Alexander J. Wall papers, ca. 1907 - ca. 1942 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers, ca. 1907 - ca. 1942, mostly related to Wall's historical research and the work of the New-York Historical Society. They include manuscripts and notes for lectures and entries in the Dictionary of American Biography; manuscripts related to Alexander C. Flick's "History of the State of New York"; the syllabus for a course Wall taught at Columbia in 1942 on museums and historical societies; photographs, dating from the 1930s, of museums in England and the Netherlands, and notes on the lighting of museums; a few other miscellaneous photographs, including a miniature photograph of the Flatiron Building; notes on Wall's research into the Stevens, Lummis, Guion, and O'Brien families; ephemera, membership lists, and other papers related to the administration of the New-York Historical Society; pinback buttons, dated 1916 and 1917; and a halfpenny token, dated 1794 and issued by John Fowler in London, portraying Neptune and a whaling boat