Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876, bulk (1700-1800)

Author

Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919.

Supplementary Content

Collection guide and images

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 31 linear feet (85 boxes, 19 v.)
• 13 microfilm reels.

Summary

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution.

Subjects

• New York (State) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States > Constitutional Convention > (1787)
• Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.)
• United States Constitution 1st-10th Amendments
• United States Declaration of Independence
• Presidents > United States
• United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Annapolis Convention (1786 : Annapolis, Md.)
• Charleston (S.C.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
• Money
• United States > Continental Army > Officers
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• Savannah (Ga.) > History
• United States > Continental Congress
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns
• Legislators > United States
• Albany Congress (1754 : Albany, N.Y.)
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Maps
• United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
• Muster rolls

Genre/Form

• Money.
• Maps.
• Muster rolls.

Note

• described separately and linked to this record.

Access (note)

• Digital images or microfilm must be used in lieu of original manuscripts.

Additional Formats (note)

• Entire collection available on microfilm.

Source (note)

• Kennedy, John Stewart

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Most of the printed maps, printed documents, and graphic materials In the Emmet Collection have been transferred to other divisions of the Library: the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division; the Rare Book Division; and the Print Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, respectively.

Provenance (note)

• The Emmet Collection was assembled over a period of fifty years by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, a renowned surgeon and one of the early collectors of American manuscripts of the revolutionary era. His collection of 94 volumes of manuscripts and extra-illustrated books was purchased by John S. Kennedy and presented to The New York Public Library in 1896.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Prepared for microfilming
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

MssCol 927

OCLC

NYPW89-A443

Author

Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919. Collector

Title

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876, bulk (1700-1800)

Additional Formats

Entire collection available on microfilm. *ZL-261.

Restricted Access

Digital images or microfilm must be used in lieu of original manuscripts.

Provenance

The Emmet Collection was assembled over a period of fifty years by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, a renowned surgeon and one of the early collectors of American manuscripts of the revolutionary era. His collection of 94 volumes of manuscripts and extra-illustrated books was purchased by John S. Kennedy and presented to The New York Public Library in 1896.

Finding Aids

Calendar of the Emmet Collection of Manuscripts etc. Relating to American History (The New York Public Library, 1959).

Location of Other Archival Materials

Most of the printed maps, printed documents, and graphic materials In the Emmet Collection have been transferred to other divisions of the Library: the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division; the Rare Book Division; and the Print Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, respectively.

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Collection guide and images

Research Call Number

MssCol 927