Comments on: Unusual New York Public Library Collections http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/ Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:07:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection Picks Live from Mid-Manhattan at Deeplinking http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/comment-page-1/#comment-45191 Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection Picks Live from Mid-Manhattan at Deeplinking Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:36:30 +0000 http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/#comment-45191 [...] See Also: Brooklyn’s Reanimation Library and the New York Public Library’s other unusual collections. [...] [...] See Also: Brooklyn’s Reanimation Library and the New York Public Library’s other unusual collections. [...]

]]> By: Nikki Oldaker http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/comment-page-1/#comment-4830 Nikki Oldaker Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:42:47 +0000 http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/#comment-4830 This is a wonderful short article... As the Author/Producer of, "Samuel J. Tilden, the Real 19th President," I enjoy reading about people that contribute their money and collections to libraries. These are the people that offer us access to free education...and share knowledge otherwise hidden in our history. We need more Americans to contribute and "pay it forward"...as did Samuel J. Tilden, Astor and Lenox when they combined the collections and monies from the Tilden Trust. I discovered years after researching for the book that if it weren't for savvy and determined men like John Bigelow, Tilden's confidant and one of his estate executors - the NY library may have never been built. Tilden's nephew (encouraged by his creditors) had challenged and broke the will Samuel gave millions to intended for the library. It was a lenghty battle but Bigelow and other Executors, were smart enough to invest the money wisely and earned two millions of dollars to put back into the trust to fulfill Samuel's last wishes to pay it forward to the public... Libraries offer us a vast treasure chest of history to learn about...so we do not make the same mistakes over and over again...It is what Tilden wanted to gift the generations that followed him..the opportunity to educate ourselves at will. This is a wonderful short article… As the Author/Producer of, “Samuel J. Tilden, the Real 19th President,”

I enjoy reading about people that contribute their money and collections to libraries. These are the people that offer us access to free education…and share knowledge otherwise hidden in our history. We need more Americans to contribute and “pay it forward”…as did Samuel J. Tilden, Astor and Lenox when they combined the collections and monies from the Tilden Trust.

I discovered years after researching for the book that if it weren’t for savvy and determined men like John Bigelow, Tilden’s confidant and one of his estate executors – the NY library may have never been built. Tilden’s nephew (encouraged by his creditors) had challenged and broke the will Samuel gave millions to intended for the library. It was a lenghty battle but Bigelow and other Executors, were smart enough to invest the money wisely and earned two millions of dollars to put back into the trust to fulfill Samuel’s last wishes to pay it forward to the public…

Libraries offer us a vast treasure chest of history to learn about…so we do not make the same mistakes over and over again…It is what Tilden wanted to gift the generations that followed him..the opportunity to educate ourselves at will.

]]> By: Maud Newton: Blog http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/comment-page-1/#comment-2749 Maud Newton: Blog Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:19:35 +0000 http://deeplinking.net/unusual-library-collections/#comment-2749 [...] Deep Linking amasses links to a host of unusual NYPL collections, including one devoted to Shelley and His Circle. I wonder how hard it is to get access. [...] [...] Deep Linking amasses links to a host of unusual NYPL collections, including one devoted to Shelley and His Circle. I wonder how hard it is to get access. [...]

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