- unitid
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{"value"=>"1202", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1202", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1600s-1900s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1600/1909"}
{"value"=>"1789-1900s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1789/1909"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1600
- date_inclusive_end
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1909
- keydate
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1600
- date_start
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1600
- date_end
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1909
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"French historical manuscripts"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.2 linear feet (7 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Benjamin Franklin (Ben) Grauer (1907-1977) was an American radio and television announcer, reporter and news commentator. In the mid 1960s he assembled a collection of mainly French historical manuscripts. Collection contains approximately 10,000 manuscript letters, documents and printed ephemera collected by Grauer. Manuscripts cover a wide span of time and subject matter and are of minor figures in French literary, cultural, social, academic, governmental, and administrative life. Also includes some English, Italian and Arabic items. Printed ephemera consists of flyers, pamphlets, reports and minutes of governing bodies during the period of the French Revolution, as well as invitations, menus, programs, posters, and engravings."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>French historical manuscripts, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Grauer, Ben", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Benjamin Franklin Grauer (1907-1977) was a prominent news analyst and radio and television broadcaster. For most of his professional career he was associated with NBC where he covered many of the major news events of the times. In the mid-1960s Grauer assembled by purchases from auction houses in France and England his collection of mainly French historical manuscripts. Apparently his tastes as a collector were not sharply focused for his purchases were made in bulk by the lot, cover a wide span of tine and subject matter, and consist mostly of manuscripts of very minor figures in French literary, cultural, social, academic, and administrative/governmental life.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of some 10,000 manuscript letters, documents and papers including printed ephemera, mainly of French origin, but including a few English, Italian and Arabic items. The manuscripts fall in the period from the 17th to the 20th centuries with most of the material concentrated in the period from the French Revolution to the early 20th century. Approximately one-half of the collection (including water-damaged materials) is unsorted. The sorted manuscripts consist of a name file and a subject file. Included in the name file are manuscripts of writers, scholars, journalists, clergymen academicians, artists, political and military figures, and governmental officials. Many of the items have been identified by the dealer who has given the name dates and profession of the author of the manuscript in its upper left hand margin. Included are manuscripts by Jerome Adolphe Blanqui (1798-1854), Jean François Boissonade (1774-1857), Michel Chevalier (l8o6-79), Jean Joseph Dessolée (1767-1828), Nicolas Louis François (1750-1828), Charles Louis Freycinet (1828-1923), François Guizot (1787-1874), Jacques François Halevy (1799- 1862), François Christophe Kellerman (1735-1820), Louis Philippe (1763-1850), Jules Michelet (1798-1874), Emile Ollivier (l825-1913), Nicolas Charles Oudinot (1767-1847), Leon Say (1826-1896), and Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) Included is a lengthy manuscript by Henri Moulin of the Paris bar containing biographical sketches of members of the French Academy. The manuscript is written on the verso of legal correspondence received by Moulin during the 1840s-1860s. Three groups of manuscript letters addressed to Felix Desvernay, Dureau de la Malle, and Charles Fournier have been filed under their respective names as recipients of the letters. The subject file contains manuscripts filed under record type, place name of general subject heading. Subjects include certificates, diplomas, estate papers, France (1st and 2nd Empires, Restoration), French Revolution, medicine, mercantile papers and tax bills. The English autograph manuscripts (one folder) include manuscripts by Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941), Anthony Vandyke Fielding (1787-1855), Lord Palmerston (1785-1865) Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), and Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841). Here is one letter (1831 by Aaron Burr, the American politician. The Italian manuscripts (four folders) include manuscripts by Filippo Agricola (1776-1857), Cardinal Benedetto Barberini (1788-1863), Giuseppe Bossi (1758-1823), Luigi Bossi (1758-1835), and Luigi Lambruschini (1776-1854) The water and mold damaged manuscripts cannot be sorted until they have been treated. The printed ephemera include flyers, pamphlets, reports and minutes of the French National Assembly and other administrative bodies during the period of the Revolution, invitations, menus, programmes, menus, posters, and engravings.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>March 2, 1984, Received from Mrs. Ben Grauer (via Museum of Broadcasting)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by John Stinson, 12/19/84</p>"}
- extent_statement
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6.2 linear feet (7 boxes)
- date_bulk_start
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1789
- date_bulk_end
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1909