russell Bartlett, Domestic Corresponding Secretary John Jay, and Recording Secretary Andrew Warner. Three from 1846 are made out to Corresponding Members George Gibbs, Henry Hilliard, and H.W. Whiting and one from 1847 is made out to Honorary Member Ambrose Spencer.
Blank Membership Certificates, circa 1849-1863
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates signed by President Luther Bradish, First Vice President Thomas DeWitt, and 2nd Vice President Frederic DePeyster. The certificates date from different periods and are signed by the secretaries from those periods: Foreign Corresponding Secretaries John Russell Bartlett, Edward Robinson, and George Bancroft; Domestic Corresponding Secretaries James William Beekman, and Samuel Osgood; and Recording Secretaries Andrew Warner and Maunsell B. Field. Two certificates, dated February 3, 1857, have seals and are made out to resident life members William L. Andrews and William J. Valentine.
Blank Membership Certificates, circa 1864-1899
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates from the second half of the nineteenth century, signed by presidents Frederic DePeyster, Thomas DeWitt, Benjamin Hazard Field, and John Alsop King. Some are signed by secretaries, including Andrew Warner, George Bancroft, Samuel Osgood, John Romeyn Brodhead, Sydney H. Carney, Jr., and Frederic Wendell Jackson (pro tem). One certificate, dated April 4, 1899, has a seal and is made out to life member William S. Pelletreau.
Blank Membership Certificates, 1800s
Blank Membership Certificates, 1800s
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a shrink-wrapped set of blank certificates.
Blank Membership Certificates, 1800s (after 1843)
Blank Membership Certificates, 1901-1903, circa 1927
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates signed by presidents Eugene A. Hoffman, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, and John Abeel Weekes. Secretaries signing the certificates are Sydney H. Carney, Jr and Stuyvesant Fish.
Blank Honorary Membership Certificates, 1900s
Completed Fellows Certificates, 1905
Scope and Contents Note
Includes certificates signed by President Samuel Verplanck Hoffman and Recording Secretary Acosta Nichols, with seal, and made out to: Charles A. Hoyt, Collis P. Huntington, Adrian Iselin, Rachel L. Kennedy, Robert J. Livingston, Henry G. Marquand, Perry R. Pyne, Julia Rhinelander, William L. Skidmore, David Stewart, Charles L. Tiffany, and Robert Winthrop,