Prentis, Edmund Astley, 1883-
type Collector
dates 1883-1967
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesMexico; AZ; Lima, Peru; Raleigh, NC;
sex M
history An engineer, a principal of the international engineering company Spencer, White and Prentis Inc. of New York, and a collector of early Americana.

Prentis was the former president of the American Standards Society, a New York Historical Society Trustee, a former president of Columbia University's Engineering Alumni Association, and a trustee of the University.

decades1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
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New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers
1823-1999
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Columbia University Libraries
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East,
Reminiscences of Edmund Astley Prentis and Katherine Prentis Murphy : oral history, 1962 see details...

see alsoMurphy, Katharine Prentis, 1882-1969