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{"value"=>"586", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 586", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1817-1877", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1817/1877"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Joseph Green Cogswell papers"}
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- 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 Green Cogswell (1786-1871) was an educator and librarian. He was appointed librarian and professor of mineralogy and geology at Harvard University in 1820, founded the Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass. with George Bancroft in 1823, owned the New York Review from 1839 to 1842, and worked with John Jacob Astor on the establishment of a large public library in New York City. In 1848 he was appointed the first superintendent of the Astor Library. Collection consists of ten original documents and photostats of Cogswell's papers from other repositories. Original documents are chiefly letters, 1817-1861, to and from Cogswell and discuss such topics as his schooling in Germany and the Astor Library. Photostats are of original documents, mostly correspondence, pertaining to Harvard, Round Hill School, and other matters concerning Cogswell."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Joseph Green Cogswell papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Joseph Green Cogswell (1786-1871) was an educator and librarian who became the first superintendent of the Astor Library.</p> <p>After graduating from Harvard College in 1806, Cogswell pursued a few careers: merchant, in Southern Europe; lawyer, in Belfast, Maine; and Latin tutor, at Harvard. He traveled in Europe from 1815 to 1820, studying from 1817 to 1819 at Gottingen University, along with his friends Edward Everett and George Ticknor.</p> <p>Cogswell was appointed librarian and professor of mineralogy and geology at Harvard in 1820, but resigned the posts due to lack of administration support in 1823. In that year, he and George Bancroft opened the Round Hill School, modeled on the German gymnasium, which closed in 1834.</p> <p>He served as tutor to the children of Samuel Ward in New York City from 1836 to 1838 and was the owner of the New York Review from 1839 to 1842. He began advising John Jacob Astor on the establishment of a large public library in New York during this period. Cogswell was appointed superintendent of the Astor Library by its trustees in 1848. In this capacity, he supervised the purchase of books, the construction of the library building, and the compilation of a catalogue for the collections. He resigned the position in 1861 on account of ill health, yet worked for years afterwards on a supplement to the library catalogue, completed in 1866. He died in Massachusetts in 1871.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Joseph Green Cogswell Collection is an artificially assembled group of papers spanning the years 1817 to 1877. It consists of ten original documents and several folders of photostats. The original documents are chiefly letters to and from Cogswell and span the years 1817 to 1861. Cogswell's 1817 and 1819 letters describe life at Gottingen. An 1852 letter from Edward Everett discusses the Astor Library and its proposed acquisition of the Graberg library. The photostats are of original documents at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Harvard University, the Library of Congress, and the Boston Public Library, which were created in the years 1821 to 1837 and 1877. These are also mainly letters and pertain to Harvard and Round Hill affairs, as well as other matters concerning Cogswell. An 1877 letter discusses Cogswell's grave.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Various gifts and purchases, 1897-1980.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by Claudia Funke, 1989.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Documents available in photostats are the property of the institutions, the names of which are stamped on the photostats versos. Readers must apply to the indicated institutions for reproductions.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>NYPL Archives, Astor Library Record Group</p> <p>Bryant-Godwin Papers</p> <p>Duyckinck Family Papers</p> <p>Samuel Ward Papers</p>"}
- date_start
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1817
- keydate
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1817
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1877
- date_inclusive_start
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1817
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1877
- extent_statement
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.25 linear feet (1 box)