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Personal Collection to Rare Book Room: The Travels of Rufus King’s Library
Rufus King, 1755-1827 I think it’s very important that we understand the provenance of the collections we use in libraries and archives. Robert Darnton has said that when we consider the difficulties...
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John Alsop King – 1860 Presidential Elector certification
When studying a period in American history, I like to have a figure or two that I can use as a center of gravity. I’m currently trying to wrap my head around the antebellum period in a better way and...
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Rufus King’s Granddaughter Survives the Sinking of the “Pulaski” in 1838
While I was working on a post about a printed subscription proposal for Benjamin F. Thompson’s planned 2 volume octavo edition of the History of Long Island (link to second volume here), which I found...
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