Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Gould, Frank Jay
| title | Henry Mitchell MacCracken administrative records, 1884-1910. | repository | New York University |
| description | Is Part Of: New York University. Chancellor/President's Office. Records. The records include correspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, speeches, printed material, notebooks, architectural plans and drawings, and newspaper clippings pertaining to MacCracken's administrative career at New York University. All of the major changes and interests of the Univesity in this era are represented in the records, as are the more routine administrative concerns of the office. Principle correspondents include Clarence D. Ashley, Thomas M. Balliet, Herman M. Biggs, Archibald L. Bouton, Andrew Carnegie, Anna P. Draper, Charles W. Eliot, Frank Jay Gould, Helen Miller Gould, Jay Gould, Charles W. Haskins, Robert MacDougall, Francis Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Jacob Schiff, Edward R. Shaw, Ernest G. Sihler, Charles H. Snow, James Stokes, Josiah Strong, Samuel Weir, Stanford White, and Alfred Zucker. Bio/History: Henry M. MacCracken was a Presbyterian minister and served as chancellor of Western University of Pennsylvania (University of Pittsburgh), 1881-1884, before joining the faculty of New York University as Professor of Philosophy in 1884. The following year he was appointed vice chancellor. He became chancellor in 1891 and served as such until 1910. The MacCracken administration was a time of tremendous growth and change at New York University. The Graduate School was opened in 1886, the School of Pedagogy in 1890, the Women's Advisory Committee was established in 1890, and the School of Law was substantially upgraded during this period. The Medical department merged with Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898, the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance was established in 1900; the North American Veterinary College was acquired; and the College of Engineering became the School of Applied Sciences. In addition, the land for the University Heights campus in the Bronx was acquired and several buildings constructed including Gould Memorial Library and the Hall of Fame, designed by the architect Stanford White. At Washington Square, Main Building, a commercial structure designed by Alfred Zucker, replaced the original University building on the east side of Washington Square Park. |
| extent | 12.5 linear feet |
| formats | Administrative Records Correspondence Financial Records Printed Materials Clippings |
| access | Open to researchers. |
| record link | http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/maccracken.html |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&doc=nyu_aleph002718186&vid=NYU&persistent |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet; folder level control. |
| acquisition information | The administrative records of Henry Mitchell MacCracken were transferred from the Chancellor's office of New York University to Gould Memorial Library on the University Heights campus following the retirement of MacCracken in 1910. The records, including personal papers of MacCracken, were added to the New York University Historical Collection, which was housed in the Treasurer Room of the library. With the closing of the Heights campus in 1973, the Historical Collection was transferred to the Washington Square campus of the University, where it formed the nucleus of the University Archives. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:05 |
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| title | Photographs, [ca. 1910]. | repository | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| description | Collection of unidentified, miscellaneous art objects, chiefly late Roman and some Hellenistic and Islamic glass vessels, as well as various works of sculpture from Egypt, the ancient Near East, late Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. The photographs of the Classical glass pieces may include those identified as a gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of photographs of Greek and Roman glass from the collection of Frank Jay Gould, 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y. The Museum's objects collection file contains an entry for the latter gift bearing the date Aug. 21, 1906; accepted Sept. 20, 1906; initials HWK. |
| extent | 24 cubic ft. (41 items) |
| formats | Photographs |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:13 |
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| title | Gould Family Scrapbooks, 1892-1931. | repository | Lyndhurst |
| description | Memorial book on the death of Jay Gould, 1892, prepared by the Manhattan Railway Company for his children; scrapbooks kept by the Gould children; and several volumes of clippings on Anna Gould's (later Duchesse de Talleyrand-Périgord) first marriage to Count Boni de Castellane, 1895, Jay Gould at the time of his death, 1892, and Frank Jay Gould and his siblings, 1901-1902 and 1924-1931. |
| extent | 7 v. |
| formats | Scrapbooks |
| record source | http://nysl.nysed.gov |
| finding aid | Item list. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:13 |
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