Container List
Series 23: Miscellaneous, circa 1850s-1999. 3 Cubic Feet in 14 boxes
Scope and ContentsThe series contains a variety of miscellaneous files that do not relate to the other series in the collection. It includes information on the Bates Collection and auction, inventories of silver and furnishings for the alumni lounge, and photographs of Brooklyn (unrelated to Packer). Of note is one file on a lawsuit between Packer and the University of the State of New York (1948). |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 158 | Folder : 5 | Packer Inventory |
19th Century | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 1 | Engraving print of New York harbor viewed from Brooklyn Heights |
circa 1850s | |
| Box: 159 | Folder : 2 | Newspaper – Announcement of President Abraham Lincoln's Death |
1865 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 2 | Statistics of Cook Academy |
1874-1885 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 3 | Van Brunt house, Flatbush photograph |
circa 1880s | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 4 | Corner of photograph with ladder in frame |
circa 1880s | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 5 | The Harbor of New York. From the Brooklyn Bridge Tower - Looking South-west |
circa 1880s | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 6 | Haverly's Fifth Avenue Theater program |
circa 1890s | |
| Box: 157 | Folder : 6 | Packer Paper – Blank Stationary |
circa 1890s-1910s | |
| Box: 252 | Folder : 7 | 4 items. Ephemera, Notes and Photograph Box Lid. |
1890s-1936 | |
| Box: 156 | Folder : 29 | Gifts |
1891-1896 | |
| Box: 252 | Folder : 4 | 18 Packer stationary envelopes with image of school, 1 letter to Miss Richmond. 1
invitation to a reading at Packer, 1 donation letter and 1 thank you note from Packer. |
1895 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 7 | The Biological Laboratory of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences / Located
at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island / Eighth Season / Announcement for the Summer of
1897 |
1897 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 8 | Mrs. John Howard Rhoades and Miss Elizabeth Rhoades calling card (Brooklyn Woman's
Club) |
circa 1900s-1920s | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 9 | Brooklyn picture book |
1903 | |
| Box: 156 | Folder : 30 | Gifts made by Packer Collegiate Institute to others |
1918 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 10 | Lulu H. Miller patent design for apparatus for folding gauze for surgical dressing |
1918 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 11 | Subway routes to P.C.I. |
circa 1920s-1940s | |
| Box: 382 | Folder : 6 | Silver Inventory 1952, 1947, Class Rings 1948, Inventory of Furnishings for the Alumni
Lounge 1940 - Formal Appraisal of Alumni Inventory of Silver & Furniture – Equitable
Appraisal Co, Inc., 1928 |
1928-1952 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 12 | Program and letters pertaining to recital of Ethel Mackey |
1928, 1980 | |
| Box: 538 | Folder : - | Packer Alumna engraving stamps and plates
General noteVarious Packer related images |
circa 1930s | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 13 | Memories and Creative Achievements of a Century 1833-1933 by Martha Prentice Strong
General noteReprinted from the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America |
1934 | |
| Box: 382 | Folder : 4 | Gold Spoon – Letter about Old Spoons |
1948 | |
| Box: 76 | Folder : 1 | Packer vs. University of the State of New York, et al
GeneralIn 1948 Packer Institute sued the University of the State of New York contesting the university's attempts to regulate the institute's activities. The judge ruled in favor of Packer, ruling that only the state legislature had the right of oversight of Packer Institute. Materials include court transcripts and the judge's official statement. |
1948 | |
| Box: 382 | Folder : 1 | Information on the Packer Class Pin, Inventory of Pins, Various Gifts, Labels for
Class Pins |
1951-1963 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 14 | Brooklyn Heights photograph |
1968 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 15 | Note on painting in room 218 |
1968 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 16 | Aerial view of Brooklyn Marine Terminal Piers photograph |
1969 | |
| Box: 381 | Folder : 4 | Bates Collection and Auction information from Swann Galleries; Argosy Book Store correspondence,
list of books, sale results, The Bates Library collection was left to the school in
1901 by Jane Bates in memory of his daughter who was a student at Packer and died
in 1890 at the age of 16 (perhaps the most valuable book was the 1855 edition of Whitman's
Leaves of Grass, the 12th issue of the 1st edition, partly printed by Whitman himself
in Brooklyn. |
1983-1999 | |
| Box: 382 | Folder : 5 | Morgan Guaranty – Brochure & Morgans contribution to the community |
1984 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 17 | Ride a Purple Pelican by Jack Prelutsky and Garth Williams |
1988 | |
| Box: 527 | Folder : 18 | St. Ann's admissions |
circa 1990s | |
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