Presentation album for Alfred J. Smithers

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18066", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"18066", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Presentation album for Alfred J. Smithers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1867", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1867"}

{"value"=>"1875", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1875"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 v"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"ill"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"31 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1867

date_inclusive_end

1875

origination

{"value"=>"Clinton Avenue Congregational Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the Congregational Christian Historical Society to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1987.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Presentation album for Alfred J. Smithers, with photographic portrait, containing autographs, Sunday School lists, pressed flowers, and testimonials from church members, families and groups associated with the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church and Society in April, 1867. The volume, prepared on the occasion of Smithers' return to his native England with his family, acknowledges his service to the church and its congregants, and to the poor. Inserted in the volume is a memorial dated 20 Jan. 1875, acknowledging Smithers' recent death in London, and a later photograph of an unidentified man wearing a kilt.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"internal"=>true, "accession_number"=>"MSS 2008M27"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Includes accession correspondence with reference to Fred W. Smithers of San Antonio, TX, possibly the subject of the unidentified photograph</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1867

prefercite

{"value"=>"Presentation album for Alfred J. Smithers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" Presentation album for Alfred J. Smithers, with photographic portrait, containing autographs, Sunday School lists, pressed flowers, and testimonials from church members, families and groups associated with the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church and Society in April, 1867. The volume, prepared on the occasion of Smithers' return to his native England with his family, acknowledges his service to the church and its congregants, and to the poor. Inserted in the volume is a memorial dated 20 Jan. 1875, acknowledging Smithers' recent death in London, and a later photograph of an unidentified man wearing a kilt.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 v : ill ; 31 cm

date_start

1867

date_end

1875

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