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Guide to the Maurice Brill Albums
1895-1926, 1960s?
PR 428
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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Brill, Maurice, 1869-1951 |
| Title: |
Maurice Brill albums |
| Dates [inclusive]: |
1895-1926, 1960s? |
| Abstract: |
The collection includes three albums related to New York businessman Maurice Brill
(1869-1951): a scrapbook of photographs, pictorial works, and ephemera from a "Grand
Tour" of Europe and North Africa (1895), an album of photographs by Schuyler Carteret
Lee of Brill's residence at 163 East 63rd Street in Manhattan (circa 1919), and an
album of snapshots of Brill's Meadow Edge Farm in Mount Kisco, NY, taken in 1926,
with some snapshots added perhaps in the 1960s.
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| Quantity: |
3 Linear feet in 2 flat boxes (3 albums) |
| Language: |
The documents in the collection are primarily photographic, but various languages
appear especially in the "Grand Tour" album.
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| Call Phrase: |
PR 428 |
