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Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society For The Year 1849

Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society For The Year 1849

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General Reference20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354506771
ISBN13: 9789354506772
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into the meeting room of 1849 New York, where memory was being organised, argued, and preserved. History speaks in formal minutes. Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society For The Year 1849 gathers the year's historical society proceedings in an antiquarian journal volume that combines minutes and annual reports with notices of meetings, elections, and the steady work of collecting. Alongside the administrative spine sit historical lectures and essays and new york history papers, capturing the subjects that mattered to early scholars of the city and state. You will encounter references to manuscripts, portraits, maps, and pamphlets entering custody, and to the debates around what deserved saving in a fast-changing metropolis. Small details that enlarge the past. As an archival records collection, it offers firm footholds for primary source research: names, dates, donors, institutional priorities, and the developing habits of preservation that would shape new york city archives. Historians and genealogists will value its documentary clarity; curious readers will enjoy the vivid sense of civic culture in 19th century new york, heard in the language of committees, correspondence, and commemoration. Set within the wider tradition of american antiquarian society transactions and state historical society journals, this volume reflects how local history became public heritage, one record at a time. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for shelves devoted to classic Americana and New York's earliest self-portrait.

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