- unitid
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{"value"=>"186", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 186", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1838/1949", "value"=>"1838-1949"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1838
- date_inclusive_end
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1949
- keydate
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1838
- date_start
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1838
- date_end
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1949
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Joseph G. Baldwin papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".5 linear foot (2 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"=>"Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) was an American jurist and author. Robert MacDonald Lester (1888-1969) was an author, teacher and employee of the Carnegie Institute of New York. His published works include Forty Years of Carnegie Giving (1941). Collection consists of papers collected by Robert MacDonald Lester and Cornelia Baldwin Gray for a proposed biography of Baldwin, including his correspondence, 1838-1865, family letters, legal papers, original copy and typescript of his Flush Times of California, and other writings; miscellaneous papers; and correspondence, 1922-1949, of Lester and Gray relating to Baldwin. Also photographs of Baldwin and his wife Sidney White."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Joseph G. Baldwin papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Baldwin, Joseph G. (Joseph Glover), 1815-1864", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert MacDonald Lester (1889-), was an author, teacher and employee of the Carnegie Institute of New York. Published works include \"Forty Years of Carnegie Giving\".</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers consist of material collected by Lester for a biography of Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864), a jurist and writer. The biography does not seem to have been published and may never have been completed and the papers contain letters to Baldwin's relatives including his daughter Cornelia Baldwin Gray.</p> <p>Lester collected letters, writings, which include \"Flush Times of California\" (1866), newspaper clippings and other items relating to Baldwin and his relatives. Included among this material are letters, 1838-1865, legal documents and photographs of Joseph Glover Baldwin and his wife Sidney White (b-d?).</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>1961, Received from Robet M. Lester (gift)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>6/21/89</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.5 linear feet (2 boxes)