Research Catalog

Title

William Williams papers, 1902-1943, (bulk 1902-1917).

Author

Williams, William, 1862-1947.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis), 1865-1925.
• Levick, Edwin, 1868-1929.

Description

6.81 linear feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder.)

Summary

The William Williams papers contain correspondence, reports, notices, photographs, scrapbooks, a guest book, watercolors and other items from his terms as Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island and Commissioner of New York City’s Dept. of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity.

Subjects

• Public utilities > New York (State) > New York
• Immigrants > New York (State) > New York
• Watercolors (paintings)
• Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
• New York (N.Y.) > Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
• Municipal officials and employees
• Williams, William, 1862-1947
• New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration
• Visitors' books

Genre/Form

• Photographs.
• Scrapbooks.
• Visitors' books.
• Watercolors (paintings).

Access (note)

• Advance notice required for use. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
• Microfilm, digital images, and copy prints must be used in lieu of originals when available.
• Original photographs available only by written permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.

Additional Formats (note)

• available on microfilm;
• Copy prints of all photographs available for consultation.
• Augustus F. Sherman and some Edwin Levick photographs available in NYPL Digital Gallery.
• Augustus F. Sherman photographs appear in Mesenhöller, Peter. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905-1920 (New York: Aperture, c2005).

Source (note)

• Williams, William - Estate

Biography (note)

• William Williams (1862-1947), a New York City lawyer, was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island for two terms, 1902-1905 and 1909-1913, and Commissioner of the New York City Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 1914-1917.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

MssCol 3346

OCLC

NYPW94-A436

Author

Williams, William, 1862-1947.

Title

William Williams papers, 1902-1943, (bulk 1902-1917).

Additional Formats

Boxes 1 and 2, scrapbooks and Augustus F. Sherman photographs available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-445

Copy prints of all photographs available for consultation.

Augustus F. Sherman and some Edwin Levick photographs available in NYPL Digital Gallery.

Augustus F. Sherman photographs appear in Mesenhöller, Peter. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905-1920 (New York: Aperture, c2005).

Access

Advance notice required for use. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Microfilm, digital images, and copy prints must be used in lieu of originals when available.

Original photographs available only by written permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.

Biography

William Williams (1862-1947), a New York City lawyer, was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island for two terms, 1902-1905 and 1909-1913, and Commissioner of the New York City Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 1914-1917.

Finding Aids

Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/williamsw.pdf

Location of Other Archival Materials

Related collections include the William Williams Collection of Photographs of Ellis Island, Photography Collection, New York Public Library.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Finding Aid

Occupation

Municipal officials and employees.

Added Author

Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis), 1865-1925. Photographer

Levick, Edwin, 1868-1929. Photographer

Research Call Number

MssCol 3346