Series V. Catalogues, Inventories, Surveys, 1830-2000
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The series includes a wide variety of miscellaneous catalogues, inventories, and other documents related to object descriptions. These range from John Delafield's 1830 handwritten inventory of the ancient coins and medals in the N-YHS "cabinet" to the user manual for the Multi-MIMSY 2000 System, N-YHS's collection management system at the turn of the twenty-first century. The series also holds the annotated and edited manuscripts of three catalogues published in the 1970s-1980s of N-YHS's American paintings (by Richard J. Koke and by Wayne Craven) and glass paperweights (by Paul Hollister). The container list includes a complete list of the specific contents.
Arrangement Note
The material in the collection was compiled together into the series by the processing archivist. The series is arranged in chronological order.
Processing Information Note
The series was processed in September 2016 by project archivists Margaret Kaczorowski and Larry Weimer. The Craven and Hollister publication files are unprocessed and are still in their original folders.
Additional material was transferred to the archives in 2017-2020, some of wich was added to this series in 2021 by archivist Larry Weimer.
J. Delafield's Inventory of N-YHS's Coins & Medals, 1830
Printed Lists Likely Related to Coin Inventory (5 folders), circa 1830?
Catalogue of the N-YHS Museum & Gallery of Art, 1866
"Champlain's Astrolabe", 1879
Scope and Contents Note
Includes typescript concerning the astrolabe written by A.J. Russell. Also includes a reprint from the N-YHS Quarterly Bulletin of George Zabriskie's article "A Story of Astrolabes."
Catalogue of the N-YHS Museum & Gallery of Art, 1903
Description of the Cabinet of Coins & Medals of John C. Kunze, Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes handwritten notes of drawer contents, possibly a copy of a printed description.
"Inventory of the Jenny Lind Collection" by Leonidas Westervelt, circa 1945
Checklist of N-YHS Sculpture & Medals, circa 1970?
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society. Correspondence and Additional Entry Research (10 folders), 1959-1979
Scope and Contents Note
These folders include correspondence and some research notes related to the production of Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, published in 1974 by Yale University Press. Wayne Craven was the author of the original manuscript, which was published after extensive further research and editing at N-YHS by Wendy Shadwell, Robert Strunsky, and Librarian James Gregory.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (17 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Scope and Contents Note
This record carton and the next two Includes Wayne Craven's manuscript for this book with further research notes and edits by Wendy Shadwell and others. The documents remain in their original folders.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (21 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (9 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, circa 1974
Scope and Contents Note
Includes edited, draft typescripts of Paul Hollister's book, published in 1974.
Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, circa 1974
Scope and Contents Note
Includes index cards with descriptive information for the illustrations, glossary, etc. from the book.
Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr. Catalogue of his Robert Fulton Collection (1 of 2), circa 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
4 of 7 binders of Le Boeuf's original, annotated catalogue, covering both library and museum materials. This box holds Volumes I and II of "ALS [autograph letter signed] and other original MS [manuscript] material"; a volume of Steamboats, America and Foreign; and a volume on "Pictures," meaning "paintings, photos, engravings, prints." This last volume has an overview, dated 1976, of the entire catalogue.
Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr. Catalogue of his Robert Fulton Collection (2 of 2), circa 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 of 7 binders, including the three volumes covering "books, newspapers, pamphlets."
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 1 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents Note
These 4 boxes hold 2 copies of the annotated and edited typescript for Richard J. Koke's American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society: A Catalog of the Collection, Including Historical, Narrative, and Marine Art, published in 1982. The first set consists of 13 volumes of photocopies. The second set is an incomplete 11 volume set. Although both the sets are photocopies, the second copy is marked as the original. Also there appears to be some original edits in the second set that do not appear in the first set. This first box holds set 1, volumes 1-5.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 2 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents Note
This box holds set 1, volumes 6-11.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 3 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box holds set 1, volumes 12-13, and set 2, numbered as volumes 14-17.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 4 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box holds set 2, volumes 18-23.
Swords, 1987, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two binders of object descriptions.
Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection, circa 1988?
Miscellaneous Loose Tags, Labels, etc., circa 1865-1909
Museum Collections Workbook (2 copies) (4 folders), circa 1991
Multi-MIMSY 2000 Book. Activities (2 folders), 1997 October
Multi-MIMSY 2000. Implementation Manual (Draft), 1998 January
Scope and Contents Note
Includes system installation and upgrade CDs.
Multi-MIMSY 2000 Book. (4 manuals/folders), 1999
Multi-MIMSY 2000. Vocabulary List Reports, 2000
Index cards to reference materials, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Csrds arranged by chronology and subject pointing to research resources, such as books, photos, etc., at least some of which are in N-YHS collections.