Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Open to qualified researchers.
This collection is stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact manuscripts@nyhistory.org prior to your research visit to coordinate access. Keep in mind that it will take between two (2) and five (5) business days for collections to arrive, and you should plan your research accordingly.
Use Restrictions
Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff. Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.
Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as: Freedman Family Papers and Other Documents, MS 231, New-York Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of William Asadorian, 2006.
Mr. Asadorian, onetime assistant curator of manuscripts at the New-York Historical Society and later archivist in the Long Island Division (now called the Archives) at Queens Public Library, has also spent considerable time as an amateur urban archaeologist and rescuer of discarded documents, which he attempts to place in appropriate institutional custody. His activities have been profiled on multiple occasions by the New York Times, for instance: Diana Jean Schemo, "Have Archives, Will Travel," Wednesday, September 16, 1992. The lack of relationship among some of the materials in the present collection suggests Mr. Asadorian assembled them from disparate sources.
Processing Information
Archivist Joseph Ditta arranged and described this collection in October 2021.