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ORIGINAL - CIVIL WAR UNION EDUCATOR / FOUNDER OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY NYC CDV PHOTO For Sale
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ORIGINAL - CIVIL WAR UNION EDUCATOR / FOUNDER OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY NYC CDV PHOTO:
$72.00
ORIGINAL! RARE!CIVIL WAR UNION EDUCATOR / FOUNDER OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY NYC CDV PHOTO
RARE! CIVIL WAR UNION EDUCATOR / FOUNDER OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY NYC CDV PHOTO c1870.
Joseph Green Cogswell (b.1786 - d.1871) was an American librarian, bibliographer and an innovative educator. Cogswell also became editor of the New York Review, one of the leading American critical journals of the time. He remained as editor until its suspension in 1842. He became the friend and companion of therobber baronJohn Jacob Astor (1st multi-millionaire in the United States) , upon whom he urged the project of a library. Succeeding in this promotion, Cogswell, in conjunction with Astor, Washington Irving and Fitz-Greene Halleck, arranged the plan of the Astor Library. With Halleck, Irving, and others, Cogswell was appointed a trustee of the Astor fund for its creation. Later the Astor Library would be the beginning of what today is the New York Public Library. The New York Public Library is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the 4th Largest Library in the World. Cogswell retired due to old age in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He resigned as a Trustee of the Astor library in 1863. He died November 26, 1871.
PERIOD ID'd IN PEN IN BLOCK LETTERS ON THE REVERSE , POSSIBLY BY JOSEPH GREEN COGSWELL HIMSELF:
Cogswell.
A LATER PENCILED NOTATION ON THE REVERSE :
Joseph G.
PHOTOGRAPHER PRINTED ON THE REVERSE:
WHIPPLE, 96 Washington Street, BOSTON.
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE WITH SOME VERY LIGHT HANDLING.MOUNT'S DIMENSIONS: 2 3/8" x 3 15/16" (please see pictures). THIS IS NOT A COPY OR REPRODUCTION.
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