Lee Kohns collection

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id: 3691
origination: Kohns, Lee, 1864-1927
date statement: ca. 1400-ca. 1900
key date: 1400
identifier (local_mss): 1663
org unit: Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number: MssCol 645
b-number: b11883989
total components: 893
total series: 0
max depth: 2
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component layout: Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields: false
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created: 2013-04-01 15:04:50 UTC
updated: 2026-08-15 02:04:47 UTC
status note: (missing)
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unitid: {"value"=>"645", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"1663", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"MssCol 645", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate: {"value"=>"ca. 1400-ca. 1900", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1400/1900"}
date_inclusive_start: 1400
date_inclusive_end: 1900
keydate: 1400
date_start: 1400
date_end: 1900
unittitle: {"value"=>"Lee Kohns collection"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6 linear feet (19 boxes, 3 v.)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division. <div class=\"address\"> Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</div>"}
physloc: {"value"=>"MssCol 1663"}
abstract: {"value"=>"Collection consists of letters and documents, ca. 15th-19th centuries, collected by Lee Kohns. American and European historical, literary, artistic, and scientific figures are represented."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite: {"value"=>"Lee Kohns collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
origination: {"value"=>"Kohns, Lee, 1864-1927", "type"=>"persname"}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"Approximately two thousand letters and documents, circa 15th-19th centuries collected by Lee Kohns (1864-1927). Includes manuscripts of American, British, and European historical, literary, artistic, musical, and scientific figures, and royalty, are represented. Individuals represented include John Quincy Adams, Hector Berlioz, Lord Byron, DeWitt Clinton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Douglass, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Emile Zola, and others."}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"Gift of Paul Kohns and Robert Lee Kohns (sons of Lee Kohns), 1956"}
processinfo: {"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"Manuscripts Division Staff, 2005"}

{"value"=>"Accessioned by Julie Miller, July 1989"}
altformavail: {"value"=>"John C. and Jessie B. Fremont manuscripts available on microfilm; New York Public Library"}
extent_statement: 6 linear feet (19 boxes, 3 v.)

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