- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.08 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box, 5 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18073", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18073", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1800-1942", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1800/1942"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1800
- date_inclusive_end
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1942
- keydate
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1800
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Standish Backus family papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Standish Backus (1875-1943) was a corporate lawyer and president of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company from 1920 to 1943. The collection is composed of correspondence concerning his genealogical research on the Standish, Backus, and related families as well as the data and family documents he assembled including letters, deeds, printed ephemera, photograph albums, ancestral charts, and family crests. Also present is an illustrated European travel journal kept by Standish Backus, 1890-1891."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Standish Backus Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Backus, Standish, 1875-1943", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Standish Backus (1875-1943) was a corporate lawyer and president of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company from 1920 to 1943. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 12, 1875, the only son of Charles Kellogg Backus and Eva (Standish) Backus, a descendant of Myles Standish. He married Lotta E. Boyer, daughter of Joseph Boyer, his predecessor as president of Burroughs, on January 16, 1907. Backus was a member of several clubs, including the Grolier Club of New York City and the Olympia Skating Club of Detroit. He died of a heart attack on July 14, 1943 in White Plains, New York.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection was originally donated to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Virginia Vanocur, daughter of Standish Backus, in 1994.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of correspondence concerning Backus's genealogical research on the Standish, Backus, and related families as well as the data and family documents he assembled. The documents include letters from John Dana Standish, Backus' maternal grandfather, to his future wife Emma Darrow (1840), deeds for land purchased by Samuel Standish, Backus' maternal grandfather, a military appointment for Cyrus Backus, his paternal grandfather, the draft of an essay written by his father, Charles Kellogg Backus, entitled \"The Trees in the Church,\" and his own travel journal kept during a trip to Europe in 1890. Four family photograph albums contain 19th century cartes-de-visite and tintype portraits.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Standish Backus family papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18073#c210054'>Series I. Family history and genealogy research</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1930-1942</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18073#c210058'>Series II. Family documents</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1800-circa 1890</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18073#c210075'>Series III. Photograph albums</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1862, undated</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Standish Backus Family Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. Family history and genealogy research, 1930-1942</li> <li>Series II. Family documents, 1800-circa 1890</li> <li>Series III. Photograph albums, 1862, undated</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Cynthia Tobar.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1.08 linear feet (1 box, 5 volumes)
- date_start
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1800
- date_end
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1942